WEBVTT 00:00:00.001 --> 00:00:01.360 Where's my boy? 00:00:01.680 --> 00:00:02.880 How you doing, man? 00:00:02.880 --> 00:00:04.400 Good buddy, you okay? 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:06.320 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:07.040 Okay. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:07.840 Ugh. 00:00:08.719 --> 00:00:09.200 Yeah. 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:10.559 Yeah. 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:11.200 Alright. 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:14.559 So we weren't able to record last week, which is which is fine. 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:16.960 No, I I have a s I have a story about that. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:17.279 Okay. 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:18.720 Alright, let's go. 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:19.759 Okay. 00:00:19.759 --> 00:00:20.080 So 00:00:21.619 --> 00:00:23.460 My wife, my wife, Jesus Christ. 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:25.380 I'm gonna cut that cut that, cut that, cut that. 00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:29.860 Uh my daughter is on the tennis team. 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:30.740 Alright. 00:00:31.860 --> 00:00:33.300 They kept everybody. 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:34.260 That's okay. 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:34.900 Uh 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:43.239 She's she's she she kept they they didn't they didn't cut anybody they kept they kept everybody who tried out they kept all like all twenty four girls or whatever 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:47.140 Uh so they have a huge absolutely huge tennis team. 00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:49.540 That is a pretty big team. 00:00:49.540 --> 00:00:50.180 Yeah. 00:00:50.579 --> 00:00:53.460 She's junior varsity, of course, and she plays doubles. 00:00:53.460 --> 00:00:54.340 So, you know. 00:00:54.460 --> 00:01:05.180 It I guess, you know, like from what I've learned, the best play varsity singles, and then there's a sliding scale at the very end is JV doubles, right? 00:01:05.180 --> 00:01:06.619 But that's that's fine. 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.719 Uh yeah, so generally the way it works is when you go to uh have has has she had a meet yet? 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:12.039 Yes. 00:01:12.039 --> 00:01:14.679 Yeah, but she's at her third one today. 00:01:14.740 --> 00:01:15.140 Okay. 00:01:15.140 --> 00:01:23.300 So the way they usually go, right, is you know, you you go either the team comes the team that you're playing comes to you or you go to them. 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:23.640 Mm-hmm. 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:31.800 And essentially, at least in when I was doing it, there were usually five matches, three singles, two doubles. 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:38.259 And you know, the the first the first singles match was generally the best player on each team. 00:01:38.259 --> 00:01:44.579 Then the second singles were second best, third singles were that, and then you had like the first doubles team and then the second doubles team. 00:01:44.579 --> 00:01:46.259 And when I started, I was like 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:50.320 Kind of riding the bench and then I became second doubles and then I became first doubles. 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:52.640 I was never good enough for singles. 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:57.440 I don't know if how that works for her, but I I I think roughly, yeah, yeah. 00:01:57.440 --> 00:01:58.000 Okay. 00:01:59.259 --> 00:02:01.979 So usually I record on Thursdays. 00:02:01.979 --> 00:02:02.700 Right, right. 00:02:02.939 --> 00:02:08.860 Well previous Thursday, uh, she she had uh she had practice and it was just 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:12.340 It was just a J V practice, squad two, they call it squad two. 00:02:12.340 --> 00:02:13.939 Uh just J J V. 00:02:13.939 --> 00:02:20.659 And uh I went to pick her up at the high school after practice and she told me the story. 00:02:20.659 --> 00:02:21.459 And uh 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:31.720 Basically, what had happened was she was she was practicing and one of the coaches was like, Arabelle, let me see your racket. 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:40.280 And she took Arabelle's racket and tried to use it and basically said, oh my god, Arabelle, your racket is horrible. 00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:41.060 Okay. 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:44.580 It is way, it is way, way too heavy at the end. 00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:48.180 Like, and the coach is like, I've been playing tennis for like 20 years. 00:02:48.180 --> 00:02:49.940 I can't even use this racket. 00:02:49.940 --> 00:02:50.660 It's bad. 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:52.020 It's real bad. 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:58.520 So she had a her first match was on uh that next Friday. 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:02.600 So she got in the car and she's a little distraught telling me this story. 