Okay, then I just get this started. Okay, welcome everybody. My name is Marcel Altman, I work for Intel and I'm giving the talk about the next generation of Bluetooth, which is Bluetooth 5. Before I start off, small disclaimer, to get this all correctly done properly, Linux is trademarked by Nino Storewalls, Zephyr Project is trademarked by the Linux Foundation and Bluetooth is a trademark of the Bluetooth 6 and all other trademarks are done by their respective owners. So just to get this out of the way so we don't have any problems with the further slides. Myself, I've been working on Bluetooth pretty much since 2000, so that has been 17 years. The technology keeps evolving, keeps changing and we're gonna have the next, we talk about today about the next latest iteration, which is Bluetooth 5. I've maintaining the Linux Bluetooth text since 2004, that has been also quite a while now. In the meantime, I've created a couple of other projects, Conman, a connection manager for Linux, a phone or complete telephony stack for building mobile phones on Linux, pack runner, proxy services, El and embedded Linux library and IWD wireless demon. If you care about the latest, the last two, I think the talk is on Thursday that we'll explain these ones in more detail if you haven't already seen that one. I joined Intel in 2007, so this is my 10th anniversary pretty much this year, has been quite a while as well. I'm sitting on the Bluetooth architecture review board for the Bluetooth SIG and I chair the Bluetooth internet working group and the next standard we might wanna talk about this in about six to seven months will be how we're actually doing with bringing mesh technology into Bluetooth SIG, but that's a time when we do this another time. So moving on pretty quickly, so Bluetooth 5, the one big thing everybody used the Bluetooth standard they used to have a pretty much major, minor version numbering scheme. This time around the Bluetooth SIG decided to spice it up a little bit and they just called it Bluetooth 5 and I will spend the last of the next 30 minutes around to actually give you the details on this one what it work comes from and dissecting a little bit of the marketing buzz from actually what's technically possible and where we're getting this one and when we are getting it. The funny thing is with the typical N5 kind of thing it actually did remind me of something that we had around 24 years ago. The German people inside the room might remember this when we changed from a four digit zip code to a five digit zip code. It was the nice hand gesture. So every time I see the Bluetooth SIG doing the five thing, it reminds me of that one. So it's an inside joke, but I found it kind of funny. So let's get this going on. I'm skipping everything before Bluetooth 4.0 because it really doesn't matter anymore. Bluetooth 4 is the standard that accept automotive that there's still little people a little bit behind. Bluetooth 4 is pretty much what changed the world order back in 2010 when they enabled something that's called now low energy. Originally it was called Wibry, then it was called ultra low power and the name that actually settled on was low energy. So it was an additional technology introduced into Bluetooth that allowed low power devices for sensors like peripherals, type styles, like a hard rate monitor and so on and so forth and they could last on a battery on a coincident battery for a really long time. So that was back in 2010. So my rule of thumb is always a new standard needs around five to six years before it has mass market penetration. So around 2015 we had then funny mass market penetration for Bluetooth 4.0 and it's still the most used Bluetooth devices we have out there when it comes to the low energy feature. In the meantime, we have done a couple of updates CSA 2, 3 and 4 says cross-spec addendum not really that important because they just updated Bluetooth classic. As I said, Bluetooth 4 introduced low energy, the new technology we wanted to base on but they had to do a couple of updates for the classic one that you use in your current headsets and there are CSA 2 and CSA 3 and CSA 4. One of them introduced 3D glasses support and one of them did a couple of updates for 802.11N feature when Bluetooth tried to do a high speed which in hindsight never really succeeded as a technology because Wi-Fi was just doing native Wi-Fi was just way easier. Bluetooth 4.1 in December 2013 was the big update that was needed from a security point of view. It moved away from the classic Safer Plus encryption cipher and E0 probably doesn't mean much to anybody. Technologies to using AES and being NIST and FIPS compliant. So it allowed you to actually build Bluetooth devices with proper encryption and proper authorization. But they only did this for classic so all the low energy sites still had a horribly broken pairing system while low energy always had AES encryption but the pairing was so fundamentally broken that it took you less than a second to actually break the keys. Bluetooth 4.2 fixed that so the combination of 4.1 and 4.2 allows you to have AES encryption and really strong key generation on both transports and the nice thing you could also then transfer the key from one transmitter to another one is you don't have to pair them twice. The names under the spec are actually