 I don't know why that measured stop This thing is really neat. All right like a couple more times. So welcome to vlog Thursday. We have a new toy. We have a new toy It looks at eyeballs So what this is is a auto ref Caratometer by cannon it's actually here for recycling because it doesn't work right anymore and we have an optometrist as a client and This thing's kind of joystick and it's kind of fun to yeah, and we will play with anything with a joystick It's got a joystick like what are we gonna do with it? And this is the rk3 model, which I think we can all agree is the best of the rk models best of the rk models here Does it have like a manufacturer date on it? It's yeah from a long time ago. Yeah, right? 1996 is when this is made 90 so 21 years old. Yeah, we may do a breakdown videos We'll tear this down before we recycle it so I may do a breakdown video of it because we're curious about all the Little optics and things that are inside of it and how it comes apart So that's a that's another Subject but that we was here So we wanted to play with it and show you guys what we're doing with it We have to yeah, and I can see inside Marvin's eye with it. It's exciting I'm trying to get him to give me a diagnosis of glaucoma so that I can get prescriptions for glaucoma for glaucoma So far so far Tom is not a licensed optometrist though. Yeah, we're gonna work on that But it's got buttons and things that go up and down and a little motors inside of it So we have our own little interest in building things with it. We don't know what we're gonna build up We're gonna take it apart You know, we have the clients fine with it. They don't care. They do whatever you want with it Tom And I said we will does it like it doesn't have the capability to save anything Yeah, yeah, this is before data storage. Yeah, so it's not like it just it'll print stuff out of like what you're doing right away Which is kind of cool. It's numbers. We don't understand but I know it's got all kinds of things And buttons that's there for why I like it. Yeah, I've actually because they're a client We've been there before and they we've got to see how some of the other really new machines work in some of the New technologies and it's really cool. There has to I'm traveling has the joystick there has to be a way We can just turn that into a count like a like can we run like the raspberry pi through it or something I know and make it a gaming console make it a game. That's the first thought then we realized that because everything is analog and physical Not really. Yeah, we have the casing though. We have the casing. We'll figure this out Anyways, yeah back to the other stuff that we want to talk about on vlog Thursday We have been installing many many unify cameras and a big thanks to unify They retweeted one of our install jobs We have some more to talk about because we did a custom job I just haven't had time to do the video on it because when we're busy installing stuff We don't always have time, but it's a combination site-to-site wireless Job with unified cameras over the site-to-sites that's been we have a lot of industrial companies and large outdoor facilities And it's the only way to really get internet across to those facilities with because Directional boring is kind of a pain in the butt due to the size and scope because some of these are several acres big So doing a directional board to get internet to these is not Just not really that reasonable to do. It's real expensive and tell those who don't know what a directional board is Tom That is where you know Here we go. We're gonna have diatoms and stuff You have a machine that goes under the ground and it goes so many feet and has to come up again And what those are is so they can get cabling underneath existing roads without actually You know tearing up the asphalt parking lots and things like that. So that's expensive Site-to-site wireless systems on the other hand are very reasonably priced to connect multiple buildings together So it's pretty cool stuff. We've been doing more of those projects. I just got to finish one of them I I try to put together technical details on it I just flew my drone over the facility So you got some ideas of just how big it is and where the camera locations are And I just got to do the narration part of the video, but like I said, I've been really busy We've also had and I'm in contact with Unify with this because other people are having the problems and are unexplained Cameras that become unauthenticated and the solution simply is to restart the Unify video software Now we've done a lot of these installs and we have zero of them for a long time that ever had an issue one particular site Persistently has the issue Engine's yeah, it seems to kill off the cameras every six to ten hours It's a little bit of variable, but it's also done it sooner. It's done it later It ran all day the other day and then I came in to we're help finalizing some adjustments of the cameras And it was working that morning. I'm like cool. We solved the problem. I'm changing a setting Nope, it broke while I was just in the cameras and I restarted it and it ran again for another 24 hours So but then it decided to quit again. I don't know We're just gonna reload that system and do that. There's a thread that says Unify video 371 Not updating on the unified things if you're experiencing these problems with the unified cameras Join in the messaging of unified. They're trying to sort it out. I'm sending them log files and so are some other people on there Because we don't know the deal the we did two systems at the same time We literally bought all the cameras at the same time. So same order same box cameras Someone to one client something to a client the jobs are fairly identical We even got the same custom-built servers for both of the clients why one works and one doesn't we don't know and neither does unified They don't know what glitch occurred That that leads to this has been a bit of puzzle for sure a very frustrating one too, especially well Not only for us obviously for our client. Yeah for our client So my plan today is to go down there and we're gonna go reload that computer for the client because that seems to be the Solution some people you just start over with the box, which is not a big deal The only thing you have to do is rename the cameras game But we have them names so we can save the name because I'm purposely going to Readopt all the cameras and not