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:03.480 And uh 00:03:04.420 --> 00:03:08.580 I was like, well, you this is a problem money can solve. 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:09.140 Right? 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:11.620 Like, like I will gladly take you. 00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:16.260 Of course, the only place, there's like one place in Columbus that is like a tennis store. 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:17.460 They close at five. 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:18.980 This is well past five. 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.600 And I was like, well, you know what, I can just take you to Dick's. 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:22.800 They have tennis rackets. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.240 You can you can look at them. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.400 If you want to buy one, you can buy one. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:27.360 If not, that's fine. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.120 If you don't want to go, if you just want to wait. 00:03:29.160 --> 00:03:30.360 and figure this out later. 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.640 It's absolutely fine. 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:33.480 So she kind of contemplated stuff. 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.160 We went home. 00:03:35.160 --> 00:03:36.920 Uh sh we had dinner. 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:43.020 And she was like, yeah, go ahead and take me to Dicks, which is the point where I was like, I can't record, Drew. 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:43.660 Okay. 00:03:43.660 --> 00:03:47.340 I'm having a we're having I didn't say this, but we're having a tennis racket emergency. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:52.920 So we took her out to Dick's and we must have been there. 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.000 I have to imagine everybody in the store was just absolutely annoyed with us. 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:05.620 We we we we took we brought a tennis ball and we didn't hit the tennis bar very far but we did dump bounce the b the tennis balls off off some rackets 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:10.440 Uh we must have tried every single racket that was that was in there. 00:04:10.440 --> 00:04:20.120 Heck, we even you we even used a little bit of uh chatty G to ask it to like like hey tell me about this racket is it good for beginners you know and stuff like that it was fun 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.360 Uh so we ended up buying a racket. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.800 Uh I can't remember what it is, but that's not important. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.600 So she bought the racket and uh 00:04:40.580 --> 00:04:41.300 Yeah. 00:04:41.300 --> 00:04:43.780 And at that point it had started raining. 00:04:45.020 --> 00:04:51.980 So I took her to a nearby park that had some tennis courts in the rain and she tried some serves and and stuff. 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:59.660 And obviously I didn't have another tennis racket, but I would bounce balls at her and and toss them over to her and and generally be a fool running around chasing balls. 00:04:59.320 --> 00:05:03.640 Uh and she's like, wow, I really do like this tenant racket a lot better. 00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:06.920 Uh and uh at that point 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:08.960 Uh she felt good. 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:15.760 We went home and then Friday was her first match and she won. 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:17.120 All right. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.280 So I gotta ask, right? 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.160 What was the racket she had before? 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:28.400 It was a I think it was not Wilson Prince. 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:29.200 Prince is a Prince. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:31.200 Yeah, Prince Prince is definitely a brand. 00:05:31.260 --> 00:05:36.540 But it was but it was not not a very expensive racket, you know, it's probably like forty bucks or whatever. 00:05:36.540 --> 00:05:39.740 Uh we spent a little bit more on the new racket. 00:05:39.740 --> 00:05:43.020 I was basically like just don't look at the price of there, but pick a racket that you like. 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:44.300 Uh uh 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:48.020 But sh the new one I can't remember what the new one she has now. 00:05:48.020 --> 00:05:50.500 It's a brand that I do not recognize. 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:53.620 But she's a lot happier with the new racket. 00:05:53.620 --> 00:05:55.540 And uh so we uh 00:05:56.039 --> 00:06:02.599 She had a match yesterday in which she lost, and I think she's actually actually playing her third match right now. 00:06:02.599 --> 00:06:02.919 So 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:11.440 It's funny because I remember when the first time I ever picked up a tennis racket were like my parents' tennis rackets. 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:13.120 And they had two. 