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[356.54 --> 359.46] And most of my personal life is all online now. |
[359.48 --> 362.12] And that's true for probably nearly everyone listening to this show. |
[362.24 --> 369.50] And so access to the internet just is so critical that I think it's kind of necessary that we have something like Starlink as an option. |
[369.50 --> 381.08] And if they can get these prices down to below what I'm paying for these ridiculous LTE plans, I mean, that's going to make it more available to more people and, you know, eventually to folks like Alex's mom. |
[381.72 --> 384.56] It's going to be a game changer for a lot of people. |
[384.88 --> 389.70] There are remote mountain properties that you look at these days on Zillow or Rightmove or whatever. |
[390.06 --> 394.24] And you think, oh, I'd love to, no, it's going to have two meg ADSL. |
[394.50 --> 397.14] I can't, I just can't even consider it, you know? |
[397.14 --> 415.46] Yeah, and I think ultimately, Alex, it's going to make something like my end dream, building some off-grid property a lot more feasible because all of the areas I've looked at in the Pacific Northwest that I could even begin to remotely afford that have water or something like that, they're all out... |
[415.54 --> 416.48] There's nothing around. |
[416.56 --> 417.74] There's no services. |
[417.74 --> 428.30] And the idea that I could go out there with my solar-powered RV and set up a little Dishy and get a connection to the internet from space, it's just amazing. |
[428.66 --> 429.18] I mean, it's huge. |
[429.86 --> 430.18] Dishy. |
[430.34 --> 431.50] What an adorable little name. |
[432.10 --> 434.24] Did you see that Home Assistant had a release this week? |
[434.44 --> 435.28] It seems like a big one. |
[435.38 --> 441.92] You know, it's hard to tell from the outside, like, which ones are kind of just the minor updates and which ones are the big ones. |
[441.92 --> 447.88] And the one that came out as we're recording is the October release that came out on October 6th. |
[448.46 --> 450.12] There's a big thing in here, Alex. |
[450.20 --> 454.48] They got official Tuya integration from the folks at Tuya. |
[454.88 --> 462.60] The people that organize all the Tuya devices and run the Tuya infrastructure have now created an official integration for Home Assistant. |
[463.34 --> 464.38] So here's the thing about this. |
[464.50 --> 470.86] I mean, I think it's awesome that we're starting to get actual vendors looking at Home Assistant and going, yes, I want to support that. |
[470.86 --> 478.96] But also, you know, we've got stuff like cloudfree.shop and mylocalbytes.com and that kind of thing. |
[479.08 --> 486.80] And there's other things coming along with pre-Tasmodo Flash devices that this becomes less important to me. |
[487.56 --> 490.78] Well, even more so because this is the cloud integration. |
[491.38 --> 495.24] They worked with the cloud API team, not with, like, the firmware team. |
[495.54 --> 498.26] And so this doesn't work for local integration. |
[498.26 --> 500.16] This uses the cloud connectivity. |
[500.54 --> 502.28] It looks like it's doing a really good job. |
[502.36 --> 504.82] In fact, it's much better than before, much quicker, all of that. |
[505.42 --> 506.40] It's what you'd want. |
[506.46 --> 507.12] And it's official. |
[507.58 --> 514.66] But it does require their cloud API, which means it requires an internet connection, which means it's a disqualifier for me. |
[514.86 --> 517.50] Just like you said, I'd rather get a device I could control locally. |
[517.84 --> 520.60] In fact, I'd rather get a device that's not on Wi-Fi. |
[521.10 --> 522.46] What's your preferred poison these days? |
[522.54 --> 524.38] Are you a Z-Wave or a Zigbee type of chat? |
[524.38 --> 528.22] If you go by the number of devices I have, it'd be Z-Wave. |
[528.44 --> 534.48] But if you go by where I plan to go to, it'd be Zigbee and Matter because that's going to be one and the same, I think, eventually. |
[535.04 --> 542.24] Matter, I think, is really kind of exciting because if a vendor adopts the Matter protocol, then there is a local API. |
[542.58 --> 545.20] If you use Matter, then you've got a local API. |
[545.44 --> 547.40] And that, to me, is like, well, that's a no-brainer. |
[547.40 --> 553.36] But right now, I invested pretty early in Z-Wave, and I've been very happy with my Z-Wave devices. |
[553.50 --> 555.34] In fact, I'll talk about that in a little bit more. |
[555.60 --> 562.10] But for me, Wi-Fi, it's just I like to be able to reboot my access points and maintain control of my devices. |
[562.60 --> 565.76] I don't like putting that load on my Wi-Fi network. |
[565.76 --> 571.50] And if it works with Z-Wave or Zigbee, I almost am guaranteed I can make it work somehow with Home Assistant. |
