Home Assistant 2026.3: Vacuuming rooms, and the sky is dark again

0:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Hello and welcome home assistant podcast. [SPEAKER_02]: My name is Rohan and is usual on join with Phil. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey Phil. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how you're going. [SPEAKER_02]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: And as usual, this podcast is sponsored by Home Assistant Cloud by Nebuchasa. [SPEAKER_02]: For a small monthly fee, you unlock powerful features like secure effortless access to your system from anywhere in the world, and your choice of voice assistance, off-site backups, and so much more.

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1:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to our new Patreon, Sismantu, Wes, Felix, Adam, Ed, Stein, and Jeffrey. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you everybody for your support. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thanks so much, guys. [SPEAKER_00]: Really appreciate it. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's jump into it, it's March.

1:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And that means new March release. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think, so the way the team described this release, it's not a jam packed release, but there's actually a lot to talk about, I think around this release, a lot of community contributions in this release, which is good to say, not just, you know, big ticket items coming out of the new September.

1:47 [SPEAKER_00]: But before we get into the release we've got a whole bunch of mail bags stuff to get through and of course some around the project headlines. [SPEAKER_00]: First one being there is a new works with home assistant partner, Hyman. [SPEAKER_00]: They are available across Europe and the US.

2:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They do a whole bunch of meta over threat devices. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's perfect for home assistant right like being in a open ecosystem like meta. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so that's always cool to see the works with program expanding and hopefully it's going to be a few bullies to you coming down the line too.

2:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and if you're not familiar with them, they do like smoke and CO alarms and that kind of stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's cool to see, you know, more safety types of devices get out to this too. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what else is going on? [SPEAKER_02]: Stay to the open home, April 8th, they're going to be releasing tickets soon.

2:44 [SPEAKER_02]: So I believe that's happening in the Netherlands. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you tracked. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's in person and online. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, first one need a person for a while. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, tickets when they come back, [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's exciting. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been home, I have at least a new merch store as well.

3:08 [SPEAKER_00]: So now there's a whole bunch of this whole new merch. [SPEAKER_00]: We've kind of missed this logo, I've been having foundation stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm wearing an open home, I'm obviously it's backwards, but I'm wearing an open home foundation hat right now. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's, you know what, I actually genuinely really do like their merch.

3:24 [SPEAKER_02]: So check it out. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, the hoodie is really good, actually. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's a great way. [SPEAKER_00]: If you can't support, you know, maybe you can't do a subscription to that Picasso, or you do what to give back to the open home foundation. [SPEAKER_00]: Another way, this is a great way to do it.

3:40 [SPEAKER_00]: You get something. [SPEAKER_00]: So a hat or a hoodie or something, and you're helping out home business and the open home foundation at the same time. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's great. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Dark sky. [SPEAKER_02]: Dark sky is back.

3:54 [SPEAKER_02]: So, um, they have a new weather app called Acme Weather, um, and it's made by the same creators of Dark sky. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you've been around the home assistant environment long enough or familiar with Dark sky ever from the past, it was pretty much the de facto weather integration back in the day.

4:13 [SPEAKER_02]: And then they got acquired by Apple, so Dark Sky, the company Dark Sky got acquired in Apple and then around 2022 they shut it down. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think it eventually became what is now weather kit within the Apple developer ecosystem there. [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess it turns out that the folks that actually built Dark Sky came back and they're like, hey, [SPEAKER_02]: We do weather, so here's another weather app, right?

4:42 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's called the Act Me Weather. [SPEAKER_02]: And it basically tries to show you a whole range of different outcomes for the weather today. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's also a community reporting feature in it, which is pretty cool. [SPEAKER_02]: So right now it's only in the US and on iOS only as well on Apple, the Apple ecosystem.

5:02 [SPEAKER_02]: But hopefully that will change because I'd love to see what they came out with. [SPEAKER_02]: I know Dark Sky was a pretty sure Dark Sky was limited to iOS at the time as well. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember if it was only the US. [SPEAKER_00]: But, um, but I rolled it up. [SPEAKER_00]: For me, like, this is like a blast from the past, right?

5:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you go back to our first episode, I think every episode, we would have been talking about some form of another, I was like, guess coming on or updates, time assistant would have been around the dark sky, because that was, you basically one of the first integrations whether for integrations into home assistant.

5:40 [SPEAKER_00]: This new app, I think the problem that I don't know how popular it's going to be, but the problem they're trying to solve is that if you go to whether in Google and then you might go to your local bureaus, whether and then you TV channels, whether.com, they're all different, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like they've all got a, you know, it's going to rain.

6:00 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to rain. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a chance of rain. [SPEAKER_00]: From my understanding, I'm not in the U.S. sort of have access to the app and Android user anyway. [SPEAKER_00]: This app is trying to show you a range of sources and what those possible outcomes could be. [SPEAKER_00]: All these people are saying it's going to be 27 degrees today, but range between 24 and 27 degrees today.

6:23 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's your baseline. [SPEAKER_00]: The community reporting feature. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not too sure about, I guess, to try and be like a ways for weather, if that makes sense, maybe someone reports there's thunder in an area, like you can get maybe like really localized, I'm data, that would be cool from a home automation perspective and a particular home misunderstood perspective if there was an API available where someone's weather station at home could report into that, right?

6:53 [SPEAKER_00]: that, I would love to see something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when the docs was around previously, it was API based. [SPEAKER_00]: So you didn't need to have an iOS device. [SPEAKER_00]: You could sign up for an API key from the docs guy and then you can create that into Home Assistant.

7:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope, Act B, whether we'll go down that route and eventually there will be an Act B, whether API. [SPEAKER_00]: And if we can do like this community reporting things and bring that back in as a, [SPEAKER_00]: weather sensor maybe this is probably very long-term but yeah at the moment yeah Mark's guy it's that's back in some form or another good to see a little bit of a memory there and I remember dark sky being [SPEAKER_02]: like a pretty good looking application, right?

7:38 [SPEAKER_02]: It was like just the UI and there was just really nice. [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't seen the UI on this, but hopefully that remains, and that holds true, so. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I've never saw the UI, so I only used the API key, so I can't comment on that. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

7:56 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, mailback time, let's get in to some feedback from our previous episodes. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Patreon. [SPEAKER_00]: Rob has been early watching our episode, which is dropping next week on AI in Homes, that was a fun one to do, which is mean we're talking about AI. [SPEAKER_02]: It's probably already half-tate, just how fast it is, even when we did our last recording, we were like, oh, right, we just said this are the episode we recorded last week and it's wrong.

8:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's how fast AI has been. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we could get to go into a whole bunch of stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: You could do with the AI. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, what we're using personally. [SPEAKER_00]: So Rob is using a codex and a GitHub to address a tech debt in his own business install.

8:41 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking for naming standards, documentation, and he's more using it to maintain and add automations. [SPEAKER_00]: And his quality is up considerably using that. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's another great way to use AI, I mean, home assistant, I do like naming standards. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think of naming sense.

8:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I do have that problem naming my own stuff right? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, is it living room downlights or is it downlights living room or if you keep to a standard it? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I do like that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a great way to do it.

9:16 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's a good use of AI there too, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Just make sure that you're following a specific thing and that way every time anybody's using it or any device is coming in, it's all the same. [SPEAKER_02]: So I do like that. [SPEAKER_02]: And again, thanks Rob for being a picture on over there.

9:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so last time we talked about J.C. Melabel fatherhood and he's actually come back and shared some of his learnings as well. [SPEAKER_02]: So accessible controls basically where the goal is now to basically have all of the families frequently used devices and common actions, alter an easy to remember voice command, three entities exposed via Google Home.

9:59 [SPEAKER_02]: and then using an easy to find control in the revamp dashboard and physical control like TV remote speaker remote smart buttons and dashboards on within a Google home hub. [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: So from from a control perspective, there's been a lot done for an accessibility perspective and then beyond that also automatic some of their daily chores by using NFC stickers to spot clean rooms with their robot vacuum.

10:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and there's actually some stuff coming up in this release to help with that stuff to that piece there too. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to that. [SPEAKER_02]: Automating cat care using products like the Nikasa M1 litter box and Petley Bro RFID feeders. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a to good use there and then notifications with updates of the cats wait.

10:59 [SPEAKER_02]: and other activities to allow us to make sure we're not missing anything with them. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a really cool way of doing that too. [SPEAKER_02]: We just recently, I recorded an episode, I don't believe it's as yet talking about cat automations. [SPEAKER_02]: This will go well with that.

11:16 [SPEAKER_02]: There is. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: That's your own tomorrow. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, there you go. [SPEAKER_02]: They was using a bottle and a smart plug on the bottle warmer has, you know, kind of ease that feeding mental load.

11:37 [SPEAKER_02]: So under like cabinets access account down progress bar is appear on dashboards and they get alerts when the bottle is ready, which is pretty handy. [SPEAKER_02]: And a quick dashboard card shows the bottle safety in the time since the baby was last fed, which was pretty awesome there, too.

11:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Sleep monitoring the outlet dream sock integrated with homosistent got them some piece of mind. [SPEAKER_02]: The integration is actually pretty good. [SPEAKER_02]: I've used it myself when our baby was newborn. [SPEAKER_02]: And just a friend of mine just gifted me an outlet and I was like, wonder if this is an integration in the home system.

12:18 [SPEAKER_02]: It turns out it does, and the home system integration actually exposes quite a bit more than the actual app itself, which I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And then at bedtime, her crib cam and vitals appear on their bedside on the parent's bedside Google home hub, which is pretty great there, and then emergency and emergency lights in the alarms.

12:43 [SPEAKER_02]: We're all in place. [SPEAKER_02]: Thankfully, they were unused, and soft underbed lighting was activated when she was awake, allowing for discrete access to her room. [SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: That is actually really cool. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a whole bunch of cool emotions there.

13:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I did. [SPEAKER_00]: I remember my kids win your bones. [SPEAKER_00]: I did go down the rapid hold of, do I track nephews and you know what type is, you know, that's what a usage. [SPEAKER_00]: But then it just... [SPEAKER_00]: It's just information overload, right? [SPEAKER_00]: And then you've got to make sure to track it properly and just, yeah, um, I do remember, I think Rohan, maybe you shared this with me.

13:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Be, yeah, probably is going now. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think there is a GitHub repo out there, uh, designed for tracking, uh, your baby's diaper usage, um, there is. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and the papers, it, um, [SPEAKER_02]: like any time, you know, you can record their pee, their poop, feeds, all that kind of stuff.

13:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think of where it was called. [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably as a Docker container, and if so, then there's probably a home as an app that you can install it as now. [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, so far, it will lead links in the show notes. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, links. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

14:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So, thanks for getting back to us, Drake. [SPEAKER_00]: This, since that last release, we're on, I put out the post on social media. [SPEAKER_00]: I bought a whole bunch of a car or, sorry, not a whole bunch, just two, two, a car or FP 300, price and sensors. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been having a whole bunch of issues with my FP 1 sensors dropping off my ZGB network.

14:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I've, I've [SPEAKER_00]: And this started in December, right, like I just ran in power forever. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm identified that it's not the FP ones that are causing the issue. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it is something to do with my ZIP network. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm using the ZIP-T2 from home assistant, the latest ZIP-Dongol.

