 By the time this video is out, the problem will be solved, so I guess it's okay to tell you guys this, but my home video surveillance system is horrible. I've got three Nest Cams that, like, some of them even have stuff blocking their view of the door, and I don't even pay the subscription because I think that's ridiculous, and they're just... this is how they're installed. They're just, like, sitting on stuff with, like, loose USB cables plugged into the wall. It is definitely time for an upgrade. And this is gonna be quite the upgrade. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going full Unifi... ooh... home security today, and the video is brought to you by the Aorus 15G Gaming Notebook features Intel's 10th Gen processors, strong performance, great battery life, and many features. Check it out at the link today in the video description. The first camera we're gonna mount is probably the most obvious one, a nice high-quality look down the end of the driveway that covers the whole front yard, and for that, I'm gonna use the G4 Pro. This is a 4K camera. It's got a 3x optical zoom. Apparently, the image quality on this thing is just absolutely fabulous. It's got a large sensor, high-powered infrared LEDs for night vision, and it's IP67 waterproof, so I can mount it pretty much wherever I want, which raises the question, Hun, where do you want to put this thing? It is way bigger than I thought. It's big. It's, like, not small, so there's that. Let's go put it over here. Over here? Yeah, right in the middle. Right in the middle. I don't think I have any masonry mounting, nor do I have any obvious way to get an ethernet cable down here, so this thing is power over ethernet powered. Whoops. That's the second time today. Yeah, I'm trying, all right? Trying to drop things? See if we can do this. Theoretically, and I lied, I do have masonry bits. I just really didn't want to do that. Theoretically, they include everything we need, so we got some pinner-looking anchors, we got some screws, and then you undo the back of it, and you mount this puppy a little something like that. Use a seven millimeter bit. I actually don't know how I'm supposed to make a mark with this thing. They show you just putting a pencil through the hole, but it doesn't fit. Now, you might think a mechanical pencil is the solution to this problem. You'd be right, but how about another solution to this problem? I sharpie the tip of a paper clip and then stick that through the hole. Wait, is that centered? That looks pretty centered, right? Okay, is that so ugly? It's pretty ugly. From the front, it's okay, but from the side, no. It sticks so far. Yeah, I have some leftover Black Cat 5e. My issue is I don't know if this is enough. I mean, yes, technically, I could put a switch there. Yes, technically, I could put a switch there, actually. That's an interesting thought. So Ubiquiti actually sent over a few of these. They're called their Nano Switch. And basically, it's a PoE powered PoE switch. So you just run your power over ethernet and that powers this device, and then also powers up to three more devices coming off of it. We could do up to two of those off of one of these. So maybe this switch can be for the doorbell that's later date and this one here? Yeah, it would save me doing a separate run for the doorbell, actually. You're brilliant, my love. All right, fine. There's lots of reasons I keep you around. Put that in there. Now, just pull this up, tighten the ring. Oh, look at that. Look at that professional mounting job right there. Normally, you would pull mount these little PoE switches here, but I'm mounting it indoors, so I really just want to wall mount it. But I don't have any screws that are small enough for these stupid hanging holes here. And they don't include any hardware. So I'm just going to widen these. Yeah, that seems fine. Okay. Hi. Okay, there's the real problem, child. I'm calling two screws enough for this. I learned from Brian the electrician that real men don't need hammers. Everything's a hammer. So PoE one right there. Okay, I need more. Okay. Good job, kiddo. I bet you can figure it out, your smart girl. Look at that. Okay, those are done. Now, I just got to make my way back and take up all that extra slack. Just spent an hour on this, and I wish Ubiquiti would have saved me some trouble and not sent incompatible gear over. The Nano switch requires 24 volt passive PoE, and that new switch, their new Pro switch, is only 48 volt. So this doesn't work. Fortunately, I have an ethernet coupler, and I just joined together the two runs that I had intended to run to the switch. And this is pretty cool. That is our front driveway live. And there is so much cool stuff that you can do. We've got all the same controls as before, so I'm going to go ahead