[571.86 --> 572.56] That's very true. |
[573.04 --> 579.36] The stuff I talked about in the last episode at my dad's house, the Zigbee buttons I put in here, he's been delighted with them. |
[579.60 --> 583.10] The little IKEA Trad Free buttons, I think is what they're called. |
[584.00 --> 585.04] They're working great. |
[585.28 --> 588.80] So you get a plus one on Zigbee from me anyway. |
[589.16 --> 591.56] I'm going to hold out with my Z-Wave devices for now. |
[592.04 --> 594.74] And then when the Matter stuff settles, I may make a transition. |
[594.74 --> 599.50] But Alex, with the release, they had a live stream, kind of like a release party with the developers. |
[599.50 --> 602.46] And they brought on some of the developers from Tuya. |
[602.76 --> 609.66] And they talked about some stats, the opt-in stats that people can get into and then send their information off anonymously. |
[609.86 --> 615.38] They said that for the people that have opted in, they now show 90,000 active Home Assistant users. |
[615.82 --> 621.80] That's just since April when they launched this statistics package and the people who have opted into it. |
[621.80 --> 626.04] Also, the data shows that a lot of people have not updated since that April release. |
[628.82 --> 630.36] Oh boy, that's a lot. |
[630.64 --> 632.68] That's a lot of updates since they're doing a monthly now. |
[633.12 --> 637.32] Also, their analytics show that 40% of Home Assistant users have a Chromecast. |
[637.32 --> 641.52] 40% is a huge, huge number for that kind of thing. |
[642.40 --> 644.54] HomeKit also shows as quite popular. |
[644.80 --> 654.06] And the most popular hardware was the Raspberry Pi, followed closely by running Home Assistant in a VM like you do. |
[654.58 --> 657.78] Now, do they take statistics on how many of those Raspberry Pi users are you? |
[657.78 --> 661.72] Very fair, very fair. |
[662.20 --> 668.54] All those stats are public at analytics.home-assistant.io, or we'll put a link in the show notes. |
[669.04 --> 675.46] This is also the release for us Z-Wave users where it's time to migrate to Z-Wave.js. |
[676.02 --> 680.66] As of this release, it now supports S2, which is the improved security model. |
[681.16 --> 682.78] And it's short for security too. |
[682.96 --> 683.54] Surprise, surprise. |
[683.54 --> 687.44] Besides improved security, devices are also more reliable. |
[687.68 --> 693.86] They provide greater battery life and less latency compared to the original security mode that was supported by Z-Wave.js. |
[694.70 --> 699.24] The integration will now automatically pick the best and optimal security method available. |
[699.42 --> 702.66] They have a whole new wizard for adding new devices, and it looks sharp. |
[703.06 --> 711.00] Oh, and speaking of wizards, there is now a migration wizard to migrate you from your old Z-Wave setup to the new Z-Wave.js, which is what I was waiting for. |
[711.00 --> 717.44] However, when I go in my home assistant, it actually is still asking me to migrate to OpenZW or whatever it was. |
[717.50 --> 720.46] I don't know why, but I'm still getting a migration offer to OpenZW. |
[720.62 --> 725.50] And I don't know if I'm supposed to install Z-Wave.js first or what. |
[725.60 --> 726.98] Like, they don't give you any information on that. |
[727.10 --> 731.92] But if your system isn't wonky like mine, they're saying go ahead and make the migration now. |
[732.00 --> 733.16] It's been pretty refined. |
[733.44 --> 736.12] It'll walk you through what it's going to do and what's going to change. |
[736.12 --> 741.24] And then, Alex, the developers in the stream kind of doubled down, which made me feel good about using Z-Wave. |
[741.36 --> 745.44] They said this Z-Wave.js integration is well-written. |
[745.98 --> 750.00] It's well-built, and it is well-maintained, and they think it's good code. |
[750.64 --> 751.48] And so it's solid. |
[751.74 --> 752.90] It's a good... |
[752.90 --> 754.26] In fact, they're going to go for... |
[754.26 --> 754.68] They're thinking. |
[755.20 --> 763.08] They haven't said they're going to do this, but they're thinking seriously about going for official Z-Wave certification from the Z-Wave group because they're so proud of how this has turned out. |
[763.08 --> 765.82] Oh, really? That'd be a huge success. |
[766.06 --> 776.22] I bought a Z-Wave smart door lock on some kind of sale on Black Friday, and it's been sat in a box ever since because I couldn't ever get it to pair. |
[776.84 --> 779.64] So maybe now is the time I can... |
[779.64 --> 783.44] With that new S2 security support that's in there, maybe I should give that another go. |
[783.80 --> 790.34] Yeah, and it gives you a little more information, and it's a little more clear about when you should go hit the pair button on the device. |
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