good morning everybody you ready for this we're gonna install a wireless
security system on Miranda today ready
we're gonna try something a little different this time with Miranda though
a different brand and a different type of system and it's an NVR kit it comes
with a three terabyte hard drive it is network ready just like the other ones
and you can watch on your computer your phone remotely but you'll see these
cameras are a little different than things I've used in the past
and I know what you're thinking Eric that's a lot of wires for a wireless
system here well let me explain the cameras themselves are wirelessly
transmitted to the NVR hard drive they still need power however so how does
that help it actually helps in a big way because for instance I will have two of
these in the top right corner of my RV outside the RV out there they're going
to come in here I will have a power source to plug all these cameras in but
not having to run the BNC cable everywhere that has been the nightmare
with previous RVs is routing the wires up through the walls or underneath the
chassis and having a mess of thousands literally thousands of feet of wire
running to all of these cameras so in my own research of these and again this is
an 8-channel it comes with eight of these wireless cameras in my own
research a lot of people have given bad reviews to any kind of a wireless
security system have you ever actually read through the reviews the reason why
they only get two or three out of five stars on Amazon all of the negative
reviews are the same complaining about I'm in a warehouse and I'm trying to get
four hundred five hundred feet away and it doesn't work yeah or I'm in a
three-story mansion and I can't get my cameras on the third floor to work down
in the basement it says right on the box that it has a hundred and fifty foot
range to keep these going all the time like I'm baffled that people are still
giving bad reviews because of that you asking too much out of the system it
promised this one particularly promises 150 foot range I'm in a 32 foot RV that
means it's impossible for any of these to ever be more than 32 feet away from
the NVR recorder right so I can weed out some of those negative reviews and say
this might work for me I'm not endorsing this product I don't know it might not
work but let's get it all set up here on the table and make sure the system
physically works because these are supposed to come linked to the NBR from
the factory all right so forgive me for the power wiring mess here luckily I
guess a good thing is the power cords all eight of them they give you ten feet
of cord for those so you're going to be able to hit the camera wherever it's
gonna be at but right now yeah it looks disastrous but I want to
test this system out before I install it wouldn't that be a good idea so I got
the DVR plugged in I have wired up all eight cameras to power they also have I
don't know what it looks like an Ethernet thing so maybe you could run it
power and everything over the over Ethernet cords as well so we're just not
using that cord and I want to turn this on I got it hooked up to my TV here and
I want to see if it really does just sync like they say it does so come over
here hit power and power and I'm hearing noise that's a good thing there we go
digital recording system
so it's supposed to be synced from the factory and I'm just oh look at that
all eight cameras are on system initializing please wait well that is
promising that all cameras work at least network cable disconnected yeah I know
we're not quite to that step yet guys can we just skip that so once you to set
up a username and password make this unique oh I forgot to say the system
does come with a mouse plugged in so you can navigate again wait till the end of
the video guys I do want to show how to set this up it has a setup wizard for
Android iOS or cloud or a combination of everything and I'm going to show this at
the end but we're not quite connected to the network yet because that's a little
tricky in an RV most of us are not going to have a dedicated Ethernet network
internet right stick around till the end of the video I'll show you an awesome
easy hack for getting around that and we will have Ethernet connected to this so
for right now that's all I needed to see was it all of these cameras work I also
forgot to mention that these are now 1080p cameras so I have switched to
digital all of my previous night owl' versions of these have all been analog
and they've been measured in TBL so I had a 600 TBL system and then I had a
900 TBL system at the time I was always thinking I wanted to upgrade to the 1200
TBL system well there's something even better than 1200 TTL and that's 720p
digital cameras or in this case 1080p digital camera system so should be a
much clearer crisper image and yes these all have night vision up to 100 feet so
well let's just grab one and make sure it works here okay so that's that bottom
screen and there we are awesome so let me shut this down we'll go outside first
of all I have been thinking about this for several weeks now because there are
a couple complications with this RV the first one is the slides not only do I
not want to mount cameras to any slide because of the wiring that it would have
to give and play and that there's a tree if I do it over here on the driver's
side where I normally do it a name that way all you're gonna see
is the side of the slide right there so and that'll work for driving in fact
that is a very important camera driver's side shooting this way that way when
people get to you'll get some of you have our side swipes me or hits me or
something I'll be able to show clearly that I am in between my lane and you
