https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nanaimo-infusion-tod-maffin-1.7519638

What this article didn’t say was that Tod Maffin (the organizer) used to work for the CBC (where the article was written). He was a technology columnist for CBC radio. I actually met him a couple of times when he was on my side of the country (Nova Scotia).

I don’t think this is true because Im not sure Section 31 even counts as Star Trek

Damn it. This is one of my favourite bands. What’s the protocol here, am I still allowed to like them? What if they get a new drummer?

The elephant in the room…

Exactly my feelings when I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” called “classic rock” a few years ago.

The Porg?

A person’s state becomes the name of the zone when they’re in them.

In the current version of Home Assistant, if a person is in two overlapping zones, what happens? It’s possible to be in that state today.

I suppose it doesn’t really matter though. I’ve named all my home zones similarly: home1, home2, etc. It would be easy enough to check for a zone where the object_id starts with “home”

I…honestly thought I just did that. I want to have an irregularly-shaped zone. I don’t see why they couldn’t logically be grouped, you just aren’t able to do it right now.

Anyway, thanks for reading what I typed.

I am pretty sure I’m not confused. I want to group zones together so they can be used in automation triggers and I can change the group’s membership and not have to change every automation trigger. The group’s state should indicate the number of person entities that were in any zone in the group.

I’m not talking about areas at all.

Just to be clear, I don’t believe grouping zones is currently possible. It’s just a want I have.

You don’t get the choice to use more than one zone as your official “home” zone though, do you?

Like when you create a zone, it’s a circle. It has a radius. I want a zone that is an arbitrary shape, so I compose it out of several smaller zones. I want to formally make it a single zone in Home Assistant by grouping them. Currently you can’t add zones to groups or create a zone with type: group or anything like that.

This is giving me Punch Out vibes. Little Mac vs King Hippo.

I can already do this on my Samsung Galaxy S23. Has this been a Samsung-only thing?

That being said, Samsung’s Bluetooth UI leaves much to be desired, IMO.

Edit: Granted, it doesn’t work exactly as described in the article, but I can have multiple BT speakers playing the same content from my phone.

Yes, obviously, I could Google this, but I’m looking for real peoples’ opinions. I’ve owned OnePlus and LG android phones previously to my current Samsung. I loved my OnePlus phones, but my current provider doesn’t support them.

Edit: LOL. I just realized you were suggesting Google as an android phone manufacturer.

What is the best Android phone manufacturer after we count out Samsung?

Oh, look. An U.T.B.A.P.H.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/u-t-b-a-p-h/

Thanks for this! I spent the better part of the last hour going through the older videos on that channel. Awesome stuff.

Cold apples are the best!

Testify!

I always thought that the word “island” was just short for “isolated land” – There has to be some reason there’s an ‘s’ in there right?. But some etymologist told me it didn’t come to be in that manner.