actually export the config file and re-import it because that's what someone else did and it had the problem seems To follow the config file we think so So in essence unify did they gave us the did you try turning it off and on again? Yeah Yeah, they're working on it and their support's been responsive I just don't think they know because there's first many deployments as they have There's not many of us having the problem and first many deployments as we've done we don't problem And when we look at the common illusional job, we have bigger jobs. We've done it. I'm a problem We have smaller jobs are having a problem or is the secret the fact that they the exact number of cameras They have is the problem. I don't know Well, that would be weird if you're gonna have five you're gonna have seven just don't do six. Yeah Six is weird number. I don't know that's the kind of puzzles We're there's a small part of me that would like for that to be Just a random like yeah, you can't do sick cameras. Sorry. Yep. You have to get one more on us That's pretty good. Yep YouTube, thank you. We're the gaining and subscribers has been great. We had we're about 7,000 We're close to 7,000. Yeah telling your friends and have them subscribe Get the bell notification going the Thing about YouTube is only as soon as those trying to figure out what people would like to see and we jump around a lot Because we do so many different things. I'm trying to cover the breadth of what we do And I was just didn't think about it But apparently I seen several thousand views on the video where I'm on site actually showing what we do now My trouble is I can't always get permission to film. We have that big chemical factory and I'm willing to But they don't want us filming there. We know them pretty well We might ask but it's going to be a concern I wish we could film all of our jobs that I like doing the onsite stuff It's fun to do the videos and show the behind the scenes of exactly like, you know, we talk about the projects in Large scope, but not in detail Sharing the details is important But I also thought maybe we'll do some more Specific videos of Corey for some best practices for cabling and wiring So a lot of people have questions about that and you know when you've done as many Because I someone right I commented they don't think he cut it off off at the end of rg45 I'm like no when you cut them that often a lot of people think you have to pull them out further No, Corey knows exactly how much needs to be left on the end to do it Yeah, because we test every connection after we do it We we would know if we did it wrong. I would be interested to know how many wires Corey or how many feet actually let's we should do I wonder if we could calculate how many feet of wire Corey has run Well, we actually kind of did that so someone commented on one of the videos and asked just how much cabling went into that and I can actually answer fairly definitively on those because Not not that we bit it by the foot and there's going to be some left over But we know how many boxes that job took and so like one of the cracer jobs took 70 boxes at a thousand feet Wow, that's 70,000 feet of cable and we use pretty much all of it There was like there's little 20 foot runs left in some of the boxes when we're done So I want to know over like over the years I want to find I want to do one of those like like how many times would the wire wrap around the earth I know and it gives you anything about 70,000 70,000 feet that's a job. Yeah, that's what is that that's several miles. Yeah 70,000 feet and that's like 15 miles That's a lot of I know yeah, but either way you can see it's a lot of cable someone else can calculate that Well, maybe Marvin can somebody's going to let me know if I'm wrong. So Everybody's wrong is when you're wrong on the internet. That's for sure I'm going to use technology to do this Um, the proxmox project in the build has been agitating to me So I got proxmox installed we got the build done and that was fun I get cabled and then we ran into some power supply efficiency things I might just do a power supply efficiency video I thought because we started calculating how much the power supplies in it cost and how much noise they make And that was fairly annoying. So we replaced all the power supplies in the proxmox box and I got it built But I'm Understanding now why people want so many guides with proxmox I assume the web interface would be more thorough and it turns out It's not there's a lot of things you can do from the web interface, but you just have to drop to the command line I'm not afraid of the command line. Uh, I just need to get around to Learning all the tools and setting them all up. It's all is this a series of commands I've never done zfs from the command line. Well, I can't say I never have I don't often because I use free nas So I got to get into those little details. Um, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to do the video due to the complexity of it And uh time constraints will I do that video is kind of up in the air at the moment? Um Because I was like cool I'll learn it and maybe I'll switch my stack over to it But I'm less apt to do that because I don't have a team of linux guys and People say oh, it's less professional to run the virtual stack that I have But it's easy to use it's that's a big thing I need to be so it's easy for my guys to manage and use it because they do sometimes They create virtual machines with it and things like that. So anyways before I get too deep in the technical rabbit hole Yes So moving on Marvin's been out knocking on doors Uh, that's been a big thing is the push for sales And we've really been studying it sales because they're a little bit different than other a weird thing Other bdb markets, it's amazing how many companies will stay with their it guy that they hate, you know, it's the Old scenario if you dance with the devil, you know And I think that it has to do with it's like you just have to wait for the pain points I've been discussing with a lot of other it companies, you know Just all the sales strategies and I've really come to it. It's really the the bottom line is knocking on doors Is how you the new leads it's knocking on doors. It's belonging to we belong to the southern way county regional chamber of commerce So our chamber of commerce affiliation B and I limited success Our chamber of commerce and some others have done this as well. Maybe you can