Canary All-in-One Home Security Device Review

Canary was founded in 2012 in New York Cityby a team of experts with experience in robotics, security, design and software. Let's look at what features the Canary teambrought to the all-in-one home security camera. They said they have intelligence and securitystemming from 1080p high-definition video, 90 decibel siren and the built in climatemonitoring. In addition, they also have desktop streaming,30 days of clouds storage and two-way audio. Now, looking at the Canary all-in-one homecamera, my initial thoughts are that well it doesn't look unlike how from 2001 SpaceOdyssey. Our version, of course, is the all-matte black,which gives it a clandestine look. When someone walks into your home or yourapartment, they don't look at it and say "Oh, there's the security camera." The face of the camera has a glossy finish. The lens and the camera are actually flushwith that finish. Those are actually a bit recessed from theexterior plastic. You have the indicator light and microphonefurther down on that front face. 

On the top of the camera, you'll find fourbeams that are meant for measuring the environment within your home. On the bottom you'll find the speakers andan LED light that lights up when you're streaming and recording. On the back, you'll find a space to connectyour Ethernet, micro USB and 3.5 millimeter audio, along with this handsome Canary insignia. In order to know whether or not the Canaryall-in-one home security camera is right for you, let's put it to the Security Baron necessaryfeatures test. Cue the music. [background music] Gabe: Here at Security Baron, we think thatevery camera should have stellar video, two-way audio, night vision, cloud and local storage,smart platform integration, artificial intelligent, value and convenience. Unnecessary feature here at Security Baronis video quality, and the Canary has stellar video, coming in hot at 1080p high-definitionvideo with an impressive 147-degree field of view and three-time digital zoom. While the 108p and digital zoom are relativelystandard for a camera like this, the 147-degree field of view and that angle definitely putsthe Canary in the upper echelon of security cameras that we've seen. For that, we give them full marks for videoquality. 

The Canary kind of comes with two-way audio. Out of the box, you can use the two-way audiowhen you sign up for the premium features. While it does have it, it's awkward to saythat oh, it has this necessary feature when the necessary feature doesn't come necessarilywith the camera itself. When it comes with two-ways audio, the Canaryactually works admirably, but there's the caveat that you must pay for it. We still give it full marks for its two-wayaudio. Here at Security Baron, there's a lot of emphasisin terms of necessary features on night vision, for those of us who are a little bit morenocturnal. For the Canary, it has 12 infrared LEDs, whichallow for a really clear picture in that nice black and white. All your images will be detailed, not blurry. For that, we give the Canary full marks onits night vision. Security Baron necessary feature of localand cloud storage, when it comes to the Canary, it can only really get half credit from us. The Canary has no local storage options. It does come with the last 24 hours of videorecordings. You have to pay a separate subscription priceto get the last 30 days. The fact that you can't plug either a USBor a microSD into the Canary only allows us to give it half credit when it comes to theSecurity Baron necessary feature of local and cloud storage. A security Baron necessary feature is Smartplatform integration, and really, the Canary is firing on all cylinders when it comes toSmart platform integration. It works with the two biggest players in themarket, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. You can throw the feed of what's going onin your home to your Amazon Fire TV under Amazon Alexa, or you can type into GoogleAssistant to figure out what the humidity in any particular room, all because of thefeature set built into the Canary. When it comes to smart platform integrationwe have to give it full marks on the Security Baron necessary features test. 

