- Security system, lights, shades, EV's, thermostats,
showers, faucets, speakers, subwoofer in shower.
(upbeat music)
Okay, it is time for an update of one of my favorite
videos that we did on the house videos.
One of the videos that we did very early on in the process
when we just had the wood on the walls
and wires just sticking out and going everywhere
was all about the smart home and the brains
of our dream home.
And so now that our house is complete,
we've been living in it for about a month and a half.
We've had time to actually go through
and enjoy the different automation and controls
that we have in the smart system.
(upbeat music)
It's time to show you what we did inside of the house
and hopefully give you some ideas if you're building a house
or if you just want to see some of the top technology
that you could have inside of a house in 2020.
Thanks to Hartwalker Automation for installing
all of this into our house.
And TruAudio for sponsoring this video
and for putting the amazing speakers inside of our house
and in the backyard.
Before we even get inside of the house we have to stop
at the front door to show you what kind of things
that we did.
And this is Klint, you probably remember Klint
from our other video, he owns Hartwalker Automation.
Klint and the other owner Steve have been the ones
that have helped us with this house
and they've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours
putting in the wires and then making sure everything works
and then coming back afterward to make sure
that everything is fine tuned.
Because you can put in whatever nice things you want
that's automated but the real magic is when you go
in the back end of it and you actually get into the computer
and you program everything the way that you want it
for your house.
- So when you trying to tie in an automation system
it allows us to have like a lot different aspects tied in.
So soon as we press the doorbell we kind of can control
the lighting in the house or we can kind of--
(Nintendo music) - [Dan] What's in that?
It's Nintendo.
- Play different sounds, whatever sound you like
through the speakers whether it's just on the entryway
or out by the pool.
- So there's a video intercom system.
So there's a security camera I guess,
a video camera on there that goes to my phone
that goes to all of the different tablets inside
of the house and you can answer and talk to somebody.
Let's go inside.
Hi dog.
What he's worried, we're just doing a YouTube video.
That's it, it's just a video, it's all right.
On our front door we don't have anywhere for a key.
The lock is actually a touch screen that you can touch,
put in your code whatever it is, unlock it.
And then when you shut the door.
We programmed it at our house that after
a certain time period of the door being shut
and no activity added, it automatically locks.
So Klint last time we were here on the video we showed
a ton of wires that was just like a rats nest of wires.
Let's see how organized you've got since then.
- If you remember all the kind of lighting loads for
the home we were coming into a few panels
throughout the house this being two of them.
So essentially all the lights were just for the home
and located inside of these panels.
So each of these modules.
(lights clicking)
That accounts for a light somewhere in the house,
we just turned it off.
- We don't have the typical lights that you see
in most houses.
These have programmable buttons.
So this is the hallway right here, there's the kitchen.
Hartwalker actually named every one of the light switches
and then they've come back a few different times
since we lived here and said,
okay you've been living here for a while now,
which ones make sense and which ones bug you.
Should we change some of the light switches.
So we've changed some of them.
Say it's off, and we want it to go on,
but I just want it to be dim, and not be super bright.
I can hold it down and then just let go as soon as
it's bright as I want.
So if I want it 20%, 30%, 40% I could just hold it.
Dimming, it's getting brighter, brighter, brighter,
and it just programs and goes up.
We even have buttons in here that you double tap on it
and it shuts off all the lights in the entire house.
Or we have relaxed mode.
All of the cam lights turned off.
If it was night time you would see that right up here
we have some nice dim lights that are going up.
This is probably 15, 20% bright right there.
We can control with these buttons like we showed you.
I can control on my control phone app
but then we also have this touch screen
that we can control the lighting on there.
So we go to lighting, it's got every single light
in the house, to porch, chandelier, we can turn it up
to 100% to 0% and we have different scenes
that are setup that's like welcome turns the lights on
to like a really nice one.
This one of my favorites right here,
it's called Living Romance.
Check it out.
Boom, the fireplace just turned on.
Klint wanted to put some like saxophone music on
when that does that.
- Like bow chicka wow wow.
- I kind of vetoed that, I'm fine without the music
but it is pretty funny.
So we can turn the house on or off really easily
with the touch pad.
But there is also one more, we have Alexa enabled
inside of our house and we can talk to it.
You've seen the video with our faucet
and how we can just say, Alexa, ask Kohler
to pour one cup of water.
- [Alexa] Okay, here's Kohler Konnect, dispensing one cup.
- Alexa, turn the house off.
- [Alexa] Okay.
- All the lights go out.
The doors just locked.
There's so many controls and that's why we've waited so long
to make this video because there's a learning curve.
We gotta learn how to use all these stuff
and then re-program it the way that you want to use it.
Alexa, turn the house on.
I like it better with the lights on in here.
- [Alexa] Okay.