the code names for the development. One funny note, Bluetooth 4.0 never got a code name. Every single spec in the development cycle starting from 1.0 had a code name but 4.0 they actually did forget to give it a code name. CSA 5 came out in December last year and the only thing it really did it increased the output power so you can actually compete with 802.15.4 a technology if you're in America or country where you have a little bit loose regulations in Europe you still can't use that high output power but it given a competitive advantage if you build products for the market in the US. The one interesting is really Bluetooth 5 and now you see that I'm calling 5.0 so here's the fun part. The marketing likes to call it 5 the technical spec is actually 5.0 how it's supposed to be. Original code name was Shanghai if people saw that and noted earlier in some publications. Released about two months ago and came with tons of additions and fixes. So the interesting part, Bluetooth 4.0 was the introduction of low energy. 4.1 fixed a couple of classic issues at a level of low energy features starting with Bluetooth 4.2 we only had low energy updates so classic is not really making any progress. 5.0 has a single feature that updates classic but the majority 90% of them are pretty much only low energy so you see the trend is going Bluetooth moves away from its classic roots where in the headset it moves really towards low energy and low power devices. Marketing, so marketing is always funny so Bluetooth 5 twice the speed four times the range and 800% data increase and obviously it does for wireless coexistence. The funny thing is the wireless coexistence is only for LTE and classic so why they put this on these slides? Probably to say I never really understood but I think it's good to have there. The other ones, if you think you can get them all together at the same time, you will see you have to think again. So they're kind of a little bit misleading and we go through them. That's the marketing view, how they wanna see and how the spec perceived. If you go on the technical side it looks a lot more boring and more cryptic. So slot availability mask aka SAM is the coexistence feature that allows you to actually use LTE and classic audio connections a little bit easier together. And the main reason for that one is because LTE operates on a 2.5 gigahertz spectrum if you're unlucky and that swaps over in 2.4 and you hear it drops in audio in some cases. Most interesting or one of the most interesting features to me at per second so we doubling the speed of Bluetooth low energy. We also doubling the range which was doubler early long range. We're doing advertising extensions. I will explain what that is later in the talk because that's one of the most interesting features what it does for you. But that's labeled with the 800% data throughput increase. And we have three that actually never got caught up by any of the marketing thing. One is the channel selection algorithm too and I have a slide for this one that explains this. So it does a little bit different frequency hopping. We have also limited high duty cycle non-connectable advertising. A long word for three changes, three lines of changes in the spec it just removes one restriction that was introduced with 4.0 and these days was felt as like completely not needed anymore. And then we have cross transport pairing number two. We found a flaw in the cross transport pairing not really a flaw but something where we weren't really sure if this is cryptographic fine and if this is FIPS compliant so we actually went around and updated this one so we actually can have a FIPS compliant mechanism. So I'm going through these features now one by one and the first one I'm gonna pick out is the two megabit per second LE and what it's doing. For that one I have to make a few steps back with Bluetooth 4.2 introduce data length extensions and I will give you the details on why this is important. But fundamentally about two years ago the Bluetooth 6 said oh with data length extension we get twice the 2.5 times the speed and we get 10 times the capacity. The 2.5 is something I can figure out where they got the number from. The 10 times number I never understood where they got them from because even if you in the best estimate it's something nine times only. By running the stand there were the marketing numbers that's how they advertised it. Let's go with it. Still Bluetooth 4.1 4.0 4.1 4.2 one megabit GFSK modulation eight bit preamble then nothing changed. We just introduced the longer packet lengths. Bluetooth 5 does it a little bit differently. It actually changes the FI so you get a two megabit FI still using GFSK but the symbol rate gets doubled and because of double symbol rate we're actually using a six in bit preamble so we also have to increase the preamble so we get the marketing two speed from. So how that actually worked out and that's one of the features where 4.2 plus 5.0 gives the big thing that you really want because if you only implement two megabit per second it really doesn't give you much. You want the data length extension as well. This is actually readable. I hope it is readable. So this is the basic packet format that goes over the air.  