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:16.000 They actually had old wooden rackets. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:16.720 Oh wow. 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.319 They had like the longer handles and a smaller head. 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.039 And they also had a metal racket. 00:06:23.580 --> 00:06:28.780 And I remember when I started playing, you know, they had lighter material rackets. 00:06:28.780 --> 00:06:32.300 They had it still had some metal rackets and they had some like 00:06:33.020 --> 00:06:39.420 I don't know if they I don't know if they were necessarily plastic, but they were maybe aluminum or of some kind. 00:06:39.580 --> 00:06:40.860 And then I remember 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:46.940 what became hot when I was doing it is they started using graphite in rackets. 00:06:47.340 --> 00:06:49.100 So they became incredibly light. 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:56.060 Like the first couple of tennis rackets I swung were were not they weren't heavy, but they were, you know, you could tell that you were swinging something. 00:06:56.039 --> 00:07:00.840 But now with the with the different materials and I can only imagine it's even better now. 00:07:00.919 --> 00:07:02.840 They're they're so incredibly light. 00:07:02.840 --> 00:07:06.680 And different the different strings matter and yep. 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:07.159 Yep. 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:09.200 Yeah, she had a weight goal in mind. 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:15.440 She wanted it to be, I think, like was it less than nine ounces or less than eight ounces? 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:16.560 Still like incredibly 00:07:16.760 --> 00:07:17.800 Incredibly light. 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.000 Incredibly light. 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:23.560 Now, did they did she buy a full-sized female racket or is it a junior racket? 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:24.680 It's a full-sized female racket. 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:25.480 Okay. 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:25.720 Yeah. 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:26.360 I wasn't sure. 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:26.920 I mean 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:33.160 I think kids, I mean, I know they make the smaller ones, but I mean she's in high school, so I mean I'm sure that's perfectly fine. 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:34.200 But Yeah, yeah. 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:35.080 Okay. 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:35.800 Well good for her. 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:36.760 So she likes it. 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:38.140 Yeah, yeah, she likes it. 00:07:38.140 --> 00:07:39.500 She's enjoying tennis. 00:07:39.500 --> 00:07:42.140 Uh, you know, today today is a rich full day for her. 00:07:42.140 --> 00:07:45.100 It's her first day back at school and a tennis match. 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:47.420 So yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:07:47.740 --> 00:07:50.700 Oh, and she already has a chemistry quest tomorrow, so yeah. 00:07:50.700 --> 00:07:51.340 Yeah. 00:07:52.380 --> 00:07:54.300 Now she's a sophomore? 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:55.100 She's a sophomore. 00:07:55.980 --> 00:07:57.180 Right, right, right, right. 00:07:57.180 --> 00:08:02.300 Now, uh since we're here and we're talking about kids, where's Zach? 00:08:03.099 --> 00:08:05.659 Uh this is his last week. 00:08:05.659 --> 00:08:11.659 Uh next Friday, the 22nd, uh he moves into uh his dorm. 00:08:11.659 --> 00:08:11.979 So 00:08:12.440 --> 00:08:13.160 I guess yeah. 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:14.840 I've got a few more days with him. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:16.040 That's that's really about it. 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.360 I mean, it really is only the middle of August. 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.920 I feel like kids go back early and early every year. 00:08:20.860 --> 00:08:29.180 Yeah, and they get out earlier and yeah, and then they but they build in more calamity days in case like they have use more snow days than they can than they have legally. 00:08:30.140 --> 00:08:32.140 Every day's a calamity day for me, Paul. 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:33.100 Yeah 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.240 Oh, so what's up with you? 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:37.440 Um, okay. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.960 How's that fiber? 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:40.719 Okay, so the fiber is good. 00:08:40.719 --> 00:08:43.840 So I wanna tell you I wanna tell you a tale of woe. 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:44.960 Okay. 00:08:44.980 --> 00:08:48.500 So, as you know, I'm deep in the ubiquity lifestyle. 00:08:48.820 --> 00:08:50.980 I do know that, yes, yes. 00:08:51.060 --> 00:08:52.420 And it's been it's been good. 00:08:52.420 --> 00:08:55.860 I have access points, I have switches, I have a router. