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hey I'm seeing that's right Kristin standing here beside canary this is the all-in-one home security device that did quite well on IndieGoGo about a year and a half back now the big question here is how is canary doing because back in January it didn't seem like the device was quite ready for primetime testing about now runs pretty smoothly it's pretty easy to use the app it was pretty easy to get it set up and the camera works almost all the time but one thing I wasn't pleased with as I do back into my test with this thing was that there still isn't an auto alarm function you want this thing to sound the 90 decibel siren as soon as it sees someone enter your house the middle tonight right well the reason for that is because the thing is really sensitive we ran it here in the office for a few nights and we have lights that go off on a staggered schedule it would pick up each one of those lights going off and send me an alert saying hey I see something and I'd say no it's just the light going off now that's kind of a good thing you want this thing to be able to catch the smallest detail but you want it to be able to differentiate between irrelevant data and actual threats and canary is supposed to learn but canary hasn't really picked up on those differences yet the canary team tells me that takes a couple of months so you'd have to spend a lot of time just tagging these video clips before you'd ever expect to see any sort of improvement in that sensitivity which by the way you can't adjust this means that when canary sees something while it's armed it's going to send you an alert on your phone and leave the decision to turn the alarm on up to you another big problem is that I never receive notifications when canary went offline when the power went out so this means that if someone unplugs it before the alarm gets raised its basically blind it's dead and you don't get that alert and you don't get that video log in your canary app what would happen I'm going to pull my app out here and arm the device the light the bottom turns green there that tells you that it's armed and what I'm going to do is I'm going to wave my hand in front of it here and trigger that motion sensor and then yank this cord out real quick and you see my phone doesn't give me an alert my phone doesn't say hey your canary is offline suddenly if someone were in the middle of burglarizing my home I'd have no idea all in all this device is still not as thorough an option as I would want to protect my apartment I'd rather have the I smart alarm I camera keep I'd rather have Dropcam I'd rather have the Piper NV which is very well doing basically the same thing that canary does given all those other options for cameras now I just don't think this is the one that you want thanks for watching check out the rest of our smart home reviews here at cnet.com for seen at appliances I'm write crest