Really simple. If you break them down with 4.0 and 4.1 we had a length that actually only gave you 27 octets of payload. That goes roughly around 300 microseconds air time that actually gonna use us. If you go further with the data length extensions we had a couple of bits unused so it allowed us to actually use it longer lengths and we just increased it. The reason why this was never done before originally Bluetooth was for sensor data. So please transmit me your heart rate or please give me the status of the light or please give me some data that is 3, 4, 5, 6 octets. So 27 octets seemed massively amount of data that we had. Obviously the world moves on and people have found really interesting ways in using Bluetooth or energy and they wanted to do data transfers. Especially also because devices like iOS and Android provided easy APIs without any sign up for any certification program or anything where you can actually just use it. And they have been using this for a lot of things where you have to push a lot of data through. So data extension gives you a lot of extra throughput and every throughput slide it will show you the difference why this made a huge impact. So simple change in the end of the day with 4.2 but it comes at a high cost. So if you look at the button diagram the increase in air time that we now need to transmit these data increases and in that time you can't do anything else. Which means previously we spent 300 microseconds roughly 300 microseconds for the transmissions. Now if you want to use the full data size we spent over 2,000 microseconds and at a time you can't do anything else. Previously you could have fit two more packets from another transmission in there or do something else that's now blocked. And the longer you spend on the air time the more you have to deal with interference, et cetera. So while it gets you faster there but if you have interference the problems increase and you might actually have other problems. Two megabit per second helps a lot here because we're actually changing the file and we're changing the symbol rate. So if we stay packet size stays the same we currently would reduce it from 2,000 microseconds to 1,000 microseconds. So we can do it in half the time that's where the speed increase comes from. And this means we would half time occupy the air space and this means we can do more transmissions at the same time. Which is nice, which we really want to. And if you have small packets still the send source like the only use less than 27 octets you will still decrease the time on the air so you have actually a lot more chances that things get done quicker and you unblock the air space. Which is kinda nice and hopes with interoperability a lot. So the throughput numbers are the most funny ones because I always, I had that in the beginning we had one megabit and two megabit. Bluetooth 4.0 and 4.1 was never really one megabit. It could never get it through because it was capped in 27 octets of data payload. So with all the switching between receive and transmit you end up with roughly around 300 kilobit maximum throughput rate. Which is totally fine if you do a couple octets of data but if you wanna do a firmware update on your watch or something else that's not gonna fly. You're waiting for half an hour or something. The data lengths extension increased it roughly with 2.6 times.  That's okay but they were roughly in the right ballpark with a throughput size. You have the maximum net you can get on a one megabit per symbol rate. So you have around 800 kilobit there. Which is pretty good. The right side then with two megabit LE you get another 1.7 increase. So it's not really two X compared to 4.2 but marketing numbers, you can do the math as you want to. You'll find a way how it comes nicely but they're forgetting that you have the round to receive and transmit which are not really getting any faster that way. And you have interframe spaces that have stayed the same. So around 1.7 roughly around. The interesting part is really that 4.2 together with data length extension and two megabit phi gives you 4.6 times increase of the throughput that you can get. So think about it, if you need now four minutes to transfer a file to your watch or something else you only need one minute. And that's really visible to the user and makes a huge difference and makes a big impact. So that's two megabit per second, big deal. And I think it will give the technology a big boost. The next one is we're going over to long range. One of the, you could say interesting features but normally Bluetooth had the range of around 100 meters most and it's a little bit less with LE and two megabit per second has a little bit less as well but they had the idea, let's get a larger range that's more need driven by other technologies can do it as well, why can't we? So for long range they introduced what is called coded phi. So they decided we have to change up the coding a little bit. The important thing is really if you think you get long range and faster speed at the same time really think again, that's not how this works. You have to make a choice. If you wanna go far, you're actually losing throughput. And if you wanna go far, you also have to spend more time on air, which means you're more reluctant to interference because you have to occupy the airspace a lot longer. So coded phi gets two coding schemes. It's pretty much to figure out what we can. It