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[790.34 --> 793.60] Like, all of that whole process is a little smoother now.
[793.96 --> 795.26] It looks with Z-Wave.js.
[795.50 --> 798.22] They did a little live demonstration of a migration on the stream.
[798.48 --> 802.08] I just remember it being frustrating as anything, you know, when I tried it.
[802.94 --> 805.14] Yeah, it feels a bit like a black box, doesn't it?
[805.38 --> 808.44] But no, I think they're doing good things.
[808.62 --> 814.00] So if you are a Z-Wave device user, which, you know, I probably have somewhere near...
[814.00 --> 815.82] I think I have like a dozen Z-Wave devices.
[815.82 --> 821.78] It's not like an unbelievable number that I can eventually migrate off of, but I'll be using them still for a while.
[822.52 --> 828.60] All right, I've got a low-key, genuinely awesome feature that's come to GitHub, I think, in the last two or three months.
[829.24 --> 831.50] Load up a GitHub repository right now.
[832.20 --> 833.10] You can do this live.
[833.68 --> 836.24] And open a repository.
[836.62 --> 837.58] You just need to be logged in.
[837.62 --> 838.46] That's the important thing.
[839.06 --> 844.14] When you have that page open, press full stop, the period key on your keyboard, and watch what happens.
[844.14 --> 847.00] Oh, that's pretty nice.
[847.18 --> 848.32] Oh, look at them.
[848.46 --> 849.06] Yeah, right?
[849.48 --> 851.20] Straight into VS Code Web.
[851.38 --> 854.04] Suddenly, Electron doesn't look so bad now, huh, does it?
[854.24 --> 856.98] It's that repository opened up in VS Code, isn't it?
[857.04 --> 857.24] Right?
[857.30 --> 857.84] It better be.
[857.90 --> 858.14] Yep.
[858.26 --> 859.42] Oh, that's slick.
[859.56 --> 860.64] Okay, impressive.
[860.98 --> 872.22] And then you open a file, you make an edit, you press save, and it then is because it's part of Git, the Git plugin in VS Code, you just commit it directly in there, and boom, you're done.
[872.54 --> 873.38] Oh my gosh.
[873.38 --> 886.44] If you're opening a third-party repository, though, and you make a change and you save it, it asks you then if you want to fork it, and then automatically helps you with the pull merge request model that GitHub has.
[886.84 --> 887.20] Wow.
[887.30 --> 889.92] It is so cool in the browser.
[890.42 --> 892.12] When did they sneak this in?
[892.24 --> 892.68] I don't know.
[892.76 --> 896.74] I mean, I first found it, someone on our Discord told me a couple of months ago about it, I think.
[896.84 --> 897.36] Of course.
[897.36 --> 901.02] But I've been using it a lot for my notes in the last few weeks, actually.
[901.10 --> 909.82] I've got a private repository on GitHub I use for notes, and I've actually just ended up using VS Code in the browser on github.com.
[909.96 --> 911.38] It's not very self-hosted, is it?
[911.44 --> 913.10] But it works very well.
[913.10 --> 918.32] And I want to mention our friends at A Cloud Guru have a course on the Linux kernel.
[918.44 --> 923.00] It's a standalone course, but it's also part of a learning path to prepare you for the LPIC 201 exam.
[923.70 --> 927.56] You'll learn how the Linux kernel provides an interface between hardware and software.
[927.78 --> 929.84] You'll compile a kernel from start to finish.
[930.20 --> 937.22] And of course, you'll cover kernel runtime management, troubleshooting, adding and removing modules, and modifying the modules on boot.
[937.22 --> 941.40] We'll have a link in our show notes where you can go to a Cloud Guru and search for the Linux kernel.
[943.70 --> 946.90] So we were just talking about ZigBee and Z-Wave and all that kind of stuff.
[947.04 --> 951.18] And I was really excited to see that the Home Assistant has a new hardware project out.
[951.54 --> 952.36] Yeah, and it's been funded.
[952.96 --> 958.06] The Home Assistant Amber, which is based around the Compute Module 4, with their own board.
