What up y'all it's Ashley Renne and welcome back to my vegan travel
sustainable lifestyle and smart tech youtube channel where i show you how to
live in adventurously green life. Now for those of you who've been rocking with me
for a while you know that I spent ten months building a new house and it's a
house that I turn into a smart home. Now you guys already know that I have a very
smart car a Tesla so it only makes sense that I filled my new home with smart
technology as well. Now for the first few videos of my smart home automation
series I want to focus on my top recommendations for smart tech devices
that I think you should get started with based on how easy they are to implement
and the amount of value that they add to your everyday life starting with smart
home security.
Now I chose the nest brand because it has its own system of interconnectivity
for all of its different products that it sells but then it also pairs very
well with our larger smart home eco system the Google assistant and what is
an eco system exactly? So basically an eco system is the hub that connects all
of your smart devices together and not all ecosystems pair with all smart
devices and the way that you tell whether or not a device works with a
certain eco system is you look on the label to see what it works with and our
nest works with our Google ecosystem so it only made sense it was a no-brainer
to go with nest. Now Nest has several different products that you can manage
all within the app but for this video I want to focus on security so let's get into it.
Let's start off with nest secure which includes the nest guard, nest
detect, nest tag and of course the nest app. This is the nest guard which acts
as the alarm, keypad and motion sensor. You can arm your house in several ways
one of which is by entering a code into the nest guard keypad or you can use the
nest tag to arm and disarm your house. all you do is tap it against the nest
guard when you're leaving or entering your home but our favorite way is to
just arm and disarm it from the nest app or you could even ask your Google
assistant to arm or disarm your house as well. The other part to the nest secure
system is nest detect which is the sensor for your doors, windows and rooms
If you're home and you open a door that has this device on it you'll hear a
chime. If you're not at home and the house is armed when the sensor detects
motion you'll get an alert to your phone and the alarm will go off alerting your
security monitoring service. Security alert. In addition to Nest Secure, we
have Nest cams placed all throughout the inside and outside of our house. Now this
is really cool because we can monitor everything that goes on in and outside
of our home right from our phones so if I want to spy on my dog I can do that
right from my phone. I can watch the footage live or I can go back and
re-watch older footage. The app is going to conveniently send you notifications
whenever it sees activity.
Part of our security system is having the nest doorbell. Now the benefit of having
a nest doorbell is it acts as both a doorbell and a security camera. This
thing is super cool because not only can it give surveillance of you know the
front of your home whenever somebody comes to your door but you can also talk
through it straight through the nest app
and the cool thing about Nest is Google is the parent company to nest so when
somebody rings your doorbell actually your Google devices will broadcast
to you that somebody is at the front door. I really like how at any given
moment I can ask Google to show me the footage from the cameras throughout my
house. For example here I ask Google to show me the front door camera. So now
it's your turn. You tell me how you secure your home. All the devices that we
just mentioned are what we use to secure ours and I provided links to what I
mentioned in the description below. Now if you're just getting started with
smart home automation I suggest you start out with the nest hello video doorbell
and the nest secure because of how easy it is to install. It works really well
together in the nest app and it adds so much value to your every day life. That's
all I got if you really enjoyed this video make sure to give it a huge thumbs
up and subscribe for more of my smart tech series. Until next time keep on
living an adventurously green life.