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.040 Uh everything's good. 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:05.759 Now, the one thing in my house that constantly gives me grief is I had a UFI doorbell. 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:07.900 That was completely wireless. 00:09:07.900 --> 00:09:08.540 Okay. 00:09:08.540 --> 00:09:11.900 Um, I'm not even gonna link it because it's trash. 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:13.340 The app is trash. 00:09:13.820 --> 00:09:18.780 Uh the app the app would show you notifications that were basically ads. 00:09:19.580 --> 00:09:20.460 Uh yeah. 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:28.700 And like you could I'm sure you could subscribe, but really the doorbell only existed as a way to know when somebody was at my front door. 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:32.620 And I have you know a network camera also on my porch. 00:09:32.620 --> 00:09:32.940 So 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.520 I was I was sick of this thing. 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:42.720 So a couple months ago it started acting up where it would just not connect to my Wi-Fi every once in a while. 00:09:42.780 --> 00:09:43.180 Uh oh. 00:09:44.540 --> 00:09:46.860 Yeah, and it it was like it was like two pieces. 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:50.620 So the doorbell itself was like this plastic 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:59.980 Well, there was like a plastic thing that like screwed into the wood on my front porch and then the doorbell would go into this thing and it had no wires in it at all. 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:04.780 It was completely wireless, so it had like a rechargeable battery in it, which that right there is annoying 00:10:04.660 --> 00:10:08.740 I don't want to have to like go out there. 00:10:09.140 --> 00:10:16.740 And it had like a special latch that you needed, basically like a paper clip to like get it out of there, charge it, take it back out, pain in the ass. 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:20.560 And then the the base unit is what talked to Wi-Fi. 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:23.440 So that was the thing that would join Wi-Fi. 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.600 That's what like the SD card was in. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:29.280 So if it was making recordings and whatnot, like that's what that was in. 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:34.960 And ever since we moved the the family that lived here before us, like it was there. 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:40.160 So like we had to like, you know, reset it, take it over, and it worked. 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:40.800 It worked. 00:10:40.959 --> 00:10:46.080 you know, it was perfectly fine other than the charging thing for like two years. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.800 But then a couple months ago, like it would just like 00:10:48.839 --> 00:10:50.199 lose connection to Wi-Fi. 00:10:50.199 --> 00:10:57.160 I tried moving it, you know, closer to the access point, thinking like, okay, maybe it's my mesh network or something, but it it really didn't matter. 00:10:57.100 --> 00:10:58.540 So I was like, fuck it. 00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:00.220 I want to replace this. 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:02.779 And, you know, I'm in the ubiquity lifestyle. 00:11:02.779 --> 00:11:07.819 So I went shopping and I bought this. 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:10.200 Okay. 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:14.760 So this is the G Four Doorbell Pro POE kit 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:21.080 And as the name implies, it is it is a ubiquity doorbell. 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:25.160 It is pretty fucking awesome, as you can imagine. 00:11:25.700 --> 00:11:33.620 Um so the the couple main the couple main features well there's there's a couple of cool really cool features about it, but one that really sealed the deal for me. 00:11:33.540 --> 00:11:35.779 Is first and foremost, it's power over Ethernet. 00:11:35.779 --> 00:11:36.820 So it's wired. 00:11:36.820 --> 00:11:38.339 So I had to call an electrician. 00:11:38.339 --> 00:11:40.420 They had to drill a big hole in my wall. 00:11:40.420 --> 00:11:44.740 They ran the cable all the way from like my doorbell to my cellar. 00:11:44.400 --> 00:11:45.840 I wasn't even going to try to do that. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:46.960 They actually did a really good job. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.720 They only had to cut one drywall hole. 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.320 They were able to fish it through uh my downstairs by taking out some of my can lights and then putting them back. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.680 So I was really impressed with like what they were able to do. 00:11:57.680 --> 00:11:59.280 So they ran it. 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:00.600 And I installed it. 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.720 And it's it's great, it's got great resolution. 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.680 It it's in the native Ubiquity system. 00:12:06.680 --> 00:12:10.360 So you know it has it's part of the Protect app. 