Adding more security! Reolink GO PT cellular solar security cameras! EIOTCLUB Sim card #468

So welcome back, everybody. My name's Andrew, and you're watching the Kelly's Country Life. It's been quite a while since we've done a review on the channel. And to be honest with you, I get review offers every single day of the week. But if there's something I really feel doesn't fit the channel, or is going to be entertaining or educational for you, the viewers, I don't want to accept the product. Let's just face it. This channel is more about homesteading and the things that we do on the property, not pitching a bunch of products. With the exception of, every now and then a product comes across my email that I truly do think will fit the channel or be interesting for you, the viewer. And today is one of those products. So I had a company called Reolink reach out to me, and I was already familiar with their products. So I was kind of excited when they did. So when you live out in the country or rural areas like we do, you can have issues getting internet like we do. And maybe you have security risks, animal risks, things like that. And you want to keep an eye on your place. That's where these cameras right here come into play. So I'm going to unbox this real quick, show you what we're working with today. I've already been testing one for quite a while. I don't release anything on the channel until I test it and determine if it's something worth showing you, the viewer. Otherwise I'm not going to waste your time with that. All right, so like I said, I've already had one set up out in the field and been testing it, using it, trying to learn the product. I've just unboxed the other one and we're going to install this today. So we're going to have two of these on the property. Now, what are we working with right here? This is called the Reolink Go PT. And what is so cool about this and what has me so excited is this is a cellular security camera. You can use it for animal pictures, whatever you want, but it has zoom, which I have never seen on a cellular camera before. And it has pan and tilt left and right, all controlled from your phone. Up and down as well. So pan, tilt, left, right, zoom. I've never seen a camera offer this personally. I have been using cellular game cameras for years and a lot of y'all are familiar with them. You set it up, it takes one picture straight forward wherever you mount it. That's that, a picture, maybe even a video shows up to your phone. Whereas this right here, this has motion activation, IR sensitivity so it picks up anything moving, much similar to a game camera. But if you don't see what's going on in the area, you can just pan this all the way around, no matter where you're at away from this, zoom up and down, in and out, whatever you want to do and check the place out. That is such a neat feature for a cellular camera and something I've never seen before. Now, the other good thing about this is it comes with a solar panel. So you're not going out there in the woods or wherever you have this set up constantly changing batteries out. You charge this up initially on the bench, which I've already done. You hook up your solar panel right near this. It comes with some mounts that I'll show you here. And away you go. This will keep this thing charged up as long as you point this in a good southerly direction and towards the sun. All right, so if you're like me, you're kind of intimidated by cellular products like this nowadays, because let's face it, hooking up and getting cellular connectivity or getting a data plan, it can be so extremely frustrating at times. So I got to looking on the internet and discovered there is a company called, I hope I'm saying this correctly, EOT Club. I'll put a link down in the description for the camera and for this SIM card. Now here's the cool thing. This company does SIM cards just for hunting cameras, game cameras, or cameras like this. They even list this camera on their website. This is a no messaging, no talking plan. It's data only that you can refill from an app and it's set up just for these cameras. This has been the most streamline, flawless experience I have ever had basically. Well, I call it a phone company, but with a data company. Normally I would never show this. We would just go straight out into the field, but I want to show you this right here. As you can see, I haven't even popped this out. I've already done one more. I am going to show you how quick and easy you pop this in the camera. You don't get on an app, you don't do anything and it sets itself up and it's ready to go. Then you get on the Reolink app and control your camera. There is no fighting with phone companies, no nothing. I've never seen data this easy to use. All right, excuse my messy work bench, but if you'll rotate this camera around, you'll see a waterproof enclosure right there. Nice thing is they already include a 32 gig micro SD card and then you use a nano SIM card right above it. So on this SIM card that I got from a EOC club right here, as you can see, it's got a large size, a medium size, and then you can punch with your finger all the way out to the nano size. All right, so you just pop that little card in till you hear it click. There it is. Now it's ready to go. Seal this back up. This is the part I love. I'm not getting on the phone. I'm not fighting with a phone company. I'm not trying to figure out how to make a phone data card work for this. None of that. Open the back. This is your power off and on button. So we'll flip that to on. And then you just watch this light up front. It is automatically setting up your SIM card. All right, now it shows that it's connecting. And as soon as that turns blue, you'll hear a voice prompt because I forgot to mention these speakers also have audio where you can listen and talk and this will let you know when it makes connectivity with the SIM card. There you are. Less than 30 seconds. My SIM card's in. It's done. Connected to the network, verified. And I didn't even have the antenna hooked up. Your process is done. I can't say enough good things about this SIM card and this company right here. Again, links in the description. Now the cool thing is you can monitor your data usage on this. I've got the 360 day, 25 gig plan. And anytime your data gets low, you just get on their app, fill your data up, keep using your camera. So on the backside, you'll see there is an antenna connection that'll boost your signal. Now here's the other cool thing. We typically only have Verizon service in our area, but I got on AT&T's map because that's one of the services offered by this SIM card. I think they do T-Mobile. I'm not sure who all else they offer, but turns out apparently at some point last few years, we've had an AT&T tower put up near us. And sure enough, you can see the signal strength when you get on the app with this. We have full AT&T service right here, including it looks like we might possibly get 5G, although this camera works off of 4G. I was thrilled to see that. A lot of y'all that watch the channel know that I have been fighting with signal around here. So I may need to look into AT&T 5G for some potential internet out here. That should be considerably faster than the low signal Verizon 4G that we have right now. Okay, so here is a really good reason to have a camera like this and something I've been really looking forward to. So as you just seen, I've got my solar panel on the outside to where it is south facing and it'll get the majority