The Intel Nook: A Powerful and Versatile Security System Monitor

As I sat down to test the Intel Nook, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. This sleek and powerful monitor had been touted as the perfect solution for our security system streaming needs, and I was eager to put it through its paces.

The first thing that struck me about the Nook was its impressive specs. With an 8th gen Core i7 processor and RX Vega graphics onboard, this thing is a beast. I fired it up quickly and ran some tests to see how well it would perform with our security system streaming. The results were nothing short of astounding - the video was smooth and flawless, with crisp color and high quality. Even when I cranked up the framerate and bitrate, the Nook handled it like a pro.

One thing that did strike me as interesting was the challenge of using a Raspberry Pi for this project. With its small size and convenience, it seemed like an ideal candidate for mounting to our airplane seats and running the security system streaming software. However, I soon discovered that the Raspberry Pi's operating system limitations made it difficult to support our needs. Specifically, the Chromium browser used on the Raspberry Pi does not support Google Chrome, which is the recommended browser for running Unify Protect. While I could have installed a different operating system to overcome this limitation, I decided to stick with the Intel Nook - its bulkier size may make it more difficult to mount in certain situations, but its performance and capabilities made it the better choice for our needs.

One feature that really impressed me about the Nook was its support for color. While most cameras produce black and white video, the Nook's camera system allowed for crisp, colorful images - a welcome addition to our setup. And while I did encounter some minor issues with centering the monitor on the wall (it tended to lean slightly to one side), overall the setup looked sleek and professional.

Cable Management: A Slightly Rough Edges

As I set up the Nook in my home office, I had to contend with a few cable management challenges. While I did have a clean solution in mind - using an IKEA cable tray to keep all the cables tidy and organized - the reality of the situation proved more complicated than I had anticipated. The cable channel that came with the monitor was not particularly deep, which meant that some of the cables ended up poking out from beneath the desk. This was a minor inconvenience, but one that I wouldn't have anticipated when setting up the system.

One thing that did impress me about this setup, however, was the power strip that connected to the wall. It was neatly secured and kept all the necessary cables organized, making it easy to manage the various connections that needed to be made.

Conclusion: A Solid Choice for Security System Streaming

In conclusion, I was thoroughly impressed with the Intel Nook - its powerful specs, versatile design, and smooth performance made it a perfect choice for our security system streaming needs. While there were some minor challenges and annoyances along the way (such as cable management issues), overall I'm thrilled with this purchase. If you're in the market for a high-quality monitor that can handle demanding tasks like security system streaming, I would highly recommend the Intel Nook - it's definitely worth checking out.

