Gadgetory

hey welcome to CNS cracking open I'm Jason Heiner with bill Detweiller and today we're gonna crack open the nest hello video doorbell so bill tell us what we're gonna do yeah so this is really kind of a cool doorbell unlike some other doorbells that are battery-powered this one requires power so there's a little more installation involved and say if you have one of these nest in door cam yep this one actually requires a power connection on the side of the door so you either have to have a digital or a mechanical doorbell already installed and there's a few tricks to the installation to ensure that it's getting the right amount of power not too much not too little just right so we thought it would be really interesting to crack it open and kind of see what's inside let's do it now all right cool all right so our first step in taking this thing apart is trying to find out where we get into the device and on the nest there's actually a really thin a really thin faceplate here that's plastic that covers the front so if we very gently insert a guitar pick or another plastic tool you can use a metal tool if you're careful not to break any of the components we slide it around you know we get a little bit of resistance you can see how the faceplate doesn't cover the doorbell button at the bottom here so we're gonna keep working our way around be trying to be gentle I can feel some resistance from the double-sided adhesive I'm gonna be really gentle here and eventually this should hopefully come loose and there we have it so we get our first look inside the nest hello video doorbell I can see one Phillips screw there we're going to try and remove this screw I'm gonna look for any other screws that are still underneath this adhesive and then hopefully this will make a little bit easier to remove the outer shell in the case all right so now we have our first look inside the nest hello video doorbell go alright alright so here we are with our first sort of look inside the nest hello video doorbell we have the guts removed from the plastic shell here one thing that's really kind of interesting inside the plastic shell there's a couple things to look at we have our speaker we have the contacts for the power leads that come from your existing wired doorbell and then we have this really interesting sensor here that I'm not sure what it does it at first glance I assumed it would be a microphone of some kind but I'm not sure yeah you would put the hole for that on the back it also doesn't appear it doesn't look like any microphone I've seen before in these types of devices and there's basically some type of membrane here a metal bar attached to that and then that depresses a physical button or a contact here so I'm assuming it maybe is some type of pressure switch or setting to detect when the camera is actually connected to the door or what's back there I don't know but that's one of the things that makes taking these devices apart really cool is you get to see these components that you didn't expect inside of it they sometimes don't tell you all the sensors that are inside these devices they just tell people how they work true and with the Internet of Things devices that's one of the most interesting things that we find is all of the different sensors they're always adding new types of sensors so that you can measure monitor manage things that you never could before and when you crack these open and look at them we get an idea of the full capabilities of the product yeah yeah it's really cool so we're gonna keep taking this thing apart we're gonna take the screws out connect disconnect these cables take the circuit boards apart and see what we can find all right go do it so here we have the nest hello video doorbell completely taken apart Jason some of the things that I thought were really interesting we talked about a few of them earlier that yes sensor that I still don't know really what it does yep but a few of the things that we found also that we're interesting the camera sensor here's the camera sensor and the lens are basically two separate parts interesting oh I haven't seen that most of devices like cell phones or other IOT devices you know integrated yeah they're integrated together they have a cell phone basic camera inside of them so this was pretty interesting also interesting the chips the main chips that are on here this looks like an Amborella processor it looks like a kingston memory module here it's got a skyworks wireless chip there okay a lot of the same kind of processors a lot of the same kind of chips that we've seen in other devices you know it's it's really interesting to see the construction of these things this is the device also that's designed to go outside yes so we see and so it's designed to be a little more waterproof than perhaps a cell phone or you know older cell phones or even you know devices cameras meant for the inside of the house so it does have an additional gasket there's a rubber or silicon gasket here around the outside to help with that there's this pink material that's inside that fills the gaps that around some of the I sees that are in it it doesn't appear to be it's not normal like heat sink or heat conducting foam it seems to be something else so I'm not sure if that's more for water protection or if it's more for to protect it if it falls if it's shock protection I mean it could be heating I just usually don't see this inside devices so it's really cool a lot of surprises inside the nest hello it's really interesting the sensor and the camera lens being separate because what that shows is this is a more sophisticated deal and the extra sensors we talked about the fact that Internet of Things is all about sensors so yeah we've as always we've learned some some interesting things yeah making this thing open so if you have other devices you would like to see us crack open then leave us a note in the show notes we're always looking to crack 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