this year has been an odd one 2020 kicked off January 1st and my resolution was to lose some weight and I've done well lost anywhere from 40 we'll say 14 to 18 pounds so almost 20 pounds but it's kind of like yeah it fluctuates a few pounds here and there but I've lost some weight that's my new year's resolution you remember that at Studio D I purchased a new scale a smart scale to help me to be able to keep track of that weight loss process and and my progress and it's been cool to see the graph and those of you who picked up one of those scales know that it is really really neat to be able to pull out your smart phone and see the trends and see and it's like a challenge for yourself a bit of an encouragement just to know the numbers I think has been really really helpful for me that's how the year started off so hey one good thing came out of 2020 so far and then we found out that we had to move category 5 technology TV at the end of February so that was not too far into the year at all made the announcement and we held a Kickstarter campaign which was successful and I thank you so very much for your support and we had to move at the end of March but as you know of course this whole pandemic thing kind of took off mid March so here in Canada it was it was a couple weeks into March when things really started getting serious and so we moved everything in as best we could but I couldn't have my team here really helping to unpack or get things set up and so it's been that kind of struggle to get to the point where we're up and running at full capacity and we're not there yet I can't wait until Henry Bailey Brown can be here in the studio with me probably like on another camera over in the far corner but he'll be here Jeff Weston will be here Sascha Rickman has had to move across the country to Newfoundland but she'll be here in some way or another and one of the cool ways that Sasha has been able to participate in our community even through this time and how some of our community has been able to keep in contact and and kind of keep up to date with what one another are up to is through a program that we host called coffee break and our category five community coffee break is held in general once a week we do have the occasional exception including this week because I am gonna take my wife and kids away for the weekend and I'm really looking forward to a little bit of downtime I think we all need a little bit of respite every now and again and this week it's it's time for for me to get the kids out of the house and and and go somewhere and just kind of relax and spend some time together to just playing board games and things like that having campfires really really looking forward to that and tis the season we can't do everything that we normally do we can't go windows well we can go window-shopping we can't go you know taking the kids into all the stores that we normally would up in cottage country and all that kind of stuff and can't do our grocery shops the same way that we used to what a world hey I posted on Twitter this morning with my mask on at work but who knew when 2020 started that I'd be a a ninja or at least I'd looked that way but so with the rare occasion where we're not actually holding one typically it is once a week that we hold the community coffee break and the whole purpose behind that and I'm talking about you know this is all that's been going on and I know that everybody has been affected differently throughout the pandemic but the coffee break was set up specifically to give us a place to go just like I'm going away to the cottage this weekend it's a place for you our community the category five TV coffee break is a place for us to all get together and just go just get away from it all just have some respite some time to hang out with the community members and just be ourselves have fun chat about random things the technology that has us excited this week and not talk about the things that are bringing us down that's the category five community coffee break and let's take a quick look at some of the many highlights of the category five community coffee break and I'd encourage you as you watch these clips to check in and and visit the category five community coffee break by going to our website category five TV is category five dot TV and when you're there scroll down on the homepage and you'll see the schedule for the coffee break and I'd encourage you to be a part of that it's a very small tight-knit group right now and I know that our community is much much larger than what's represented in the coffee break and that's part of what I wanted to show you because baby maybe you don't know that you can join it too and I'd love to have you as a part of it so let's take a look at some of the some of the highlights there have been wow I think it's like sixty three coffee breaks so far Wow right so among those are some gems and some where we just sat around just I just hanging out but among those I've pulled some clips just to show you a little bit about what goes on on the coffee break so here you are [Music] a really cool thing about the pine phone is that it is completely popular you know as much as most phones can be it's got a removable battery oh that's a standard sampling j7 battery so you can get them really easily even though this one's branded or it's just a standard battery this is the the module that does the Wi-Fi Bluetooth and oh no what timing Wi-Fi bluetooth ends what no I'm glad it wasn't just me you dropped out there Bo you said this is a Wi-Fi Bluetooth and GSM so that's a it's a quick tell module so this actually runs stripped-down version of Linux on it so that's that's the only mm-hmm closed part of the entire phone is that here is this like Mark Shuttleworth so dream coming to light you know in a lot of ways let's see if I can get close up here canonical I really wanted to do the aboon two phone right and this is this is a linear I own folks so you can I don't know if you can see it but these are dip switches right here so these nice yeah those are our hardware disable switches for different things this little white label next to it tells you what they are it's modem Wi-Fi Bluetooth microphone rear camera front camera and headphone that's what you can turn off do you sell those at Ameritrade we will be as soon as that are available and this right here is our pogo pins these are I squared C interface to the phone oh wow so people can make a you know like keyboard cases or extended batteries or anything that does I squared C and this is like how much is a is a pine phone remind me both it'll be less than $200 and so here here's Manjaro running so it's not running Android it's running down Linux it's running the next yeah let's see I'm trying to do this backwards oh yes so anyway