The Best Home Tech: Episode 4! #Helpful Post

hey guys johnathan here and welcome back

to the best home tech episode 4 so first

up is what I feel every home setup

should have that of course is a

life-size Ironman on a serious note that

is one of the questions that I've seen

the absolute most lately and if you

missed it a few months back we actually

picked one of these suits up for a

real-life Captain America vs Iron Man

iPhone 6s parody and after we put it

through its paces and it nearly fell

apart we grabbed mannequin reconstructed

it and turned it into this now by no

means are these suits cheap or

necessarily practical but if you're

interested I will drop a link

conveniently placed below that upwards

facing thumb now what is actually first

up is the lifx color 1000 which is a

Wi-Fi connected smart LED light bulb and

also a Philips hue alternative now don't

get me wrong I am a huge fan of philips

hue but you have to be committed and

really dive into their system whereas

with the life x it's kind of the

complete opposite where you have a ton

of freedom and flexibility I think

that's really what drew me towards

checking this out for starters there is

no additional hardware or hub that you

need to get this working you simply have

the light bulb grab the app and you are

good to go now conversely if you have an

existing setup like for example here I

have a setup with the Samsung

smartthings home monitoring kit where it

works flawlessly and that is where that

freedom and control that I was talking

about really shines through on top of

that getting back to the standalone app

I really like the interface it's clean

it's simple it's easy to navigate

changing the colors on this is as simple

as dragging a dial and I know initially

when these came out the price was a

little on the higher side but since

senate's come down and because of that

and the overall experience I was really

impressed with this so next up I know a

ton of you are interested in home

automation so we're going to take a

closer look at these smart things home

monitoring kit that I mentioned earlier

and big shout out to Samsung smartthings

for not only sending out the kit but the

smart cam HD pro as well in sponsoring

this episode

so with this kit you get the smartthings

hub which not only the nucleus but where

all the magic happens

a smartthings outlet a motion sensor and

then two multi-purpose sensors so

jumping back to the hub this is going to

allow you to control everything it's

where you connect new devices where you

can manage things and this of course is

all done through the smart things app on

your phone now as many of you are

probably aware I'm a huge advocate of

salt Lance but the problem is I usually

forget to turn them off so being able to

use these smart things outlet with the

salt lamp is kind of awesome because

even if I do forget to turn it off

I can simply do that on my phone or if I

wanted to set these to a schedule now

for those of you out there who have

ninjas in their life who tend to grab

things that aren't theirs you will love

the motion sensor

nerf gun not includable you can see

exactly how useful this actually could

be and on top of the motion sensor you

can set up the multi-purpose sensor to

trigger doors or cupboards and these

work by being smart enough to know when

they are separated and therefore let you

know when something is opened up now

jumping over to the smart cam HD Pro I

know there are a ton of Wi-Fi cameras on

the market right now but this stands out

for a couple reasons one you can connect

up to ten of these from multiple streams

of video you get 128 degree wide angle

lens and more importantly the video

quality is stellar what you're seeing

right now is towards the end of the day

when there really wasn't much light at

all in the room and for a Wi-Fi camera

to hold that kind of dynamic range and

clarity is pretty outstanding so overall

you're getting a pretty complete package

it looks good the video quality is great

you get a ton of features and more

importantly it works seamlessly with

these smart things home monitoring kit

which if you want to check out more make

sure to head over to smart things comm /

Jonathan now last step we're taking a

look at another request you guys had and

that is to check out some stuff from

Sonu specifically this is the play one

to Rooms starter bundle now with this

bundle you can actually use it two ways

you can either use them separately as

individual speakers in separate rooms or

you can use these as surround speakers

in the entire home theater setup with

the sub and sound bar in this case I'll

be showing them off individually but if

the entire surround setup is something

you want to see definitely let me know

now one thing I've always enjoyed with

Sonos is a simplicity and how easy it is

to set everything up these work over

your Wi-Fi networking from their

lighting either stream your physical

library or your internet library whether

there's something like Spotify or even

Pandora on top of being extremely simple

to set up I was genuinely surprised with

how loud and how full these things

sounded for the size I did not expect

them to get as loud as they did but at

the same time they still maintained

clarity now if you notice here one thing

that makes me extremely happy is when

products work in unison with each other

so if I am turning the volume up or down

on the actual Sonos that is going to

correspond over to the phone where the

music is streaming off of so for the

pair if you can jump on that holiday

price and I would have no problem

recommending these aesthetically they're

on point the software experience is

top-notch more importantly these sound

good now cycling out there up to the

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