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definitely a real cut no magic tricks here is a good tomato mm-hmm tomato tastes really good because of how you cut it what do you mean fix your computer that's my computer then I let you use because I'm a good husband and you love me and I'm awesome yeah you know I've got 16 computers I only use one of them doesn't everyone honey you know what that's called I'm so proud of you yeah far you've come this is the razor blade by the way 2016 I think why did it boot in here you just turn the system on and it ok let's just try exiting hopefully that's that's probably all you needed to do but chemin Oh black screen why isn't it loading it's got a really fast SSD in here why isn't it it should be loaded by now what did you do you shouldn't be taking this long to boot could be Windows updates yep Windows updates no wonder I was feeling pissed off alright well the laptops working now honey it's good thing I'm a genius anyway so what in the Hooten who nanny are we doing today well since I finally have all the security cameras set up around the house like I've been meaning to for a while now I figured I would set up a 24/7 live monitoring display and I have just the display for the job hold on give me a second this game for this big boy oh this is one of LG's 4k monitors this is not a TV it's a 40 inch monitor and I actually did a video on this when we were still at the old studio when we had that dedicated office and this was hung directly over the build area that we didn't really end up using much but we have a new purpose for this thing it's gonna be really awesome to have a live feed of all of our cameras on a single screen that I can see from pretty much anywhere in this room whether I'm filming a video behind the desk or gaming right here I'll be able to see if any packages are being delivered if anyone's at our front door solicitor's someone's trying to rob us or kill us it's gonna be a really nice addition to the house and make things feel a bit more secure than they already do what what do you want oh wait hold on hold on stick out this is actually a perfect opportunity to test out the new telescopic lens on the rx100 mark 7 stick your head out honey this thing zooms like a zoom baby and it's still so crystal clear sorry I mean a little traction right now but back to this so we're gonna hang this up just above this this ultrawide monitor here I'm gonna replace it with the plaque I'm gonna find a new home for that ah but it's pretty much the only empty wall that I have in here the next thing you probably wondering is what system are we gonna connect to this monitor in order to access our controller and view the camera feeds I'm so glad you asked let's take another stroll back out here because I did have a plan sorry it's really messy right now so I was gonna use this this is an asus chromebit it's got Chrome OS on it it's just a little stick PC that connects to your display via HDMI and it's got DC power as well super nice and portable very compact and convenient however when I tested it out yesterday it was unable to stream all of our live feeds simultaneously I even lowered the quality settings the streaming settings of those cameras and still it just wasn't working out so that's a good question but there's another option game tool intendant it's the Intel nuckie you remember this bad boy this is a thick boy designed for gaming in mind first and foremost but it can handle all sorts of things of course this is actually one of the units that we used for our land party on a plane video which actually worked out beautifully for our needs I have a feeling that it'll be much more capable to handle the live streams from our camera feeds than the little chrome bit over there so we're going to test it out first I have not tested it out I literally just pulled it from the garage as you can see it still has the the cheese plate that we used for mounting it to the airplane seats in front of us along with our little nametags that we didn't get confused on the plane but this thing is an absolute animal it's got a core i7 8th gen processor as well as RX Vega graphics onboard so I'm going to fire up really quick test it out and see if it can actually handle our security system streaming like a champ looking pretty good completely flawless super smooth I was even able to crank up the framerate and bitrate again so we're getting the best possible quality with all four cameras that are connected currently I did want to mention that I did try to use a Raspberry Pi at one point because it's so small and convenient definitely less bulky than the Intel nook here however the raspberry an operating system whatever the hell it's called that's currently loaded on here only has the chromium browser and it does not support google chrome which is the recommended browser to run unify protect so that was software limitation there I'm sure I could very well install a different operating system on here that would support it and everything would be perfectly fine but that's more time so for me personally just makes more sense to go with the Intel nook for now the one caveat is that since it's so bulky it might be a bit more difficult to mount behind our monitor then say a Raspberry Pi for example so it might just have to live on my desk for now and that means I'll need to find a clean way to manage all the cables going from the monitor to the desk but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it oh yes I am digging it all the cameras support color by the way they're just black and white because the infrared just kicked on since it is now nighttime I really like the way this looks with the setup it's a nice addition it definitely fills up that wall space more than the plaque did however I wasn't able to Center it exactly on the wall you can see that it's a little bit leaning to the right just a smidge that's mainly because I was falling