Which Vlogging Camera Should You Get? (Luna Ultra vs Sony ZV1)

We took two completely different vlogging cameras out for a chaotic, rainy real-world test around London with the family: Insta360 Luna Ultra (pocket gimbal camera) directly against the Sony ZV-1 (compact point and shoot camera) to see which one is actually worth buying if you want to start a YouTube channel or upgrade from your phone video camera.

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From fighting tight lens focal lengths and sudden dead batteries to wrestling with messy wireless microphone setups and torrential London rain, we put both setups through their paces across Tate Modern, Oxford Street buses, and Camden Lock Market. Which camera handles real travel vlogging best? Watch to see the side-by-side footage and our honest breakdown.

Which Vlogging Camera Should You Get? (Luna Ultra vs Sony ZV1)



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tribe to Neil Mossi. Thank you. So, we're here. We're here in London to do a very special camera test and I'm doing this for my family. Oh, I've lost half my family. They're over there. So, this is a strange video. I wanted to compare two cameras that you probably shouldn't even really compare. The first camera is like a is a pocket gimbal camera like this Luna Ultra from Insta 360 against the Sony ZV1 or ZV1 being modeled uh and operated very fantastically backwards by my son here. Thanks for your work. Mind you going to get a food street food stand. But they're two wildly different cameras. And if you're wanting to start a YouTube channel or maybe you want to upgrade your camera maybe from a phone, it's always a difficult choice, isn't it? Whether to pick something like this Pocket Gimbal camera like a like a DJI Pocket 3 or Pocket 4 or P4P or the Sony ZV1, ZV1 Mark II, or maybe something like the Canon PowersShot V1. Which one do you go for? Obviously, it depends on what you want to do. Uh, so today I'm doing some vlogging here in London with my family. Maybe with your channel you're mainly indoors or maybe you want to do something even more extreme than just out and about city travel. I'm going to show you the pros and cons of each camera and I'm going to do it out and about in London, which might be a bit tricky. It's also a really terrible weather day today, so it's going to be a good test for these two cameras of whether to go for something like this or something like this. Time to get some food.

We've just noticed that on the on the big wheel as I can zoom in. So, this is two, three, four times, eight times, 12 time zoom, uh, capsule is missing on the London Eye. Yeah. Oh, that looks dodge, doesn't it? And just to compare this on the Sony ZV1. I'll zoom in before the wheel turns round. So this is the optical zoom up to there. And then I'll push in on digital zoom. And you can see the missing capsule there. Let's move around. So I've got my daughter camera operator for today. One of the camera operators for today. You've got the Luna Ultra. If you push that rocker up, it zooms in and if you pull it back, it zooms out. This is the Sony ZV1 camera. I'm holding it at arms length. I don't know how big my face is. I've got a feeling my face is a bit too big in the frame, which is one of my gripes with this camera. Anyway, so if you point it up, see if you can zoom into the Big Ben Houses of Parliament. I'll film you doing that.

And then if you press the the the joystick three times, it spins round to film you. So, if you just go click click click. There you go. And then you might want to zoom out. There you go. So, if you hold it at arms length, that's that's quite a good shot, isn't it? You know, we're not too big in shot and it's about arms length. Whereas, if I hold the ZV1, this is the comparison between the two. So, I've got this at arms length. We'll go back to the Luna Ultra being held at arms length. And uh that's the difference in the lenses. For me, this is a much better vlogging shot than this shot. I think I'm a bit too in your face. That's as much as I can zoom out. Enlarges your head. It It really does enlarge my head.

So, the weather today, as well as the noise, the weather today might be a bit of an issue, which is an issue for these cameras. So, we are in Tate Modern now on the Luna Ultra. If you take a look at the art, this is the current art installation in the Turbine Hall. It looks quite interactive. This is the indoors footage. I've got the wireless mics on. Hopefully, you can hear me. I didn't want to have them out cuz I look like a bit of a tool. This is what low light footage looks like indoors. It's not that dark, but it's not that bright. So, we can compare the two. Let's go to the Sony ZV1. This is the the Turbine Hall here. Let's see if we can zoom in on some of this interactive art. It's called Serendipity Island. We're up here. Ruining the art. They are ruining the art. Walk around the maze.

down the river. Mary Poppins. Now, the the good thing with this was with the the Luna Ultra, I was able to just get it out my pocket and hit on, press the the on button, and then um spin the camera around to get that crazy umbrella. That's art. Then, if I zoom in, it's so nice to be able to zoom in. I couldn't do this on my Pocket 3 or my action cameras. So, there you go. Nice bit of artistic umbrella down the temps action

bagel. No, that's not bagels. The pretzels. We got We got two bagels. Yes. Smoked salmon and cream cheese. We're going to go in. It's really crowded here. So, uh, wish me luck.

I don't think that shot will be approved. What? Which shot? I just got No, no. I got a closeup of of you tearing it apart. Oh, sorry. No, no, don't apologize. I I apologize to you for filming it. This £750 bagel is is lovely. It's a bit difficult carrying these cameras and eating. Oh, do you got some apple sushi? Yeah, it goes out focus if you go too close, I think. Lovely. Little portable grater. But giant hands. Yeah, I am mushy. So, this is a good chance to show you some more low light stuff. This is on the Sony ZV1. Got a tube coming in. Let's do this.

So, this is where the lens isn't is a bit too tight for this kind of situation. I have to give it to someone else to make it go further back.

I thought our one was 30. 38. Oh, that's the one that just left. So, waiting for full circle. Yeah. Wow. That that number four is on a mission.

Thank you. These tickets are getting damper by the minute. So, yeah, we're on the number 38 now. Oops. Uh to go to Oxford Street.

The big smoke. We're in London. Thank you. Whoa. I tell you what's really interesting is that I'm on the Sony ZV1 now. I find that I say bye to the the bus. Thank you, number 38. I'll just pull this out. It's a lot easier to pull out the Luna Ultra. It's a lot easier to just whip out a pocket camera than my Sony ZV1 because it's just so much easier grabbing this one. I just do this, flip it on, and it's good to go. And I'm recording that instantly. I don't find it that easy. If I spin this camera around, I don't find it that easy to pull out the Sony ZV1. Maybe it's because I've got the grip and the wireless attachment today. Yeah. Meet by the Cork Road on the corner. Wire. Where are we? So, I grew up in London. I I think I think I know my way around a bit. I have no idea what these screen things are for. There it's like some kind of PR events that they that they use them for. But, let's try the cameras out here. I'm on the ZV1, the point and shoot. It's a giant uh Tetris, which it looks like you can join in with. You can do it on your phone or something. And they've got screens all around this cube.

So, I don't know how you're finding the loud noise with the wireless mics with the on this camera here. We've got very challenging lighting conditions. I don't know how you you're finding it. Um, say in the comments which one you prefer. There's already a footage that you prefer. Either the Luna Ultra or the Point and Shoot Sony ZV1. Yeah, I know. I need Oh, yeah. bags. Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry. They're coming off. Got to slide past. We're only going one stop. Thank you. So, this bus is saying going one stop, but um there was a bit of a problem at the door. Wa. Nearly got my foot taken off by the front door there. Uh here we go. So, we're going to sanitize now cuz we're in London. Anything you touch will kill you. We are being max tourists right now, which is excellent. The only way to experience London is to wander aimlessly through the traffic. I'm holding this at arms length, and I know already that it's too close to my face. Big problem for the ZV1. I'm sort of remembering why I never vlog with this camera. It is not kind to your face or to the surroundings around you. I don't know how frenetic this video is going to be. We're just jumping from location to location, but we're in um John Lewis now and I'm very excited about this because it's one of my favorite places to come. They have a restaurant on the top floor and it's really nice to just sit there and just get half an hour of sitting down time.

So, we've got a situation here where that police car wants to get past that bus and that bus ain't budging.

There we go.

There we go.

They're going to arrest the bus driver.

Where is that taxi doing?