came over into me right that is a very important camera so it's still gonna get
mounted there in the corner it's just when the slides out that'll be an
obstructed view right there hence in the back here there will be a redundancy
there will be another camera in this corner covering this angle that will be
blocked when the slide is out so and also I want to keep three cameras here
in the corner where they're easy to plug into power right there I know it's not
gonna look as good as putting one in the middle where my backup camera is but I
just don't I want to keep drilling the holes to a minimum inside for power
right now right it's bad enough that I have to drill a half inch hole for the
wires and the cameras it's not that bad like it has to get done it's it's very
important so and then on this back corner here on the passenger side there
doesn't need to be any cameras I'm not gonna have any blank spots because I'm
gonna have one up at that corner shooting this way in the back going this
way therefore they're gonna intersect them I don't need to drill holes into
this corner right here which I'm really happy about so I'm gonna get out my
telescoping ladder climb up here and I'm gonna install the first of two cameras
here on the corner him I'll get back to you alright I got my first two holes
drilled I know it's a little cringe-worthy even if it's yours it
still just makes you go are you sure are you sure you know I'm sure this these
are not pointless holes this is for a very good thing that in my opinion just
has to happen so that in case there's ever an accident or something I can
always just give an SD card or a harddrive to somebody and say look what
happened and that's what I want to do I may have forgot to mention these are
fully articulating there's little allen wrenches at all three spots so that'll
sit on there like that so yeah I'm gonna clean this area up and I'm
gonna all the first two cameras we're getting
rain showers for like 15 minutes and the Sun comes out and back and forth and I'm
not a professional installer by any means so this is gonna take me all day
to make this work let me show you one other thing I thought the first two
cameras installed here you do not actually seal silicone around this base
even though there's a hole drilled into it just like the light fixtures there's
a hole at the bottom of these right there just in case Moisture ever does
get in there it has a way to escape and not go into the RV just escapes down the
side of the RV so that's why you don't silicone nose up also I want to talk
about the pivot points so once you get these set the allen wrench I definitely
trust that those are gonna be locked in but because this is not I guess meant
for the road it's meant for the house under the garage or something like that
the antenna ports and the part that goes in here I'm gonna use a little bit of
Loctite on the threads it's not gonna superglue the connection it'll still be
removable but it will keep it so that when I go off-road or over bumps or
bounces it will keep those threads from jarring loose a little bit just like you
might do on your lug nuts for your tires a little bit just to keep them secure a
little bit of Loctite it's not gonna hurt and it's gonna make sure that the
antennas and everything stays secure all the time I like the way that looks you
might say the antennas are an eyesore I think it's I think it's well worth
running all that extra BNC wire all throughout the RV though so ya got these
two installed gonna move on to the other side now all right got the driver's side
done now I do need to clean up a little bit of a foam that's come down and
obviously again this camera won't work when the slides out won't be much of a
view but it'll work while I'm driving and I will have that angle covered but I
kind of like this how this installations going so far next we'll work on the back
corner and then we just got to worry about running the wires inside for power
all righty so all the cameras are done the last three on the back side here are
done and this one that will aim towards the back all hooked up all tightened
good to go on the outside let's go inside believe it or not that was
actually the easy part of this entire installation because I want to do this
the right way the first way so now what we got going on is cord sticking out of
random places I have to can the tv down I've got cords over
there and then I've got three more cords in the back bedroom corner that all need
power so and as I said the outlet that is behind this TV is disabled when the
engine is running so that means power needs to be brought over from my solar
system this way to power the DVR and and I'm gonna put a power strip up there for
the five cameras I don't know if I showed you this one I also put the last
eight one inside to kind of show the RV but I want this TV to have well two jobs
right now one is going to be for the over-the-air free channels and the
second one is going to be HDMI have been to this from the DVR so that I can watch
TV and still have access to this sometimes if I'm in the shady area and
it's dark and I got all the curtains closed I'll just flip this on so they
can see what's going on make sure - nobody's messing with anything outside
the RV right this is gonna take a little bit of time I will show you what I come
up with once I get the front part done and then we'll power up the rear cameras
first of all the the clean up and make this look good part of it that is gonna
take an extra day just setting up the cameras and making this work is one day
alone by me but I don't mind at all I'm actually having a lot of fun with this
so I have all of the cameras powered be mindful I am NOT happy with how it looks
