 Are you guys sick and tired of buying expensive connected hardware only to be expected to pay a monthly subscription fee for the right to freaking use it? Yeah, me too, which is why at every chance I get I've been ridding my life of subscription fees and to help with that today Ubiquiti, the sponsor of this video, sent over their sick G4 video doorbell, which I'll be using to replace this Travis-y liability nightmare of a doorbell that's been on my house Presumably since it was built How hard could it be? To level with you guys this really is my doorbell We changed absolutely nothing about it for this shoot. Not even the fact that it's detached from the wall to be clear. It does work Okay, so it works but But clearly I've been slacking. Now my original plan was actually to replace it with a ring doorbell But what I realized when I went to install it was that because the ring doorbell has this back bit that needs to be Recessed into the wall unless I wanted to hang a box off of the brick work here, which would have looked really ugly I was actually gonna have to cut away the brick and I didn't have the right tool for it So this ended up sitting on my to-do workbench for months To make matters worse with the ring You're actually required to pay a monthly subscription fee something that I just personally find really offensive When I pay for the hardware in the first place cable companies of all people are not even that evil You just pay for the subscription and they drop off a cable box at your house. How freaking hard is that? anyway Okay, I lost lost my thread again. I get so mad now I can practically hear what you're thinking ubiquities hardware ain't exactly cheap But the beauty of it is that you kind of get the best of both worlds you get 24-7 recording with easy access from anywhere through their app But because the storage is local on a hard drive that's here in my house I don't have to pay a cloud access fee in order to store my data And of course, there's the added privacy benefit of that as well Nobody else has all the recordings of the inside for that matter outside of my home That means no, you know selling it to the cops or whatever else Going on out there Now is as good a time as any to do an unboxing then I guess so up at the top of this puppy You've got a 2 megapixel 1600 by 1200 camera. You've got a couple of microphones. So it actually does have two-way voice That's a speaker down there at the bottom. It has motion sensing Obviously a button for the doorbell. This looks like one of ubiquities classic ring lights So that's probably gonna tell us hey It's waiting to be adopted or it's connected or there's an error or whatever the case may be and then this is cool It's got a little customizable message Little display here. So I guess you could be like hey leave it at the door if there's a delivery driver or whatever the case may be Finally on the back. There's not a whole lot shaken It's Wi-Fi only which was actually a bit of a surprise for me given that it's ubiquity product Usually they're like the power over ethernet Kings But it's Wi-Fi only and then you're expected to power it with your low voltage AC wiring that you would presumably already have for your existing doorbell, which fortunately I do Also in the box. You've got a little mounting plate with its own level in it you've got a What's that look like about a 20 25 degree 20 degree angle mount which I'm definitely gonna use In order to kind of point it more towards whoever's actually at the door and I have no idea what these are Wiring adapters and then so much silica gel do not eat Do not eat any of it. Sorry Andy. I was just trying to make a point. Don't eat it step one break her off This was like the best afternoon investment of my life I spent like several hours I flipped off every single breaker in my house And then I spent several hours flipping them on one by one and going and figuring out Exactly what's hooked up to what because the previous owners did such a bad job of it It's not a map map, but it's like It's perfect. It's all I could possibly It's all I could possibly need doorbell 21 Sorry, give me one sec. I need to grab a screwdriver. All right, so Look at the way the UV degraded the plastic here and that incredible Just just crumbling away. This isn't even that old This beautiful wall plate can probably go. Oh Oh No, I just wanted to see if it was like flexi cuz it was like warped it doesn't matter the point is it's dead now Alright Where'd those instructions go out there in my back pocket? Okay, what's going on here? Oh wait what? This thing goes on the wall inside You see I See so that actually rings the doorbell with your ringer inside. Okay Seems kind of over engineered but whatever Are they really okay there no no no, it's good. It's good. So this comes through here I think like kind of there ish. So in the hardware package, we've got Four screws. Are these all the same length? No, a couple of them are longer. So if you're using the Angled adapter which I do need and we'll need that one and then a couple of anchors so we're gonna put these into the mortar and Attach this I guess The best neighborhood ever totally by accident. There's so many kids here There's so many kids here, uh-huh boy All right, I need a hammer This poor copper is gonna fatigue failure break on me here Okay, so that's there and then this mounting plate goes right around here here Not a word wrong bit. Ah, yes Uh Team effort Oh Let me get these little forks on here Curiously it doesn't appear to be powered. Yeah, that's because you turned off the breaker right Hey, there we go Got that little ubiquity logo on there got that provisioning thing on there I actually have no idea how to Add this to my oh, hello starting up come come get