talk here's into doing it if you're interested They started their own competition for like some of the networking groups and our chamber Knocks it out of the park and there's how many people in the connection script you go to Wednesdays has Around 30 around 30 people in there and that rivals some large and there's a lot of good leads we get from that So our affiliation with different business associations chambers of commerce and things like that That's one of our methods of lead generation And the other method really is sometimes just stopping by knocking on doors of new businesses and saying hi to them So that's been it's been interesting because we've been trying to figure out I mean, I just don't get a lot of leads from I found your website and want you to come in and rebuild our whole building They hit our website But it's usually when we had a touch point with them first as in, you know, we met with them We handed them our card. We seen them at one of these networking events. That's generally the catalyst for Us getting in contact them. So it seems to think about the sales process. Yeah, a lot of people as I'm finding out Like their uncle does their Support for them. Yes, you know, and it's like I mean, that's an extra hard thing because like, you know, then how do you tell your uncle? Yeah, you're not doing our you know Well, any other side of it too is how do you let them know when they've outgrown with their uncle can do exactly Exactly. We're we have a couple clients that we do some consulting work for That have been using some internal people but they're realizing that they're a much bigger company and needs something more serious in there and One of the companies has partners and it's been interesting to us that The younger partners going you guys are a disaster rate and happen and the older people going all this system That's been in for 10 years is fine Well, it's funny you mentioned a couple minutes ago like the you you dance with a devil, you know I won't name names one of the places I stopped at yesterday and talk with them There the person that does their work for them as a friend of the owner of the whatever And I was like, okay. Well, you know, is he doing a good job for you? And they're like, well, actually he hasn't really been doing anything for the last few months because he hasn't been like He's been ill and and I was like, okay, so Like what happens when things break? Oh, well, we just kind of we try to fix it ourselves. Yeah Okay If you get tired of fiction it yourself Right you go and and we pitched them on some of our managed service agreements and things like that And what they really do is we take care of all the antivirus all the All the things that you need, you know updates antivirus firewall filtering all the websites make sure your employees go into a good place This whole we have an entire stack that we offer to them for a very reasonable price And I say very reasonable um because it's not cheap, but neither is security breaches. Those are real expensive Losing all your data downtime and what happens to your company when your reputation is oh, yeah You can't get things done you can't deliver on projects and internally you're going Yes, because our computers don't work so that kind of thing is um Very expensive to your company and not just in a how much you spent to have the computer guy fix it It's the overall that you have with it that costs a lot of money So some we try to get them to think about it's easy for companies that have had major failures They really think deeply about it if they survived the major incident But it's really hard on other companies that are playing the odds and going We don't have backups in our server and we've never had backups when we don't pay anything and Nothing's ever broke. It's been running for the last three years without a problem Statistically you're playing the odds you're playing with fire, but you're right You may go an entire server cycle from you installed it to you Upgrade and replace it and it never breaks and you you won congratulations It's somewhat like when people make the uh the analogy to flying We're like we're like statistically flying is the safest, you know, if you look at the number and I'm like, okay Yes, I get that but if I'm in my car and my and my engine stops working. I pull over to the side Yeah, I call somebody they come tow me away if I'm on a plane and the engine stops working I crash into a mountain So it may not happen as often But it's so when it does happen It's catastrophic and that's what people realize when they lose their documents We you know, we've got some of these clients that we've been telling them for a long time To do things and they use I will get to it. We'll get to it. Okay. I mean, I can't force them to and Then disaster strikes. Yeah, and then they're and then they're on the phone going. Oh my god. You guys have to save us Yeah, that's always be proactive take preventative measures And that's also a common lead generation disasters and we're not it's just how it works They have enough of a catastrophe They decide after that to completely be proactive with everything and put the man of services in so makes a big difference Yeah Learn from others folks learn from others get ahead of the curve. This is this is the thing where you can very easily You don't even have to learn from your own mistakes. You can simply look around learn from others. There's plenty of mistakes going Yes, I'll need another topic is going to be security. I'm going to do some more security videos Uh, it's just been a really really busy week because uh as much as I love youtube That isn't how I make all my money I make some money off youtube, but I make the majority of money from actually doing it services So sometimes we get really caught up, uh deploying projects So but I got some more videos in a way for those of you that I mentioned that I will be doing them I'm undecided what I'm going to do with the proxmox video, but we are definitely going to do Uh, some security videos because you're a little bit easier and some are going to be just talking about general security For setting up your small business because it's going to be kind of aimed at Other it companies where people may be doing some of their own it So it's going to be some some ins and outs of basics of uh things you need to do We won't get maybe eventually we'll go there where we talk about entire lockdown networks, but that's a very We're in