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[327.58 --> 330.00] Yeah, and here's a couple of things about the program that I like.
[330.58 --> 335.18] The program requires manufacturers to maintain the integration of their products in Home Assistant.
[335.78 --> 341.38] They have to provide product samples and give engineering contacts for the Home Assistant team to escalate to.
[341.74 --> 342.18] Huge.
[343.46 --> 348.34] Manufacturers will be able to use the Works with Home Assistant badge in return on their products and documentation.
[348.34 --> 356.22] And the terms of the Works with Home Assistant program are enforced in agreement signed by both Nebukasa and the manufacturers.
[356.36 --> 358.60] So it's not just like they're handing these labels out.
[358.86 --> 364.00] And so I think when I see one of these labels as a consumer, I'm going to be able to trust that it actually does work.
[364.00 --> 365.26] And I'm not joking.
[365.26 --> 370.08] Like, I would just filter on this and only buy these products.
[370.26 --> 375.06] It really lives and dies in the manufacturer adoption.
[375.78 --> 380.46] But what happens in a situation like we had, and I'm not saying it will happen soon,
[380.46 --> 388.78] but like just happened with the Z-Wave stuff, your migration that you've been moaning about on air for ages and ages.
[390.34 --> 395.60] What happens in 10 years time when Home Assistant needs to deprecate a certain interface, right?
[395.82 --> 398.20] And I don't know what it is.
[398.22 --> 398.92] I'm not even going to speculate.
[399.08 --> 406.10] Let's say the replacement for MATA has come along and it deprecates support for all previous MATA devices for whatever reason.
[406.10 --> 411.68] And I'm just making this up, but it had that made for Home Assistant logo on the box.
[412.24 --> 415.26] What are the terms of this relationship?
[415.54 --> 420.64] Is it a made for a specific year of Home Assistant releases?
[420.64 --> 422.76] Is it made for 10 years?
[422.88 --> 425.40] Like, what's the contract here?
[425.40 --> 426.38] I would like to know.
[426.50 --> 430.14] And if the Home Assistant team are listening, please tweet at me or let me know.
[430.54 --> 435.56] Something like that, because it's important for us to know these details as nerds.
[435.56 --> 439.32] I'm excited to hear who their first partner is, and I would love to hear more details.
[439.48 --> 441.24] I think you're asking some good questions there.
[441.68 --> 442.96] And maybe time will tell.
[443.90 --> 448.22] When you said, when you called this, I want to say it was like back in December when you said something like this should come this year.
[448.68 --> 452.46] It immediately clicked like, yes, this is exactly what they need.
[452.52 --> 454.12] And this makes the experience so much better.
[454.12 --> 462.84] And then you combine a program like this with something like the Home Assistant Yellow or, you know, a future iteration when the supply chain isn't all screwed up.
[462.84 --> 465.36] A out of the box, ready to go.
[465.46 --> 466.58] You drop it on your LAN.
[466.84 --> 469.94] And then you just go buy the works with Home Assistant labeled devices.
[469.94 --> 473.70] And everything's just out of the box, good to go.
[474.56 --> 481.70] From Home Assistant, from Nebu Casa, you know, it's a huge potential revenue stream that I don't know if they're interested in.
[481.82 --> 488.44] I think they should be if they want to help keep the business growing and, you know, make it a better overall product.
[488.44 --> 504.16] I think we've seen over the years in this technological space that the only real way to have a cohesive user experience, and I'm talking like Apple level of integration here, is not convergence.
[504.16 --> 512.12] And we saw that with the Ubuntu phone years ago and, you know, everything they did with the Unity desktop back in that era.
[512.12 --> 518.38] The only way to have a cohesive user experience is to control everything, unfortunately.
[518.90 --> 520.36] It's true, I think.
[521.04 --> 529.38] And that means from all the way up from the Home Assistant Yellow all the way up to the light bulb I screw into my light fixture and everything in between.
[529.90 --> 540.42] If they can offer a cohesive suite of hardware and software and have it all guaranteed to work together, no matter what, you know, air quotes, whatever that means.
[540.42 --> 550.90] Then Home Assistant starts to become a viable recommend for people like me to slightly less technical members of my family.
[551.14 --> 551.98] Yeah, yeah.
[552.22 --> 558.22] Because right now, you know, it's the bastion of people that like to tinker.