So, I've already hit the first problem. In my opinion, the the pocket camera, the Luna Ultra, is better in these situations. Battery's dead. It's a new battery. Uh I started filming about the same time. I think I've been filming about the same amount of material and this is dead. I've had this on airline mode, so all the Wi-Fi is turned off. The Bluetooth's turned off. The screen isn't particularly bright and it's dead and it's what 3:00 now. This is the first casualty, but it's okay cuz I can top it up with a battery that I've got in my rock sack. But this is something the reviews go on and on and about the the battery life. I think it is kind of better on the on the Luna Ultra. Also, don't forget also I mustn't forget I need to keep the microphones charged up as well. I think they're holding up. It's time for another bus. This time on the Luna Ultra. Oh, that's helpful. Push here. There we go. Top deck. Indoors low light capabilities cuz this is Carne Street. I'm now on the Luna Ultra. I don't know. I think my m I think my wireless microphones are holding out. My son and his nephew are looking for glasses here now. Uh, we're going to go to the Ray-B band shop, which we've been to before back when the, you know, those Ray-B bands, the pervert glasses came out, where you could, the what? The meta glasses. The meta glasses. That's what they're called, not pervert glasses. Um, we came to try them out when they first came out, but we just want to get some regular sunglasses. We did manage to find a very specific brand of matte black new wayfarers size 52, but they don't have them in the store. So, we've ordered them, which that happens a lot. I know it's not about the cameras, but this is for me to test the microphone to moan about, you know, when you go into a shop and they say, "Oh, no, we haven't we could order it for you." And you just think, "Well, yeah, I I thank you. I could have done that by just being sat on my ass at home." Uh, so I'm jumping between the Luna Ultra.

Okay, so we just seen this is the stage door of the London Paladium and it's just the giant chair just went up. I don't know who it is.

I'm filming the wrong person. Where's the the polka dot? Like she's got what? Say again. Polka dot. Polka dot thing, I think. Oh, right. Yeah. Okay. Go. Okay. So, this is Kendall Jenner there. Kendall Jenner in Jesus. And now an M&S food truck has just gone in the way. Who is that? I think it's Kendall Jenner. But who is it? Who is it? Here's a big drawback with both of these cameras, and this is where they're comparable. It's raining. Okay, we've got a bit of a storm going on at the moment. I don't know if you can see it. You can see the umbrellas up. These cameras do not like rain. They do not like extreme weather. They don't like snow, dust, sand, desert. All of these things will kill these cameras. So, you need an action camera for that kind of thing. Like my DJI Nano. That's the one I use when it's weather like this. Oh my god, it is really bad. I don't know if you can see quite how heavy the rain is. I've got to stop filming now because this will kill my Luna Ultra. I've got a wireless receiver on the top here for the Sony ZV1. I've also got this really ugly barn door of a monitor on the side. I've had to pull this out because this receiver, it is connected to my wireless microphone, that wireless microphone, and the battery has died on the receiver. It's about 4:00. I've been filming a lot. But for this camera, I've got to actually plug it in with a 3.5 mm cable. It's so cumbersome. I don't know why Canon and Sony don't enable some kind of Bluetooth thing where you could plug in any Bluetooth microphone to your point andoot camera. You you're hearing me now through the onboard microphone. This is what it's like without it. And it would mean that I wouldn't have all this gubbins on the top. So that's one huge difference between the two. the Luna Ultra, which you can see here, is just connected seamlessly to the the microphone here. It just I don't have to do anything. I just turn that thing on, make sure this is turned on, and we're good to go. With this camera, the point and shoot is you got to plug things in, which is really annoying. For today's footage that you'll see, I've attached this grip, this kind of mount grip. It just means I've got a bit of security with it. partly for the stabilization, so there's nice steady shots on this camera with the grip, but also for security, so someone doesn't snatch it out of my hand as well. So, that's one huge difference or two huge differences between the point and shoot and the gimbal camera. We're now going to go north on the Northern Line to Camden Town, which is where I'm from originally, and we'll see if we can get mugged or robbed in Camden Lock Market. Let's go. Maybe it'll be people on the streets, or maybe it'll be the stalls. Yeah, it's the magic of Camden.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. N.

Now, with this camera, the Insta 360 Luna Ultra, it's got the built-in legs to the bottom on the uh the clip-on handle extender. I'm just tired. I'm not I'm not drunk. So, it's a lot easier to to put down. It's not It's not as easy as uh an action camera, but at least you've got some legs. You've got some options to stand it upright. Without that section, uh it's it is really difficult to put down. It's the same with my Pocket 3, but you can get cages for the DJI Pocket cameras, and they've got a magnetic base, so you can stick it to lamp posts or pull out the base. Actually, I've got one on this one on the Luna Ultra here. I've got this screw on magnetic base. I could have used that instead, but this is a lot more steady. I'm not sure I want to put it in uh public place, though. I better grab it now.

Look, I can I can use the screen to have this in a weird position.

Have you had enough footage? Is this How's this looking? If you got to this part of the video, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here are all my other videos about the Luna Ultra, the Insta 360 Luna Ultra. And I might even have a playlist for the Sony ZV1 ZV1. That's all down in the description. Thanks for coming on our journey out into London today. Yes.

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How To Use YOTO MINI PLAYER 4th Gen! (Buttons & Features!)

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A complete, quick-reference user guide on how to use all the controls and features on the new 4th Gen Yoto Mini player!

This walkthrough covers how to use the left and right orange dials to adjust volume, skip tracks, rewind, and fast-forward. We break down the side power button shortcuts, checking battery levels, and how the new green button works for card-free listening, play/pause functions, Yoto Daily, Yoto Radio, and switching between daytime and night time playlists.

Plus, learn how offline listening works for downloaded cards and discover free content in the Yoto app for your Yoto Mini Player 4th Generation.

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How To Use YOTO MINI PLAYER 4th Gen! (Buttons & Features!)



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There's two orange buttons, one on the left, one on the right. Twist the left button to adjust the volume to make it louder. Oh, wrong way. Or quieter. Twist the right button to browse through tracks, then press it to choose. Holding the left button down will let you rewind. And holding the right button down will let you fast forward. Oh, and that small white button on the side of your player, that's the power button. Give the power button a long press to turn it off or on, or press it quickly to see the battery level. Now, let's get into the green button. The green button lets you explore your library and play the audio on your player without needing to put a card in. You can add any audio or card in your library to your green button playlist at any time using the Yodo app. And then listening can happen whenever, wherever, card free, even offline. Twist the green button to scroll through the audio on your player. Once you found something you want to listen to, press the green button to play it. So, you can use this as a as a play and pause button. So, as well as taking the card in and out, you can use the green button for play and pause. When you scroll the green button, it scrolls through the different things that you can access quickly on the mini player. So, out of the box, it's showing the clock. And then when I turn the dial again, it shows that we're on chapter 3 of this welcome card. And if I turn it again, there's access to Yoto daily. Your green button playlist will switch at nighttime. So, grown-ups, this means you can edit your daytime and nighttime playlists to have different content available. So, in the app, you can actually choose which podcasts the green button can access. And if you don't do that, they'll just be there anyway. You can just customize the list using the app. Besides Yoto Daily and Yoto Radio, there's a whole world of free audio available. Grown-ups, you can explore the discover section of the Yoto app to find thousands of hours of free podcasts, radio, music, and more for your kids. Any of this audio along with your own Yodo cards can be added to your green button so it's always there when you want it. There are also alarms and timers to help with routines, even the ability to record your own audio on to make your own cards. When you're done listening to any new cards for the first time, just leave your player charging and connected to Wi-Fi and they'll download to your player in the background. Once they're downloaded, they'll be available for offline listening. One final recap of the buttons. the left button, you turn it left and right to go up and down. If you want to skip back a track, you press the left button once. If you want to rewind, you just hold down the left button. On the right button, you can turn the dial to go through the different tracks on the audio that's playing. If you want to skip to the next track, you press the right button once and fast forward. You just hold down that button. Power button on off is a long press of this button. And if you want to quickly check the battery, just press it once quickly and it brings up the battery level

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See THIS Before Buying The Yoto Player 4th Gen! (First Look & Audio Test)

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An exclusive first look and hands-on overview of the 4th Generation Yoto Player kids smart speaker! Filmed live at a Yoto preview event, this video breaks down all the major physical upgrades, new controls, and sound improvements.