okay so this stained wood this color I guess you'd call this cheery I'm going
to get some from the RV salvage place that runs a strip down here to hide
those holes and the wires as well as the ones over here and everywhere else all
the way so ignore all of my wiring exposed right now because that doesn't
matter it's working so what we're seeing on my
screen right here and there I am right there in the bottom right hi everybody
a little bit of a delay less than a second less than a second but I got all
eight cameras on and working you can display this any way you want I like to
keep the big frame this is my front door okay yes the audience is kind of in the
way it's still usable but yeah awning then in the front there's another size
so and then here's the inside and you know it'll if I move here over here you
can see that I can see Jack's on the couch right there
so I think this system is going to be perfect for me we are still full bars on
every single camera has a full signal oh that one has three out of four right now
but yep I'm really happy with how it turned out
and I'm really thankful that I did not have to run BNC cable for eight cameras
all around this RV because that would not have been fun but this is only part
of it my next process my next project is to
get all of these cameras onto my phone so in your home that would be easy you
have an Ethernet in the back of the device the recorder that Ethernet goes
into your Ethernet at home of your router well how are you gonna do that in
an RV well I and many other our beers use a hotspot device like this although
it could also be your hotspot on your phone I just happen to buy this outright
this is an AT&T one that I rent on eBay and it gives me unlimited so this is
giving me cellular Wi-Fi internet with no ethernet cord okay so what I do and
what y'all can do is go buy an Internet booster a Wi-Fi booster this is made by
Netgear I don't think it matters specifically but what you need to do is
look at the bottom and make sure that it has that Ethernet port so what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna plug this guy in and I'm going to sync this with my hotspot
device so this is called nomadic fanatic I'm gonna call this nomadic fanatic
booster I'm not going to be using it for the booster as much as just getting that
Ethernet we have to have to put it on the computer there's some directions in
there that tell you how to open up device manager and have a new password
for it and everything and then once that's on and as long as my hotspot
device is on anytime I go outside this is gonna be connected to the network so
let me hook this up first and then we will set up the wizard for the IC oh my
gosh did I really just get that wait wait a
minute here I knew it was a Chinese knockoff version of like night owl or
Swan but I just hadn't been pronouncing it I just looked at it and I would
pronounce that I see you it's probably hitting you or something
but I see you isn't that funny for oh my gosh
I kill myself sometimes that is hilarious if that was intentional
nice job guys Wow all right so I got it I'll connect that you'll see my phone is
still listed up here but you got a nomadic fanatic and then nomadic fanatic
booster it actually does broadcast a lot farther than you'd think I've had a lot
of viewers actually find out that I'm in their campground by finding the nomadic
fanatic booster in the past so it does kind of let people know from the entire
campground that I'm in the area which is kind of funny just waiting for the green
lights there on my net gear booster there we go she was good I got the
ethernet plugged into the back going to the NVR I'm just going to turn off and
reset the system and then it should pop up our wizard there's the app they want
us to use IP pro all right and while this boots up here there it goes
actually cool beans we're all there we're configuring the network please
wait all right there's those barcodes again so let me get my app open oh isn't
that a pretty app type you Pro would like to access the camera yes
iOS link look at that there we go there's me in the top right corner there
is I walk a little closer to the camera Wow even on the phone we're only delayed
about a second or so that's fantastic there are multiple views I could swipe
probably and there's the other four or there's a way to put all eight on one
screen and you know what this is pretty sweet
this way anytime I'm outside the RV no matter where I'm at in the country or
even out of the country I can always pull up my iPhone and see
how Jax is doing inside the RV see the condition of outside the RV as well as I
can still hang a little thermometer here off to the side on the side so that I
can physically see the temperature in here I am amazed at the fact that there
are no tailored RV security systems yet on the market
this is definitely an untapped area for video NBR units and stuff like this but
I am still happy with this hi see you version just as I was with night
I just want to test it a little more certainly I want to drive a little bit
and make sure that the Loctite on all the threads held up I have no doubt that
all the allen wrench tightenings are gonna work just fine and you could
physically still go a wider angle camera there are quite a bit more expensive
about a hundred dollars apiece and you can sink those wirelessly through here
or if I don't like the system later I already have the holes drilled I could
still then put in a different type of system but this is the best way I know
how to how to keep the RV safe and in case anything crazy happens like you
reek at California four or five years ago I'll have it on video to share at
least so anyway guys hope you enjoyed I'll see you soon