and throw it in 4K. We can play around with the zoom. I personally kind of like the wider view, and I think I might even shift it over to the right a little bit. And then there's a bunch of other stuff that you can change in here. So under general, you can have it overlay the camera name and the time, which I thought was pretty useful. You can change the bit rate, the frame rate. Under recording, you can decide when you want it to record. So if you set it to motion events, you can set different zones. So instead of the default zone, you could get rid of that. You could just have the street zone. You could say, look, I only want to record when there's something going on out in the street, for example. And then you can get rid of it, and you can disable the microphone if you want. But I'd just as soon leave it on personally. Actually, kind of curious. Oh, yeah. Can hear all the birds chirping. That's crazy. That looks so good. Let's put up another one. One of the reasons I was so annoyed that this wasn't going to work out for me was that I had intended to run just one cable over to the back corner of the house and run a number of security cameras off of it. Well, okay, here's the problem. I didn't request those things in the first place. This is the one I asked for, the USW Flex. This one should be able to handle what I want just fine. So we're good. Naturally, though, after that last experience, we're going to do a sanity check here and make sure we can actually run a camera off this thing. Because if we don't do the sanity check and it doesn't work, and I go and run a bunch of cabling and blow an hour, I might go insane. It's my insane smile. How am I doing? Thanks, I guess. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, there we go. Nice. I knew I planned this out. That thing supports a maximum of 46 watts and each of these G4 Pros is a maximum of 12.5 watts. So I can power three of these off that one switch. Sick. If I fall, make sure you get my good side on the way down, eh? Okay, here's the plan. Camera's kind of going over here and over here and this kind of mounted here. Right there, all right? I got glue on my arm. I look level. And that is never coming off again. I just got to crotch this camera one moment, please. Oh, please tell me that fits through there. You got to be kidding me. Boy, that is one tight fit. That's what she said, baby. Ooh, sweet. Not bad. Well, this is about to get real interesting. Here's the problem. I can't get at that from the top. So the only way for us to get the cable through is for me to drill from under here and have someone be up there at the top, kind of trying to stake the cable through from about an arm's length away, kind of, eh, eh. I'm all geared up, ready for the climb. Here we go. Leaving the world behind. Yep, this is awesome. This is exactly how I imagined I'd be spending my night. Sorry, you're saying this is how you imagined being married to me was going to be? Yeah, laying in rat poop. I see it. See it? Not quite. Okay, wait, other hand. Yep, yep, I got it. Got it. Nice. Don't pull too hard on that. I'm at the top of a ladder. Okay, okay, here we go. Do you think it's going to light up? We got a light. That's something. Show me the, don't show me the rings. Are they both white? Are they flashing white? They're both flashing white. Oh, are they? Yep. 4K Ultra HD. That is sick. That's good. Doesn't it? I also want to check out the app. So they've got a separate app for the security stuff. So it actually looks almost exactly like the NASDAQ in terms of the view. But without any subscription because we're just recording to a local hard drive, which is sick. We've got our full timeline. So the one we installed at the beginning of the day. There you go. It's dark. Now for obvious reasons, I'm going to move these cameras and I'm installing the other nine of them without showing you guys where I'm putting them. Like, doy. But that's pretty much the process. And overall, I am super stoked with this so far. Although I'm sure if you guys follow on Twitter, I'll let you know if I have any complaints about it moving forward. So all that remains is to give you guys this message from our sponsor. Whether you want something personal for business or even something for B2 storage, Backblaze is a cloud storage solution that's both easy to use and affordable starting at just $6 a month. They've restored over 50 billion files and they've got over an exabyte of data storage. You can back up almost anything and you can restore your files anywhere. Their mobile apps give you access to your files on the go. So you can directly download them or they can even restore your files by mail. Just purchase a restore via hard drive and they will overnight FedEx it to you. 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