We test out the brand-new green third button (play, pause, chapter scrolling, and green-for-go controls), check out the card slot, Bluetooth connectivity, USB-C charging port, and 3.5mm headphone socket. 

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See THIS Before Buying The Yoto Player 4th Gen! (First Look & Audio Test)



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So, I don't know if you can hear me, but this is the new 4th generation Yoto player smart speaker made especially for kids. And the difference with this fourth generation, we've got the two orange buttons. There is a green button on the side. Third button. Uh, it's got a reset button here. Power button is it maybe. And the green button turns up and down. And it's clickable, plays and pause, and you can scroll through your books with with the button. Let's try Oh, let's try a bit of Harry Potter. So, if I click play,

there it goes. So the green button means go and then the two familiar buttons and that's the card slots that you can put your Yoto cards into. But obviously you don't need them cuz you can play it from the you can play books from the app and also just use it as a Bluetooth speaker. I think this button is volume control.

And I don't know what the right button Oh, the right button changes the chapters. Let's turn it off. 

I'll just pause it. By pressing the go button. And there's a 3.5mm jack and a USB-C charger.

Yeah, it looks huge. So wee and mini.

Can you give me a 360?

green button.

This is the new Yoto 4th generation player. Not only has it got a green button on the side, but if I launch Yoto Daily, the speakers are so good... It's... It's like Jake is in the room with you... 

Hello! Welcome to Yoto Daily with me, Jake!

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How To Set Up YOTO MINI 4th Gen PLAYER! (Complete Walkthrough)

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A complete, step-by-step setup guide and walkthrough for the brand-new 4th Generation Yoto Mini player!

If you just picked up a 4th Gen mini player or are getting ready for holiday gifting, this video walks you through the entire process from scratch. We cover unboxing, plugging in for initial power, pairing with the Yoto app, connecting to Wi-Fi, and automatic firmware updates.

Plus full breakdown of the physical controls, how to use the new green button for card-free listening and playlists, setting alarms and sleep timers, pairing Bluetooth headphones, and managing your parental controls in the app.

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How To Set Up YOTO MINI 4th Gen PLAYER! (Complete Walkthrough)



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And then there's the quick start guide. I'll just give you a quick flash of this. You can pause the video if you want to read any of this. But this guides you through plug in the USB-C cable provided. The Yoto Mini will power on automatically for setup. Plug it in here. Now it says Yoto app and there's a picture of a phone. So what it's trying to get you to do is to pair it with a Yoto app. Now I've already got a Yoto login. You can download the Yoto app really easily. If you create a login the Yoto app and your Yoto account will store any cards that you get. So if you lose the physical card, you've still got the card on your phone and you can still put it onto the Yoto player. And on the bottom of the app screen, I don't know if you can see this. It says create, library, discover and settings. I'm now going to click on settings and we'll scroll down to my players. Now I've already got a Yoto player. If you're doing this for the first time, you can click on set up a player. Then it says which Yoto are you setting up? And we're going to go for the Yoto Mini fourth gen. It says plug in your player. Your player needs to be plugged in while we set it up. Allow location access to find and connect your player. Allow nearby devices to find your player. So that's your phone can connect to the player. So I'll allow there. Bluetooth connected. Next, let's connect your player to Wi-Fi. Now this is great because if once you put the Mini player onto your Wi-Fi, you [music] can download cards and stream audio for free and and access all of the the free content that Yoto provides. So I'm going to click on connect to Wi-Fi. Now it's searching for Wi-Fi networks. Next it wants me to put in my Wi-Fi password. Now ironically, I need my kids to tell me what their password is these days. Let's type it in. I'll hit connect and then it says almost there. We're connecting to Wi-Fi. Connected. Updating your player. So already automatically does a firmware update. So that's the software that controls the player. It seems to be doing it automatically. Now, it says a few things worth knowing. Charging by adults only, no players in bed, not for kids under three, and keep it dry. But, so this new generation player can handle splashes, but you can't dunk it in the sink or the bath. You're all set. Pop in your welcome card to get started. Oh, what's that? You can hand the player over to your little listener. They can take it from here. All right, let's start with the basics. Cards are at the heart of how Yoto works. To play any card, put it in the slot on the top of your player, just like you did with this one. To stop it, simply pull the card out. Like that. But, the screen is actually showing icons while the audio is playing. And when I take the card out, it's got the the time, the correct time, unbelievably, and a little weather icon as well. Let's keep playing. I'll just push the card back in. By the way, that's how That's how Yoto players work, or one of the ways that they work is you can start and stop the device by just putting the card in and out of the player, and it just remembers where it was. There's two orange buttons, one on the left, one on the right. Twist the left button to adjust the volume to make it louder. Oh, wrong way. Or quieter. Oh. Twist the right button to browse through tracks, then press it to choose. Holding the left button down will let you rewind. How would you know that? And holding the right button down will let you fast forward. Oh, and that small white button on the side of your player? That's the power button. Give the power button a long press to turn it off or on, or press it quickly to see the battery level. Now, let's get into the green button. The green button lets you explore your library and play the audio on your player without needing to put a card in. You can add any audio or card in your library to your green button playlist at any time using the Yoto app, and then listening can happen whenever, wherever, card free, even offline. Twist the green button to scroll through the audio on your player. Once you found something you want to listen to, press the green button to play it. So, you can use this as a as a play and pause button. So, as well as taking the card in and out, you can use the green button for play and pause. When you scroll the green button, it scrolls through the different things that you can access quickly on the mini player. So, out of the box, it's showing the clock. And then when I turn the dial again, it shows that we're on chapter three of this welcome card. And if I turn it again, there's access to Yoto Daily. Incredibly, you get a free daily podcast and you can access it anytime by just turning the green dial. To get back to the card, I've turned the dial to show my card here, and then I'll press play by pressing in the green button. And Yoto Radio, our radio station playing constant kid-friendly tunes.

Your green button playlist will switch at nighttime. So, grownups, this means you can edit your daytime and nighttime playlist to have different content available. So, in the app, you can actually choose which podcasts the green button can access. And if you don't do that, they'll just be there anyway. You can just customize the list using the app. There's a whole world of free audio available. Grownups, you can explore the discovery section of the Yoto app to find thousands of hours of free podcasts, radio, stories, music, and more for your kids. Any of this audio, along with your own Yoto cards, can be added to your green button, so it's always there when you want it. There are also alarms and timers to help with routines, even the ability to record your own audio onto make-your-own [music] cards. You can use this card as one once you finish listening. When you're done listening to any new cards for the first time, just leave your player charging and connected to Wi-Fi, and they'll download to your player in the background. Once they're downloaded, they'll be available for offline listening. Great stuff. So, now we will set up the app. So, hit ready to explore the app. And already, as a message in the app, it says set up the green button. So, I'll click on that. Meet your green button. You can create one playlist for daytime and another for bedtime. And you can also add favourites and free podcasts and sleep sounds onto the green button. So, we'll go onto set up your green button. And the way to do this anytime is if you click on settings in the app, choose your player. So, I'm going to choose the 4th Gen mini. And these are the controls for the little player. I'll just scroll down just to give you an idea of some of the stuff here. So, you can set when you want morning to be, and you can set a volume limit for the daytime, and you can also set what you want on the green button in daytime hours. If you add cards to your account, you can then put them onto the green button playlist. If I go back, and it's exactly the same for night mode. So, you can decide when bedtime is. Oh, my kids now decide when their bedtime is. And you've got a nighttime volume limit as well. And you can have a different green button playlist for your green button at night time. And it comes preset with sleep radio and Yoto Dreams. Scroll down. You can set an alarm. Should we add an alarm? So, you can choose which days, and you can choose which sound will go off. Should we do a fanfare? Let's do a fanfare.

