remember any time you shop on ameridroid.com use the coupon code cat5 tv supporter at checkout no matter what you're buying you'll get a buck off your final total and 10 of the sales profit will be donated back to category 5 tv to help us produce videos like these we moved into our new studio space in the height of the pandemic contractors weren't allowed to work at the time and even hardware stores were closed so i couldn't get a conduit installed to run cables into our studio space from the production room nor could i even buy a hacksaw to cut up the single piece of abs pipe that i had on hand so i simply made do by drilling a hole between the two rooms and i laid the abs into the hole and that was just there to protect the cables and it's makeshift and it's messy but it got us through the past few months but now i'm ready i want to make find a basically a solution that is going to be more permanent and it's going to look better so i started looking into ready-made solutions out there and stuff that i could do myself without having to hire someone else with you know all the mad skills to do contractor work and everything i wanted to be able to do it save some money as well so as it turns out ameridroids easy portal product is exactly what i was looking for it's designed for running cables between rooms you know for networking or things like that but ideal for basically any type of cables if you need to go through walls or through the floor through a desktop or ceiling tiles it's really really easy and it's much more tidy looking and it protects your cables as they're passing through as well easy portal doesn't require any special tools or skills to install which is perfect for me no skills when it comes to carpentry and things like that but as long as you've got a hole saw which i do or some other kind of tool that will be able to cut the whole to the right size for your easy portal depending on which one you buy easy portal provides a clean pass through for your cables and it's complete with the finished flange which i'm going to show you up close and personal here on both sides of the hole it's customizable to meet your needs with port diameters all the way from itty bitty ones like this half inch to two inches and this guy here is the two inch model or maybe a little bit bigger than that uh this one is a custom one that we had built but i have a three inch hole saw in order to drill uh the hole that i need for this particular easy portal so keep in mind of course the diameter is the inner diameter so when you're ordering it that's the size of the hole not the actual size that's going to be required for the hole through your wall so just keep that in mind in addition to that the thickness of your wall can be anywhere from 0.4 inches so very very small to 16.15 inches so the smaller one is really ideal for say something like the ceiling tile so this is going to be great when we're doing lighting if you need to hang a projector in your projector room or something like that with a drop ceiling this will go perfectly on the tile so you just drill the hole screw it together and you've got this nice little pass-through for the cables to go through and of course you can choose the diameter if you need something wider for the hdmi cable or something like that you can go with something that's going to be you know smaller this way but a little bit larger as far as the hole diameter goes if you contact ameridroid at the time of your order you can even custom print your easy portal in any of the 13 colors that they have available so in my case i actually wanted to have a different color on each side of the of the wall with the green being in the main studio since that matches our logo color and white in the production side because the walls in there are like a light gray so while there's a modest fee for the second color ameridroid was even able to accommodate that request so it's very very custom plus as i mentioned this is an oversized version a little bit bigger than what's generically available on their site so i just requested that we get a larger conduit for the amount of hdmi cables and things that i have to pass through for the studio and they were more than happy to oblige me on that so very very cool easy portal are custom and they are 3d printed at ameridroid so i want to be clear about that due to the very process of 3d printing you're going to get some kind of imperfections visibly but you can see that that is not affecting the performance of the the product at all so that just screws together and clamps onto the wall very very simple but very very nice so the imperfections are you know it's not gonna affect your usability whatsoever uh but if you if that's a problem for you um just keep in mind these are 3d printed products so you can see here there is a little bit of imperfection on the visible area it's very very minor and you could actually just like any 3d printed product you could if you wanted to use a fine grit wet sandpaper and sand that down if you wanted to you could paint them if you wanted to but again the imperfections are just because of the 3d print and i think that is very very good and in fact this you know i'm i'm quite impressed with this it's it's really really good quality and exactly what i needed so let's see how easy it really is and get the easy portal installed so that's the hole in the on the bridge our production room leading out into the main studio so um so you can see all the wires here going in through the uh the pipe so we'll just pull that through and no effort whatsoever to do uh to do the installation you'll see but uh for me it's just getting all this stuff out of the way man i forgot how big and bulky that pipe was oh jeff all right all right speaking of big and bulky check out our old lights that's right now we're all led so anybody want to buy some some old lights now here i'm actually kind of measuring all scientific like uh the size of the flange to make sure that the whole because i did pre-drill a hole for the pipe so i needed to actually make this hole a little bit higher which is a little bit difficult because i already had a hole there but i i was able to just kind of quickly figure out how much room i needed for the flange and you can see on the other side and now there's actually a little bit of a broken space on the lower part of the other side of the wall you'll see that in a moment here even better jeff it's nice and flush yeah so but here on the other side so i came through from that side so that it would line up really well yeah but i think that previously there was some there was another hole there that wasn't patched properly so that's why it kind of cracked at the bottom there right however my i'm lucky because the flange is big enough to cover that so even though you can see how bad it looks right there on the other side of the wall it covers it up yeah the flange is big enough that it uh that it really does cover up any of those kind of like the damaged look see that wow that fits so smoothly it's perfect so that looks and i like that it covers up my horrible hack job but so super simple so i'm just do it by hand and we wondered if it would spin and i needed someone on the other side and nope it worked perfectly incredible so i'm pushing that through so much easier now to run cable um through the wall and it's only going through that wall i don't have to feed it through a big long pipe which was part of the problem i couldn't i couldn't feed xlr cables through because there's no way to push them through a 10-foot pipe that's right yeah so now i've only got six inches to go through it's perfect so so here what i'm doing is i'm i'm binding the cables together using a like a winding that i picked up off amazon um so that that winding just kind of makes it a lot nicer it makes it like a snake and binds all the cables together so then i can kind of hide them uh in the easy portal so you don't see anything other than that snake sticking out you don't have this mess of wires like i did before which is kind of what we're up against here at the studio because you have so many cables going to all the cameras and everything so yeah wow that is so slick well done amerijoid i like how easy it was jeff yeah i guess oh smart name easy portal look at that so there's my so my snake coming out so there it is on the back of the computer going through the easy portal and out to the outside in the studio that keeps it so clean so there you have it that's easy portal from ameridroid.com don't forget as you're checking out use our coupon code cat5 tv supporter a buck will come off of your final order but they will in turn know that you saw this video and they will throw some money in the category 5 tv tip jar to help support what we do here at the show so i appreciate that very much whether you're just trying to pass some cables through your drop ceiling or wall or desk at home or whether you're a contractor i mean these are very practical very easy to install and anyone can do it if i can do it and they're very affordable too so because of because of the customizability i think there's just no end to what you could uh what you could do with these so you know in our case here we installed one between the two studio spaces for all the hdmi cables but you can obviously do more these are going to be used for the lighting that we're going to be hanging off of our drop ceiling so we're going to get to that as well but you can get them on ameridroid.com just make sure that you reach out to them when you place your order to request your specific colors and things like that thanks for watching [Music] you