was needed in the end. At some point it was actually three coding schemes but one of them we found out was completely useless either the stick in one coding scheme or the second one. So the difference, still one megabit per second symbol rate but the data rate gets changed. You have one megabit data rate for the one megabit phi as we've known today and they get 500 kilobit or you get 125 kilobit. Air detection, still there, has to be there. The basic packet format hasn't changed but now for the coded phi you need forward error correction because the further you're gonna go with your output power and the more you occupy the time on air, the more likely you actually have errors happening then you need to actually correct them on the receiver side. So this in the end all boils down. So if you assume one megabit per second is the one times range with a coded phi with S2 you get around double the range. If you do with a coded phi with S8 you get around four times the range. With a two megabit phi you actually get less than one factor as I said. You're paying the price with the faster speed that you can't actually go that further. You would need a lot more power to do so. All the other ones are optional. Only the existing one one megabit phi is mandatory. But fundamentally we have three phi's now in the system. The legacy one, the coded one and the two megabit one and the coded one has two schemes that you're actually gonna select from. Other schemes can actually be selected at runtime so the receiver can actually decide to actually switch it on and off depending on what the characteristics on the air transmission is so they can decrease the throughput and increase the throughput as needed. While switching between one megabit and two megabit is a conscious decision so they have to say okay I'm switching to the megabit now while the other one can be done on a perfect basis. What this means for the bit stream processing on top is the legacy one that will be used for one megabit and two megabit.  On the other side you unwhiten, you do CSE checking and then you do decryption. Straight forward, most systems do it this way. And even Bluetooth Classic has done it in a similar fashion. Now with the LE-coded PHY you end up doing encryption CSE generation still the same but now you have the whole block in there with the FCC forward error correction and the pattern matching to actually handle these errors. So you do FCC encoding, you see pattern matching and then the whitening, unwhiting and then it goes all the way back where you do the pattern dematching and the FCC decoding and then CSE decoding and the decryption. So it's a lot more complicated. You have to pay a lot price if you want to go a lot farther. I think some companies did some tests, some demos with this one. You can actually get to a kilometer range but this all depends on your line of sight, how much interference you have. So someone says, oh, we can do kilometers now. That, yeah, that works maybe in a field test but it doesn't mean it. But if you currently reach 100 meters you might actually really quadruple it to 400. And if you have good line of sight, current classic might actually do 500 meters and then you can actually quadruple it as well and you maybe get your two kilometers. Something wrong. So take this with a grain of salt how far you can actually get with this technology. You can get further but it doesn't mean you actually get always to a kilometer. And everybody who gives you a kilometer range available delusional on how this goes. So the next one, advertising extensions. It's really the big feature that is gonna change something. I'm not really impressed with the 800% data throughput increase or capacity increase or how they called it. I can understand how they came to the number but take it with a grain of salt as well. It's just a marketing number. So advertising is used in Bluetooth for beacons for connection handling. So every time you create a connection you have to advertise. It's one of the basics on how Bluetooth low energy actually works and how things are done there. It uses three advertising channels. So they pick three channels that are purely only for advertising. All the other 37 are for data. That's where you come your 40 channels split over the 2.4 mega spectrum and the maximum payload was 31 octets. So that's all you can put in there. Strictly speaking with a defined data format they have it's only 29 octets. But that's all you can data can get in there when you want to broadcast data. And advertising is broadcasting. You send out the data and if someone listens the other side gets it. If nobody listens you basically sending them out for no reason. But that's how all your beacons and everything else works way up. So now I'm here and so on. The difference with advertising extensions is we wanted to increase this to same with data length extension it increases to something around 250. Perfectly 255 octets to actually get more payload because a lot of more things can be just broadcasted out and sometimes you have to encrypt things and so on and so forth. You need extra mix and things like that. And if you already spend eight octets on a 31 octet payload for your MIG and then you need your announces and everything else put in there. You left with like eight octets of payload or something if you