[558.34 --> 563.38] As much as Home Assistant has improved extra UI elements and wizards and blah, blah, blah.
[563.54 --> 567.00] I mean, I rarely drop to the YAML these days, like I used to.
[567.00 --> 568.86] But it's not perfect.
[569.06 --> 576.40] And if something goes wrong within 10 minutes, it's still in the domain where you need to set it up for your non-technical friends and family.
[576.62 --> 579.48] You could bring them a box and give it to them and show them the web UI.
[579.58 --> 580.78] But you've already set up the dashboard.
[581.00 --> 582.32] You've already integrated all the devices.
[582.52 --> 583.98] You've already done all the network provisioning.
[584.14 --> 585.58] You've managed all of that.
[585.64 --> 589.26] And this helps transition it into a different phase.
[589.26 --> 597.70] And just my last thoughts on this, and I hope this is a benefit that we continue to see just as Home Assistant as a community grows.
[597.88 --> 605.72] But it means we have someone out there advocating for local API and local controls.
[605.72 --> 612.94] But to that point, and this is raised in the Discord as we record, it's a bit of a slippery slope.
[613.98 --> 626.66] And I am worried that works with Home Assistant, if you give it enough time, becomes doesn't work with other open standard.
[627.18 --> 627.56] Maybe.
[627.78 --> 629.58] I guess it depends on how the standard works.
[629.76 --> 633.80] Because everything about Home Assistant would probably be open source in this regard, right?
[633.86 --> 634.38] I mean, we'll see.
[634.38 --> 636.02] I'm not saying they're going to pull an MB.
[636.96 --> 638.48] But who knows, you know?
[638.70 --> 642.44] And the other thing is, what about the testing that's done?
[642.92 --> 647.62] Are they, as an open source project, going to publish all the testing of their hardware vendors?
[647.78 --> 651.30] I can't imagine many hardware vendors wanting to sign up to that.
[651.48 --> 655.34] But as an open source project, do they not have a duty to do that?
[655.40 --> 655.72] I don't know.
[655.74 --> 656.60] I'm just asking the question.
[657.10 --> 661.60] Questions that we will probably get answers to over time, but may not like them all.
[661.60 --> 665.76] We got a message into the show via the Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram group.
[666.08 --> 667.28] And it was just a simple question.
[667.34 --> 669.54] Hey, do you guys use a self-hosted to-do app?
[670.18 --> 674.78] And it's funny because this is exactly something I've been looking to host in my RV right now.
[674.84 --> 677.84] Something I could really focus just on road trips and stuff like that.
[677.84 --> 682.76] And I came across, I'm going to attempt to say it's Vikunja.
[683.16 --> 686.60] V-I-K-U-N-J-A.
[686.76 --> 690.94] It's a self-hostable, really good-looking to-do app.
[691.18 --> 697.66] And it has a little bit of everything that I like from inboxes for different tasks.
[697.66 --> 707.04] It has namespace and user sharing so you can collect different projects together and then share them with somebody like, you know, a spouse or a family member or a friend.
[707.26 --> 708.96] It has team support.
[709.54 --> 714.80] And, of course, it also offers a hosted version, which you could just pay for if you'd like.
[715.02 --> 717.86] They include a how to use it in Docker guide.
[717.86 --> 720.68] So that's probably the route I would take if I were to deploy this.
[720.98 --> 721.56] I haven't yet.
[722.46 --> 727.92] But I'd love to get any feedback from anyone out there in the audience that's either used this or another self-hosted to-do app.
[728.36 --> 730.22] This, to me, seems like the one to beat.
[730.60 --> 734.60] You can find it at V-I-K-U-N-J-A dot cloud.
[735.40 --> 737.54] And, yep, it's got Kanban boards, Alex.
[737.58 --> 738.80] I know how you like your Kanban.
[739.30 --> 739.54] Me?
[739.94 --> 744.66] Oh, it just gives me the heebie-jeebies of, like, Trello and Jira.
[745.10 --> 746.14] Yep, yep, yep.
[746.14 --> 750.54] So did you ever really stop and think about self-hosting your to-do stuff?
[750.74 --> 751.84] I've got to be honest with you.
[751.88 --> 756.38] I think I just fell into using apps on my phone, which are connected to proprietary services.