I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing because you saw actually yeah I want one even more now that I was planning to show you yesterday but I didn't find it and this morning I remembered oh I have one box tucked away in another look inside Zella I thought it was a game and watch oh my goodness Liam come see this can you make a noise for me Oh an actual game and watch yeah um free Nintendo so that was what created the Nintendo yeah it's from 1988 85 I've had it I've had this one for you and I understand like if that didn't happen if that guy wasn't such a pushy salesman it Nintendo might not have happened wow that's awesome that's universal but it's for the foot foot for today oh I know that was pre well they might say Nintendo on it does it yeah yeah it does Oakley yeah because they were there two vendors and I don't know the clone of there and Nintendo and that I used to have one of the clones and I had one it was breaking breaking out of prison it was a searchlight to going all around and you have to avoid the searchlight and you had to avoid to God runs and then you had to go 4-2 to their friends and the first one had to knock a hole in the fence and then escape and yeah I think I had my all-time high was almost five five five hundred points and I did that and I mean closing they're passing four hundred points their searchlight was really going fast I had that for three or four years and then we moved and I haven't seen it since if I recall correctly I think Game and Watch was a device out of Japan that intended they didn't create Nintendo already existed but Nintendo would have folded if game and watched the guy who was selling Game and Watch came to them and said please carry this so they slot their name on it and it became a Nintendo product and made Nintendo but what they became I guess timing okay so whoever said think convert to a watch does it have a clock at least there you go we can't we can't see what you're working on because your mic isn't on see this yeah this is my gaming system ice case this is a little one this I built three of these this is the little one there's a medium sized one that I built because my nephew's were fighting over the fact there's only one controller on this thing and then there is the full-sized arcade cabinet that I built for a friend after they saw the other two sweet Liam wants to show you guys his retro gaming console that's the act games this is the Sega Genesis do you want to put on like Sonic show them how cool it yeah it's got like 2,000 games on it I was hoping to get one of those new Oh droids but I gather its back borders to the camera oh he's got Sonic running free you guys copyright infringement right here bro boy you guys see that yeah it's really hard to see on camera yeah it's actually these things are awesome that's nice those things are awesome it takes an SD card so you can pop a rom on it it will hey guess what happened this morning guys you'll never go well yeah I got to work where I am now and maybe 10 minutes later 15 minutes after I got here I got a phone call from our alarm company that our alarm was going off at the new studio I was gonna say the alarm went off feeling it was something like that I was gonna I was gonna say it jokingly but yeah so I my initial thought was oh okay well there must be a false alarm like you know we just had it installed on Saturday right so sometimes there's some kinks to work out so I emailed the alarm company and asked them to send me a copy of the manual so I can reprogram the terminal thing just in case it was a false alarm and I and I went there and everything was fine so I called off the police and told them we didn't need anyone because it was a false alarm and then I went back over my surveillance footage just on a whim and sure enough 837 this morning my door opens wide and the guy walks in looks around looks around and then the alarm starts going off and then he quickly gets out and how did he get in exactly so that was my thought so I'm sitting there watching the surveillance video and I'm and I can't see his face I can't see any because I haven't set up the surveillance yet so it was this the camera in the in the office happen to be pointed toward the door so I saw the door open that guy walk in you see kinda his right side and he's looking around and then he and the alarm goes off right so as I'm watching this footage I hear somebody rustling on my door so I jump and I run to the the door of the studio and I whip it open and I say you can't come in here remember I've just walked into surveillance and I see this guy turns out he's one of the maintenance workers at the condo and he didn't when when they leased out our unit they didn't mark us as as a leased unit they had because they're stored staffed right because of the copán 19 they've been closer so we're moved in we've got our alarm setup but they didn't mark it as as not vacant so they thought it was empty he thought it was empty and he's going around for me all of the empty units he's got a clipboard of all the empty units and they do an inspection at the beginning of every month I guess presumably to prepare them for you know that months you know trying to rent it out but so he had walked right in he had a key obviously he just walked right in set off the alarm and he's just freaking out and of course my his first impression of me is me yank in the door oh I had no idea who you were or what you were doing all I know is that the police are here my alarm went off this morning I got a call the alarm company and get them to reset the code and yeah so that's how my day started Wow and that happened this morning happened this morning at least mail I got a voice snail from the property management company all apologetic and they're going on about how you know it'll never happen again we mark we're so sorry I'm really hoping I don't get a bill for a false alarm a good point because if the police get cold lay out they'll uh they'll charge it for that and you want to know what's neat is that I got there within ten minutes in the palm roughly there oh yeah oh yeah they were miss around with that stuff yeah I poured myself a coffee in this particular mug as a reminder to let you know that Andrew Andrew Lloyd Webber is broadcasting the 25th anniversary stage production of the musical on YouTube this weekend so it's a limited time thing it's for 48 hours I think in the UK and 72 hours in the rest of the world I believe because of copyright so I posted the link to that under I think I forget what the videos channel is on discord I think it's called like interesting videos well you know on discord if you click on there it's the last video that I posted but it is limited it's only this weekend if you want to see the stage production which i think is cool because growing up being such a fan of the