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Are you constantly moving your floor fan to get it pointing in the right direction? Ever wish you could have it oscillate horizontally and vertically simultaneously? The Dreo 43-Inch Omni-Directional Pedestal Fan offers those features and a quite a bit more, including a smart app and the ability to control the fan through Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through all the features - including how to pair the fan with the Dreo smartphone app - in this informative review.
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This fan will change your living space
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and if there's one thing I've learned through many summers is that getting air to circulate is the best way to keep your space cool, comfortable, and pleasant
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Even in the winter, having the heat disseminate around the room really makes
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makes a huge difference rather than just have like one hot spot and the rest of the room is cold
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And that's where this comes in. This is the Drio Omnidirectional 43 inch pedestal fan
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So it's really a fan, but it's on a stick. So you can actually adjust the height
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There's a little control on the back here. And I can adjust it and raise the fan
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So at its lowest, it is 37 inches tall. at its highest, it's 43 inches tall
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Now, this fan has a lot of capabilities. It's nine speeds, six modes
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There's a 12-hour timer. So if you want to have this in your bedroom at night
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you can put it on the lowest speed. It's insanely quiet. And then it'll just run for six or seven hours
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however long you want, and then it'll just turn itself off. Now, you can see here that it rotates both horizontally
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and vertically. And you can adjust that. So on the remote, for example, I can say, you know
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let's not rotate vertically anymore. So now it's just going to go back and forth at this level
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So you can do 150 degrees horizontal and 120 degrees vertical. Very nice. So got lots of speed
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You got lots of different modes. You have a timer. You have all this flexibility on height
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It is a 25 decibel fan, so if I stop talking for a second
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you can't hear it, right? Now, to be fair, it's on speed one
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So let's use the remote control, and it comes with this remote control
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but it's also redundant, because it has all these controls right on the front along with the display here that shows you what going on And here a cool thing they thought about is this display auto dims So at 2 in the morning it not blazing out the number into your room which is very important
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But let's crank this thing up. So turn it all the way up to 9
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It doesn't go up to 11, but I'll tell you, oof, that's a lot of air
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I can show you somewhat with this card, and you can see how
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much it's pushing it off from being just like straight horizontal and it's just like no
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I can push a lot of air the company says that you can feel this over a hundred feet
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away and at its maximum fan I can totally believe it and everything behind my
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camera is now blowing off my tables so let's bring that down a little bit down
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to three and so on the stem here there's a power button
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then fan speed and a mode button, timer, vertical oscillation, and you can choose between 0, 30, 60, and 90 degrees
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horizontal oscillation, which is 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, or 150, and there's even a way to have a child lock to make sure someone else doesn't change these settings
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But where this also gets really cool is that there's a Drio app
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So I'm going to actually just pair this with the app and it is insanely easy to do
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So I'm just going to go ahead and go and let's see launch the app
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There we go and it literally already sees this fan. It's just magic and it's like okay well let's add that device and then it's connecting
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You can see this is live real time as it's a happens now once you have this hooked up it also is going to work with Google
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home and Alexa so you can say things like you know whatever you let's say we
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call this pedestal fan you could say pedestal fan on or pedestal fan 40 or
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six if you want to get to the speed or something you can also schedule the on and
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off from in this app and let's see we'll have the default room connection
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successful let give it a better name than air circulate Come on Drio you can do better than that We going to call this pedestal
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Just call it pedestal. Done. And that's it. And it looks like there's a firmware update
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I'll get to that in a couple of minutes. But for right now, let me just show you that I can now adjust all sorts of things
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So we can say, let's go into sleep mode. And we're going to have the
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vertical back on matches like a lot so let's drop it down to 60 degrees but we
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want to do it sort of like that right so now I can do that and it will normalize
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its position and then it will only work vertically within the band I specified and
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I can go into turbo and notice by the way, it also knows the temperature in my kitchen
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See that temperature 73 degrees? Turbo's maybe a bit much. Let's go ahead and turn it off
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And then, ready? Let's see if this works. Hey, Google, turn on pedestal
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Sorry, I didn't understand. That didn't work. I think I might have to actually manually pair it with the app
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but let's try one more thing. Alexa, turn on pedestal. stole it did work so Alexa's one up on Google in that regard so it just
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automatically gives me the ability to use my voice which also means that
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either through the app or through one of these smart home systems I can turn
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it on when I'm up 20 miles away or I just got out of the supermarket and it's just a
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crazy hot day and I'm just like I'd like to get some fans circulating so by the
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I get home, all of the air will be a little bit cooler and the house will just feel a little bit less
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musty. So really, that's pretty much everything. You can disassemble this if you need to clean it
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which is another important characteristic. And let's see, I'm going to just put my phone down
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It comes with a user manual It comes with a shortcut sheet that tells you how to attach the pedestal It pretty darn easy And then some information on what on the pedestal itself in terms of controls
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And then it includes this. This is a sort of interesting little gizmo that you can clip on
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And then your remote control has somewhere to live. And I think that's really nice
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I should say it is fairly heavy. The pedestal is fairly weighty so that it stays really stable, even when it's at high speed, doing all sorts of crazy oscillations
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But I got to say, I'm a big fan, get it, of Drio fans
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And this is another great addition to their lineup. And this is perfect for a bedroom
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This is perfect for an office because you can have it just point straight at you and be really a low speed
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Or you can turn the speed up and have it just moving all over. over the place and moving all the air in the room
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which is going to be just such a great effect. And it's just so helpful and efficient
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So if you're in the market for a fan and this form factor works for you
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this is a really, really interesting choice and one that I'm a big fan of
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See, I couldn't resist that pun. Now, we do need to talk price
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Before we get there, I'm going to ask you to subscribe to my channel
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Click or tap on the subscribe button, hit that bell, bell icon for notifications and if this was a value with thumbs-ups always appreciated great this is the
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drio on the directional 43 inch pedestal fan and it is 14999 currently 13499 at amazon.com and i will say let's
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give it some more oomph i really like it i really like all my drio fans i have gradually building up a
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collection because, hey, who doesn't need a fan club? And on that note, I'll hope to catch you
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in my next video
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