Back to the settings. You can rename your player. You can check the battery level, and you can see how many things you've downloaded onto the player itself. When you're going on a journey, you can download things onto the onto the player from the app. We've got auto power off, Bluetooth audio to pair this with Bluetooth headphones. You can either plug the headphones in here or to pair them with a Bluetooth headset, I hold down the left button for a couple of seconds, and then you can see a Bluetooth headphones icon showing. This is now in in pairing mode. I don't have Bluetooth headphones to hand, but that is how you do it. Back to the app, we can set volume limit for the headphones. You can choose to have regular time or 24-hour clock time. I use 24-hour clock time in in our house. I tried to run that a miniature operation. The mission isn't going very well, and this is where your latest firmware version will show. One final recap of the buttons. The left button, you turn it left and right to go up and down. If you want to skip back a track, you press the left button once. If you want to rewind, you just hold down the left button. On the right button, you can turn the dial to go through different tracks on the audio that's playing. If you want to skip to the next track, you press the right button once, and fast forward you just hold down that button. So, rewind, fast forward. Power button, on off, is a long press of this button, and if you want to quickly check the battery, just press it once quickly, and it brings up the battery level there. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here is what YouTub knows you want to be watching next.

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How to REMOVE Google SEARCH BAR from Home Screen on Android Phone: step by step how to!

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How to REMOVE Google SEARCH BAR from Home Screen on Android Phone: step by step how to!

Quick step-by-step tutorial on how to remove the default Google search bar from the bottom of your Android home screen and relocate it anywhere you want!

If a recent Android update forced the Google search bar to the bottom of your screen and you can't move it, this guide shows you how to turn it off in your Home Screen settings and use the Google Widget menu to place a customizable 4x1 search bar right in the middle of your screen.

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Has your Android phone changed so you now have this stupid Google search bar at the bottom of your screen? I actually like the Google search bar, but I like mine in the middle of the screen where I can actually type easily. You can't move this screen no matter how much you drag it. Let's change it right now. I'm going to show you how to remove the Google search bar from your home screen and how to add a new Google search bar anywhere that you want on your homepage. So, first let's get rid of this. First thing we need to do is to tap anywhere on a blank area of the homepage. You might need to swipe to an empty screen to actually find somewhere to long press. Then down here on the bottom right hand side, it says settings. We're going to click on settings. And if I scroll down, we're going to look for this option here, show search on home screen. Tap on that. And on this screen, we have two options, search and finder. You can toggle these on and off. Obviously, we're going to toggle off search. Then, if I go back to the home screen, you can see that the Google search bar has gone. So, now I want to add it to the middle of the screen. Well, you could do this anywhere you want on your home screens. So, I'm going to long press anywhere on the homepage. And then we're going to look for this option at the bottom here, widgets. Now, we need to look for the app to give us the Google search bar. So, you need to look for Google. And when you click on the Google option, you'll see these different widgets. We want the widget that looks like this one, the 4x1 search bar. Now, this has put the search bar very helpfully on my very last home screen. I don't want that. So, if I long press on the Google search bar, I can drag it back to my home screen and put it anywhere I want. I want it here in the middle. And I'm really pleased that doing it this way has made it big and white. It's a lot easier to see now. Congratulations. We have now added the Google search bar to our Android homepage. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps others to find this video. And right here is what Google knows you want to be watching next.

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Best Dehumidifier Made in Britain? Ebac 4850 21L unboxing review!

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Ebac 4850 21L Dehumidifier Unboxing: First Impressions & App Review!

After seeing comments on my dehumidifier videos recommending Ebac, I finally get my hands on the Ebac 4850 21L dehumidifier (Series 4000). In this unboxing and first impressions review, I’ll walk you through the colourful control panel, test out the Ebac Smart Control app remotely while walking Casper, and perform a real-time wattage test to see how much it costs to run. From its "ADHD-proof" side-fan design to the Smart Control energy-saving tech, we’ll see if this 21L powerhouse dehumidifier is the ultimate solution for home damp and mould.

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Hello, welcome back to the channel. This is the Ebac 4850 21L dehumidifier. And oh my goodness, it's pretty. I like this. I have made a number of dehumidifier videos on this channel, way more than I thought I ever would. But a comment that kept coming up on my other dehumidifier videos was Ebac. "I've got an Ebac and I love it." And I'd never heard of Ebac until those comments. And then Ebac got in touch with me and said, "Would you like to try out any of our range?" I said, "Hell yes." Judging by the comments, I was intrigued. Ebac very kindly sent me this series 4000 dehumidifier. This is the most powerful dehumidifier I've ever tried out because the one that I bought was 18L. I'll talk about the liters in a moment. So, the chance to get the most powerful in the range was too good an opportunity to pass.

This is a really simple first impressions unboxing review. I'm just getting this out of the box and seeing if I can work the control panel and see how this thing works out. I'll even try out the app that you can use to control this unit. We'll also look into how much power, energy, electricity this dehumidifier uses just to give us a ballpark figure on how much it might cost to run. So, let's break into this. Got my special steak knife. I think I might need to use the stool. Oh, so for this they've sent me the caster kit because it doesn't come as standard with casters. So, you can just freestand it anywhere. Or you can get the special caster kit to put the dehumidifier on wheels. Ooh, I like the look of this. Wow, it is quite heavy. There we go. Ooh. So, let's unfurl it. Taa! I like the look of this.

So, let me give it a spin just to give you a proper close-up tour. But just out of the box, we've got tape, transit tape holding on the cable here. The cord looks very generous. I'll put the distance on screen now. That looks like a meter and a half of power cable. I guess this is the filter. And it's quite intuitive. It just comes off. It's a nice foam mesh filter that looks very easy to clean. And that protects the grill at the back. Just put it back or just clip it on like that. And obviously there's a nice cord holder here. And at the front here, this flap pulls forward. I guess this is for access to the tank. Oh, that's easy. Just comes out one-handed. That's nice. And in here usefully there's also a quick start guide which—I mean this is my bugbear with all British products—but this is at a decent font size. Thank you Ebac. It drives me nuts. You get these instruction manuals where you need a laser to read it. I think I can just about read that now.

I'm glad I've seen the very first thing in the quick start guide which is to leave your dehumidifier standing to settle for 2 hours. And I guess it's a bit like a fridge. There's a compressor inside and I think the coolant liquid needs to just settle for a couple of hours before it starts to be pumped round to cool the air to condense the liquid from your air and turn it into water and dehumidify the air. We've got to leave this for 2 hours. Ebac have given this dehumidifier to me to review, but they've done it without any conditions. They've just said, "Here it is. We've seen your dehumidifier videos. Do your thing. Make what you will of it." They've not given any conditions for this unboxing first impressions review.

Now, first impressions out of the box. This unit is absolutely lovely. The plastic has a gloss to it, so it looks super clean and it looks really easy to wipe clean. And these things do gather dust because they're essentially a fan. And I found that dehumidifiers do tend to attract a bit of dust towards it. So, this will wipe clean really easily. I really like the shape of it. This is like Eva from the Disney movie, the Pixar movie WALL-E. It's really nice. And this is the largest, most powerful in the range. It's 21L, which means that it will extract 21L at this reference level that I put on the screen now because I can never remember it. It's something like 30° centigrade and 80% humidity? It's a way of us being able to compare the power of dehumidifiers to see how much they dehumidify. So this is 21. Now that's towards the top end of how dehumidifiers operate. So to get that much power and it is quite a compact unit, I think compared to other brands of 21L dehumidifiers. So I already love the size and the footprint of it.

Should we put the casters on? While I'm doing that, let me tell you what's on the box. Apparently, according to the box, it's the only dehumidifier made in Britain. It has smart control, which could save you money in running costs over a year. There are over 1 million dehumidifiers sold by Ebac worldwide. They have a UK-based customer care team, and they have an app for Android and iPhone, iOS. Well, you have asked whether or not you can operate the dehumidifier with the app when you're not at home. So, I might try that while I'm on the dog walk with Casper tonight. This is it with the casters on. And oh, that's nice. Moves around. I think I prefer this without the casters. I think I like it sat on the floor.