want to do more advanced protocols and that's where it doesn't get you anything. So the idea is we actually can offload the data into the data channels. So we have 37 channels that are currently data channels. Let's turn them into broadcast channels and use them. And I will give you a detail on why we did it this way and how it's going to work. So to recap this again the spectrum has to be explained a little bit. So 2.4 gigahertz divided into 40 channels and divided into 40 channels in a funky way so to speak. They have zero to 37 as the data channels and they're split across the spectrum but they have three spikes there that strategically placed and so they interfere less with wifi. So if you map out the wifi channels on that spectrum how wifi would use them you find these sweet spots where you actually can put them. There were four of them to be precise. We see there's another force one there that was not decided to be used. So put one at the top, put one at the bottom and put one in the middle and they choose to use the upper middle one. It's like this least interference you're going to have with wifi and put these ones as the three pillars where everything happens from finding a device, connecting to device and so on and so forth. These are the advertising channels and they're labeled 37, 38 and 39. It's just how they label them. But you can't really put the channel number into the megahertz number by simple math. They're just randomly assigned there. The interesting thing to really know is you have to advertise on all three of them. If you advertise you do 37, 38, 39 and you do round robin again 37, 38, 39 and it goes on and continues and once you have done completed 37, 38, 39 you have a full advertising event that's called one event and that has to happen. In the top diagram you see there's a small piece in there that is called scanner. So it has an extension where you can actually ask for more data. So if you see an advertising event you can ask and can you give me more data and then you get another 31 updates. It was more like okay that's data that's not always really needed but if someone asks me for it I will send it out again and then you use a free slot and send the other one out. That's why you see in the middle one you see three of them. So you do an advertising which is a TX you see a receiver, you turn on the receiver and then you wait for the other one. And the other one it doesn't happen. So that's how the advertising works but it also means that if you want to increase this now you actually spend more time on these three channels and if you have iBeacons, Google Eddystone pick whatever advertising goes on there. I think every phone these days advertises something constantly. These three channels are really occupied and you want to spend as less time on these ones as possible. So one thing that actually happened is that the scanner site where you can ask for more data certain phones keep asking for more data all the time and they keep blocking then something if you want to connect because that would be the same packet where you actually ask, oh I want to connect to you. And so these three channels are really, really busy. If you look at the packet format it's by the way pretty much the same the preamble access address is just a fixed access address, the data and the CRC. If you boil this down we actually would have an option to just use the same as the data length extensions take some of the reserved bits and make the PDU longer. Would have worked perfectly fine. Everybody would have been able to receive them and we could have just done this. The problem is like we would have spent more time on the three channels and we would have just eventually blocked ourselves out with these channels. We actually wanted to make the packet smaller on these three channels and not larger because that's limited airspace. If you think about 2.4 gigabytes is already blocked. If you only have three out of 40 channels and you've been blocking these ones more and they're your main channels to operate on you don't want to put more stuff in there. So this one happened a little bit differently and trust me on this one this was one of the features that took pretty much all two years to get this into a releasable state from a spec point of view. So what you see on the left is that you have your three packets. As I said, all advertising has to have an event of three. So you do 37, you do 38 and you 29 and that's your spectrum top to bottom in 2.4 gigahertz. And if you would keep digging these ones they would just occupy the same amount of airspace. What we wanted actually, let's put tiny beacons reduce them to a couple of octets onto the advertising channels and then just have them point them where the data is. Because really we don't need the data we also don't need to repeat the data three times because it makes no sense. Let's put the data at one point and then have three beacons that can be collected by the scanners and then, oh your data's there then you've divided a couple of microseconds and you just jump on the data channel get up the data. And with that one we can put in the whole packet 255, not always but in most cases around over 200 octets of payload into that offloaded one which means we increase the size dramatically and we can reduce the size in the advertising channel