14:39 [SPEAKER_00]: But for whatever reason, just randomly there must be something on my ZIP network that is causing interference. [SPEAKER_00]: But those FP ones, since it will all be marked as unavailable, literally just before recording. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been offline for about a week. [SPEAKER_00]: I plugged my Office FE1 back in and it started working.

14:55 [SPEAKER_00]: It was rather the round of the house. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I've replaced them with the FP300, but shout out to Ken Cole and ExtractRick on BlueSky for pointing out some of the issues with the FP300s and ZHA. [SPEAKER_00]: So the FP300s, [SPEAKER_00]: product recommended across the board and they are multi and this is inspired to like purchase these products myself after doing a bunch of research.

15:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So they to matter of a thread, you can do the acquireer hub and you can put them into Zig bin mode as well. [SPEAKER_00]: So very easy. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't need to help or anything. [SPEAKER_00]: I just downloaded the acquireer home app. [SPEAKER_00]: They detected the sensors straight away and then I got a choice to want to download the ZB firmware or the used an a car hub to integrate it with now I would download the ZB firmware integrated with the ZB to there is a [SPEAKER_00]: a pull request by KEM, which is introducing a custom ZHA Quirk into the ZHA device handlers, and I've had brilliant success with that.

16:03 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll leave links in the show notes if you have FP300. [SPEAKER_00]: The alternative is to use the BTNKTT. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not using the BTNKTT and I did them one to pour over or run a second BTN at work just for these. [SPEAKER_00]: So I would recommend using that custom Quirk [SPEAKER_00]: And the FP300s have been solid.

16:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I've still got a little bit of training. [SPEAKER_00]: They have a bit of hope. [SPEAKER_00]: They've got some AI noise reduction in them that I need to try and things like you're going to get a bathroom with an exhaust fan, you just need to wait that out. [SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be my next experiment.

16:41 [SPEAKER_00]: But so far, I've been impressed. [SPEAKER_00]: They're battery operated. [SPEAKER_00]: Part of the battery can last you for use. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll say, we'll say. [SPEAKER_00]: That's cool. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, also shout out to 65 double four five six A on blue sky, um, they have, uh, they ping me on blue sky to say, uh, they're using NFC tags to add items to their home Mrs and shopping list, um, for a lighter version of grossy and actually do appreciate this.

17:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So, um, grossy, uh, we've talked about several times now, but yeah, it's a whole, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: management for inventory for your home grocery goods so you can track it out how much in stock source or milk or whatever you've got in the fridge or the pantry. [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, so basically I did being that you need to buy some new paper towel or some new milk you scan the applicable [SPEAKER_00]: NFC card in the kitchen, and it will add to the home resistance shopping list, which is actually good, it's like an NFC version of the Amazon Dash buttons of home resistance, so that's good.

17:44 [SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: On YouTube, we got some comments as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Render maniac talked about the fact that they have an Apple TV and when the Apple TV is turned off, the frame TV goes into art mode. [SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm doing something wrong because mine just turns right off.

18:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there is setting up. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think do check out the comment. [SPEAKER_00]: There is a setting somewhere on any devices that you can go into Sam's on TV. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you might need to flick that on. [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on the question. [SPEAKER_02]: I've done that, but it's just assumed it was some random incompatibility there, but I'll have to have a look at that again.

18:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: And then another one is by Whisp Sedai saying, if you haven't, if you haven't tried this already, I've had the bed presence for ESP home by elevated sensors, and it works great for us. [SPEAKER_02]: We each have sides that we keep that we sleep on every night, and it's been near flawless and detecting which side either or both is occupying the bed.

18:44 [SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and especially the fact that they're saying it's been pretty flawless, so that's, uh, that is pretty neat. [SPEAKER_02]: She checked out her, it's on point. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, uh, 2026.3, uh, let's get into it. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, as we said, it's a whole bunch of community, uh, I was being added in this release, but that doesn't mean like it's, uh, not a good quality, but it's not actually really, uh, impressed with this release.

19:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a whole bunch of good stuff coming down in this release. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the first one is if you're using the new, um, home dashboard, um, that is now shipping by default, um, repairs will now show as summaries in the home dashboard, which actually looks really nice. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so yeah, and it's got a whole bunch of other places, yes, which is interesting to see updates, but yeah, repairs now in the summer is area.

19:31 [SPEAKER_00]: As someone that has a very high amount of repairs, it just seems to persist throughout my cycle. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure I would, I don't know if there's a way to dismiss this, I haven't tested that yet, but yeah, seeing something like 20 repairs. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we do. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, mine are like two, but 20 themes.

19:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how many like hacks integrations you have? [SPEAKER_00]: Because I always have like, like these things are updating, though that needs updating, like. [SPEAKER_02]: I try and keep hacks to a minimum if I can, but sometimes either I just like the integration better or it's required, let's see.

20:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, the repairs, I even, but I've got the repairs just for pay [SPEAKER_00]: I have 14 repairs right here with that said, most of them are from something called Spook, which Frank has been on podcast a couple of times has created. [SPEAKER_00]: I do highly recommend that hacks add-on.

20:32 [SPEAKER_00]: It goes in and just looks for missing entities. [SPEAKER_00]: So if I delete an entity in my assistant, Spook will detect it and go, hey, you actually need to go and update this Yamil file. [SPEAKER_00]: It's still where it comes there. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I've got about 20 hacks integration, so it's not.

20:48 [SPEAKER_02]: aggressive, but yeah, and then I spoke as well as model them and I do I do keep that up, but I try to fix whatever I can as soon as I can because they just really bought them me. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's more more than anything else. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, yeah, I gotta fix this. [SPEAKER_02]: But I have one that's set there.