Should we switch this on? I think it's time to turn it on. Right. So, let me bring the camera over and maybe I can give you a quick overview of the control panel for the first time. I've not seen this before. So, let's try the power button. I've turned the power on and oh my goodness, this is lovely and colorful. Oo, it's just kicked into life just by switching the plug on. To turn it off, obviously we've got the power button there. And look, that's on standby mode. There's a little moon icon. Let's press the power button. One press and it's on. Now, I'm assuming that it's sampling the air. This S in a box shows that it's in smart mode, which is the Ebac intelligence. I don't quite understand the Ebac intelligence. I don't think I'm intelligent enough. We've got a timer button, a fan speed button, and a mode button. I believe if I press the fan speed button, you can probably hear the fan has increased and the speed of the green fan is going fast. And if I press it again, goes down to low speed. Oh, that's nice and quiet.

In real life, the control panel is crystal clear. And I think my camera is probably struggling with all the different light conditions. So, if it looks a bit blurry on screen, I'll try and get a shot of it looking crystal clear because it looks absolutely gorgeous. I love that it's a colorful display as well. So, we've got the smart mode where it apparently monitors the home during the day. And in the quick start guide, it says leave it on standby and it will learn how your home operates. Let's press the mode button. And this is target mode. So, we have a little target symbol. I think that's my favorite mode in target mode with that flashing. Let's see if I can set the... Yeah, there we go. There we can set the target humidity. So, if you're new to dehumidifiers, this number here is the percentage of humidity. So, at the moment, this unit is still sampling the air, but it's reading 68%. That's quite humid, and it might be because I have my washing out over there at the moment.

So, it's 68%. If I want to change the target, so this dehumidifier will run until it hits—I'm going to hit the target button, make the target button flash until it hits 45%. This dehumidifier will keep running until it hits 45%. If I hit the mode button again to make the target flash, I can then adjust this using the left and right arrows. So that's 35% and it goes all the way down to 35. And so it's going to go out of focus. If I press the up button, I could have the target as high as 80%. Now you can hear the dehumidifier fan stopped because we're at 68%. So it's under 80%. It doesn't need to run. If I reduce the target humidity, so I'll hit mode, get that target flashing again. There we go. And then we'll press the down button. So I usually have it set at around 50 or 55%. That's quite comfortable for a room.

Just to give you an idea, on an aircraft, the humidity can be as low as 18%. So you know, you feel really dry and dehydrated after a flight. They keep it as dry as possible. Before we had a dehumidifier, my daughter's bedroom got up to as high as 83%. We had mold growing all over the house. I believe mold starts to grow in conditions above 65% or 70% humidity. That's the ideal kind of humidity to allow fungal black mold to grow around the house. We have used dehumidifiers now for coming up to 2 and a half or 3 years and since we got our first dehumidifier we've not had any mold and I've gone looking for it—every year it would appear in a new place—I'd be chasing mold around the house. Since we've had dehumidifiers it's gone. It's just gone.

And also this will come on to the next mode next—since we've had dehumidifiers we haven't had to use our tumble dryer. We only use the tumble dryer for big things like towels or if we need to dry something really super quickly, we whack it in the tumble dryer. But with the dehumidifier, it means we can hang up our washing and let the dehumidifier remove the water from the room. It works really well. It's a bit of a pain having to hang up clothes to dry rather than just shoving them into the tumble dryer, but the cost savings are enormous. Tumble dryers just gobble up electricity. I might put my little power measure on to see how much power this uses. So, I press the mode button. This has gone into boost mode. So, the unit—I don't if you can hear the fan—the dehumidifier will now run continuously at the highest fan speed and maximum capacity. So, that will use up the most energy. But, if you really want to dehumidify the room quickly, you could whack it on boost.

Let's press the mode button again. We've now gone to t-shirt mode. T-shirt mode is laundry mode. And I think you can probably hear in laundry mode, it runs at a higher power. I'm not quite sure what the difference is between laundry mode and the boost. If I press it again, that puts it into smart mode. The dehumidifier automatically monitors and adjusts humidity levels based on room conditions, optimizing performance while reducing energy. I don't know what that means, but it sounds good. If Ebac intelligence can work out a routine for this house, I will give it a biscuit. I'll give you a biscuit because honestly, we have showers at 2:00 in the morning. We might suddenly have seven teenagers appear at the door who then stay for what we're told is an hour and then becomes six hours. It's wonderful. It's great. Probably not so great for the humidity in the house. If Ebac intelligence can cope with that, I will be very happy. And if not, I don't care because I've got target mode and I know where I stand with target mode because I'm a control freak in terms of humidity.

I know it's 68% humidity at the moment. And if I press the mode button, the target humidity is 50%. So, this will just keep going until it hits 50%. These arrows here will illuminate when the dehumidifier is running on continuous without a timer. So, the timer switch is down here. Let's press timer. And you can see it's not hours. So, how do I change that? Right. So, I've held down the timer button so it's flashing. And I think I can press the up button. Yeah, there we go. So, I can set the dehumidifier for a number of hours and it will just run and then turn itself off, right? It cycles up to eight hours. So, if I want to just in the morning before heading off to work, just want to set it going for 7 hours and then it will turn itself off. That is a good energy saver. I like that.

And it looks—I know I'm all fingers and thumbs because this is the first time I've used this control panel—but this does look really easy to use, which I really like. I love that there are only four buttons. I can demonstrate another icon if I open up the flap and take out the water collection bottle. You can probably hear that the dehumidifier turns itself off automatically. And we have this icon here, which means that the water container is either full or that it's not in the right position. So, when I push the water container back in, the control panel comes back to life and it starts going again. This is so simple. I like it. Ebac, I do like the simplicity. I love the colorful control panel. I've not mentioned this yet. I absolutely adore the look of it. And I adore that the fan is on the side. There are some other dehumidifiers on the market—it's all personal preference, isn't it?—but they have the fan on the top, which might be more efficient, but for me, I'm an ADHD dad. So, I drop drinks. I've dropped sawdust, bits of wood down the fan in the top. This is ADHD dad proof.

And I also really like the shape of it. They have these kind of... I don't know what you'd call it in design terms. Tear. It's like a tear motif. And if I get a shot from the side, you can see the curves of it. It's really beautiful. Online, I don't think it looks that good, but in real life, it looks really jolly and nice. I think Ebac have done a really good job, and I'm really don't think it comes across on the photos that I've seen of this unit. Around the back, we've got two other features that I really like. I really appreciate this because with other dehumidifiers, it's a bit difficult to lug them around if you want to move them room to room. It's got a really nice built-in handle, really good grip. That's totally again dad-proof.

And then underneath it, we have the filter. We had a look at that earlier. I love that I don't have to buy a filter because that would suck. It's just foam. It's like scratchy hard foam and that will collect the dust and stop dust going into the precious unit. But I think this is a plug for attaching a hose. If I wanted to run it continuously and I didn't want to empty the water bucket and just have it continuously running, I think I could attach a hose to that. I'm going to try and download the app now. In the quick start guide, there's a QR code which I've scanned. You can see my phone on screen now and it's taken me to Smart Life. So, I'm going to download that. I've already I've got it already. I downloaded Smart Life for an SOS button for my dad for a video that I've not made. So, I think I've got a login now.

I'm really no good at apps. But what I have found out is if I click the plus button at the top right hand side here, then hit scan and then scan the QR code in the quick settings guide, the quick start guide. I can then hit add. It says, "Power on the device after it has been powered off for 10 seconds." Okay, 10 seconds has passed. So, I'll turn the dehumidifier back on. I can see there's like a little Wi-Fi logo on the top flashing. So, I'm going to press next. It says reset the device. Hold the reset button. I guess it's the power button. So, hold that for 5 seconds. 3, 4, 5... Confirm the indicator is blinking. Now to put in my Wi-Fi password. Connect your mobile phone to the devices hotspot. Oh, I'm getting all kinds of options. I'll hit add. Well, it looks like it's being added. Oh, added successfully. Fantastic.