that's so crucial for LE and LE to operate. And one interesting fact is that you can actually chain them together. There's nothing stopping you from saying the one in the data channel on the broadcast channel actually points to another one what you see on the right where you go like, oh I'm putting another one over there so you can chain them together and have I think the standard limits into six chains so you get around a couple of thousand octets of payload which means you could even fit an IPv6 packet into the broadcast which is what we actually after that we can do this and then again just get collected. A nice thing with doing it this way is we can actually go from one megabit in the advertising channels to two megabit or LE-coded in the data channels. We couldn't do this in the advertising channels for our PCNs since there's no negotiation so you don't know what you're getting. So you don't know if the outside supports it or not. It's like okay that's pretty much fixed for lifetime at one megabit per second. But in the beacon that we're sending out in the advertising channels we actually put an indicator in there. What's the phi on the broadcast channels so we can tell them okay that runs at two megabit per second or LE-coded so we can actually do the longer range which is kind of nice so we cannot only do put more data in it we can also transmit it faster and free the spectrum even further. And that's advertising extensions. There's an additional one that is periodic advertising which I actually mentioned. So you can also put trains of packets at defined interval times on the new data channels so the receiver can just pick them up without having to go back to the advertising channels to find all of them. They notice all the next one happens there and you can monitor changes in the packet payload easily so you can synchronize to them. It's similar to what 3D glasses do for their shutter synchronization so you could build them with LE now using that technology. Channel selection, algorithm number two. I just want to mention this quickly. Up to now, Bluetooth was a little bit, let me put it this way. We didn't spend much time actually thinking about how the channels actually distributed when you do a connection and want to pick the next channel. All 37 channels supposed to use equally if available. The problem with the simple mod 37 operation and channel mask, we actually blocked channels out because of interference, is that you will not have an equal distribution and that gets you into trouble if you have to do something like more data-driven transmissions than we have done before which you want to actually equal this out better and it also becomes a problem in the European regulations when you actually want to use a higher output power and you're not equally distributed across the 2.4 giga spectrum. So the new channel algorithm will actually go and say, we're using a more pseudo-random distribution and this one gives us an equal distribution on the 2.4 giga spectrum for our data channels. It's behind the ground things. It lays the ground back for the next Bluetooth spec where this becomes absolutely crucial that we distribute the events evenly and including sub-events. I'm leaving the other ones out but these are the big ones that we actually have for Bluetooth 5 and they make a huge difference and it's a big difference compared to what we had with Bluetooth 4.0 and 4.2. So if you take the features again and put them on the table, Slot Availability Mask doesn't need any new hardware. So not a big deal but it will require firmware update for your controller. So we don't know when this is gonna happen. Some companies are committed to this one, others are not and we will have to update the host to actually use this one. So your operating system, depending on which one you use, 2 giga per second actually needs a new fi. So you have to redo your hardware design and build a new fi that actually can use this. Some companies have been already preparing for this one so they can switch it on with a firmware update. Other companies will require complete new hardware. Long-range is the same thing. Nobody I think has prepared for this one but I've seen an announcement that long-range hardware will be available at least for testing purposes really soon. I don't know when this becomes ubiquitously available to everybody. I don't think it will take another three to four years because you find a laptop that supports our phone and supports long-range. Advertising extensions in theory doesn't need an hardware update. You can do it on existing hardware but it also relies on that your hardware is capable of keeping the stringent timing requirements when you have to switch off into a data channel for picking up the packets. And depending on your hardware design that might be not as easy as you think. But in theory and I've seen this couple of companies doing you can actually do this with just a firmware update. Channel selection number two doesn't need a new hardware. It helps if you have a new hardware because you need a dedicated random number generator so you want to put this into the hardware but you can pretty much do this in software as well so you could do this with a firmware update if you care. Funny enough, that one feature is designed in a way that the operating system doesn't