21:10 [SPEAKER_02]: So nice. [SPEAKER_00]: the sections view now also supports footer cards so there's a header card you know at a footer one give you like a sticky card at the bottom of the viewport so you get very similar to the existing view header which I quite like. [SPEAKER_00]: But rather the big one coming out of 2026-3 for me at least and I think you might have a good example, we'll see.

21:41 [SPEAKER_00]: But the robot vacuum cleaners can now the map or the rooms in a robot vacuum cleaner can now be mapped to a home assistant area. [SPEAKER_00]: So it will require a repair in home assistant to assign sections from the app to areas and home assistant, for example, in rubber rock, their rooms are called sections in the API.

22:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you upgrade to 2026.3, you'll get a repair, and home assistant will be asking you to please map this section to an area in home assistant. [SPEAKER_00]: Right now it's just okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and the viewer is actually pretty just like it shows you like one side here So this isn't here's Robert Rock, you know map the two together.

22:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah Currently it supports a matter EcoVax and Robo Rock integrations So I'm guessing more follow that to support cleaning segments or all rooms What this does unlock now [SPEAKER_00]: these vacuum cleaners can be assigned to clean areas in home assistant that allows our things like voice assistance to now the home assistant voice assistant to now say hey go vacuum the living room and it can now work it out okay I need to go until rubber rock to clean this segment [SPEAKER_00]: That has been a pain point for me as a rubber rock back with an owner to get those segment IDs.

23:13 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not as easy. [SPEAKER_00]: There is like a custom card. [SPEAKER_00]: You can install on hacks to get an entity called or a service call to then go and read like an entity stating routes attributes and it's a whole JSON array in YAML yet. [SPEAKER_00]: It was crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a lot nicer.

23:32 [SPEAKER_00]: and I really appreciate this feature coming through. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've had a similar experience with the EcoVax as well, where, you know, the same thing, it's like you have to go in and find out that room nine is, the office, right? [SPEAKER_02]: And like whatever, and you go through and you're like, okay, let me go figure this out, whatever.

23:51 [SPEAKER_02]: You map it and I had this whole thing where I was like, hey, I'm going to add, I had actually built a dashboard for this quite a while ago, it never worked properly, but that's something about passing multiple rooms into that, I guess, Hikovax API didn't like. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so it was and I didn't want it to do like okay don't don't queue it up like where it's like a clean's room one and then goes back and then does room two like it Do one operation with room one and two right like that kind of thing so That's always been a bit of a pain point for me and so hopefully I've yet to try this but hopefully That works well.

24:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I did I did check and it looks like I do have that [SPEAKER_02]: that prompt for, you know, changing up the mapping the segments to specific areas, which nice. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a single dashboard or a single look pop up and you just map everything there. [SPEAKER_00]: It's good, so stuff to go.

24:52 [SPEAKER_00]: What will be interesting to see is, like, my rebel rock, like the past month, it's just being, it's just getting lost in the house. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is, but I will tell him to go clean a room and then I'll get an notification on my phone like it can't reach the target and it's, [SPEAKER_00]: off the map, like if it thinks it's in a bedroom, but it's really in the kitchen, right?

25:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So are you using it as in matter, or are you using it? [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's just through the verbal cloud integration. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, that's weird. [SPEAKER_00]: I, I just, [SPEAKER_00]: I suspect I'm just need to remap the house, right?

25:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe something in the house is going to be federal or we've moved something in the it's all off right. [SPEAKER_00]: I do wonder though, like if we then remap a house and then start having to rename all your rooms again, will it raise another repair in home assistant or will it use an old map because old ideas or how do you trigger that again?

25:44 [SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be one. [SPEAKER_02]: I suspect it put the same number of rooms. [SPEAKER_02]: And I suspect it will assume a state thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's one of the room names changed in Robarock. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, that's my, my ecovax decided it just, uh, the mopping function just straight up doesn't work anymore.

26:06 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's, uh, it's, it's the base doesn't actually uh, clean the mop like it doesn't, it doesn't suck out the dirty. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's always good. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're looking to upgrade a smart home, you can't go past a Zeus. [SPEAKER_00]: Zeus have released their brand new Z wave a long range RGBW dimmer, which you can now automate 12 to 24 volt LED strips with full brightness and color control.

26:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It's designed to easily install behind your memory wall switch, or you compare it with a Z wave sync controller for more flexibility. [SPEAKER_00]: You can use the RGBW dimmer for accent lighting, under cabinets, behind screens, or anywhere crazy you can think to put an RGBW light strip.

26:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Zeus are also an official works with home citizen partner. [SPEAKER_00]: Recently helping Nubber Castle up up providing long-range devices for testing the home citizen connect is their WA2 radio, so you know you're in friendly hands. [SPEAKER_00]: Zeus offer a range of affordable and innovative devices, including water leak sensors, [SPEAKER_00]: There's N78 High Power really, allows you to control and monitor higher load appliances up to 40 abs, which is perfect for pool pumps, air compressors, and other high-power outlets.

27:19 [SPEAKER_00]: So for the best prices on all Zeus products, head over to thesmartesthouse.com. [SPEAKER_00]: That's thesmartesthouse.com. [SPEAKER_02]: Homosystems now powered by Python 3.14. [SPEAKER_02]: So again, everything's under the hood. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a son of a breaking change here, and it's unlike that.

27:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Especially now, Homosystem only supports containers in OS. [SPEAKER_02]: If you're still running, running it manually through virtual environments or whatever other way, that is something you do need to care about. [SPEAKER_02]: But for probably the majority of our listeners here that's it should just be seamless if you're running the operating system or if you're running it in a container.

