Aaah these youngsters!!! 
And I havenât even mentioned the Tandy TRS-80 with Flight Simulator 1 (1984 but not yet Orwellâs!)
On the TRS it was monochrome! 
but for the time it wasâŠthe best!
Yes, I knew that, I had the privilege of assembling a Prof 80 which was a TRS
Itâs true that it dates back, it was awesome to put together your ZX81, plug it into your TV and magic!
Then the first PC-compatible ones to put togetherâŠ
The first one who says « All our old stuff for 2024 » gets a slap!!! 
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I started with this kit-built computer; I was 13 years old and it was in 1976â77. I had ordered it from the magazine Electronique Pratique, and to pay for it I did odd jobs for elderly men (splitting wood) and installed the electrical system for a farmer in a shed. Era of BASIC! Mini printer with special paper, backup on an audio cassette tape drive and screen = TV
then moved on to the TO7, then Amstrad PC1512 (GW-BASIC),
then after joining the PTT I found myself with Bull Micral 30, then 40, 65 and 75, with DOS and software like Multiplan and Textor. then Windows 1⊠up to now (retired, 14 computers, asm,c,c++, rust, delphi/pascal,sql, raspberry, arduino,âŠ).
I still have all those little pieces of equipment at home, a real little museum, not to mention the Minitel!
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I think weâve just lost @pierre-gilles there! He just realized that he set up a senior citizensâ club!!!
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Year of grace 1966 with an IBM 1130, who can top that?
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and the winner is âŠ@jparbel !!! 
Poor @pierre-gilles !!
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@Tlse-vins
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Thank you for this very transparent summary.
I would like to comment on Matter and give a few points that seem important to me.
Matter: Like many (and especially in the Home Assistant community) weâve been hearing about Matter for several years and we havenât seen much come of it. It seems that this year several products are coming out under Matter (is 2024 the Matter year we were promised?). Like Pierre-Gilles (whom I donât want to mention to let him enjoy his vacation without being solicited) Iâm ambivalent about âinteroperabilityâ. We were already promised that with Zigbee, and then with the arrival of low-cost competitors, the big manufacturers started making their devices incompatible with other manufacturers.
I would associate Matter with Tuya in its general operation (Iâm not talking about the technical side, which is unrelated), so if Matter can do the same thing in open source it will necessarily be a revolution.
Iâm not a DEV and therefore donât know how much time that implies, but the protocol is already well standardized and unlikely to change much. Gladys Assistant shouldnât miss out, knowing that the users to convince want to see a long-term solution.
Given that Domoticz and Jeedom donât seem to have incorporated Matter yet, only Home Assistant does (but they are somewhat driving the topic, I think, or maybe itâs because I hang out too much on Home Assistant 
)
Evolution: (What I would like to see) Iâll say it again, I have been a Home Assistant user for more than 3 years and previously used Jeedom and Domoticz (and tried Gladys once). Even if the improbable number of integrations in Home Assistant appeals to me as a geek, Iâm rediscovering Gladys Assistant and I wonder whether it might be more accessible to Mr. and Mrs. Michou. I find the simplicity and the dashboard great with that three-column layout (which Home Assistant is integrating with Grace).
Limiting integrations is a plus for beginners and in any case Zigbee/Z-Wave and MQTT support is enough to handle the range of available sensors. Node-RED fills the gap for the more experienced by adding almost infinite compatibility, but it remains oriented toward geeks.
Given the top messages in home automation forums, I think it would be important to create an âEnergyâ dashboard (Electricity, Water, Gas, Solar) like the one Home Assistant offers.
Thatâs clearly just my opinion and I wanted to share it with you.
Iâm also drafting an article on my blog (itâs a small home automation blog, self-hosting and aiming for a cleaner digital life) about Gladys Assistant, which Iâve really rediscovered and which I think is very good. I will have Pierre-Gilles read it before publication in case some ânegativeâ points have an explanation or a solution that I didnât see.
To finish this long post, I really want to congratulate everyone who contributes to the development of Gladys Assistant, which really has what it takes to make its competitors (at least Jeedom and Domoticz) tremble for new non-tech/geek users, and to praise the very complete documentation in French
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Hi @McFlyPartages and thanks for taking the time to test Gladys and for such a detailed feedback 
Regarding Matter, Iâm hopeful that home automation finally has a protocol that unifies behaviors across brands. I canât wait to see how it turns out, even if for now we donât see much indeedâŠ
HA has huge resources, which allow them to « place bets », and that enabled them to develop a Matter integration very early even if at launch it doesnât do much because few people use Matter.
On the Gladys side (and Jeedom/Domoticz), weâre more modest projects and therefore we donât have the resources to work on projects that donât have demand.
For now, weâre therefore working on all the topics in Demande de fonctionnalitĂ©s which are real, concrete requests
I think weâll tackle Matter when demand comes from users because the devices will have become widespread!
Sure, if we had unlimited resources, I would have done like HA, but since thatâs not the case I prefer to work on topics that really affect Gladys users⊠My main mission is to have satisfied users!
Itâs a very big undertaking
Gladys connects to Enedis and allows you to have dashboards like this:
Documentation:
We have a feature request for the « electricity budget » part, but for now thereâs little demand so it hasnât been prioritized:
Excellent 
thanks for talking about Gladys!
Donât hesitate to send it to me, of course Iâll re-share it on Gladysâ social networks.
Thanks! Thatâs nice to read!