have to do anything so it will be just automatically available. While for long-range in two and per second to recap this one, you actually have to enable these extra files otherwise it will stick with a one megabit file. Limited high duty cycle, non-connectable advertising. Yes, you need a firmware update because it has to retake a restriction off and you have to make the operating system use that one. There will be not much use of this one, I think except for new protocols and profiles that are coming out that makes use of these lifting of this restriction. Cross transport pairing number two is completely in the rating system that has no hardware or firmware impact. You can do this on a higher layer really easily and then that's about it. So what we have, which I would hope looked a little bit differently but reality is the standard is relatively new, two months old and the hardware availability is really limited at this point in time. So slot availability desk and Linux, we actually don't support it, I don't think we ever will. It only makes sense if you actually have an LTE modem and the LTE modem that actually can communicate to the base station to give you the parameter to program back into the Bluetooth chip. Two megabit LE, we don't have this either. It is rather trivial to support since operating system only has to do one thing is actually enable the two megabit file. So I wanna use it for this connection, yes or no. So once hardware comes available that should be rather trivial to add. Same goes for long range. It should be really easy to add as well because you just enable it or disable it the same as with the two megabit file. Picking the right usage to actually choose long range over two megabit is a different thing where we actually probably have to do some policy decisions where the application can be in charge. So look, I wanna be long range. So please let me use long range. Advertising extensions is going to be a lot of work to support in Linux. Interesting enough, our APIs are ready for it. So the APIs can flexible enough that we can actually make use of the new advertising extensions and the multiple advertising instances that it actually does support. But implementing it once the hardware is available and the firmware updates are available will take probably quite a few months before we get this going. I hope we get this done fast because it will make a huge difference for all kinds of use cases. And getting people to play with it is really important. Channel selection on number two don't have to do anything on the operating system that will just work if it becomes available. High duty cycle, we have no use for it. So we probably not gonna do it. The cross transport pairing we actually have completed. So if you use a Linux side with this one it will automatically enable it and get you into better FIPS compliance if needed. The other one, the Zephyr status is as bleak as the Linux one. I don't think slot availability mouse will ever be done mainly because the classic support on Zephyr is more, I don't know how far this is gonna go that this becomes useful there. But I don't think Zephyr where we run on a system where you have audio and an LTE connection and running this at the same time. So the usefulness of SAM is limited. To bring it to FI is definitely interesting but you need the right hardware to support it. And from the controller side for Zephyr so the firmware side, there will be a lot of work. The host side as with the Nox I don't think there will be a lot of work to do except enabling it. But the controller side will be the heavy lifting. The same goes for long range. You have to get the right hardware. A few companies have an announced hardware so they might gonna start working on it if they support Zephyr and from the host side again it's just switching on the file. Advertising extensions will be the really interesting one because in theory you can do it on existing hardware but it depends on how lucky or unlucky with the time requirements the hardware supports. So I would assume we will see advertising extensions at minimum on a Nordic NF52 chip really soon. And then we have to figure out what we can do with this on the host side because Zephyr will probably the first one that makes use of it. So we're gonna see channel selection on number two depends on if you are fast enough for your pseudo random. If you have to do this in software I don't think any hardware has planned for this one yet. Duty cycle is really not a big deal for Zephyr since you control the controller so the firmware and the host you can just switch off the limitations if you make using them. Cross transfer pairing as with the Nox that has been actually implemented and tested against each other. So we have that one up and running there. So summary on this one. Two meter per second is ready to be deployed and once you take a sniffer to an iPhone 7 you see that Apple actually switched it on and allegedly the Apple Watch 2 has it as well. So they're actually already making use of this one which means if the hardware gets further deployed and becomes available I assume that two meter per second will be the first feature that you're gonna see from the list of them that actually be used and as I said earlier it's around 4.6 throughput increase compared to Bluetooth 4.0 and that's a big deal.  