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:12.920 So if you've ever used Ubiquity before 00:12:12.959 --> 00:12:15.440 When you log into the console, there's different tabs. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.920 So it's a tab for network, and that's where you configure your ports and your Wi-Fi and all that other stuff. 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:24.720 And then Protect is if you have cameras or door access or 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:30.200 other stuff like this doorbell, like that's the tab that it lives in. 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:33.320 And uh it has it has actually has two cameras in it. 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.120 It has a camera that is like front facing and then it has a camera that calls the package camera. 00:12:37.940 --> 00:12:42.580 Where it is like a downward facing angle at like your step or like your porch. 00:12:42.580 --> 00:12:46.340 So if somebody sets something there, you can see if it's still there or not. 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:50.000 And it's got like really, really good detection. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.360 It knows when there's a per. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.440 Like my other camera would just detect motion. 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.520 It wouldn't, it wouldn't differentiate, right? 00:12:55.640 --> 00:12:57.400 This is like, oh, there's a person. 00:12:57.400 --> 00:12:58.280 Oh, there's a car. 00:12:58.280 --> 00:12:59.480 Oh, there's a dog. 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:00.920 Oh, you know, it's raining. 00:13:00.920 --> 00:13:01.400 Whatever. 00:13:01.400 --> 00:13:03.240 You can set up all different types of alerts. 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.200 The ecosystem like the settings are crazy good. 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:09.480 And and you can have it show a little picture 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:10.080 On the LC. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:11.440 A little screen. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:11.760 Yeah. 00:13:11.760 --> 00:13:12.160 Yeah. 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:14.880 So and it's reactive, right? 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:22.240 So you can have it show a picture all the time, but if it detects a delivery, it can like flash a message like please leave package on step or whatever. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.160 It's it's it's phenomenal. 00:13:24.300 --> 00:13:30.140 Uh but the number one killer feature is uh when somebody rings the doorbell, it makes a fart noise now 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:35.759 Like if I push a derbo, would I hear a fart noise? 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:36.639 You don't hear it. 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:37.440 Okay, you don't hear it. 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.199 But in my house, it sounds like there's a wet fart somewhere in my house. 00:13:41.920 --> 00:13:45.519 So yeah, you you can you can upload you can upload your own sounds. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:45.839 Um 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:51.360 So like what's what also is in the box is there's like a like a remote chime that's also power over Ethernet. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:52.960 And right now that's just in my back cellar. 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.560 I I'm going to run the cable for that. 00:13:54.560 --> 00:13:57.680 I just don't know where I want that to ultimately live. 00:13:58.079 --> 00:13:59.120 So that's great, right? 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:00.160 Like everything's good. 00:14:00.160 --> 00:14:01.920 It worked for one day. 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:03.040 Oh no. 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:04.079 It worked for one day. 00:14:04.079 --> 00:14:09.519 So because yeah, so because this is part of the protect system. 00:14:10.300 --> 00:14:18.220 It has to have like your protect app running on your Ubiquity gear has to have storage. 00:14:18.860 --> 00:14:25.500 Now, my dream machine special edition has one hard drive slot. 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:25.820 So 00:14:26.540 --> 00:14:32.779 I plugged it in and I was able to adopt the device, but it kept giving me warnings like, hey, not possible to record. 00:14:32.779 --> 00:14:34.620 So it wasn't working. 00:14:34.339 --> 00:14:43.220 So I shut down my dream machine and I went to Micro Center and I bought a new hard drive and I put a hard drive in it. 00:14:42.959 --> 00:14:47.040 And I had previously had a hard drive in it, but it wasn't booting with the hard drive in it. 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:53.279 And I had read online, it's like, yeah, if your hard drive's bad, like it might cause your dream machine to not boot or whatever. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:55.680 And once I took the hard drive out and rebooted it, it was fine. 00:14:55.680 --> 00:14:57.680 So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna go buy. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:58.480 a new hard drive. 