where the studs were this is a very heavy monitor so being as heavy as it is I wanted to secure the swivel mount to an actual stud which means it's veering a little to the right but that's okay for now I'm just happy that this is all up and running it's working flawlessly thank you until nook you can see I left the cheese plate on there had been bother taking it off because it reminds me of that awesome project that we did every time I see it and it makes the unit very unique there's no other nook in the world like it apart from the other two that we brought on the plane but they don't count like I mentioned this is a swivel mount so I can pop the monitor out and turn it and tilt it if I want to but I kind of just like it where it is right there it's so big in this room is relatively small so I don't even need to articulate it really to see it from any point in the room I also appreciate that this is a monitor and not a TV so we have a pretty nice range of Io that you don't really get on TV for instance we're actually connected to the Nook right now via DisplayPort which just would not happen with the television set so I like having those options on top of other things like USB downstream and upstream which this unit also supports you can see I did a bit of cable management with this little cable channel here it's white blends in relatively well with the background obviously a cleaner solution would have been to punch a hole you know into the drywall so we're behind the monitor and then another one underneath the desk and then route the cables behind the wall that way but this isn't a serious setup I'm not doing a bunch of b-roll here it's more of a casual setup so I'm totally fine with how it is but you can see that I am kind of bummed and I didn't amount the cable channel low enough so you end up seeing a bit of cable coming through that you don't really notice it I guess if you're you're standing or not really looking for it but but I know it's there and that and that sucks underneath the desk isn't too bad for the most part I've got one of those IKEA trays those cable management trays I've had for quite a while I'll use these at the old office as well the only cable you can really see is the power strip go into the wall there but I think that is gonna wrap it up for this quick little video guys thank you so much for tuning in sorry I was a little on the shorter side but hopefully you still enjoyed it if you did Tom we're gonna before you go and I'll see you guys in the next video youtesting 1 2 3 hello everybody I'm shooting with a brand new camera I just got its the Sony rx100 Mark 7 I've been using the mark 5 for the last couple years it's been great but this one adds a mic input which I am not using right now it turns out the built-in microphone on this camera is also way better than the mark 5 take a listen this is the mark 7 this is the mark 7 built-in audio check 1 2 3 4 5 6 this is what the built-in microphone sounds like on the rx100 mark 5 the older camera I'm standing in the same room with the same amount of terrible echo but the microphone might sound a little worse here yeah so a huge difference so I'm actually be filming this video with just the built-in camera for now what are we doing today let's see what wifey sauce is doing for starters and she's right here cooking up a storm are we Wow invisible put a knife avorite what are you doing in here yeah wow that was oddly satisfying yeah yeah yeah yeah that is that's definitely a real cut no magic tricks here is a good tomato mm-hmm tomato tastes really good because of how you cut it what do you mean fix your computer that's my computer then I let you use because I'm a good husband and you love me and I'm awesome yeah you know I've got 16 computers I only use one of them doesn't everyone honey you know what that's called I'm so proud of you yeah far you've come this is the razor blade by the way 2016 I think why did it boot in here you just turn the system on and it ok let's just try exiting hopefully that's that's probably all you needed to do but chemin Oh black screen why isn't it loading it's got a really fast SSD in here why isn't it it should be loaded by now what did you do you shouldn't be taking this long to boot could be Windows updates yep Windows updates no wonder I was feeling pissed off alright well the laptops working now honey it's good thing I'm a genius anyway so what in the Hooten who nanny are we doing today well since I finally have all the security cameras set up around the house like I've been meaning to for a while now I figured I would set up a 24/7 live monitoring display and I have just the display for the job hold on give me a second this game for this big boy oh this is one of LG's 4k monitors this is not a TV it's a 40 inch monitor and I actually did a video on this when we were still at the old studio when we had that dedicated office and this was hung directly over the build area that we didn't really end up using much but we have a new purpose for this thing it's gonna be really awesome to have a live feed of all of our cameras on a single screen that I can see from pretty much anywhere in this room whether I'm filming a video behind the desk or gaming right here I'll be able to see if any packages are being delivered if anyone's at our front door solicitor's someone's trying to rob us or kill us it's gonna be a really nice addition to the house and make things feel a bit more secure than they already do what what do you want oh wait hold on hold on stick out this is actually a perfect opportunity to test out the new telescopic lens on the rx100 mark 7 stick your head out honey this thing zooms like a zoom baby and it's still so crystal clear sorry I mean a little traction right now but back to this so we're gonna hang this up just above this this ultrawide monitor here I'm gonna replace it with the plaque I'm gonna find a new home for that ah but it's pretty much the