The Security Baron necessary feature of artificialintelligence usually refers to facial recognition. While it's not necessarily facial recognition,the Canary does come with person detection. The AI can learn your habits over time. In addition, Canary claims that they'll berolling out a host of new features in the near feature, powered by AI. Even without considering AI features to comeout in the future, we think that the person detection and other features of the Canarydefinitely merits full marks under the Security Baron necessary features test for artificialintelligence. A Security Baron necessary feature is value. At about $170, the Canary does bring goodvalue. We would actually say it's great value ifyou were planning on buying of subscription with premium features to whatever camera youbuy, because with 9.99 a month or 99.99 a year, you get everything that a top of theline home security camera has in the Canary. However, if you just wanted to pay your 170and be done with it, you would actually be missing out on some basic features like two-wayaudio. Under the Security Baron necessary featurestest of value, we find the Canary to be a good value without the Canary membership withpremium features and a great value if you decide to go with all of the subscription. A Security Baron necessary feature is convenience. The Canary was super convenient. We basically were able to take it out andhave a live stream running within about 15 minutes. All it took was plugging in the power, downloadingthe app and I was ready to go with the Canary. In terms of convenience, we have to give itfull marks. Before I turn to the app, I want to talk abouta feature that is unique to the Canary home all-in-one, which is the home health technology. That allows you to see the humidity, temperatureand air quality in the room in which your camera is located. All that is visible in the app. Let's check it out. When you turn on the app, you'll see thatit's pretty tame, which is nice because we've seen a lot of apps that just overwhelm mewith everything that is immediately visible on the screen. We're going to start out with a timeline ofwhat is going on. You have events, in terms of when I've arrived,when I've left. Below the watch live button, which is thelargest thing that you'll see when you open up the app, you'll see that there's sensorydata for temperature, humidity and air quality that comes along with Canary's proprietaryhome health technology. In here, we're going to jump straight intoa live stream. In the live stream, you can adjust it withmanual zoom and a digital pane. You can look around what's happening in theroom or zero in on something you want to focus on. Below that you'll see that there is a walkie-talkietalk button for two-way audio, a siren if you want to scare an intruder, and a safetybutton that you can push if you're not feeling safe and you can ultimately alert the authorities. Other things that you can look at in the settingare the modes. You've got away, home and night mode. If you don't want to be recorded while you'rein your own home, you can just set it on home mode, where it will not record if any of theusers are home. You can setup your users and know that theycan feel safe and that they're not being watched. Of course, you can look at previous recordingsand clips from earlier in the week. That's a look at the Canary app. It's both pleasing to the eye and intuitive. Now you can see the 1080p high-definitionvideo on the Canary all-in-one home camera. You'll see that it captures a lot of what'sgoing on in this room because it's got 147-degree of field of view, which definitely puts it,as we said before, in the upper echelon of home security cameras and their angles. They also have digital zoom, so we can lookin here. Actually, let's go look and see what we geton our globe. Oh snap, we got India over here, we got China,a little bit of Russia. The digital zoom on this camera is not oneof the highest ones we've seen. We've seen some stronger digital zoom, butdefinitely enough for us to know that India is our country of the day. 

That's the video quality on the stellar Canaryall-in-one home security camera. Here's the night vision on the Canary all-in-onehome security camera. It is pretty phenomenal. You've got 12 LED infrared lights that reallyprovide for this detailed non-blurry image in the dark in black and white. If I move around, see what's going on, youcan still get a very detailed image. If I go up to the camera, look at it likeso. In fact, you can even do a little more globeaction and see what's going on. Wow yeah, Australia again, look at that. Overall, the night vision on the Canary isone of the strongest we've seen, and we definitely give it full marks. [background music] Gabe: Let's provide an overview of how theCanary all-in-one home security camera scored on the Security Baron necessary features test. Stellar video, full marks for the 1080p and147-degree field of review. Two-way audio, full marks for how well itworked, despite the fact that you have to pay separately for it. Night vision, full marks, with the 12 infraredLED lights. Cloud and local storage, half marks becausethere's no local storage option. Smart platform integration, full marks becauseit works well with the two biggest players, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Artificial intelligence, full marks becauseit has person detection and other AI features along with more to come in the future. Value, full marks because it's a good buyas is, and a great value if you're deciding to go with the Canary membership. Convenience, full marks because we were ableto set it up and have it streaming within 15 minutes. Ultimately, the question we're trying to answerat Security Baron today is whether or not the Canary all-in-one home security camerais right for you. If you really like having local storage oryou don't want to have a Canary premium membership, then you definitely want to look for a camerathat has all that included from the get-go. However, if you'd like to link with AmazonAlexa, Google Assistant, have 1080p high-definition video, really great night vision, then youmay want to give the Canary a look. That's our review of the Canary all-in-onehome security camera. If you appreciated this video, give us a likeand hit that subscribe button. As always, this is Gabe at Security Baron. Be secure. [music]