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:05.279 So like I researched like what does Ubiquity recommend for hard drives and they're like purple surveillance, Western Digital or Seagate or whatever. 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:12.560 So I just you know went to Microspenter spent 70 bucks on like a a four gig purple rated hard drive. 00:15:12.579 --> 00:15:15.779 And I went home and I shut down the Ubiquity. 00:15:15.779 --> 00:15:16.740 I shut it down the right way. 00:15:16.740 --> 00:15:20.579 I went into the console, shut it down, unplugged it. 00:15:20.459 --> 00:15:28.459 you know, put took the old or that will hold or whole I took the the hard drive cage out, put the new hard drive in, put it in, booted it back up, and it wouldn't boot. 00:15:28.560 --> 00:15:30.640 And I'm like, okay, what's going on here? 00:15:30.640 --> 00:15:35.360 So I f I fussed with it for like 24 hours and I just could not get it to boot. 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:40.080 It was to the point where I couldn't even factory reset my dream machine. 00:15:39.860 --> 00:15:41.380 Now, these things are not cheap. 00:15:41.380 --> 00:15:43.860 They're anywhere from $350 to $450. 00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:46.740 So I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? 00:15:46.740 --> 00:15:50.260 I read Reddit posts, I read support posts, I tried everything. 00:15:50.260 --> 00:15:52.100 I just could not get it to work. 00:15:52.180 --> 00:15:56.820 So I called Ubiquity and surprise, surprise, they give you a two-year warranty. 00:15:56.820 --> 00:16:01.060 I bought this thing two years and four months ago, so I was out of fuck. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:04.820 So I ended up having to replace it. 00:16:04.880 --> 00:16:09.440 But what I did replace it with is I replaced it with this. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:15.040 Still in the Ubiquity ecosystem, but I replaced it with the Dream Machine Pro Max. 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:16.380 Pro Max. 00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:22.140 Now, this is the same thing, give or take, except it has two hard drive ports. 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:22.940 Two. 00:16:22.940 --> 00:16:23.500 Okay. 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:28.140 So you might be wondering, why wouldn't I just buy the same thing that I had? 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:30.400 Well Pro Max. 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:36.480 Well it's Pro Max, but it but it has two hard drive slots as opposed to one. 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:40.240 Now, when I was in here poking around in this thing 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:46.779 The latest version of the Ubiquiti software that runs on the router has a new feature. 00:16:46.779 --> 00:16:52.620 Now they call it a preview feature, but they now support third-party cameras. 00:16:53.060 --> 00:16:54.580 Oh, okay. 00:16:54.580 --> 00:17:05.060 So if your cameras have an RTSP feed, I think is the name of the protocol, which is essentially just like your camera serving HTTPS or whatever, or HTTP. 00:17:06.300 --> 00:17:08.699 It can now read from those cameras. 00:17:08.699 --> 00:17:15.980 So like my off-brand non-Ubiquity cameras can now be part of my Ubiquity Protect application. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:20.300 So I can have the doorbell and I can have my three exterior cameras on it. 00:17:19.860 --> 00:17:25.220 Now it's not perfect because they're not Ubiquity cameras, it's it doesn't support all the same features, right? 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:32.179 Like it doesn't do detection and it doesn't do alerting, which is kind of defeats the purpose in my opinion of doing it. 00:17:32.040 --> 00:17:37.880 Now, what's interesting is oh and it also doesn't record sound from iCameras, which is kind of shitty. 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:45.400 But long story short, you can you can actually SSH into the the Dream Machine Pro Max. 00:17:45.100 --> 00:17:52.059 And there's essentially a JSON file in there that lets you tamper with the different feeds that it picks up from your camera. 00:17:52.059 --> 00:17:56.539 So like my my exterior cameras right now actually provide two feeds. 00:17:56.539 --> 00:17:59.900 They provide a low quality feed and a high quality feed. 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:06.360 But whatever I put in the default settings to have it like read from my cameras, it picks up the low quality one. 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:09.800 And it and it and it and it won't pick up the audio channel. 00:18:09.560 --> 00:18:19.080 But if I were to get were to go in there and tamper with this JSON, which I have not done yet, so I don't know if it's gonna work, apparently I can tell it to use the audio feed and I can tell it to use the high quality feed. 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:20.920 And if I can get it to do that much 00:18:21.419 --> 00:18:29.020 I might be able to consolidate completely in the Ubiquity Protect ecosystem versus the um 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:31.480 Uh, what's it called? 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.200 My stupid NAS that I can't remember the name of right now. 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:35.560 Oh my god. 00:18:35.560 --> 00:18:36.920 Uh who makes my NAS? 