Let's see how... Oh my goodness. Look at this. You can see pretty much exactly what is on the control panel. So, I could turn it off from here. Ooh, that's nice. So, it's a bit fiddly to set this up and there's not much guidance. Hopefully, this video can show you how I've stumbled upon it. So, if I hit the on button, I like this. You can see that it's got a temperature. I can see it's 17°. That does not go down very well in the house with the family. So, that is my ideal dad temperature. Dehumidifiers operate more efficiently the higher the temperature is. The humidity has fallen to 65%. And that's good because I've got all the washing right next to me here. You can change the different modes here. Did you hear that? I don't know if you heard the fan. That's laundry mode. Then it goes to smart mode and then target mode. Oh, you can change the target here. So we change it to let's change it to 45% and hit back. I can edit the name of the dehumidifier. I can turn the fan down. So, there's the fan button here. Let's turn that down. That's nice. If I hit the boost button, don't know if you heard that, but boost button works.

What I'd love to know is, can I use this outside the house? That's something that you've asked me in the comments. When an app is attached to a dehumidifier, can you turn it on? So, it’d be great if this was in a garage or conservatory. I am now in the park giving Casper a well-deserved walk. And I've set up a camera above the dehumidifier so you can see the Ebac 4850 waiting for my command. I'm going to put my phone on screen now. So, I'm recording this. I want to see if I can I can still control the dehumidifier even though I'm not in the house, not on the same Wi-Fi network. So, here we go. If I press the fan speed, it seems to be responding here. If I turn the machine off, let's press the off button. There we go. Let's turn it on again. I mean, this looks like it works. I can see. Whoa, the temperature is 16°. I'm going to get some complaints when I get back. Let's change the mode. Let's put target mode. And I can set it to... Let's set it to 35. And I'll press back. I don't know if... I'll have to check the footage to see if this is actually working. I could put it into laundry mode there. I don't know if that's worked. Let's turn the fan down. Let's put it back into target mode. Maybe I'll turn the fan down there.

So, I've turned the fan down. This is amazing. So, in answer to the question, can you use the Ebac app, the Wi-Fi control away from it remotely? Yes, you can. From what I'm doing—and I'm really really not very good with these smartphone apps. Smart home apps. I don't get smart homes. I mean, this is great. It's a good feature. I can understand that if you have a garage, being able to control it remotely is great, but honestly, I just... all these smart home things. Isn't it just easier to just press the button that is in front of you? I do not need to bring telephony into this. But if it's something that you need, then the app seems to work. You're right there, Casper? Should we go back to see the dehumidifier? I think he did a poo over here. Better check.

Another question that you ask is how much power does a dehumidifier use. Now, I've been using dehumidifiers that run at about 110 or 145W. I've only been running it for a couple of minutes. Oh, something's kicked in. There we go. I can hear the compressor kick in in the background. 155, 157. Now, this is on boost mode. So, if I turn off boost mode there, the fan has now reduced. Will that do anything to the watts used? That's still running at 155W, which seems really in keeping with other dehumidifiers that I've used that are this size.

With other dehumidifiers, they make a feature of being able to push them up against the wall because the air intakes are on the side. The literature that I've seen from Ebac seems to suggest that it's best to put this away from the wall so that the air really does get to circulate and you can really dehumidify the air. I found it best to put the dehumidifier on in the hallway and have all the doors open and I have a really regular sized house. An 18 liter dehumidifier has been able to dehumidify the house without a hitch. A 21L I think will make mincemeat of the humidity in this house.

So my first impressions of the Ebac—I'm giving it a hug. I love this thing. I think it's great. First impressions, I'm really pleased with it. I like the unit. I like how it looks. I love the surfaces as well. I love its cleanliness. I love the little teardrop design. I love the curves on it. In photos, I'm a bit iffy about it, but in real life, this looks quite nice. And as you can see, it's not that tall a unit. I really like the colorful icons and the control display. I found the mode button a bit annoying because when it's on target mode and you press the mode button, it tends to stay on setting the target humidity rather than going through the modes. I think you just need to press it twice. So, I think that's me not being able to operate the equipment properly as ever. But if you're new to dehumidifiers, I think this will be really easy to pick up.

I really like the fan on the side. I've mentioned this earlier. I absolutely love having a fan on the side instead of the top because all kinds of gunk falls into it and over time, you know, all appliances gather dust. This is super clean, super wiped clean. I like how easy it is to remove the water bottle. Hey, I wonder how much we've got. Wow. I've only been filming for like half an hour. There's probably about 100ml of water in there. I also am a big fan of the fan being covered with a really easy to clean filter. I think that's really good and kind and easy. I am calling this a Dad Delivers success. Yeah, I'm glad that I've met Ebac. This would be a nice addition to my little cluster of dehumidifiers. I hope this video helps. If you are looking for a dehumidifier, you might like this playlist on screen now. It's all my dehumidifier videos. There'll be something there for everyone. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here are those videos YouTube knows you want to watch.

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How I Use the Ebac 4850 21L Dehumidifier: Control Panel & Settings Tour

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Here's my tour of the Ebac 4850 21L dehumidifier control panel and features, with Smart Mode, Laundry Mode, and Boost Mode. I also show you exactly how to set the target humidity to stop damp and mould in your home. We also look at the practical "dad-proof" design features, including how to empty the water tank, how to clean the filter, and where to attach a hose for continuous drainage. Whether you are new to the Ebac Series 4000 or looking for the best settings to dry your washing, this tour covers all the buttons.