come come come come get it. It's doing stuff Ready for setup. How fun is that? Well, I already have a ubiquity app of some sort I have unify protect. Okay, here we go. Um And so what do I do Ready for setup, okay Uh add cameras Oh, look at that. Would you look at that set up cameras? It has such pretty little sounds Name your camera Do you have a chime box using with chime box settings enabled? But without a chime box can cause serious damage to the device Okay, I definitely have a chime box Are you sure you want to install with chime box settings enabled? Yes Okay to receive notifications enable sure push notifications Hello Hello Hey look my wife's working look at that See look at her working like that. Let's see if she picks her nose It's now updated and connecting to the wi-fi again and it's done So we can go all the way from wow Actually, I'm that is a wide angle That's a wide angle camera It can see me Here I am literally in line with the wall. Isn't that crazy? All right. So then by the time i'm here, it's actually got a pretty good look at me And then it's got me all the way to the point where i'm standing at the door That's fantastic. You got a parcel here. Oh, come on in here though, andy. Okay The ringer box is flipping out right now. Can you hear it? Oh, yeah Colin do you want to kick it one more time? Okay It's amazing how quick that notification comes through. But yeah, I can see what's happening. It's not quite giving it current for long enough to Bop the bottom plate here So unfortunately, there's no obvious way in the app right now to tune this so you can adjust the night vision Oh, did I mention it has night vision? I mean like all the other cameras that I have set up but yeah, it has night vision, uh, you know overlays Status sounds microphone stuff like that, but there's nothing about how long it sends this pulse for should I just like stick that right there? You think does that look okay? Or you know what? I could probably just like tuck this in here, right? I think I can get away with that Oh, yeah, ha ha clean On a pro tip from ubiquity. I took out my 10 volt amp transformer and replaced it with a 30 volt amp and Yay All that magic doesn't happen on its own though one of the requirements for ubiquity setup is some kind of controller So for myself, I've got their udm pro or dream machine pro. So there's my hard drive bay That's what stores the data from all of my cameras It's got a built-in eight port switch as well as this uplink here that goes to my fiber box for my isp and then it also links up with Uh my other switches here including uh this usw pro So that handles power over ethernet for all my cameras and poe powered switches and that stuff. Hey colin want to go ahead? Okay, so we're we're simulating the experience. Here we go. I'm sitting here at my computer Do do do do if I happen to be watching it, I would actually see him there but Doorbell ring. There we go Notification on the phone Somebody is at your front door You got a delivery for me there? Yeah, yeah, it looks like uh some lttstore.com merch Hey lttstore.com. Hey, just because it's a sponsored video doesn't mean we're not going to sneak that in there. Is it good stuff? Oh, that's great. I mean there's a little ball and like a hoodie So much stuff Alright, thanks colin. Oh, oh, this is cool. I haven't actually tried this yet Leave package at door. Do not disturb custom message So you can just throw whatever you want up there. That is so cool and it stays for one minute Oh cool. I could have also used my computer for this. So there's the two-way voice activation here I can take a screenshot and then I can also adjust all the settings for this puppy Hue, sharpness, saturation, HDR, brightness Etc. This is what happens when I turn my notifications off for a yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm very popular Other settings we can adjust. This is a really big one for me I like being able to have the time on my camera feed As well as the camera name just makes a little bit more convenient when you're looking at One of these views where you've got a whole bunch of different cameras. So it's really quick. You can tell at a glance Hey, look at that Andy guy filming me right there You can adjust the frame rate and bit rate though. I set it to 30 fps. You can tell it when to record How motion events should trigger things which zones you want to have be your motion zones Like I wouldn't want this one to necessarily, you know ping me every time something goes on over here But maybe something every time something goes on here and then finally, you know firmware updates you can disable the microphone It's pretty cool You know just in case you're not comfortable with that even though all the data is just going to your own server I've had a great experience working with Ubiquiti both in a sponsored capacity Thanks Ubiquiti for the sponsored video today as well as in an unsponsored capacity Just upgrading my network my wi-fi as well as my home security system So if you guys want to check out their stuff, we're going to have Ubiquiti store linked in the video description They've actually got a new store in the eu So in addition to the hundreds of products that they've built up for their Canadian and US stores Now if you're in the eu you can buy from Ubiquiti directly with a two-year warranty free express shipping a 30-day return policy and Updated pricing with lower prices pretty much across the board They even got an early access store where you can get exclusive access to products early In limited supply so go check them out at the link below Thanks to Ubiquiti one more time for watching this video and thanks to you guys Wait, I guess they also watched it but sponsoring it and thanks to you guys for watching it