of sun for the day. It's late afternoon right now and the sun is just about down, but it's still catching half of the panel. I think the majority of the sun that we get during the morning, mid day, should be plenty to keep this thing charged. But what I really like about this location is it's watching over my job site. As we're building our house right now and we have equipment out here like this, contractors coming in and out. I keep saws and other tools and equipment out here. It is really nice to keep an eye on this. Now, eventually, yes, we'll have wifi on this house and it will have its own set of wired or wireless cameras. But for now and for the next many, many months while we build, we don't have that option. We don't have that availability. That's where something like this wired camera comes in really nice. Plus, if say, if we're gone for the weekend or on vacation or just, you know, went to a town for the day, this has the motion activation to watch over this porch and see if anybody's messing with, again, this equipment or these tools. I'm really liking the use of the camera for situations like this. Now, here's the cool thing about that camera. As you can see, I'm still up here on this man lift and it sees us just fine. There is a little bit of lag, but no big deal. And I'm also very impressed that even though we live way out in the country and typically Verizon is our best service, this has full service with AT&T, even underneath this metal roof. So the nice thing about this is you can see on camera, say, if we were gone for the day and I wanted to look around on the porch, I can do that. So you can pan over, check that out. Now I can look back toward my shop and go back left. If I want to check this porch, there we are. I can also look down. You can pan up, down, left, right. That is just such a neat feature with this camera. As you can see, here we are. It has a wide range of motion too. All right, so we're sitting down here at the end of the driveway where we just installed that camera. I just want to show you some basics on the app. We won't go through everything, but you can see I have our two different cameras now, one up at the house, one down at the driveway. So you can instantly turn off and on. You see I've highlighted here the motion detection on these. So basically you're arming them, disarming them. Plus there is a settings menu here to where you can go in and actually check your battery, change your sensitivity settings. So say if you have a limb that's blowing too much and setting these off, you can turn sirens off and on, all kinds of different thing here that you can adjust with these. So for example, if we were to go to the driveway one right now, this is also in that app. You can press the talk button and talk or listen. Here is a pan and tilt. And then here is the playback button. So if I wanna watch back anything that just happened, and I was coming down here to check and actually see if this will pick up motion and check this out. As I'm coming down the driveway, I have a contractor that came in. And if you go back to the last recorded image here or video, look, it caught the subcontractor driving right in. So obviously the sensitivity is already set well. I may have to adjust that some. So one nice feature about this again, and what I can't quit ranting and raving over is the pan and tilt. So if I were to turn this camera to the left, check this out. I hope y'all can see this. I'm sitting way down here in the shadows so y'all can see the phone, but look right here. There we are. We'll pan up. And I had this on the low setting, by the way, to not burn through my data, but you can turn the quality up as much as you want. Let me go back down just a little. This is so neat. A little more. So we're looking back down the driveway. You can zoom in. There is the Ranger. I know it's so hard to see with this glare. I love the zoom function. Wow, here's a menu I didn't even see. I can watch both cameras at the same time. Now that's pretty cool. So you can set up multiple cameras and watch them. See, there's settings I don't even know about. And up here in the top left, you can see the contractors that just pulled into the house. I can see somebody out by the truck. So that is really neat. There's still a lot to learn about this. So a really cool device, no doubt. I can't believe how much technology has changed. Again, for me, what I can't quit ranting and raving enough is the pan, tilt, and zoom. I'm used to regular old game cameras that we've probably all used, and they just don't offer any of that. It's one set picture, one set video. It can't look around. It can't zoom in. It is what it is. I love the ability to be able to do that. So now I can have it pointing down the driveway, checking this way if there's something I'd rather check out or catch movement up and down the driveway, vice versa. One of the thing that I'm really excited about with this camera is the future of this homestead, of this property right here. Next year, we're gonna start getting animals. We have a tremendous predator problem here between bears, coyotes, bobcats, and a few other things running around. And I'm highly concerned about the animals that we're gonna start getting next year. I can put one of these cameras out by the animal pen. It can pick up motion. I can zoom in. I can look around. I can see if our animals are under attack or if I need to go out and handle a situation. Maybe you use one of these for animals that's heating up your flower beds or causing problems around your property. So I can see a lot of different uses for these. Now, one big question I'm gonna have, and I just can't answer yet, how long is this data gonna last? How much is this gonna eat up? So the EOT Club SIM card that I got is called a yearly package. It's $100 for the entire year. And it comes with something like 24 gigs of data. And it's set up just for these cameras. Now, I have no idea how much data these cameras are gonna use, how often they're gonna trigger and go off under normal use. Right now, I'm playing with them a lot. So we're probably gonna revisit this in a couple of months after I use these cameras for a while, monitor data usage, and give you a good idea if that SIM card is a good deal or not. I just don't know right now. But what I can tell you is I have never seen such an easy setup for a camera or a SIM card as these two right here. Literally pop it in, 30 seconds later, it's activated, ready to go. I didn't have to do anything. I love that about it. So a big thank you to EOT Club for the SIM card. A huge thank you for really sending these out. Just so y'all know, I don't get paid for these reviews at all. It's not the way this works. Companies reach out, and if there's a product that I wanna test, I get the product. Whether I leave a negative review or positive review does not matter. There is no stipulation on how I have to do a review. I would never accept a product that told me, hey, we must have a positive review. So one thing I see people do is they'll make review videos like this, a one-time video, and never follow up down the road and let you know, have things changed. I may love this product even more down the road, or I may have issues with it and not like it. So we'll do a revisit there. And again, I really wanna monitor data usage and see if this is a good plan for these cameras. Thank y'all so much for watching. Don't forget, links are down in the description if you're interested in any of this. Catch you on the next video.