- The last time when we filmed our video with Klint
we just had an entire wall of wires just coming in
and it was madness.
And so now here we are back in the same room.
It looks a bit more organized.
Do you know what all this stuff does?
- [Klint] Oh yeah.
- [Dan] This looks like something that belongs
inside of a business.
- A lot of it does, a lot of is commercial grade.
We kind of took a little more commercial grade
approach on this.
This is kind of all our network gear
so it's all the Internet stuff in the home.
The smart home processors are kind of all down here.
We've got backup batteries that kind of store some energy
for us if the power ever goes out so we can make sure
the cameras are still recording
and the network is still kind of up and running.
Video distribution so we can kind of share all our video,
all the Apple TV's, Blu ray throughout the whole home.
All our surround sound receivers
and then these are all the amplifiers for the house.
So all kind of the subwoofers in the house,
all the speakers throughout the house,
those are all the amplifiers for that.
- And then behind it you can see the wires,
they're all nicely and neatly brought in
and they're all plugged into different places.
And pretty much anywhere in this house there's a wire.
Whenever I'm like, you know I'd really like
to have the Internet right here in this wall
that connects to my computer,
Steve's like all right we can get the Internet,
we got a wire behind this wall.
And he just like goes in and has it, so.
The Internet is one my favorite things.
Right now we have a gigabit up and gigabit down.
(bow chicka wow wow voiceover)
To show you what I mean, this is a file from Easter.
We had the Easter Bunny come by our house.
Pretty cool, Easter Bunny just showed up.
And this file is 2.92GB.
So, if I go onto Google drive and I drop this file in.
2.9GB, to YouTuber's this means a lot.
I just pushed upload.
It says less than a minute left already.
At my old house we had 20 upload speed
versus here around 900.
So this probably would have taken me 30 minutes
maybe an hour.
It just finished in less than a minute.
And now it's uploaded to the drive.
So my awesome editor can go in here and work with it.
But to show you, here's the speed test page.
Watch this.
Speed test, go!
Here's the download speed.
We're pushing like 900.
To all my YouTube friends that are watching this.
This is a big deal, the download speed.
And now the upload speed which is not something
that you see that often of the upload speed being very high.
Because most people are just downloading Netflix
and watching shows.
But for YouTuber's the upload speed is super important
and look at that.
I'm pushing over 900 Mbps right now.
That is fast, that is fiber, that's gigabit.
(bow chicka wow wow voiceover)
And you're probably like why do you have so many amplifiers?
Well we have lots of speakers in this house.
How many speakers do you think are inside of our house?
- I've been asked that a couple times.
I would say between like 150 and 200.
Maybe 180 or 200. - [Dan] Are you serious?
- I bet we're pretty close to that, yeah.
- (laughs) Oh my gosh.
So there is one speaker inside of the house
that I need to get your opinion on.
And it takes some convincing to convince Leslie, so.
We're gonna go ask her about it on camera.
Let me show you the upstairs view of what this is.
(upbeat music)
Okay, right now we are inside of the attic
as you can see like there's the roof up there.
And then there's a bunch of insulation.
Here's the air conditioner over here.
And a bunch of that cotton candy insulation.
And then look right there.
That is a subwoofer.
It's a TruAudio subwoofer.
Right below there is the shower.
We have two speakers inside of the shower
but they're like why don't we put a subwoofer
inside of the shower so you can hear it better.
I think that's a great idea.
But in order to do that.
(groans) Oh, my gosh.
Okay, I'm back, I'm back in the house.
In order to do it, we have to cut the tile
in the top of the shower.
It's a little bit of a process
but we would have a subwoofer in the shower.
(upbeat music)
Hey!
- Hi!
- [Dan] Okay, I need your input on some stuff
with the smart home.
- Okay.
- [Dan] This is Leslie.
- Sorry, my eyes are watering, that was fun.
- [Dan] Wait, what? (record scratching)
- I was watching moving YouTube videos.
- [Dan] What, moving YouTube videos?
- No, like somebody was--
- [Dan] You're totally like crying.
- Somebody just got the ability to see in color.
It was real, he was getting married
and his wife gave it to him.
It was really cute.
- [Dan] Aww, so in the shower we have
those two speakers right there.
We were just talking about it.
Don't you think this room could use a subwoofer?
- No!
Klint, I said no like five times.
It doesn't need a subwoofer.
- [Dan] We just went upstairs and guess what?
It's already up there.
It's just sitting there.
Lonely and sad.
- It's not lonely and sad.
- [Dan] It's already above the room.
- No, it's just so not needed though, it sounds great.
- [Dan] It sounds great?
You don't want anymore bass?
- No, I don't need anymore bass.
(buzzer)
- If we did it, Klint show us where we'd go
and what we'd need to do to get this thing in here.
