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Canary Home Security System Review
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May 30, 2025
With its combination of geofencing, motion sensor, HD video and notifications, the Canary Home Security System might just be the best of the bunch for light security usage. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ shows how he's using his Canary home monitoring system, shares some HD video footage of his living room and talks about why it's a great solution for home and office use, and a whole lot more reasonable than ADT and other expensive subscription security services.
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hey dave taylor here again and this time
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i want to talk about home security
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specifically i want to talk about the
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canary home security system now don't
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look around it's not a bird it's this
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and this things just about the size of
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maybe a can of monster energy drink and
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it's actually a really cool device it's
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a 1080p camera and it also has motion
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sensors it has an infrared system so it
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can work at night and it uses geofencing
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so you put the canary software on your
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smartphone and it knows are you home or
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are you away and so as i drive away from
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my house it automatically engages and
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then it's using motion sensing and it
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will send me alerts with video snippets
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whenever it sees anything going on in
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the house now this is kind of fun
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because i have cats and the cats will
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often jump up on the mantle and walk
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around so I'll get these notifications
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that there's motion detected in your
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home and I'll look and I'm like yeah
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it's my cats but here's the thing if I
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did look and I saw that they were bad
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guys here I can remotely trigger us an
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alarm here and actually a siren that's
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about 90 decibels not gonna do that
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because I actually respect your ears and
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mostly mine no that didn't come out
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right did it oh well I respect all our
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listening and all our hearings so we're
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not gonna actually trigger the siren but
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you can do that remotely you can also of
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course call the cops and say hey
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seriously there's someone in my house
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right now can you send a squad car over
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so I could do that across the country if
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I was in Europe and I was still on the
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cellular network I could actually have
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my phone say there's motion then what
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there shouldn't be motion so really
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really cool system and I really like the
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geofencing aspect because it also means
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that when I come home it automatically
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then turns off again which is great even
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better the canary development team has
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been putting a ton of effort into
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understanding motion in video sequences
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so they can automatically filter out
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things like a ceiling fan which I
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actually have in my living room in fact
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let me show you a couple of seconds of
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footage so here you can see that there
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is sound but there's nothing to hear but
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you can see there's the ceiling fan and
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otherwise there's really not much going
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on oh there's my cat okay so that's the
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kind of video you get it's very clean
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it's very nice and like I said
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geofencing motion sensor it uses cloud
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storage it's super easy to setup
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it also has health monitoring so it can
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do things like tell you the temperature
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of your home and analyze your air
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quality and your humidity level I don't
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know how super useful that is but it's
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interesting I mean it's just another
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sensor in the device so it's not like
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it's a huge big deal and then so the
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storage the way that works is that if
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you buy the unit and it's $199 for this
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with all the software if you buy it then
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you get a 12-hour window of video and
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you can download like one clip every I
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don't know every week or something like
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that if you pay 49 bucks a year then you
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get a 48 hour window and more downloads
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and all that sort of stuff
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7 days is 99 bucks a year and a 30-day
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window which could be really good for a
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business for example that cost you 300
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bucks a year so that's a lot of storage
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they're gonna need to be able to keep 30
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days of motion sensed video but as a
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security system for a small business or
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for your desk at some co-working
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facility or something that's not a bad
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deal and what I really mostly like is
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that not only does it have all this cool
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geofencing and all this stuff but you
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can use it and have it work great for
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you without any additional fees any
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monthly subscriptions or anything ever
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and that's how I have mine set up so
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mine I just have using the no additional
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fee 7-day now I'm sorry 12-hour window
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and that works well enough that I'm away
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I can you know get an alert on my phone
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I can look at it I can watch the video
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and I can say cats so Dave Taylor and
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really you need to check out this canary
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home security system before you do
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though I think you should subscribe to
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ask Dave Taylor so do that click the
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button right here and
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now I can tell you that you can go to
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canary dot is to learn a whole lot more
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about this system and you can buy one
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for yourself if you're so inclined for
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199 dollars so this is Dave Taylor
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thanks for checking this out and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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