27:56 [SPEAKER_02]: But this new version includes a faster interpreter, better startup times, better memory usage. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so it's all good stuff there. [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been using the new protocols, specific dashboards, in the settings area, they've just had a bit of a design refresh, they're now well-consistent.

28:14 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going through elected ZGB dashboard to the MATA dashboard to the ZGB dashboard, they all had like little nuance that they all look completely different. [SPEAKER_00]: They're now consistent, they've got things in the same place, they just look nicer. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's a little bit of quality of life being prepared there.

28:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's cool. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, this one's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_02]: So, Android, you can now set home assistant as your default assistant. [SPEAKER_02]: So, like myself, I've got a little Android tablet that I use as a dashboard of my kitchen, um, in, in, in. [SPEAKER_02]: by way of it's basically a Google Nest Max or something, whatever you call it.

28:52 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a good tablet with a base. [SPEAKER_02]: So now, in there, I can go in and have microweekward on Android. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not recommended to have it on your phone just yet it uses too much battery, but it even works when the phone or tablet is locked. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's pretty cool.

29:11 [SPEAKER_02]: There's an ability to automate the starting and stopping of that weekward detection, so you could have it turned off if nobody is home from a security perspective, maybe. [SPEAKER_02]: I remember very early on when Amazon Echo's first came out, somebody needed like eggs or something for their neighbors.

29:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I was saying they just yell like unlock the door and I just unlock the door. [SPEAKER_02]: So the stop stuff like that, right? [SPEAKER_02]: So if nobody's home, it just automatically locks it out. [SPEAKER_02]: Or stops that process. [SPEAKER_02]: And then just like an Amazon Echo, if another voice assistant or another Android device this nearby, the fastest device will respond to you.

29:51 [SPEAKER_02]: So I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: I tried setting it up. [SPEAKER_02]: I thought when a first came out, I thought this worked like years ago, didn't. [SPEAKER_02]: So now I'm going to try it again. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm excited for that. [SPEAKER_00]: So there is, like the problem, the reason I takes a lot of batteries that, in order for the functionality we're seeing here today, Google restrict a lot of the APIs to device manufacturers only.

30:20 [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, your Samsung's, your LG's, Yeah, I'm going to roll with them. [SPEAKER_00]: They get access. [SPEAKER_00]: to the API for wake protection and good microphone access that is very low power requirements. [SPEAKER_00]: The way home is doing this, they can't do that. [SPEAKER_00]: Google have locked the API down.

30:40 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can have it over the top, basically, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So it does, yeah, it's basically. [SPEAKER_00]: got the microphone running hard the whole time. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it does use a bunch of battery. [SPEAKER_00]: So it definitely try it on your phone, of course, like if you want to test it, test on your phone, but you just disable it and then it's on a tablet somewhere around the house.

31:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Assist can now remove items from what to do list as well. [SPEAKER_00]: So once again, Nate can ask a voice assistant to do something so he can remove that from my to do list, which is going to the little quality of life improvement. [SPEAKER_00]: Send spin. [SPEAKER_00]: You can now use an old Android phone to play media.

31:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you've always been able to do an old Android player media, but coming soon. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll just start that again. [SPEAKER_00]: Send Spin or Android, you can now use an old Android phone to play media. [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that making an app on Android, for sends Spin only so you can get, you've got an old phone somewhere on a tablet, you can run this Android app and then it will sync.

31:51 [SPEAKER_00]: to other sense-bin devices and sync up. [SPEAKER_00]: So you have that multi-room audio playing from that device. [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe you've got some older speakers, Bluetooth speaker, connect to a phone all the time. [SPEAKER_00]: You can use sense-bin to target to that. [SPEAKER_00]: They're also working on a sense-bin to airplay and a sense-bin to a Googlecast bridge as well.

32:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that will come down on that too. [SPEAKER_00]: That would be awesome. [SPEAKER_00]: that's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Now that means we can also synchronize music between these different platforms without any latency issues or anything like that, right? [SPEAKER_02]: And so fiddle take the don't remember, send spin is the platform home is in built or that's library home is in built.

32:38 [SPEAKER_02]: to achieve wireless synchronization so that here devices, if you're casting music to more than one speaker, it's not out of sync there. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Now it would be able to be that between Apple devices, between Google devices, cast all of that stuff, that's cool.

32:57 [SPEAKER_00]: One cool thing that sense being has the music is to have the ability to send music around the place, but they also have the ability to send other data as well, for example, maybe they could send lyrics to just a [SPEAKER_00]: text device, they've also got the ability to send like artwork to picture frames and screens, right, to show what's currently playing, since being could also soon support visualizations on WLED, which I thought is cool, especially around [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas time, ringing for the states, so no microphone will be required in that situation.

33:36 [SPEAKER_00]: What would happen is, I can't remember if it's a music citizen or a sense being doing this, but one of them would send over the data to WLED of the peaks and troughs and the autograph of the fire being played, and WLED would then go ahead and just do its music animation to that. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, WLDA already does this with microphones, we're just taking the microphones out of it.

34:04 [SPEAKER_00]: We just, since being with do the calculations and then send that over to WLDA, that the microphone will be wide. [SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, matter, now supports carbon monoxide alarm states and total volatile organic components or T-Voc air quality level sensors.

34:25 [SPEAKER_02]: So, let's go inside. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're using potato, it now supports the Docker stack and monitoring and control with status sensors, container counts, and you can also start and stop containers using switches. [SPEAKER_00]: It's also gained a prune images action to clean up unused Docker images, which I need.

34:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I've actually got automated via cron, but if I could automate that with her misses, yeah, why not? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's neat. [SPEAKER_02]: Nintendo parental power. [SPEAKER_02]: Nintendo parental controls now has a bedtime end time entity complimenting the bed existing bedtime start time for a complete bedtime schedule with Nintendo.

35:10 [SPEAKER_02]: I did not realize that was a thing so now I didn't know it started diving since it either so we talked about this like two releases ago but I have I have the memory of a goldfish sometime so it's it's it's fresh every time [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have your home assistant? [SPEAKER_00]: You all love it.

35:30 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, today I now supports GPT Image 1.5. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can actually get it to generate images for AI tasks. [SPEAKER_00]: So this is actually cheaper and faster image generation. [SPEAKER_00]: This would be good for things like those AI, E into displays, picture frame, things, maybe you want to.

35:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I can see things. [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't tested like image generation myself yet, but I would love like if I had like a I'd have a canvas mural frame that I could put things up to. [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't tried pasting something custom to it, but it would be cool for things like notifications like like the dishwasher's done so throw up an image of a dishwasher and then a text overlays and dishwasher [SPEAKER_00]: That's good.

36:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: Enthropic also supports Cloud Opus 4.6 with adaptive thinking effort levels and it's gained native structured outputs as well for more accurate tool calls on NAF45 and Numer. [SPEAKER_00]: Just on that AI episode coming out next week, I talked about OpenClaw and I can't remember if I got up to this or not at the time of recording, but the anthropic models have been so much better than the open AI models for OpenClaw for me.

36:53 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're using OpenClaw, [SPEAKER_00]: and just struggling with it. [SPEAKER_00]: I was arguing with my employer assistance for quite some time until I switched over to anthropic. [SPEAKER_00]: So do check them out. [SPEAKER_00]: They're very expensive, but it's not in [SPEAKER_00]: energy has been renamed to electricity for the energy dashboards.

37:17 [SPEAKER_00]: There's also new tile cards at the top of the energy dashboards that will show life data. [SPEAKER_00]: For example, how much electricity is currently being used or how much water is flowing through your house. [SPEAKER_00]: And the energy bar chart tool tips will now also include the day of the week.

37:34 [SPEAKER_00]: So Monday, Tuesday Wednesday. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so easily actually, I hope you should help you spot usage patterns. [SPEAKER_00]: I know for me, I'm looking at, get the bar chart and I'm like, okay, cool February 16th. [SPEAKER_00]: I use that much. [SPEAKER_00]: What does that even mean?

37:47 [SPEAKER_00]: But now I can say, oh, that was a Wednesday and everyone's home at a Wednesday. [SPEAKER_00]: So that makes sense. [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: Would it make more sense to take that and just throw it against like using like homocycin MCP or one of the MCP servers just to be like, hey, whatever LLM does this, you know, find the transfer me.

38:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm absolutely, I mean, you definitely could do that already, but this is just a little digit dashboard, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like this is just a easy way to, when you hover over it, but yeah, you can look at it. [SPEAKER_00]: If you wanted to refer to that, I absolutely, you could export the data out and throw it into your AI of choice and go where, what's the go right?

38:30 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the go right? [SPEAKER_00]: What's going on? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Automation, the automation UI can now mark automation steps to continue on error, which is so typically what would happen is if it airs out, it airs out now you can just say, hey, mark that and then kind of keep going right so it's been in the ammo, there's been some work done to allow this to basically have that be able to happen in the UI.

39:01 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been talking about those AI art frames while just in time, Switchbot Cloud does now support the new Switchbot AI art frame. [SPEAKER_00]: It has battery level, next previous picture buttons, and you can display a little entity image of what is on that frame at that time. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you've got the Switchbot AI art frame, you can now control it, clone assistant.

39:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we actually got a chance to see see those live at the CES this year and they do look really nice. [SPEAKER_02]: But man, are they expensive? [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, they are. [SPEAKER_02]: A link, especially color. [SPEAKER_02]: A link. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And they have a little like tool that the exactly what Phil talked about earlier where, you know, you could use chatchip, teach, generate images and stuff like that.

39:51 [SPEAKER_02]: So they do have that tool built in, which is, is, that's all right. [SPEAKER_02]: But the other, I don't know, it, they're not, they're not super cheap. [SPEAKER_02]: So they do look really nice though. [SPEAKER_02]: I do, I do really like to look at them. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, roguerock washer and dryers, um, so now their zeo lineup of, uh, washers and dryers are, uh, fully supported in home assistant, um, along with their program selection temperature control drying modes and detergent status.

40:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's really good actually. [SPEAKER_00]: That's, uh, [SPEAKER_02]: But that's pretty complete for first pass at an integration of that. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they supported it before, I didn't think they did, but, again, this could just be my Goldfish memory. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're using proxmox, that's now gained from your sensors, including CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, and status sensors for all those known virtual machines and containers, I don't proxmox, and I'm very much going hand-in-hand, a lot of people prefer to run home misses with proxmox, so there you go, that's for you.

41:00 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's wrong with that. [SPEAKER_02]: Monitor home system, virtual machine for home system. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Mealy now has a get shopping list items, action that returns a structured, that returns structured shopping list data, which is pretty useful for automations that need more detail than the to-do entity provides.

41:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I've had only set up for like three, four years now and it's because I was like, hey, you know what, let's digitize our recipes and stuff like that and it's even in a little, uh, [SPEAKER_02]: analysis and there. [SPEAKER_02]: I just think we don't really use it. [SPEAKER_02]: I use it for a couple of recipes where I'm like, oh, this is in in nearly, but it's still, I still haven't running, it's still up to date, whatever, but for the most part, it doesn't do a whole lot.

41:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I need to start using it again. [SPEAKER_00]: And you say this all the time right like we need to meal plan. [SPEAKER_00]: We need to meal prep. [SPEAKER_00]: We just need to better at doing this. [SPEAKER_00]: I've done merely what's the other one. [SPEAKER_00]: There's another one.

42:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Self folks are told that I was running to just type in the URL that would get all the recipe details for you. [SPEAKER_00]: I just put on use it. [SPEAKER_00]: I've even in OpenClaw, one of the first assistants I set up was a shared personal chef assistant to manage the meal plans. [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't said to a single message.

42:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't spoken to him, right? [SPEAKER_00]: It's, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I think mealtime in at least my case is very hybrid fluid dynamic situation where it could change from the morning plan to the, like, planning on the day is hard enough little loom, like pre-planning what meal you're going to have on Thursday on Sunday night, right?

42:47 [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I don't know how to solve that yet. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, it is a great platform. [SPEAKER_02]: I really wish I use it more. [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't. [SPEAKER_02]: I think at one point I had like the database got corrupt so I lost like most of it and at the time I wasn't, I was only backing up like super critical apps.

43:07 [SPEAKER_02]: And really just didn't happen to be one of them. [SPEAKER_02]: So then I had to start again and I think at this point it probably have like four recipes in there maybe and and so yeah again, it's that that's that's going to be my 2026 goal is to hopefully Even if not using mealing it into better habit with that [SPEAKER_00]: careful with Semba, the way someone asks you, how's he meally doing and you're going to be doing?

43:33 [SPEAKER_02]: And I can tell you how it's not, uh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: As the most things, it's just, it's a goal. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, well, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: If you have a Renault vehicle, you can now hunk the horn or flashlights of your car. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, cool. [SPEAKER_00]: If you like, I guess if you've lost your car in the car, I'm gonna do that.

43:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Just let me assist it. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a great [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so new integrations landing in 2026.3, there is now the ghost integration. [SPEAKER_00]: So ghost is a blogging platform. [SPEAKER_00]: So if thinking like a web site, I have just moved my web site over the ghost.

44:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So I use ghost. [SPEAKER_00]: It's now in home as an integration. [SPEAKER_00]: The integration is actually created. [SPEAKER_00]: or made by the creator of Ghost themselves. [SPEAKER_00]: They've created this integration into Home Assistant. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can see things like number of subscribers, number of posts that are public, revenue, does a whole bunch of data that you can pull in into Home Assistant.

44:39 [SPEAKER_00]: If that's your statement, if you have any other requirements, there you go. [UNKNOWN]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, maybe if you had a certain number of readers can like flashlights and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's not really a hundred or two hundred or a thousand or whatever.

44:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he goes to amplifier so you can now control a Hagle Music Systems amplifiers locally over your network, which is nice. [SPEAKER_02]: Manage the power volume input selection and mute with real time push updates for instant feedback. [SPEAKER_00]: Home Vault, you can now read local data from your home vault battery, or if I go and network into home assistance, that is handy.

45:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, hype and tech cloud, if you use their solar inverter system, um, via their cloud system, then you can pull that data in. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not local though, but close second. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not backing up home assistant, you should be and you're really getting like no excuses anymore because I drive E2 and one drive for business are now available as backup sources in home assistant.

45:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a, there are actually a ton of things you can use now. [SPEAKER_02]: So, we felt you were bang on. [SPEAKER_02]: There is no reason you shouldn't use it, right? [SPEAKER_02]: And at many of them, if you have an abocassus subscription, upload it to there or send that as your backup target.

45:57 [SPEAKER_02]: There is no reason you can't do that. [SPEAKER_02]: in-devote. [SPEAKER_02]: You can now communicate directly with your in-devote energy storage device over to local network. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a couple of battery or energy storage things now. [SPEAKER_02]: That's cool. [SPEAKER_02]: That's really cool.

46:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's certainly going into a theme, right? [SPEAKER_00]: IntelliClima, you can now integrate your Fantini Cosmic Eco-Confident ventilation that devices into home-miss isn't. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can do things like fan control modes, speeds, and the heat recovery system could all be controlled now, locally with home-miss system.

46:28 [SPEAKER_02]: This never happens where you get the hard name. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it [SPEAKER_00]: potentially Asia as well, I'm not sure, but yeah, if you're in New York, the MTA can now give you real time a rival predictions for all New York City subway and bus lines, so that's actually very handy.

47:14 [SPEAKER_02]: That's quite handy actually. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to, I will stop talking about over the course eventually, but I just taught one of my open-core agents to read my local transport API here with my API keys, and now I'm going to ask my assistant, you know, when's the next train going to my station in platform is it on and it tells me right with disruptions and live data.

47:37 [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, handy. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't don't forget to like and subscribe, Phil's new AI bro channel. [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, not good. [SPEAKER_02]: It's, it's, no, it is, it is cool. [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, here we got this, my turn down. [SPEAKER_02]: Minium mightus, new mightis. [SPEAKER_02]: Connect here, Evan.

47:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Xenco, a Xenco, my new mighty, still not sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Heating and energy management devices such as electric radiators, towel rails, and under floor heating. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Power Fox local, you can now get the Power Fox power opti device directly over your local network into home assistant.

48:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's like energy monitoring. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, red tech or red G tech a mucher, um, they have some smart switches that can have connected to home assistant, I can control and monitor their cloud connected switches and relays from this Brazilian smart home brand. [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you all some cool stuff coming out of Brazil.

48:39 [SPEAKER_00]: System Nexatoo, you can not integrate your system and Xatoo smartphone devices locally. [SPEAKER_00]: They do things like lights, switches, smartphones, and they also have support for dimmers and outdoor plugs as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Lots, lots coming in this release too, hey? [SPEAKER_02]: That's uh, yeah.

48:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, I'm not like, I guess like some people also, oh, you know, just another switch brand or another, but like give the shout out where like this is possible for the company, like the company's doing this or some or customer of that company has purchased a product and gone to the effort to put it into home assistant.

49:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And they did say like a copy of like this is a community driven release, right? [SPEAKER_00]: So it's fantastic to see all these different brands coming into my business. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll even add to that and say, you know, if our community is just amazing, right here, you get this product and you're like, hey, this has the capability to to, it's a smart device, it has the capability of being connected.

49:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody's done it yet. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me just go in and do it myself. [SPEAKER_02]: To me that if I was the company, I would also be monitoring these kinds of things and be like, oh, hey, sale wrote this integration for this other thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Either, hey, hey, they'll do lots of free devices, whatever.

49:58 [SPEAKER_02]: But beyond that, it's also like, hey, you know what? [SPEAKER_02]: There's clearly a need for this. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me maybe take it over and point to resource at it, right? [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully that's what some of these companies are planning on doing or are doing. [SPEAKER_02]: we have seen some stuff being taken over by the manufacturers themselves and hopefully that actually becomes a bigger trend.

50:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Freeing up time for, you know, community members to develop other stuff, right, if that's what they choose to do. [SPEAKER_02]: But I digress. [SPEAKER_02]: Teltonica, if you can monitor your teltonica network routers running RUT OS, you can track cell signal, squality, modem temperature, and network connectivity.

50:45 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have a trained or American standard thermostat, you can now control that locally over your network using that direct MTLS connection, so no cloud required at all. [SPEAKER_00]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_02]: Monogery is involved batteries in a homocystint, including the state of charge and other battery metrics.

51:05 [SPEAKER_02]: So again, more battery monitoring coming in. [SPEAKER_02]: And the second one with something with a volt in it. [SPEAKER_02]: One was in, in the volt, the other one's zin volt. [SPEAKER_02]: So all right, let's talk some break and change as well. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, container images.

51:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, non-back was compatible changes. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm back with this. [SPEAKER_00]: The container images now uses a new compression engine. [SPEAKER_00]: So your home misses contain images and now compressed with ZSTD instead of GZIP. [SPEAKER_00]: So since container D has supported ZSTD since about 2021, this is not expected to break current installations of home assistant.

51:52 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're using a very old container runtime, so if using an old Docker version, perhaps, make sure it supports the ZSTD before updating. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and again, if you're installing Docker and I kind of stuff, make sure you're following the guide on Docker's website to install it, because again, if you're just doing, I don't know if you're using a Bluetooth app install, [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, Docker or during the Red Hat side, D&F install a Docker, that is an older version.

52:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Ray, you want to make sure you're going through, uh, just the script and it's like Docker.io or something like that. [SPEAKER_02]: They've, they've, there's a separate one, but just, yeah, make sure you have the right repose and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, you won't run into that.

52:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Just let all, uh, thing I've learned along the way and my travels. [SPEAKER_02]: lights. [SPEAKER_02]: So color temperature and mirroreds has been removed. [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're using that, use color temp kelvin instead. [SPEAKER_00]: If you are integrating fans with a template entity, the template fans state will be unavailable if the state template encounters in syntax error.

53:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Previously, a syntax error would show the fans state as off. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you were relying on the animations, watch out for that. [SPEAKER_00]: The percentage attribute will be none. [SPEAKER_00]: If the percentage template encounters a syntax error, [SPEAKER_00]: and template fans can now have the unknown state, a state template that returns none will render the entity as unknown instead of off.

53:31 [SPEAKER_00]: So you might get caught out there in your own mentions if you're a little like on that. [SPEAKER_02]: Tato, I feel like we just recently talked to a Tato, but maybe again, this is just my perception of time. [SPEAKER_02]: But the mobile device tracking piece has been removed from the Tato integration, mobile devices, and their associated device tracker entities are no longer available.

53:53 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're using this for that, don't. [SPEAKER_02]: This change resolves reauthentication issues and reduces unnecessary load on their API. [SPEAKER_00]: So sounds like to me like previously you were able to use Taylor as a prison sensor, you know, on my home, my way, my work. [SPEAKER_00]: That would require pinging the API.

54:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll just read between the lines here. [SPEAKER_00]: They've said, no, please don't do that. [SPEAKER_00]: API is not a sign for that. [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_00]: Is that wave percentage speeds reported by a Z wave fans have been corrected to align with other integrations so I think there's may result in, you know, like a One degree off like a 1 percentage point off, you know, 607% yesterday, it's going to be 66 today or something like that.

54:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It allows everything else, but, you know, it must be any automations. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going down to the percentage degree, that may change things for you. [SPEAKER_00]: Perfect. [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_00]: As I said, we've got an AI episode releasing next week.

55:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Watch out for that. [SPEAKER_00]: It's available on our Patreon now. [SPEAKER_00]: We've also got an episode with Caden, who has done a whole bunch of stuff for these cats. [SPEAKER_00]: That's all thanks for watching tomorrow for our Patreon as well. [SPEAKER_00]: Would you like to get everyone listening and support?

55:16 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you next month. [SPEAKER_00]: Perfect! [SPEAKER_00]: Cheers! [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to share your home's isn't journey or come on as a guest, reach out to us at feedback at haspodcast.io, that's HASSpodcast.io. [SPEAKER_01]: The home assistant podcast is hosted by Phil Hardiron and myself, Rohan Keremandi.

55:42 [SPEAKER_01]: For links to topics we discussed today, check out our show notes on haspodcast.io.