- Right in between those two speakers
probably center it in the rain head.
We'd just cut a circle and it'd look just like
those two speakers.
- [Dan] Oh, it'd be a circle like that.
- Yeah, the cut, it'd look just like one of those speakers.
- But what if something goes wrong with the tile?
- This is a shower for three not for two.
(record scratching)
- What? (laughs)
It's for one.
- [Dan] He's talking about speakers.
- Oh! (laughs) - [Dan] Not people.
So it'd just be a circle right there.
So we just need to cut some of the tile.
- But do you think the tile will be okay?
- I think it would be fine.
- We're gonna try this.
We're gonna put a card right here.
It's one of those things that you vote.
So we're gonna say, should we put a subwoofer in the shower?
Go to this little card.
It's like this little eye thing up here.
Hover your mouse over or you touch it with your finger
and then you can vote yes or no.
So, go ahead and vote.
We'll leave the voting up for a week.
- Yeah, I'm fine with that if they say yes you can have it.
- See it's up to you guys.
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Inside of the master bedroom.
This is one of the biggest hits for the entire home show.
We had 26,000 people walk through this home
and we also had some news articles written about the house.
They loved that we had hidden speakers inside of our wall.
This wall looks totally normal.
This is sheet rock right here.
And then on this side, beautiful sheet rock.
There is one thing down here there's a big slit
in the wall right here.
So that is unusual to have a slit in the wall.
Master suite, listen, Dad's air play.
The only song we do for every video.
So instead of having big ole speakers in the wall.
We can hide them in the wall and I can control
with my phone and then you just have music.
(upbeat music)
I can hear the subwoofer in that wall.
And right here I can feel the bass.
And I can feel the speaker but you don't see it in there.
Oh yeah, it's right there.
I can tell the difference when I touch it.
This is one of the coolest technologies
that we have in our home.
And we did it in three different rooms inside of the house.
I filmed the process of how they installed this
because that's a big question.
How do you get speakers inside of your wall?
Lincoln and I are gonna make a video on our main channel
and we'll show you the whole process of putting it in.
We'll take one of those speakers and take it apart
because it's not like a usual speaker that you see.
- I think they're amazing.
Like I've never seen anything like--
- [Dan] I can't hear you, you gotta talk louder.
- I know, I've never seen anything like it before.
I don't want to yell though.
- [Dan] I can't hear you what did you say?
- I was saying that I never seen anything like it.
When they showed it to me the first time
I was like what on earth is this?
This is so cool.
- This is the Piano Room
and right down here you'll see a little slit.
There is a subwoofer in the wall right behind cello girl.
And then up here we have a couple more speakers
that are way up there.
We don't have to have the actual visible speakers
inside of this room.
We've got a couple that are up there and one over there.
Lincoln's room, same thing.
Also has a subwoofer that's on this side of the bed
and then he also has a speaker inside of the wall
right there next to his bed.
So it's sounds really good.
He does use those speakers a lot.
Let's go upstairs and we gotta show you the Movie Room.
When you come upstairs we have what we like
to call the Movie Room.
And this has a touch screen in here also
just like every other room in the house.
And you can control everything from the Apple TV
to the lighting even the temperature in the house.
You can control the temperature in all the different zones
inside of the house.
This was supposed to be our Game Room
but then once we put in these beds that come down.
You can see we have to move the couch to even get
the bed down, we wanted to put a pool table right here.
But once you put this middle one down there's really not
a very good amount of room for the pool table.
So we had a better option for this room.
At least I think it's the best option.
We call this the Movie Room now.
And we put our OLED TV, the wallpaper TV inside of here.
We have the Select Series TruAudio speakers right here,
right there, right there.
And then we have two giant subwoofers.
These are $5,000 subwoofers retail value, each one of them.
They have 12 inch speakers, two in each one.
Leslie, her mouth just, her jaw just dropped
when I said how much they were.
- [Leslie] I can't believe that.
I just can't believe that's how much it cost.
- I know, 'cause they are expensive speakers.
We did a video a couple years ago about Dolby Vision
and Dolby Atmos, and I was at CES and I listened to it
and it sounded really cool.
But now that we have this five channel setup
with all the speakers.
We even have a bunch of speakers up here
all along the walls.
If you look up here and it says Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision
that means if you have a TV that is capable
and you have a sound system that's capable.
The image of the movie or the TV show is gonna look so clean
and crisp and also the sound system is gonna be
full surround sound versus just two channel surround sound.
And that sounds way better.
I've watched the intro of Ford v Ferrari probably 25 times
because the first few seconds it just does
this awesome sequence where he's racing and it's loud.
You hear all the cars zinging around your head.
I don't even know how heavy this thing is
but I can barely lift it.
It is so incredibly heavy.
