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[59.94 --> 62.48] Is it easier or harder having Brent there when you get back?
[63.10 --> 63.52] Hey, now.
[63.82 --> 69.58] Oh, it's lovely because, yeah, the fridge is stocked and, you know, loads of little things.
[69.74 --> 71.18] The house feels like it's been lived in.
[71.76 --> 72.48] The dog's happy.
[72.82 --> 77.80] You know, whenever you go away, there's inevitably something you forget, like you forget to take out the rubbish or something.
[77.90 --> 79.32] And you come back and it's a stinky bin.
[80.04 --> 80.80] Nothing like that.
[80.92 --> 81.32] It's all good.
[82.00 --> 82.32] Yeah.
[82.80 --> 83.36] That is nice.
[83.36 --> 84.92] It's handy having a Brent around, right?
[85.16 --> 85.30] Yeah.
[85.30 --> 86.92] And I think Archie had a good time, too.
[87.22 --> 87.96] Oh, he had a great time.
[88.02 --> 88.12] Yeah.
[88.18 --> 90.40] He took care of me more than I took care of him, I think.
[90.64 --> 91.66] I got lots of good videos.
[92.04 --> 92.32] Aw.
[92.80 --> 95.58] I know you came in handy when those thunderstorms rolled around, so.
[95.82 --> 96.18] Oh, yeah.
[96.18 --> 104.60] Hey, now, did the pair of you see that the Excel, the World Excel Championships are currently live on ESPN2 right now?
[104.78 --> 107.48] Is this Excel, like, spreadsheets or is this Excel, like, cars?
[107.48 --> 107.84] Oh, yes.
[107.84 --> 108.64] Oh, my goodness.
[109.04 --> 110.42] Link in the chat.
[110.52 --> 111.12] Link in Discord.
[111.36 --> 112.10] No, no, no, no, no.
[112.10 --> 112.42] Really?
[112.74 --> 113.88] What do they do?
[114.10 --> 114.50] Competitive.
[115.10 --> 116.02] You're not kidding.
[116.42 --> 118.26] Competitive Excel formula writing.
[118.40 --> 119.08] I am not joking.
[119.28 --> 120.28] This is a real sport.
[120.38 --> 121.08] Oh, my goodness.
[121.08 --> 124.76] This is so good.
[125.16 --> 126.78] Oh, this is so good.
[126.92 --> 128.16] No Python allowed?
[128.22 --> 128.68] Is that it?
[128.94 --> 138.72] Well, this tournament for a one-of-a-kind sport pits the best against the best as eight experts try to solve original tasks about lottery answers.
[139.22 --> 143.88] And the goal is to answer as many questions as possible in a limited amount of time.
[143.98 --> 149.90] We should do this, but, like, with Linux and free software projects and, like, open source projects and self-hosting trivia.
[150.20 --> 150.68] Now you're talking.
[150.68 --> 151.44] We could do this.
[151.66 --> 152.32] This could be fun.
[152.44 --> 155.34] We should definitely have a self-hosted or Linux kind of trivia night.
[155.34 --> 161.76] I know I threatened it at the Denver meetup last year, but how about we make something happen at the JPL meetup?
[162.12 --> 162.46] Oh.
[163.30 --> 163.70] Oh.
[165.58 --> 170.60] Speaking of which, just a little early plug in the show, self-hosted.show slash JPL.
[170.86 --> 176.94] If you're in the Southern California area and you want to put your name in the hat for the JPL tour, that's where you go.
[177.38 --> 179.22] But please make sure you can actually make it.
[179.22 --> 181.36] Self-hosted.show slash JPL.
[181.36 --> 181.64] JPL.
[181.64 --> 185.40] I have been just sitting here waiting for this episode.
[185.40 --> 196.32] I wanted to hear Brent's opinions of what it's like to live in your house after you've automated everything because you have built that entire system to fit your needs, your family's needs, right?
[196.32 --> 197.90] You didn't build it for Brent's needs.
[197.90 --> 202.84] And for a little while after you left, I don't think Brent had access to the dashboard or anything like that.
[202.88 --> 205.70] So he just lived with the automations as they were.
[205.78 --> 218.28] So I thought it'd be really fun today to get in to just find out what that's like, to live with another man's automations, another man's home assistant, and kind of get a review from a third-party perspective on your setup.
[218.28 --> 231.08] And then also later in the show, I got a Shelly humidity and temperature sensor, and I got one of their power plugs, and I have them running right now, and I want to share my thoughts on that stuff.
[231.08 --> 236.60] But what do you guys say we jump into Brent's impressions of living with your assistant, Alex?
[236.74 --> 237.32] I'm nervous.
[238.02 --> 242.54] I was actually really interested when Brent stayed with us in the RV, what his experience was like.
[242.76 --> 256.06] But one of the things that I did, I don't think you had time for just because of circumstances, was when the first night Brent stayed with us, I gave him a little tour of the system to kind of show him how to control it where the tablets were at.
[256.06 --> 263.22] But you guys basically had like a meet and greet in the airport, and then it was like, yeah, two planes in the night passing.
[264.60 --> 266.04] That was not the original plan.
[266.06 --> 267.36] How many hours delayed were you?
[267.42 --> 268.58] Like 19 or something?
[268.80 --> 268.96] Yeah.
[269.26 --> 269.58] Yeah.
[269.58 --> 273.22] I had to do an overnight and all hotel and all the whole thing.
[273.40 --> 276.20] So anyways, we met on the security side of the airport.
[276.30 --> 276.74] That was fun.
[276.90 --> 277.72] I haven't done that before.
[277.72 --> 277.76] Sure.
[278.52 --> 285.68] But luckily, because of the Raleigh meetup that we did here, I did have some experience with the automations.
[286.44 --> 289.58] And Chris, I know you also had some experiences here.
[289.64 --> 290.24] We all did.
[290.24 --> 298.24] And Alex was kind of showcasing them at the time because it was the first time any of us had seen sort of everything he set up in the new house.
[298.54 --> 300.76] And I followed some of it with the show as well.
[300.94 --> 303.30] You know, like Alex and I have talked about some of it on the show.
[303.30 --> 314.32] So I kind of, when I arrived at Alex's house, I pretty much knew what to expect right away because it's something he and I kind of talk about more frequently than probably I would imagine the two of you do.
[314.82 --> 315.20] It's true.
[315.30 --> 319.06] I'm relatively new to home assistant, home automation stuff.
[319.28 --> 325.60] But thanks to you, Chris, I do have nimble fingers around trying to operate some of it as an outside user.
[326.16 --> 327.34] This is an interesting question.
[327.42 --> 330.26] Did much of it change from last time I was here to this time?
[330.56 --> 331.50] No, I don't think so.
[332.08 --> 332.54] Okay, good.
[332.54 --> 333.56] That was going to be my answer.
[334.00 --> 335.82] So I had some patterns in mind.
[335.92 --> 341.20] I know that Alex and Kat have certain routines that they set off.
[341.60 --> 353.52] One of them, even when I visited them years ago in their old place, was their like goodnight routine and sort of the bedtime countdown and all the lights would sort of dim down a little bit.
[353.52 --> 355.80] And I kind of missed that when you were gone.
[355.80 --> 358.78] Because I, A, didn't know how to set that off.
[359.46 --> 369.08] And B, like I didn't even know where to start looking for like random switches or physical enablements to make that happen.
[369.08 --> 370.70] And so I just lived with that.
[371.36 --> 372.04] So sad.