Gadgetory

I have this problem that whenever I leave my house an important package is delivered while I'm gone or maybe when I'm home the delivery guy doesn't even ring the doorbell and leaves my new stuff on the porch today skybell sent me something that might just solve all my problems skybell is a 1080p video doorbell that can detect and record movement and allow you to see what's outside your front door whenever you want inside the box we have the sky bell itself I have the silver version it has a metallic finish but the body is actually plastic like most doorbells are below that we have a mounting plate and screws and a drill bit for brick houses and a screwdriver below that we have one more little adapter that you'll only need if your doorbell is digital pretty easy to install but my doorbell is all mechanical as you can see here a digital doorbell would have a speaker instead of the metal tone bars installing a doorbell is actually pretty easy it's just a simple switch you have two little signal wires that will disconnect from the old doorbell if you touch these live wires together your doorbell will go off the vast majority of doorbells will use low voltage wires so touching them is safe but it's your job to make sure that your own doorbell isn't using standard voltage wires or this could very well be your last do-it-yourself project I'm screwing the new backplate into one of the original holes and then starting my own hole for the bottom screw luckily my door frame is made out of wood drilling a new hole into brick is a whole different project for another day the signal wires get tucked below each little screw on the left I find it's easier to tuck the wire end at the base of the head that way when you tighten the screw the screw pulls the wire deeper underneath it instead of pushing it out like it would if you put the wire at the top of the screw make sure the wires are tucked out of the way and then the sky bill will clip in up top and screw in at the bottom it'll charge up for a few minutes and then when it starts blinking red and green connect your phone to the Wi-Fi signal it is emitting this will allow the skybell app to sync the doorbell with your home Wi-Fi that way it can communicate with your phone wherever you are even outside of your house and you can immediately start recording live video now even though this particular video is 720p it is extremely low bitrate since it's live-streaming here is some sample footage indeed the video footage does look pixelated but just remember that you're literally watching a video feed from a doorbell the future is here inside of the skybell app you can change several settings one of the coolest is you can actually turn your doorbell off this is awesome if you have a sleeping baby inside the house or me when I'm doing voiceovers your phone will still be notified that the doorbell rang but there will be no sound echoing inside of your house you can change the motion detection sensitivity the high sensitivity would go off whenever someone walked on that sidewalk in front of my house so I switched it to low you can also change the color of the LED up front it is way bright and kind of distracting so I just turned it off altogether but you know for Christmas or Halloween this could be a cool feature overall this is an interesting fun little piece of tech even though the angle of the lens wouldn't let me see the packages on the ground of my porch it is still useful in other ways the motion detection feature might come in handy whenever the camera turns on it will save the video feed to a cloud but you can always download individual clips that you need to your phone storage big thanks to sky bill for sending me this interesting gadget I'll keep the video description updated with my review on it as time progresses thanks for watching I'll see you around