[958.14 --> 959.36] It's got an SSD connector.
[959.52 --> 961.14] It has ZigBee built in.
[961.58 --> 963.22] In fact, the devs on the stream said,
[963.38 --> 964.68] no SD cards.
[964.82 --> 966.28] We hate SD cards.
[966.28 --> 969.90] So you can either use an SSD or it'll come with eMMC built into it.
[970.42 --> 973.04] They're going to ship it with a transparent case.
[973.66 --> 975.78] I think maybe in part for radio.
[976.12 --> 977.56] It's plastic for radio transparency.
[977.68 --> 980.24] And then they have a whole post on why they chose transparent.
[980.68 --> 983.38] Some models will come with a POE hat as well.
[984.34 --> 985.32] It's pretty nice looking.
[985.74 --> 989.42] Although I don't know if it's going to be as fast as the Home Assistant Blue.
[989.90 --> 992.32] Well, no, I mean, my only concern about this box,
[992.32 --> 996.40] and let me just preface everything I'm about to say with the fact,
[996.46 --> 1001.08] I think that these kind of projects from Home Assistant themselves are wonderful.
[1001.08 --> 1003.24] And I'm so happy to see that they're doing it.
[1003.70 --> 1011.62] My only concern is that putting the Compute Module 4 into a product at this stage in the Raspberry Pi 4's lifecycle
[1011.62 --> 1017.66] feels like we're getting towards the end of the Pi 4 cycle, maybe.
[1018.40 --> 1022.32] Are we going to be able to upgrade this to a CM5 one day?
[1022.42 --> 1023.10] Probably not.
[1023.24 --> 1027.06] Will there be a Home Assistant burnt Sienna instead or something?
[1027.14 --> 1027.52] I don't know.
[1027.60 --> 1029.46] But that's my only reservation.
[1029.64 --> 1030.78] Everything else looks great.
[1030.78 --> 1033.36] Yeah, perhaps that could be an issue.
[1033.78 --> 1036.90] I don't know if we know for sure if there will be a Compute Module 5.
[1037.10 --> 1039.32] This may be a, you know, once every few years.
[1039.64 --> 1040.62] That's a good point, Christopher.
[1041.04 --> 1048.30] The other thing that holds the Raspberry Pi 4 back right now is absolutely the I.O. situation.
[1048.68 --> 1052.74] And they solve that with EMMC or an SSD.
[1053.24 --> 1053.44] Yeah.
[1053.44 --> 1055.64] I mean, it's no x86 box, right?
[1055.64 --> 1062.88] Like, I've got jobs where I need more powerful systems, but I am doing more than ever with my Pi 4.
[1063.08 --> 1068.28] I mean, now it's doing MQTT and it's doing energy metric collection and graphing.
[1068.64 --> 1071.88] And it's still just chugging right along.
[1072.32 --> 1076.52] Like, it's just, oh, and also for a short period of time, I even ran the Wise Bridge on it.
[1076.78 --> 1077.18] Really?
[1077.18 --> 1078.60] It was still doing just, yeah.
[1079.00 --> 1080.54] Oh, that thing chomps the CPU.
[1080.90 --> 1082.34] Only with two camera feeds, let me be clear.
[1082.42 --> 1083.22] And I turned it off.
[1083.30 --> 1083.88] I did turn it off.
[1083.88 --> 1086.08] But Home Assist and everything was still working.
[1086.26 --> 1089.00] Like, it still has a little bit of oomph to spare.
[1089.80 --> 1099.56] And I could see the Compute 4 module being enough machine for most people until you get into more advanced logging and graphing and stuff like that.
[1099.74 --> 1102.84] So what does this mean for the blue then, moving forward?
[1103.10 --> 1106.38] Well, it seems like the blue is kind of going to phase out over time.
[1107.06 --> 1112.66] I think the words used were, we're going to take the lessons learned and we're applying that to the amber.
[1112.66 --> 1121.48] One thing about the blue that was noted by the developers is that it's a board that they took that already existed.