I think we need to find a fun way to break this thing.
(mechanical parts moving) Oh, boy!
(upbeat music)
I gotta break inside of the speaker
and see what's inside of it.
All right, there you go.
Movie Room must have it's not your traditional Movie Room
with like movie chairs and all that.
But it's kind of fun 'cause we can all
just kind of lounge in there.
Come in and out.
The security system, I'm not gonna show you every camera
that we have inside of our house right now.
So right now if you look on our video camera footage
it's tracking Klint and I just walking down the driveway.
And it will follow us all the way
to the end of the driveway.
And it has face tracking software that will zoom in
on people if we ever need to potentially identify
somebody that snuck into our yard
or broke into our house.
We have multiple cameras just like this.
Like I'm not gonna tell you how many
but it's over 20 cameras outside and inside of the house
that are generally tracking us at all times
of the day or night.
That aren't just connected to wifi.
We have our own servers that they're connected
to that are saving for months and months of data.
Okay, so check it out.
Right now it's zoomed in on me.
Watch what happens when I run up.
Okay, I'm gonna run up this way and watch how it tracks me.
Hi camera, I'm right here.
I see you on my phone.
Look at this.
It's still tracking me.
I'm coming around the corner.
Look at that, I'm coming around the corner
and going inside the gate.
And it's still tracking me going inside
the gate this same camera.
Bye.
- To make sure that we had full protection around the house.
But we wanted to make sure
we always had at least a minimum
of two cameras picking up every location
throughout the yard.
So we made sure that no matter what there was
always two different angles kind of picking up every spot.
Most locations there's three or four
that kind of pick it all up.
It's a Lumens surveillance camera.
It has pan tilt zoom but it also has auto-tracking.
And so it'll track down.
We can setup face recognition if we'd like
so it will not track certain things or certain people.
And then it will also send alerts if it finds someone
that it doesn't like or it doesn't recognize.
It'll send us an extra alert saying,
hey we've got someone that we're picking up
but it's not someone that we recognize.
- Obviously security cameras aren't the answer
to all things of security.
There's other things you need to do to lock your house
and just be safe at your home.
It does add some extra comfort as a homeowner.
Especially when we're somebody that's online all the time
to know that we do have that layer of security
over our home.
So yes, love the security cameras.
Security system, lights, shades, EV's, thermostats, showers,
faucets, speakers, that's a lot of things
that are connected.
Leslie, what is your favorite thing about our smart home?
- I mean I like being able, it's just really
being able to talk to it.
- Sometimes I feel like she talks to Siri
more than she talks to me.
- Alexa.
- Hey Siri, text this person.
Siri, do this. - I do all the time.
- Siri, tell me how to get home.
- Voice is super important to me.
So I would say, I think I talk to Alexa the most
when it comes to the light situation.
- I think we're going to see some huge leaps
in as far as the technology goes with voice.
We're kind of scratching the surface right now.
I know Gary Vaynerchuk talks about it a lot
that he loves where voice is going.
If you used voice enabled products in the past
and you had a really bad experience.
Just know that they are getting better every single year
as more and more companies adopt it into their hardware.
So thank you again to TruAudio and to Hartwalker Automation
for installing the smart home inside of our dream home.
These are things like you saw in the video today
that we never even thought of or when they asked us
at the beginning we were like absolutely no,
we don't need to have that.
We never thought we'd have to live inside of our home 24/7
because of the quarantine.
We'll get you in a second, dog.
She rings a bell when she needs to go out.
Check out our video on our What's Inside Channel
where we destroy and take apart a subwoofer
to see what's inside of it.
One of the world's largest subwoofers.
If it's not out yet, it will be out soon.
Watch the video on our What's Inside Channel on
how we see what's inside of the in-wall speaker.
If you're interested in learning more
about TruAudio speakers or Hartwalker Automation,
I will put links in the description.
You guys can go check them out and you can learn
for yourself or ask them questions
about what things you might want
to put inside of your house.
Whether it's a new build or an existing home.
They can come in and really upgrade your house
and just make it smarter and more comfortable
and make your quarantine time a little less dull.
(dramatic music)
And yes this is my tripod.
I used my recycling bin as my tripod
at the beginning in this video.
(whistling)
Was it Jake Paul?
Did you get duped by Jake Paul's--
- No! - Counter-blame video?
Do you care for me more or Leslie more?
- I'm okay with it, if you really want it.
I just don't want to jeopardize the tile
and I don't want to pay more money.
That's all.
That's all it's about.
- Hi dog.
Why are you following me?
Thanks to Hartwalker Automation for installing.
(rewinding tape) (deep murmur)
- This is a shower for three not for two.
Bow chicka wow wow.
- Oh!
(keyboard clicking)
Dad!
(keyboard clicking)
(dog screams) (bell rings)