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I'm seeing that's right Crist and I'm here with the eye smart alarm which we saw at CES this year and on Kickstarter now the eye smart alarm is a clever do-it-yourself alternative to more expensive home security options the eye smart alarm comes in packages starting at 199 dollars and those won't come with any contracts or subscription fees although come with our what you see here you've got the cube one which is sort of the mothership of the whole set it's going to connect to your router and talk to all the other devices and kind of organize them into one system you get a motion detector here that works up to 30 feet and you get to remote tags these are little keychain attachments you can use to control the system and you'll get two of these contact sensors that you can stick anywhere and these will detect on a door opens or closes by detecting when they separated and come back together for 150 dollars more you can add in the eye camera now this is a camera that will take a picture of intruder during a break-in in theory however we found that it didn't work that well it was kind of finicky to set up and we had the same problem on multiple network so with lag and it was tough to get it to work when we wanted to so not the most reliable thing I wouldn't recommend getting the camera at this time now you'll control all of this with the eye smart alarm app and this apps available in iOS right now but it's coming soon to Android 2 the app is easy to use and intuitive and it's got a lot of information packaged into it that was helpful so we thought it was a really strong feature of the system in the app you can arm or disarm the device you can tell if at your home or you can activate the panic function to have the sirens started sounding it's pretty loud for you to probably get free to free i snort alarming rosary compositionally aside for you low price is the fact that it is a do-it-yourself system and that doesn't just mean setting it up yourself and managing it yourself what that means is that if someone intrudes in your house and you learn goes off you'll get a phone call or a text automated from a smart alarm not a live person and they'll have you call the cops they won't call the police for you they won't call emergency services for you you have to do that now some people might actually like this they don't want the police to be called every time there's a false alarm but other people might want the security of knowing that if something happens the police will be called automatically so if that's what you want this might not be the system for you that said I was very impressed with the system myself and testing it the contact sensors worked perfectly the motion detector was very nice everything just worked the way it should with the exception of the eye camera and the $199 option all of this to me is a great value and as someone who just moved into a one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a building I'm kind of considering getting it for myself if you're looking for a do-it-yourself home security option and you're looking to save some money to the eye smart alarm might be the perfect fit for you thanks for watching Christina I'm Rikers