DIY Home Security

Video Transcript

Ryan: There’s a creepy guy sitting at my door. What’s he doing?

Presenter: You don’t want him…

Ryan: I don’t want him, no no no. Go away, you’re crazy.

Ryan. He’s selling bowties. He’s selling bowties.

Cody: Candygram, candygram.

Ryan: Come on in, Cody, come on in.

Cody: Land shark. Land shark.

Cody: I love these new things.

Ryan: So this is the ring, this is a great home-video doorbell that you can use. You set it up on your door, it’s very easy to install, you get video, you get two-way communication, and you don’t have to tell anybody whether you’re home or not.

Cody: So you could be somewhere else and they think you’re inside talking to them.

Ryan: Exactly, so you could be in a completely different place, be at work, and if somebody’s delivering a package you can talk to them. Or you get some creeper walking up to your door, you can be like, “Hey! Get away from there! You don’t belong here!” or whatever. But it’s also great for like if your kids are home. [crosstalk] And the inventor says that when he talked to his wife about it, she said, “It’s like caller ID for my front door.”

Cody: Yes, that’s exactly what it’s like.

Ryan: Because when those creepy neighbors come by with the brownies that you’re just not sure what’s in ’em, you can just go, “You know what? Just leave them on the doorstep, we’re not home, the dog will get to them later.” It has a couple other little accessories. This is just the chime, this way if you…you heard the sounds as it’s going off. But you can put the chime someplace else, like in your bedroom or whatever, so you can kinda hear when it’s going off. And it works really, really great, I mean for $200, you can see what’s going on at your front door.

Cody: I love that.

Ryan: But overall, with DIY home security, we’re gonna get into the Piper next, but when it comes to installing your own security things, one thing you gotta know is you’re gonna be the one in charge of making sure that everything’s secure. You’re gonna monitor your own system.

Cody: Oh, okay.

Ryan: So when you go buy an alarm from a professional, right, they’re gonna monitor it, they’re gonna call the cops if something’s gone wrong or if you don’t answer your phone or whatever. But see, I got an alert on my phone that told me, “Hey, Cody’s at the front door, take a look.” But if I ignore my phone, I get too Codyy Facebook, too Codyy Tweets, too Codyy other things, and I start ignoring that stuff, then forget it.

Cody : It doesn’t work.

Ryan: Yeah, it’s not gonna work, you’re gonna ignore all that stuff. So this one here, this one’s called the Piper. Piper’s $280, it’s an expandable system. So their main thing here is this little camera. It’s got night vision, which I think is super cool, it’s got motion-activated and it’s also got a two-way speaker on it as well, and it’s a super loud alarm. So what it does it takes a picture of the room and if anything changes in that room it’ll send you an alert. And you can set the sensitivity to different levels that you want. So if you want it to check the temperature, for example, it’ll tell you, “Hey, the temperature’s rising really fast, there’s probably a fire going on.” Or if there’s a loud noise like a break or a crash or something, it’ll alert you. But again, you’re gonna be monitoring on your own phone. You can set it up so it’ll also contact certain contacts on your contacts list, so if you really wanna annoy your mother-in-law, throw her on there and walk across the room and it’ll just keep going off over and over and over again.
So here’s one of the expandable things you can get. There’s a little sensor, this is for doors or windows, so if the door opens up it’s gonna set off an alarm. And this here is just a plug so you can have Smart Plugs, so that way if you wanna turn off your lights remotely or you wanna turn off your television remotely or your coffeemaker, you can just get one of these and you can use the system to turn it off, kinda like a Smart Phone.

Cody : Oh, okay. So this is $280, expandable, this is $200, not expandable…

Ryan: Yes. Well, this one will work with some Smart Systems, but for the most part, it’s really just kind of a stand-alone thing and you just watch it on your phone. For the fact that you’re…most alarm companies, you’re gonna spend like $30 for them to monitor, and you don’t have to do any of that stuff. You just have to spend $280, expand it as you want to, customize it as you want to, you’re done. You don’t have to spend $30 every month for someone to monitor.

Cody: Brilliant!

Cody: Kinda cool.

Cody: All right! Gonna stick around another hour with us?

Ryan: Yeah, we got…we’re doing…I don’t remember what we’re doing. We’re doing something about apps, though. We’ll figure it out.

Cody: Something about apps. That’s a tease, people, that’s a tease right there. Something about apps, something about apps.

Cody: We’re gonna talk tech, something about computers and apps.