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[2278.92 --> 2284.20] It's not like, you know, $15 that you're going to use for a little bit and just get first impressions.
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[2336.90 --> 2340.60] Here we are in November, and what does a new month mean?
[2340.74 --> 2342.30] It means a new Home Assistant release.
[2343.14 --> 2344.10] Yeah, it does.
[2344.58 --> 2350.80] Just when you got the last one installed, hopefully, 90 contributors, over 1,000 pull requests.
[2351.20 --> 2353.58] There's a lot going on now with this project.
[2354.24 --> 2359.88] 67,000 lines added, basically 30,000 lines of code removed.
[2360.18 --> 2362.34] They call it a big release.
[2362.58 --> 2365.58] A lot of Hacktoberfest contributions were in this one.
[2365.72 --> 2369.00] Over 1,000 different contributors to this release.
[2369.08 --> 2369.84] Just the core, too.
[2369.90 --> 2371.94] Not the documents, the front-end stuff.
[2372.28 --> 2374.02] Just the core Home Assistant release.
[2374.24 --> 2376.24] Had 1,000, over 1,000 contributors.
[2376.64 --> 2376.82] Wow.
[2377.32 --> 2380.16] I mean, that makes me wonder how it even worked before.
[2381.02 --> 2383.40] I mean, think about, like, managing that.
[2384.20 --> 2387.34] Just going through it and making sure all that stuff's of certain quality.
[2388.00 --> 2389.24] It's a heroic workload.
[2389.94 --> 2392.32] No wonder Frank's a bit grumpy sometimes, eh?
[2393.02 --> 2395.08] You know, he seems like such a nice guy on the streams.
[2395.62 --> 2396.56] Yeah, he is really.
[2396.92 --> 2398.86] I think sometimes we paint him in a bad light.
[2399.02 --> 2405.14] But like you say, when you see him actually in person and talking on the streams, very articulate guy, obviously very smart.
[2405.14 --> 2411.90] Yeah, he told a story that, you know, really demonstrated how much he really does care about the user experience.
[2412.60 --> 2416.54] So, you know, they rolled out that new Tuya integration that they worked with the Tuya cloud folks.
[2416.54 --> 2418.50] And there were some problems.
[2418.70 --> 2420.72] And people were having a rough time of it.
[2421.46 --> 2422.44] And so Frank sees that.
[2422.76 --> 2424.68] And he goes to his local stores.
[2424.68 --> 2428.68] And he fills up shopping carts full of Tuya-enabled devices.
[2428.68 --> 2439.66] Crazy things like little one-off buttons, cubes, cameras, doorbells, all different kinds of lights, Christmas decorations, all sorts of stuff.
[2439.66 --> 2449.96] And brings it all home and sits there like just a champ and gets through all kinds of compatibility issues and just adds tons of devices.
[2450.38 --> 2452.54] So some of that work is landing in this release.
[2453.06 --> 2455.40] As well as a fix for time zone changes.
[2455.66 --> 2461.86] There was a bug that caused like a lot of CPU usage when the time zone change kicked in, which has already happened to our friends in Europe.
[2462.32 --> 2465.36] They did release a hot fix mid-cycle.
[2465.50 --> 2467.22] That's why you may have seen an additional update come down.
[2467.22 --> 2470.24] But this includes that hot fix as well.
[2470.52 --> 2471.66] So you might want to do that.
[2472.12 --> 2472.68] And you'll like this.
[2472.82 --> 2478.34] Speaking of links, Alex, you can now give devices links out to like the WLED page for configuration.
[2478.66 --> 2482.34] Or if it's a device that needs a cloud configuration, it'll link right to it.
[2482.64 --> 2484.96] Or if the device has like a local control panel.
[2485.92 --> 2490.66] Now you won't have to go figure out what its IP is by searching your DHCP logs like I do.
[2490.66 --> 2494.22] Home Assistant will just generate a link to the management UI if it knows it.
[2494.22 --> 2498.42] And you can just find it right there in the device screen, which is nice.
[2499.32 --> 2501.46] The icon picker has landed.
[2503.28 --> 2505.42] And it's pretty great.
[2506.18 --> 2507.26] They did a good job.
[2507.88 --> 2508.54] That is legit.
[2508.78 --> 2511.20] A very low priority feature.
[2511.66 --> 2513.80] But boy, does it make a big difference.
[2513.80 --> 2514.66] Yeah.
[2515.26 --> 2520.12] And, you know, if you haven't done this yet, listener, Alex and I love this.
[2520.18 --> 2525.86] But take a minute some evening when you're kind of watching TV, but it's not something you're super into.
[2525.98 --> 2526.12] I don't know.
[2526.14 --> 2529.96] Whenever you've got some downtime, go through and add icons to your entries.
[2530.06 --> 2531.48] And get everything with its own custom icon.
[2531.58 --> 2532.52] What kind of light it is.
[2533.02 --> 2533.30] Heaters.
[2533.62 --> 2533.90] Fans.
[2534.44 --> 2535.68] It really makes it nice.
[2535.72 --> 2538.00] And it makes it easier to sort through your stuff at a quick glance.
[2538.00 --> 2543.10] And they've really done a good job of making this thing sort through like over 6,000 icons in just seconds.
[2543.30 --> 2544.68] It's super impressive.
[2544.96 --> 2546.36] Just a couple other things I'll mention.
[2546.66 --> 2549.76] They've added support for WebRTC video streams.
[2551.04 --> 2556.04] Home Assistant now will recognize a WebRTC stream as a camera source, but there is a catch.
[2556.72 --> 2564.16] It's only active when your browser is viewing it and pulling it in because it's actually your browser that is establishing the WebRTC PDP video stream.
[2564.16 --> 2569.56] But you can embed it and have it in a card, and Home Assistant can help facilitate that.
[2569.98 --> 2574.30] An example of a device where this is actually kind of useful is the Nest doorbell.
[2574.64 --> 2576.88] Actually provides video via WebRTC.
[2577.52 --> 2580.98] And so now you can pull that into Home Assistant if you've got a Nest doorbell.
[2581.50 --> 2582.16] Well, that's pretty cool.
[2582.60 --> 2585.88] I also saw something about the Home Assistant Amber that's coming up.
[2586.62 --> 2587.08] Yeah, man.
[2587.20 --> 2588.08] Well, so it's funded.
[2589.02 --> 2589.38] Oh, good.
[2589.38 --> 2589.86] Yeah.
[2590.50 --> 2595.08] They had about 2,500-ish backers, raised half a million dollars.
[2595.68 --> 2600.78] They were having and are having some problems sourcing their PoE chip, so they're switching to a different chip.
[2601.26 --> 2603.94] But there are some first hands-on of the prototype.
[2604.20 --> 2606.92] It's bigger than I expected, but it looks really good.
[2607.16 --> 2612.74] And there's some really special things that the Home Assistant crew did on the board.
[2612.74 --> 2615.36] They hand-drew.