Phantom of the Opera as a child having seen that Pantages Theatre when I was in grade 6 and then like following the musical four years after that I always wanted to have a recording of the the actual stage production rather than the movie the movie came out and that was something but it wasn't as good so it's nice to see a proper produced staged version of the show so that yeah probably cool I went to see it in a smaller theater so it was a little suggested cause it would have been in one of the larger theaters and I did get the original CD of the original tossed with but not original Canadian or UK this was a UK I believe okay yeah I can't remember I can't remember his name I would as soon as I as soon as I hear it I know here no that wasn't the right one no call from Ireland was was the Phantom here in Canada okay talking a bit and I'm trying to find the CD and I don't I just don't see it oh I want to say Kevin or Brian or so but it's like I can't think of it maybe I'll switch around my camera and I can like give you a little bit of a walkthrough of what if I can okay so let's see I'm really new it doesn't really do the Wow okay here we so have you ever taken carpet adhesive off of floor board it's very difficult yeah I've been using that's iron on Steam and just steaming the bejeebies out of that if I go to the other side of the Attic obviously there's still like lots of work that needs to be done up here my cat5 office is it insulated don't mean what's it gonna be like in the middle of summer that'll be hot that's really stinking hot right now no insulation in there after none at all yeah we're gonna have to ensure like that whole area there so sure for that to be viable yeah that is my washing machine I this should be my office down here yes you really need to make this part of your part of this your office it's far more suitable yeah I mean they're real it is it will be a little bit cooler yeah thirty-two degrees plus some yes what I think we've decided on is making a cluster of independent so a cluster as in multiple devices but independent as in each one will have its own distro raspberry pi unit that will each have the raspberry pi OS and zoom install and each one of those has an HDMI output so then each Raspberry Pi becomes a camera source essentially for zoom so I'd have one Raspberry Pi dedicated to Jeff and that would be HDMI out into his capture and then when I push the button on the on the stream deck it would switch to his camera basically and then have one for sasha and one for Henry and however we want to set it up so it's just like one Raspberry Pi per person it might work so that's kind of where I'm sorry I think I missed what it is you were meaning to do with that raspberry pod being able to have it have them come in remotely through zoom ah I see okay because for the show we obviously don't want this grid layout and we can't have it so that it's switching back and forth every time someone speaks and okay no you need a separate input for each of them so you can edit them post as Latricia any way you want even and even live we need to be able to switch to the person who's speaking manually and I and and people may not realize but zoom cannot be running on the broadcast system because it's broadcasting so that means the good camera that I use is out of it basically is so during the interview or during the conversation I would be on my phone which would Bend you've done you've done this before though was I recall because you you did the same thing I live oh good point yeah Wednesday we found that out when my pine book probe would not work for the feature and then so then signed off rebooted changed the way I connected things I plugged the I plugged the Atomos ninja flame into the pine Book Pro and pushed the cord mm-hmm worked flawlessly so some and if not a half a dozen Raspberry Pi for eight gigs yeah exactly so well I think four would do it because four is as many inputs as I have that oh yeah so then we just basically that would allow us to treat each person on their Zune connection as a as a camera source so I think that could work and it's probably a pretty good way to do it on the cheap on the cheap it's going to cost like you know four raspberry pies here in Canada is like 600 bucks so you know what selectee dollars American run Robert said to me because Robert in Florida right he's like oh yeah Raspberry Pi it's only 75 bucks for the new one really one hundred and ten dollars here just for the board plus you gotta buy the power supply plus you gotta buy the case I'm not even sure I'd use a rough spot for that anymore I probably you've already already been talking about the owner you've already been talking about the Odroid what was it C for I believe yeah I don't know I haven't looked yet I don't know if they're any cheaper and they get hit up a mirror droid will soon see what they've got my top light my problem is yeah I really don't like and much menu you've seen this too right you've seen where the Raspberry Pi if it loses power potentially that SD card yeah it's corrupted you can't afford that especially especially not live so you know maybe maybe wants an option I don't know what the price point is though so maybe maybe just a bunch of a few fours with with emmc Little Debbie and this with the desktop yeah I like I like what you're thinking and it's got HDMI I was strictly thinking you know I I just need a sec with HDMI output but you're right it doesn't have to be Raspberry Pi no you need for it to work especially when you're alive you can't afford to be having it break down unexpectedly not just not to say that they will but if you lose power all of a sudden then but if you know why our and the SD card corrupting is the least of your problems if my UPS is so weak it can't power for raspberry PI's I'm in trouble because that are 510 is going there we've got a Retina beeping at ups don't you I do yeah I gotta get new batteries and that thing well it's a good point yeah I threw it out there in case it would be you know yeah as a peasant option so yeah I like that idea Xu fours or the new C for any of those would probably do just fine it's really just plugging them in and then seeing how they how they operate with doing holes green it's been so much fun getting to know certain members of our community and I'd encourage you to become a part of our community coffee break as well just a great usually weekly place that you can come together on a zoom meeting and be a part of our community in that way so I'd encourage you to check it out category 5 TV just scroll up the scroll down on the home page and you'll find the schedule there the past videos everything else and if you have any questions join our discord and that is found by clicking on interact and then you'll see join our discord server there at category 5 dot