a small business market. We don't do we I mean we do some larger clients that have lockdown networks But it's not it's not the base of it. Yeah, and most people will do that They already know they they worked in the industry and know how to do an entirely lockdown system So I don't think that I don't know maybe it is maybe it isn't our target audience But uh, keep your tinfoil hats on and we'll we'll get those We'll get to the security videos because they are important. They are very uh very fast growing big topic for all this So keep the lizard people from reading your emails. You don't want the lizard people reading your emails They'll use it all against you. That's important We should start wearing tinfoil hats for these these talks That's not a bad thing. You know, what else we got on top. Uh, let's see. What have we been doing? Well, I mean we well we we had our opening. We talked about that things are still we're actually we're keeping this area pretty clean Yeah, since we clean, you know, it's been consistently clean. So you'll you'll notice a this even though we talked about it last week You'll notice a distinct lack of Uh, cigarette butt saga videos because we may have won this one. We may have won the butt war. Yeah Yeah, we have not made another cigarette butt video for those of you following on the uh, our facebook I don't think I've posted any butt videos to the youtube's. Okay. I'm not sure we've talked about it so many times either way Well, we had plans to do it because we figured it was going to still be an issue But yeah, we'd actually set it up because we were going to interview people and ask them What made it what made them think it was okay to leave garbage in our parking lot Oh and someone commented. I think I replied last time like is there an ordinance? Yeah, there's ordinance against it But proving they did it even with it on camera The police are like really going to bother us with that. We didn't want to upset the police going You know, yeah, can you come and write tickets of people littering? I mean it is a problem, but it's hard to get the police to sit in the parking lot and write a ticket for that So yeah, yeah, but uh, they don't really seem to be coming over anymore Yeah, so we haven't seen any of them in our parking lot. We think they finally had enough of it Like those guys will flick the butts back in your window. So like They'll follow you over and leave the envelope. They'll leave the butt in an envelope on your car. Yeah So, uh, yeah, we basically we've won the butt war. We think we hope I mean it has been it's been a rainy week So maybe they're just not venturing out You know, it's been it's been a hot and rainy week. So we'll have to see but Um, I think the timing is interesting Absolutely, so we'll have to we'll have to turn our attention to to some other people violating various ordinances Yeah, because it was it was kind of fun and there's part of us that goes But we had fun doing it, right? But the other part is goes, you know, we're happy because it started out as the goal Is just not to have cigarette butts over parking lot and we we've not met the goal, but it's not as satisfying as Especially when we had a whole plan we're like all these interview videos are going to be awesome Yeah, I don't know why you think you can throw garbage around now They won't do it because occasionally there's food wrappers they were throwing out too. Yeah Yeah, they would come over eat your lunch and just they eat your lunch and just toss out They go get uh, there's a fast food place down straight and it is oh, let me throw a burger wrapper around so Yeah, but we let them know there's new sheriff in town Yep, and his name is steve and he returns butts. He returns butts on that note We are going to get back to the things we do that make us uh busy. Um I got more stuff. I got more server quotes to send out for clients There's probably a whole other topic is quoting servers, which is a pain because people get sticker shock They see how much all the licenses are for the microsoft server and it's You know people say oh, they could run linux like no no no I work in a real world where the the platform that this client's looking at does have to run microsoft windows server Has to run with a whole series of windows things and those things all have to be licensed in addition to the licensing for the software So the customer's kind of rolling around in the sticker shock of how much the licenses cost because it more than the server itself Yeah, I mean the server's got to be pretty decent and we put a rate array and everything and we specced out a really nice redundant server But what they're shocked is is just how much it's like there's four thousand dollars of licensing They're like there's that much because everyone has to remote into the server Because the software's weird and doesn't have a web portal So it's also making them consider whether or not they like this software It doesn't have a web portal because another one does and the other one had more expensive recurring costs For the licensing because they charge per user software as a service But this one because they don't offer software service You have to host everything on your own server and then each person instead of using client access Everyone has to remote into the server and they require that you set up a terminal server with all these remote access licenses And microsoft well, they they cost money So they're looking at just the licenses on this is like 35 hundred bucks right around there. I think it was for licensing Yeah, so Yeah, that's they're like that's a lot of license fees I'm like, yeah, so the software is cheaper, but you because they rely on microsoft for it instead of a web portal I don't know why you design software that you have to rdp into But that's how this company has apparently designed your product and it's weird. No anyways, what are you gonna do? Thanks for watching vlog thursday See you next thursday We'll keep rocking out some videos in between like the contents like and subscribe you want to know When we release new videos, there's a little bell thing you can ring the bell Yeah, that's if you're watching this on youtube if you're watching this on facebook Just like just like us and you'll get the Yeah, like you'll get the notification notification until then between cameras and the uh rk3 We've got our eye on you got our eye on you. Ha ha see what I did there All right next week. Thanks