 Listener Corey sent and of course Corey is is a listener and he's also the person who is responsible for creating and maintaining our Makikab iPhone app. Corey heard us talking on a recent episode about hoops, which is an engine that allows you to add home kit, add devices, add non kit, non home kit devices to home kit and hoops is based upon home bridge which is sort of the core tech that that lets you do that hoops added a graphical interface to it years ago that was much easier to manage hoops has gone from version three to version four and there is no docker way to do hoops for on my Synology distation yet so I had not moved to hoops for and he heard me talking about that and he said you know I know you like hoops and you've used hoops but you should go back to home bridge because home bridge now is so much better than it used to be it has a graph graphical interface and it's it's it's actually in his opinion better than the one in hoops and he is correct even better than that or adding to that is that there is a package for home bridge on DSM 7 for us Synology users so I don't even have to mess with docker for this and I was able to get it installed very quickly I moved all my things over to it and it has been fantastic the nice part about the new home bridge which carries over to hoops version four is that you get to run a separate bridge for each family of devices that you are running instead of just one bridge for all of them this sounds like technical mumbo jumbo and it is the net effect though is that if you have one type of device that is causing problems in home bridge the old way when there was just one bridge it brought everything down now it only brings that device down if you do a separate bridge for each one so it's it's a whole lot more stable and it has been great uh it's been I've had it running for probably a month now so thank you Corey for that that heads up and uh if ever if anyone out there is is interested in it that's the way to go we'll put a link in the show notes well also we're going to be doing now that I'm back from my travels that my you know maize worth of travels we're going to be doing some uh hangouts if you will in our discord uh room or discord channel at mackeykebduck