How I Use the Ebac 4850 21L Dehumidifier: Control Panel & Settings Tour



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Should we switch this on? I think it's time to turn it on, right? So, let me bring the camera over and maybe I can give you a quick overview of the control panel for the first time. I've not seen this before. So, let's try the power button. I've turned the power on and oh my goodness, this is lovely and colorful. Oo, it's just kicked into life just by switching the the plug on to turn it off. Obviously, we've got the power button there. And look, that's on standby mode. There's a little moon icon. Let's press the power button. One press and it's on. Now I'm assuming that it's sampling the air. This S in a box shows that it's in smart mode, which is the eback intelligence. I don't quite understand the eback intelligence. I don't think I'm intelligent enough. We've got a timer button, a fan speed button, and a mode button. I believe if I press the fan speed button, the you can probably hear the fan has increased and the speed of the green fan is going fast. And if I press it again, goes down to low speed. Oh, it's nice and quiet. In real life, the control panel is crystal clear. And I think my camera is probably struggling with all the different light conditions. So, if it looks a bit blurry on screen, I'll try and get a shot of it looking crystal clear cuz it looks absolutely gorgeous. I love that it's a colorful display as well. So, we've got the smart mode where it apparently monitors the home during the day and in the quick start guide, it says leave it on standby and it will learn how your home operates. Let's press the mode button. And this is target mode. So, we have a a little target symbol. I think that's my favorite mode in target mode with that flashing. Let's see if I can set the Yeah, there we go. There we can set the target humidity. So, if you're new to dehumidifiers, this number here is the percentage humidity. So, at the moment, this unit is is still sampling the air, but it's reading 68%. That's quite humid, and it might be because I have my washing out over there at the moment. So, it's 68%. If I want to change the target, so this dehumidifier will run until it hits I'm going to hit the target button, make the target button flash until it hits 45%. This dehumidifier will keep running until it hits 45%. If I hit the mode button again to make the target flash, I can then adjust this using the left and right arrows. So that's 35% and it goes all the way goes all the way down to 35. And so it's going to go out of focus. If I press the up button, I could have the target as high as 80%. Now you can hear the dehumidifier fan stopped because we're at 68%. So it's under 80%. It doesn't need to run. If I reduce the target humidity, so I'll hit mode, get that target flashing again. There we go. And then we'll press the down button. So I usually have it set at around 50 or 55%. That's quite comfortable for a room. Just to give you an idea, on a on an aircraft, the humidity can be as low as 18%. So you know, you feel really dry and dehydrated after a flight. They keep it as dry as possible. Before we had a dehumidifier, my daughter's bedroom got up to as high as 83%. Um, we had mold growing all over the house. I believe mold starts to grow in conditions above 65% 70% humidity. That's the ideal kind of humidity to allow fungal black mold to grow around the house. We have used dehumidifiers now for it's coming up to 2 and 1/2 3 years. And since we got uh our first dehumidifier, we've not had any mold. And I've gone looking for it. Every year it would appear in a new place. I've been chasing mold around the house. Since we've had dehumidifiers, it's gone. It's just gone. And also, this will come on to the next mode next. Since we've had dehumidifier, we haven't had to use our tumble dryer. We only use the tumble dryer for big things like towels or if we need to dry something really super quickly, we whack it in the tumble dryer. But with the dehumidifier, it means we can hang up our washing and let the dehumidifier remove the water from the room. It works really well. It's a bit of a pain having to hang up clothes to dry rather than just shoving them into the tumble dryer, but the cost savings are enormous. Tumble dryer just gobbles up electricity. So, press the mode button. This has gone into boost mode. So, the unit, if you can hear the fan, the dehumidifier will now run continuously at the highest fan speed and maximum capacity. So, that will use up the most energy. But if you really want to dehumidify the room quickly, you could you could whack it on boost. Let's press the mode button again. We've now gone to t-shirt mode. T-shirt mode is laundry mode. And I think you can probably hear in laundry mode, it runs at a higher higher power. I'm not quite sure what the difference is between laundry mode and the boost. If I press it again, that puts it into smart mode. The dehumidifier automatically monitors and adjusts humidity levels based on room conditions, optimizing performance while reducing energy. I don't know what that means, but it sounds good. Our house is if evac intelligence can work out a a routine for this house, I I will give it a biscuit. I'll give you a biscuit because honestly, we have showers at 2:00 in the morning. We might suddenly have seven teenagers appear at the door uh who then stay for what we're told is an hour and then becomes uh six hours. It's wonderful. It's great. Probably not so great for the humidity in the house. If evac intelligence can cope with that, I will be very happy. And if not, I don't care because I've got target mode and I know where I stand with target mode because I'm a control freak in terms of humidity. I know it's 68% humidity at the moment. And if I press the mode button, the target humidity is 50%. So, this will just keep going until it hits 50%. These arrows here uh will illuminate when the dehumidifier is running on continuous without a timer. So, the timer switch is down here. Let's press timer. And you can see it's not hours. So, how do I change that? Right. So, I've held down the timer button so it's flashing. And I think I can press the up button. Yeah, there we go. So I can set the dehumidifier for a number of hours and it will just run and then turn itself off. Right, it cycles up to eight hours. So if I want to just in the morning before heading off to work just want to set it going for 7 hours and then it will turn itself off. That is a good energy saver. I like that. And it looks I know I'm all fingers and thumbs cuz this is the first time I've used this control panel, but this is this does look really easy to use, which I really like. I love that there are only four buttons. I can demonstrate another icon if I open up the flap and take out the water collection bottle. You can probably hear that the dehumidifier turns itself off automatically. And we have this icon here, which means that the water container is either full or that it's not in the right position. So, when I push the water container back in, the control panel comes back to life and it starts going again. This is so simple. I like it. Eback. I do like the simplicity. I love the colorful control panel. I've not mentioned this yet. I absolutely adore the look of it. And I adore that the fan is on the side. There are some other dehumidifiers on the market. It's all personal preference, isn't it? but they have the fan on the top which might be more efficient but for me I'm an ADHD dad so I drop I drop drinks I've dropped sawdust bits of wood down the fan in the top this is ADHD dadp proof and I also really like the the shape of it they have these kind of I don't know what you'd call it in design terms tear it's like a tear motif and if I get a shot from the side you can see the curves of it it's really it's really beautiful online. I don't think it looks that good, but in real life, it it looks really jolly and nice. I think Eback have done a really good job. And I'm really don't think it comes across on the photos that I've seen of this unit. Around the back, we've got two other features that I really like. I I really appreciate this because with other dehumidifiers, it's a bit difficult to lug them around if you want to move them room to room. It's got a really nice built-in handle, really good grip that's totally again dadproof. And then underneath it, we have the filter. We had a look at that earlier. I love that I don't have to buy a filter because that would suck. It's It's just foam. It's like scratchy hard foam and that will collect the dust and stop dust going into the precious unit. But I think this is a plug for attaching a hose. If I wanted to run it continuously and I didn't want to empty the water bucket and just have it continuously running, I think I could attach a hose to that. Thank you for making it to this point in the video. If you've got any comments, please say hi down in the comments section below. I've put all my dehumidifier videos into one playlist that's on screen now. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going, so thank you. And right here are those videos that YouTube knows you want to be watching right now.

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EBAC DEHUMIDIFIER using the app!

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Are you struggling to get your Ebac 4850 21L dehumidifier connected to your phone? I try out the Smart Life app setup step-by-step for my Ebac dehumidifier: Finding the QR code, how to put the dehumidifier into pairing mode, and how to connect to Wi-Fi settings. But the real question is: can you control your Ebac Series 4000 dehumidifier when you're not even in the house? I take Casper for a walk to the park to see if I can change the Target Humidity, Laundry Mode, smart mode and fan speeds remotely. Hoping this will help if you're using your dehumidifier in a garage or conservatory, or remote building...

EBAC DEHUMIDIFIER using the app!



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I'm going to try and download the app now. In the quick start guide, there's a QR code uh which I've scanned. You can see my phone on screen now and it's taken me to Smart Life. So, I'm going to download that. I've already I've got it already. I downloaded SmartLife for an SOS button for my dad for a video that I've not made. So, I think I've got a login now. I'm really no good at apps, but what I have found out is if I click the plus button at the top right hand side here, then hit scan and then scan the QR code in the quick settings guide, the quick start guide. I can then hit add. It says power on the device after it has been powered off for 10 seconds. Okay, 10 seconds has passed. So, I'll turn the dehumidifier back on. I can see the there's like a little Wi-Fi logo on the top flashing. So, I'm going to press next. It says reset the device. Hold the reset button. I guess it's the power button. So, hold that for 5 seconds. 3 4 5. Confirm the indicator is blinking. Now, to put in my Wi-Fi password, connect your mobile phone to the devices hotspot. Oh, I'm getting all kinds of options. So, I'll hit add. Oh, it looks like it's being added. Oh, added successfully. Fantastic. Let's see how Oh my goodness. Look at this. You can see pretty much exactly what is on the top of the on the control panel. So, I could turn it off from here. Oh, that's nice. So, it's a bit fiddly to set this up and there's not much guidance. Hopefully, this video can show you how how I've stumbled upon it. So, if I hit the on button, I like this. You can see that it's got a temperature. I can see it's 17 degrees. That does not go down very well in the house with the family. So, that is my ideal dad temperature. Dehumidifiers operate more efficiently the higher the temperature is. So, this Yeah, that's my that's my preferred temperature while everyone's out. The humidity has fallen to 65%. And that's good because I've got all the washing right next to me here. You can change the different modes here. Did you hear that? I don't know if you heard the fan. That's laundry mode. Then it goes to smart mode and then target mode. Oh, you can change the target here. So, we change it to Let's change it to 45% and hit back. What's the edit? I can edit the name of the dehumidifier. I can turn the fan down. So, there's the fan button here. Let's turn that down. Oh, that's nice. If I hit the boost button,

