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[1910.38 --> 1911.56] I do it so you don't have to.
[1911.94 --> 1912.10] Right.
[1912.16 --> 1912.68] Yes, that's right.
[1912.76 --> 1917.88] I do remember saying to you before the show that when stuff breaks, I think we call that
[1917.88 --> 1919.12] content in the business, right?
[1919.82 --> 1920.72] That's probably true.
[1921.18 --> 1922.52] There was a lot of talk.
[1922.60 --> 1925.40] I watched the release announcement, which is like long.
[1925.72 --> 1928.96] And there was a lot of talk in there about improvements to Bluetooth.
[1929.80 --> 1930.60] Bluetooth speed.
[1930.60 --> 1934.46] If you're using, they stress you really need to be using Home Assistant OS to take advantage
[1934.46 --> 1935.52] of all these improvements.
[1936.04 --> 1938.50] But a lot of speed improvements for Bluetooth communication.
[1938.76 --> 1941.94] ESP-232 devices can be used as Bluetooth proxies.
[1942.44 --> 1947.58] Home Assistant is actually now selling some Bluetooth proxies, easy for me to say, in their
[1947.58 --> 1948.52] online store.
[1949.08 --> 1951.10] Big improvements for Bluetooth devices.
[1951.44 --> 1953.34] And they think it's going to open up to a lot more devices.
[1953.60 --> 1954.12] Wow, nice.
[1954.26 --> 1955.14] Yeah, it is nice.
[1955.50 --> 1956.62] That's a good area to improve.
[1956.62 --> 1960.88] If only you had received your Home Assistant yellow by now, though, huh?
[1961.20 --> 1966.88] It was supposed to be here yesterday, but I got an updated email saying it should promptly
[1966.88 --> 1969.34] arrive after I've been gone for about a week on the road.
[1969.50 --> 1971.48] So I'll have to wait till I get back, I guess.
[1971.92 --> 1974.38] One of these days we'll do a show and we'll be able to actually review it.
[1974.58 --> 1976.82] Whereas all the YouTubers had theirs like a year ago.
[1977.18 --> 1980.02] Yeah, maybe ours will be like a better though.
[1980.10 --> 1981.66] It'll be like the final edition.
[1981.90 --> 1982.56] Yeah, maybe.
[1982.64 --> 1983.30] The shipping one.
[1983.40 --> 1983.58] Maybe.
[1983.58 --> 1984.82] What do they call it?
[1984.86 --> 1987.26] Like a production sample, not an engineering sample.
[1987.92 --> 1988.58] Right, right.
[1989.40 --> 1993.52] Zigbee users are going to be happy to know that there's now a Zigbee backup and restore
[1993.52 --> 1995.10] option in Home Assistant.
[1995.74 --> 1996.98] So that's actually really nice.
[1996.98 --> 1997.64] Hey, that's you.
[1997.78 --> 1999.24] You're a Zigbee user these days.
[1999.48 --> 1999.98] I am now.
[2000.02 --> 2001.64] I'm a big Zigbee guy now, don't you know?
[2002.22 --> 2008.26] And it turns out I didn't realize this, but I would have been SOL if I had done like a
[2008.26 --> 2009.46] restore of Home Assistant.
[2009.46 --> 2012.46] Like maybe on a new device or something.
[2012.60 --> 2015.10] I guess none of my Zigbee stuff would have worked.
[2015.38 --> 2016.70] I had not even realized that.
[2017.02 --> 2017.52] Nor had I.
[2017.62 --> 2019.26] So you literally just said that.
[2019.52 --> 2019.96] I know.
[2020.18 --> 2020.98] Thank you, Chris.
[2021.54 --> 2022.28] Good to know, right?
[2022.46 --> 2026.56] They now have fixed that and you can back up and restore your Zigbee stuff.
[2026.70 --> 2030.22] But also they now have a really slick migration assistant.
[2030.40 --> 2033.86] If you just maybe like want to move to a new radio, you want to upgrade your Zigbee radio
[2033.86 --> 2034.54] for some reason.
[2035.04 --> 2038.30] They'll handle all that migration stuff because I guess some of that's written to the controller.
[2038.84 --> 2040.18] I think that's really neat to see there.
[2040.68 --> 2042.40] Because Zigbee is going to be the future.
[2042.98 --> 2043.32] We'll see.
[2043.74 --> 2046.34] They did actually do some updates for their Z-Wave support as well.
[2046.42 --> 2050.14] I did see the Verge pickup this week that they were doing.
[2050.50 --> 2052.48] They were controlling a HomeKit compatible.
[2053.30 --> 2056.14] I think that the headline was, this is why it matters.
[2056.70 --> 2057.10] Ha ha.
[2057.68 --> 2060.46] That I can control HomeKit from somewhere else.
[2060.60 --> 2061.40] And I was like, yeah, OK.
[2061.52 --> 2062.54] Good headline, chaps.
[2062.54 --> 2063.02] Well done.
[2063.74 --> 2067.36] I might have grabbed a matter related story for the member post show.
[2067.56 --> 2067.96] Oh, yeah.
[2068.08 --> 2068.38] OK.
[2068.48 --> 2069.36] I can't wait to get there.
[2069.56 --> 2070.16] I may have.
[2070.30 --> 2070.86] I may have.
[2071.56 --> 2073.54] Also, there's just been a few UI updates.
[2073.64 --> 2077.42] You can see processor and memory usage in the Home Assistant UI, which is nice for people
[2077.42 --> 2078.82] using it on a hardware device.
[2079.50 --> 2080.64] And then a couple of integrations.
[2081.12 --> 2082.84] There's so much more in the release announcements.
[2083.00 --> 2083.98] These are just my highlights.
[2084.28 --> 2086.08] But a couple of integrations that caught my eye.
[2086.08 --> 2091.56] The Android IP webcam app is now available as an integration into Home Assistant.
[2091.56 --> 2095.88] So you can easily set up tablets that you're using as a dashboard or your Android phones
[2095.88 --> 2098.86] as cameras that feed into Home Assistant now.
[2099.04 --> 2100.42] Super easy to do.
[2100.54 --> 2101.24] That's slick.
[2101.82 --> 2105.66] And then also, there's an integration now for the Fully Kiosk browser.
[2105.66 --> 2110.32] So if you're using a tablet with the Fully Kiosk browser to display Home Assistant, there's
[2110.32 --> 2116.06] now an integration that allows you to control certain things, get information about the
[2116.06 --> 2122.46] tablet, like its battery level, what current page is displaying, how much RAM is available.
[2123.08 --> 2127.16] You can also do things like you can remotely refresh the Kiosk page, bring it to the front,
[2127.28 --> 2127.94] lock the device.
[2128.06 --> 2130.68] You can turn motion detection on and off the screen saver on and off.
[2130.68 --> 2136.48] From Home Assistant now, for your Android tablets that you might have around your house, or
[2136.48 --> 2139.86] should have around your house, acting as a dashboard for Home Assistant.
[2140.22 --> 2141.90] I just think that's a neat integration.
[2142.08 --> 2143.14] That is a really cool integration.
[2143.80 --> 2151.00] I had one of those aha moments with Home Assistant this week when I've bought an Elgato key light
[2151.00 --> 2154.94] to make my face look more beautiful, you know, from my camera.