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:39.120 Synology. 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.280 Yeah, the Synology security station solution, which works fine. 00:18:43.280 --> 00:18:47.120 Like I'm f you know, if if it's if it doesn't work, it's not the end of the world. 00:18:46.800 --> 00:18:50.720 But I would like to try to consolidate on on both on one thing. 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.640 And this might be a way to get me to do that. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:19:00.960 And look, if they continue to improve the compatibility with third-party cameras, then that's going to be the the best solution, I think, for me. 00:19:00.919 --> 00:19:04.520 But yeah, uh that's that was kind of my big catastrophe. 00:19:04.520 --> 00:19:09.320 So like I didn't have internet for like 24 hours while I was trying to figure this out. 00:19:09.320 --> 00:19:15.080 So like I have you know I have a I have a new puppy, I've got like work stuff, I'm trying to do this, like 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.480 Ugh. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:17.760 Yeah. 00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:18.480 But it's good. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:18.799 Yeah. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:20.480 I I really like my doorbell. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.039 I can make it have a picture of my dog. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.679 And like I said, you can upload all the different sounds and everything. 00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:28.940 It's pretty good. 00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:29.420 Yeah. 00:19:30.620 --> 00:19:32.700 The camera on that thing is so good. 00:19:32.700 --> 00:19:34.300 It's so good. 00:19:34.300 --> 00:19:39.660 And you can have like the you know the L the LED light up and everything, which I know you love. 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:42.160 Now they do make a Wi-Fi version. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:43.600 It still has to get power though. 00:19:43.600 --> 00:19:47.919 So like if you had a regular doorbell, which my house didn't have by the way. 00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:51.440 Yeah, that's what mine took so it powers off the doorbell wires. 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:51.840 Yeah. 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:58.800 Yeah, and at our old house, when I bought the when I had my ring doorbell at the old house, I was able to wire it into that. 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:00.679 My house is interesting. 00:20:00.679 --> 00:20:04.679 So I don't think my house has ever had a doorbell. 00:20:04.679 --> 00:20:07.000 And the reason I say that is when my 00:20:07.340 --> 00:20:10.860 When my house was built, it was built in 1989, I believe. 00:20:10.860 --> 00:20:12.059 36 years old, right? 00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:13.980 So that would be 89. 00:20:14.140 --> 00:20:21.100 So when my house was built, and I'm looking at it right now because it has this system in it called valet. 00:20:21.660 --> 00:20:25.900 So it's like it it's like a whole home intercom. 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:27.179 Oh, okay. 00:20:27.179 --> 00:20:31.820 So like for example, in our bedroom 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:39.980 And in my office and in our laundry room, there are these boxes. 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:44.540 And I'm pretty sure there was one on my front porch at some time. 00:20:45.260 --> 00:20:47.659 But there was there isn't one there now. 00:20:47.659 --> 00:20:49.340 And and they don't work. 00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:49.659 Right? 00:20:49.659 --> 00:20:51.899 They they they're not powered right now. 00:20:51.899 --> 00:20:57.820 Because upstairs in my kitchen, you can very clearly see an outline of a bigger 00:20:58.500 --> 00:21:05.940 like section where I think it used to be, where like the master control panel used to be. 00:21:05.940 --> 00:21:06.260 So 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:13.140 I I don't know where exactly on my front porch those wires were. 00:21:13.140 --> 00:21:16.500 And I and that's why I decided to just go with this one. 00:21:16.660 --> 00:21:22.020 I went with this one mostly because, you know, power over Ethernet, it's easy. 00:21:22.020 --> 00:21:27.620 And it came with the chime in the box, which is also PoE, which is pretty nice. 00:21:28.780 --> 00:21:30.700 So yeah, that was my big thing. 00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:35.180 So that was kind of like an unexpected expense that I didn't really kind of anticipate. 00:21:35.260 --> 00:21:36.700 Right, right, right. 00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:37.020 So 00:21:37.919 --> 00:21:40.880 Alright, so let's talk about Apple stuff. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.000 I yeah, yeah, I'm a big beta boy. 00:21:45.620 --> 00:21:48.660 So iOS and watch okay, iOS and watch. 00:21:50.820 --> 00:21:55.300 Actually now, actually technically now I've also been doing and iPad OS. 00:21:55.300 --> 00:21:57.220 What about Mac OS? 00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:59.300 Uh and and and Mac OS. 00:21:59.300 --> 00:21:59.940