don't know if you heard that, but boost button works. What I'd love to know is, can I use this outside the house? That's something that you've you've asked me in the comments. When an app is attached to a dehumidifier, can you, you know, turn it on? So, it' be great if this was in a garage or conservatory. I am now in the park giving Casper a well deserved walk. And I've set up a camera above the dehumidifier so you can see the the EBAC 4850 waiting for my command. I'm going to put my phone on screen now. So I'm recording this. I want to see if I can I can still control the dehumidifier even though I'm not in the house and not on the same Wi-Fi network. So I don't know if it if it works. So here we go. If I press the fan speed, it seems to be responding here. If I turn the machine off. Let's press the off button. There we go. Let's turn it on again. I mean, this looks like it works. I can see. Whoa. The temperature is 16°. I'm going to get some complaints uh when I get back. Let's change the mode. Let's put target mode. And I can set it to Let's set it to 35. And I'll press back. I don't know if I'll have to check the footage to see if this is actually working. I can put it into laundry mode. there. I don't know if that's worked. Let's turn the fan down. Let's put it back into target mode. Uh maybe I'll turn the fan down there. So, I've turned the fan down. This is amazing. So, in answer to the question, can you use the eBac app, the Wi-Fi control away from it remotely? Yes, you can. From what I'm doing, and I'm really really not very good with these smartphone apps, smart home apps. I don't get smart homes. I mean, this is great. This is a good feature. I can understand that if you have a garage, being able to control it remotely is great, but honestly, I just all these smart home things I could just Isn't it just easier to just press the button that is in front of you? I do not need to bring telephony into this. But if it's something that you need, then the then the app seems to work. You right there, Casper, should we go back and see the dehumidifier? I think I think he did a poo over here. Better check. I hope this video helps. If you are looking for a dehumidifier, you might like this playlist on screen now. It's all my dehumidifier videos. There'll be something there for everyone. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here are those videos YouTube knows you want to watch now.

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Ebac 4850 21L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review

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If you are considering the Ebac 4850 21L dehumidifier, here's my best video shots to give you a complete 360-degree look at the unit's design, from the unique teardrop front-fan to the hidden 3.5L water tank. I explain why the "no-top-fan" design is a game-changer for avoiding dust and spills, and show off the compact form factor that makes this 21L model surprisingly portable. For a full technical breakdown, including a wattage test and app tutorial, check out my unboxing review below!

Ebac 4850 21L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review



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This is the EBAC 4850 21L dehumidifier. I've seen a lot of dehumidifiers. I've made a lot of videos about dehumidifiers. This is the first time I've tried out an EBAC because you've told me in the comments that uh it might be worth taking a look at. EBAC very kindly sent me this unit. It's the most powerful in the 4000 series range. And I have a link down in the description to the dehumidifier, but I've also got a link to my unboxing review where I take a tour of the control panel. We try out the app and test how much power the unit uses. But when I make these videos, I shoot lots of footage from all kinds of different angles. And I thought that if you are looking for an ebac dehumidifier, you might appreciate just seeing this footage. I'll use this video to actually use it for clips in other videos about dehumidifiers and other units in the eBac range. But here is from all kinds of different angles, lots of shots of the 4850e 21L dehumidifier. It has a one button control. So on the control panel, it's very simple, very colourful. You can cycle through the different uh the different modes on there. So we have laundry mode, boost, uh a target humidity, and a smart mode. I use it I'm quite comfortable using it by just setting a target humidity and letting it run until it hits that humidity. You can probably see from the footage that the water collection tank is really easy to use. It's hidden. It stores 3.5L. So, the 21L doesn't refer to how much it it holds. It actually refers to how powerful the unit is. But, I quite like the jug that's uh hidden underneath the front flap.

I also like the fact that the fan is on the front with this kind of teardrop design. And I like the fact that the unit is curved as well. It's actually very easy on the eye. But most importantly, it doesn't have the fan outlet on the top lid. So, for me, that means I don't spill things into the dehumidifier or dust doesn't collect over time. Uh, so I like that it the fact that the top is nice and wiped clean and the clean, dry air blasts out the front of the unit. At the back, we have a filter. And I don't think you need to buy filters for this, unlike other dehumidifiers, which is a bit of a plus, for this design. I like the fact that it's just got a very simple uh filter to protect the fan and uh clean up some of the air as it passes through. When the unit is full of water, it shuts off automatically, so you don't have to worry about uh the thing flooding your hallway. And it has integrated carry handles. There's a built-in handle. Really easy to use. There's also a cable tidy so you can call the the lead up. There's a generous 2.1m power cable and uh a thing at the back so you can loop it up and not have your cable dangling all over the floor like I do in some of these shots. It also comes with casters which are an optional extra. I I like those. But I'm quite happy sitting this unit down. It's quite small. It's smaller than my 18L dehumidifier. So, I was quite impressed by the I hate the word form factor. The shape and size of it were very pleasing to me. And as you can see, you can sit it on a table quite happily. You can also control this dehumidifier with the eBac app. All the details of that are in my unboxing first impressions review video with the link down in the description. And if you want to see how much this costs, I'll put a couple of links down in the description so you can explore the eback dehumidifier range for yourself. I'll leave you now with some more shots from different angles. Afterwards, there's also a link to my full dehumidifier playlist where you can compare all kinds of brands and different sizes. to choose the right dehumidifier for your home and get rid of that condensation and mould.

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SMALL Meaco 6L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review

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Looking for a compact dehumidifier for a bedroom, student flat, or small apartment? In this video, I’m sharing my best video footage of the MeacoDry Arete One 6L. This is the smallest unit in the Meaco range, and I’ll give you a 360-degree tour of its simple, wipe-clean display, the HEPA filter system, and its impressive friendly shape. 

SMALL Meaco 6L Dehumidifier: 360° Visual Tour and Design Review



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This is the MeacoDry Dry Arete One 6L compact dehumidifier and air purifier. It is... it's really nice. It's really small and as you can see I've got it sat on my daughter's desk here or by the wall. It's I think the smallest dehumidifier that Meaco sell and it is a bit of a marvel. I'm used to really bigger, much bigger dehumidifiers, but this 6L model is ideal for maybe smaller flats or even student accommodation or student bedrooms. They prevent damp, mould, and condensation. I've been using a dehumidifier for about 3 years now, and it is completely changed our home. This room that you're seeing the footage of was absolutely covered in mould in all kinds of different corners behind the beds and furniture. And since I've had a dehumidifier, I've not had any mould problems come back. They've been really worth it for us. When I unbox a dehumidifier, I shoot lots of footage of it for the review, the unboxing, first impressions review. That video for this model, the 6L Arete One from Meaco is down in the description. But when I shoot all of this footage, I thought it would be nice if I just share it with you. So, this is just a video of this dehumidifier from lots and lots of different angles, so you can uh judge for yourself if this unit is right for your home. It has a built-in handle, and it has a really simple wipe clean display, which is really nice. It's really compact and when I plugged in a power meter, I worked out that the running costs at the moment at time of recording work out at about 3p per hour, which uh obviously nobody likes spending money, but for us, it was much better to have cleaner, drier air, which is cheaper to heat, and also use it for the laundry. So you can put this in a room and have your laundry out and not have to use the tumble dryer, which has been the biggest revelation for us with all dehumidifiers. But you can do that with this one. It's also an air purifier. So there's a filter at the back, like a coarse wire filter just to stop dusting into the fan. But it also comes with a HEPA filter which I believe I've been told cleans the air and removes dust, smaller dust particles and maybe even mould spores as well. They're not cheap to replace, but I've replaced mine recently and it really helps the efficiency of the dehumidifier and it's really nice just to have proper clean air as well, especially as I really don't want that mould to come back. The best thing with a dehumidifier any dehumidifier, but particularly this one, is that it stops condensation. And where the condensation happens, that's where the mold starts to grow. So, this bedroom that you're seeing it in, I've recorded humidity at levels of around 83%. And I don't know if you can see on the on the display, but it has managed to bring those humidity levels down to nearer 50 55%, which is much better to breathe, much better to prevent the mold. Anyway, if you want to find out more, have a look in the description. There's a link to my proper unboxing, first impressions review where I go through everything. I'll leave you with more footage of this unit alongside some of the other dehumidifiers. All the details are down in the description.

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