Gadgetory

over the past few weeks you may have noticed a new shooting set up if you did you are correct and the reason for that is I moved now with that I kind of have this blank canvas in front of me to build out my dream smart home set up I thought it'd be cool to document the process and take you along for the ride so part two is going to be all about the TV all about the audio super excited for LG 65 inch 4k OLED and potentially even more excited for a pair of speakers coming from folk L that has me drooling just thinking about them today though part one is going to be the foundation the groundwork internet Wi-Fi security because of that I reached out to nest mask they'd be down to send out a couple of their brand-new Mets IQ cameras they said yes I said you are awesome so huge seller to them for sponsoring episode one you also know what that means so for your chance to win a nest IQ of your own details are down below and if you're down with that let me know by dropping a like as far as the internet goes it's kind of good a little bit of a roller coaster initially I was trying to get frontier aka used to be Verizon they hold the key to file it wasn't going to be anything crazy about a hundred up hundred down and I'm sure I'm going to hear about some of your insane internet speeds in the comments section below but ultimately after going back and forth for two weeks I found out there were no open ports and I would essentially have to go on a waiting list and who knows how long that would have taken so ultimately what I ended up doing was going with spectrum who weren't quite as tasty on the upload speeds we're looking a hundred down and 10 up which does make me slightly sad just thinking of that hundred up within arm's reach but ultimately after felt like a caveman for two weeks without internet I am just happy to be connected now source wife I went with Google Wi-Fi which comes in a pack of three and the reason for that is the layout of the house is to restore ease technically though the first story is just the hallway and extra calories burned to get to the living room because that the router lives on the second story I wanted to make sure there were strong consistent Wi-Fi upstairs and throughout the house Google Wi-Fi works as a mesh network with different access points to give you that solid consistent signal there's a few different brands that make very similar things but for me Google Wi-Fi has worked perfectly and I have zero complaints pop it over because that's like you though this is where things get really cool if you're found a tech this is one of the coolest gadgets you can put in your house now it makes my geek art happy is inside the nets IQ is a super crispy 4k sensor you pair that with the 130 degree wide angle lens night-vision HDR and that is a killer combination the window 4k sensor works though is actually kind of genius it's not outputting okay because one now would eat up extra bandwidth and two would be harder on your system to string smoothly but rather it's very similar to shooting a video in 4k and then output it into a DP you have to go to punch in crop and overall everything is just extra sharp it takes that one step above and beyond though is when the hardware works with the software so Ness is actually smart enough to decipher the difference between just motion and a human being and when it spots a human it will actually lock onto them crop in and follow the movement which is crazy what's cool though is because of the software base if you're looking back at old footage and it's locked in and following that person you still have the ability to zoom out and see the entire field of view now full disclosure as you know Ness was awesome enough to sponsor my home setup but no joke because they work so well I got a couple more for the office in addition to the security they have also become the old cement behind the scenes camera now speaking of software one of the craziest features on Ness IQ is face recognition and it works really good so the way it works is one nest like you see the face doesn't recognize it instantly sends you a notification saying hey there's an unfamiliar face in your spot from there you can kind of then create a database of whose faces - and then from now on it will let you know when that person enters the room I do wish there was an ability to turn off familiar faces and then only receive notifications for unfamiliar faces I did reach out to desk and they are working that potential in the future study is good news but either way it works lightning fast to demo that over here in the office I added my face I added Rich's face I'm going to call Ralphie to come over in a real time you're going to see how fast it works hey what you're doing come to being rich ok Ralphie just entered the room take a few steps this way look up there your cameras spotted if someone it doesn't recognize look man over here hey let me mug hold on hold on hold on that's very good yeah I guess that's a clean face right there man do you know this person uh yes yes hey just sent me a notification for a familiar face Ralphy which also comes through on an Apple watch so there was kind of a real-world example of not only how quickly it works but also how well it works immediately when Ralphie came in it had no idea who he was and let me know that but as soon as I added his face it instantly knew who he was we all know what's also cool is you can now talk and listen through the nest like you so I'm gonna send rich over to the nest IQ right now it sees you rich don't break yourself so as you're looking at this Ness footage hopefully rich is it making it too shaky but not only can you see the wide-angle view but you can also see how to adjust on the fly night vision works extremely well to the point where things can be pitch-black in the room and you can no joke see everything that because that's IQ is plugged in at all times you essentially have 24/7 live streaming that you can access at any given moment now if you want to archive that footage you have to subscription options which we either go back the last 10 days or all the way up to the last 30 and details on that are down below all in all though I think that's IQ as the result of one great Hardware meets great software because both ends of the spectrum are equally satisfying if you've been looking for a smart home camera and you want the latest cutting-edge tech the best IQ is an awesome choice this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later