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Hey, Jay. I'm here returning. Sorry for the brief delay there, but my grandson ... I don't know if I told you, but we do four-day a week school here in our community. So now on Friday, he's off of school. So he spent the night last night, and he's awake. He is awake. Yes, sir. The home automation issue that you speak of is a real issue for a lot of people. We all know that companies, they turn their products every so often. They have to. Also, how do they make money? To mitigate that in my own household, I'm not going with a particular brand. I am choosing to go with ... I'm starting to build it all up again from scratch, because now I have a clear picture of what I want. I'm putting in a mini PC server is what I'm putting in. It's going to be larger than a pie, but not quite the size of a full PC or a server. It's a mini PC. I'm going to set up home assistant on it, and I'm going to buy the Zigbee and Zaxbee dongles to put into it. In that way, if they quit using certain things, well, that's okay, because my setup will allow us to easily make a switch and to use multiple kinds of IoT things, different makers of lights or switches or outlets or sensors. That gives me the flexibility. Yes, it's not plug and play like Apple. I don't just set it up, forget about it. I do have to monitor it, maintain it, do all that stuff. On the flip side, I'm not tied to any one specific product. That gives me some peace of mind knowing that if I invest money into all of this and things change in five years, well, I didn't raise my money. I can shift, remain a little bit fluid, and start buying something else to replace what was phased out. That's my plan. And Leveno does make a good switch. I can tell you that from firsthand experience. So maybe that would be it. The other one, I have no experience with at all. I don't know if that helped you or not, but that's my plan. The reason why we're getting so big into it is because we are getting ready to buy some land, and we have decided and started talking with the right people about building a smaller house. I don't think this time. It's going to be fully home automated. That's the plan. If I die in 10, 15 years, and my wife lives 20 years beyond me, I want her to have as easy a life as possible. So anyhow, let's move on down from gray to George. KB1MAI. The mic is on.