only empty wall that I have in here the next thing you probably wondering is what system are we gonna connect to this monitor in order to access our controller and view the camera feeds I'm so glad you asked let's take another stroll back out here because I did have a plan sorry it's really messy right now so I was gonna use this this is an asus chromebit it's got Chrome OS on it it's just a little stick PC that connects to your display via HDMI and it's got DC power as well super nice and portable very compact and convenient however when I tested it out yesterday it was unable to stream all of our live feeds simultaneously I even lowered the quality settings the streaming settings of those cameras and still it just wasn't working out so that's a good question but there's another option game tool intendant it's the Intel nuckie you remember this bad boy this is a thick boy designed for gaming in mind first and foremost but it can handle all sorts of things of course this is actually one of the units that we used for our land party on a plane video which actually worked out beautifully for our needs I have a feeling that it'll be much more capable to handle the live streams from our camera feeds than the little chrome bit over there so we're going to test it out first I have not tested it out I literally just pulled it from the garage as you can see it still has the the cheese plate that we used for mounting it to the airplane seats in front of us along with our little nametags that we didn't get confused on the plane but this thing is an absolute animal it's got a core i7 8th gen processor as well as RX Vega graphics onboard so I'm going to fire up really quick test it out and see if it can actually handle our security system streaming like a champ looking pretty good completely flawless super smooth I was even able to crank up the framerate and bitrate again so we're getting the best possible quality with all four cameras that are connected currently I did want to mention that I did try to use a Raspberry Pi at one point because it's so small and convenient definitely less bulky than the Intel nook here however the raspberry an operating system whatever the hell it's called that's currently loaded on here only has the chromium browser and it does not support google chrome which is the recommended browser to run unify protect so that was software limitation there I'm sure I could very well install a different operating system on here that would support it and everything would be perfectly fine but that's more time so for me personally just makes more sense to go with the Intel nook for now the one caveat is that since it's so bulky it might be a bit more difficult to mount behind our monitor then say a Raspberry Pi for example so it might just have to live on my desk for now and that means I'll need to find a clean way to manage all the cables going from the monitor to the desk but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it oh yes I am digging it all the cameras support color by the way they're just black and white because the infrared just kicked on since it is now nighttime I really like the way this looks with the setup it's a nice addition it definitely fills up that wall space more than the plaque did however I wasn't able to Center it exactly on the wall you can see that it's a little bit leaning to the right just a smidge that's mainly because I was falling where the studs were this is a very heavy monitor so being as heavy as it is I wanted to secure the swivel mount to an actual stud which means it's veering a little to the right but that's okay for now I'm just happy that this is all up and running it's working flawlessly thank you until nook you can see I left the cheese plate on there had been bother taking it off because it reminds me of that awesome project that we did every time I see it and it makes the unit very unique there's no other nook in the world like it apart from the other two that we brought on the plane but they don't count like I mentioned this is a swivel mount so I can pop the monitor out and turn it and tilt it if I want to but I kind of just like it where it is right there it's so big in this room is relatively small so I don't even need to articulate it really to see it from any point in the room I also appreciate that this is a monitor and not a TV so we have a pretty nice range of Io that you don't really get on TV for instance we're actually connected to the Nook right now via DisplayPort which just would not happen with the television set so I like having those options on top of other things like USB downstream and upstream which this unit also supports you can see I did a bit of cable management with this little cable channel here it's white blends in relatively well with the background obviously a cleaner solution would have been to punch a hole you know into the drywall so we're behind the monitor and then another one underneath the desk and then route the cables behind the wall that way but this isn't a serious setup I'm not doing a bunch of b-roll here it's more of a casual setup so I'm totally fine with how it is but you can see that I am kind of bummed and I didn't amount the cable channel low enough so you end up seeing a bit of cable coming through that you don't really notice it I guess if you're you're standing or not really looking for it but but I know it's there and that and that sucks underneath the desk isn't too bad for the most part I've got one of those IKEA trays those cable management trays I've had for quite a while I'll use these at the old office as well the only cable you can really see is the power strip go into the wall there but I think that is gonna wrap it up for this quick little video guys thank you so much for tuning in sorry I was a little on the shorter side but hopefully you still enjoyed it if you did Tom we're gonna before you go and I'll see you guys in the next video you\n"