Advertising extensions has the highest potential for driving new use cases and new technologies in the beacon world. So we have the spec there. Now we have to get the hardware there and the firmware there that can do it and then we have to figure out what we're gonna do with it. Right now there is no service or profile in the Bluetooth 6 that actually uses it. So that's more allowing the ground work for new things to come. So we have to see what new standards are coming or what companies have ideas within how you can use this. Interesting. As I said it's ready to put an IPv6 packet in there. It can fundamentally do it. So we're gonna see how we actually put this further for the IoT use cases.  We have to see how good it becomes in reality when it actually gets deployed. It has its downside but also its upside. So we have to see how long range fits into the whole ecosystem of Bluetooth and if it finds a use case to be used. With that one, thank you and any questions? Go ahead. So you're from, are you maintaining Bluetooth stack? Yes I do. So your Linux status was with respect to Bluetooth support? Yes. And is there any kind of timeline, anticipate timeline that puts the yeses in this call? So normally you're trying to be as fast as possible but with the limitation on the hardware and the firmware for some of the sites, we have to wait. So there's a couple of hardware out there. So we can do the combination of having a Zephyr controller and the Linux host. So but it means we first have to implement it on the Zephyr site on the controller, then we can use it on the Linux side and then do the whole end-to-end testing. So I think you will see a couple of these things maybe pushed out really quickly but I don't think they will be enabled until we have a little bit more hardware to test this against. My wild guess estimate would be if we're lucky in a couple of months, if we're unlucky it might take a year or two. But I hope by the end of the year we have this up and going. I think to make up the second rule really happened first because we will see hardware on that one really quickly. Advertising extension is the one where on the Linux side if people wanna tinker this one and build interesting things, that's wanna give them to redefine what's currently possible with Bluetooth LE. Go ahead. Do we go out in class? No, Bluetooth classic compared to Bluetooth low energy. So if you pair on classic, you would have to pair again on LE but that was fixed with 4.0 where you can fundamentally take a key, do a key derivation function and put this in the new key into the other bearer in the other transport. There was a Dini Snuff who on these ones which I think they still make them cryptographically sound but it's not how NIST recommends them and FIPS follows NIST recommendations. So we fixed them to comply with the NIST. That's why it's a number two, we can't even fix what's up with numbers. Yeah, it was already there. We had this already working since about two years now. That's good, thank you. Any other questions? Go ahead, please. How do you think it's far to Android? So the new features in Bluetooth and Bluetooth 5 will get the same time on Linux and on Android? So that would have been the case about a year ago but the way how Google Android evolves right now is that they wanna build their own Bluetooth stack and they're redoing this one. So I think Bluezy on Android can be used, definitely. But I think it will be a lot of my extra work since Google doesn't wanna have the separate Hull Abstraction as they used to. They wanted taking full control over this one they're driving their own. So when are they gonna add in Bluetooth 5 support? Into Android I have no idea. So with that one I still think to make it per second will happen there. Same as Apple switched it on in iOS pretty much instantly after the spec got adopted. They could fundamentally do the same if they have the right hardware manufacturer supporting it one. But I've seen this with Android as well. Sometimes it takes them two years to actually realize it's an important feature and it's then up to the individual way to make the decision to actually put it in. So your guess is as good as mine. Previously it was pretty easy. You just install Bluezy for Android and then you got all the new features. That's not the case anymore, sadly. Go ahead, please. That has changed. Two, three? Yeah, two or three months? Yeah, maybe two or three months ago. Sometime last year. Last year? Yeah. I think it's still experimental, right? I think one of them still needs to be made unexperimental. I have to read it on the internet. One of them is still, it's coming next time around. Say again, I didn't know. Oh, Bluetooth Mesh? So Bluetooth Mesh will be not, so Bluetooth 5 is the one that came out in December. Bluetooth Mesh, as far as I can tell publicly, will be coming out soon. I'm bound by the same confidentiality as everybody else. You work for the, if you're a Bluetooth SIG member, I can tell you the exact details if you're not not in a public forum. But Bluetooth Mesh is scheduled to come out soon. And it's an addition. So currently Bluetooth is connection oriented and Bluetooth Mesh changes around to become a full Mesh technology. That's it then. And thanks everybody and have a good day.


Welcome to another edition of Hawaii Uniform. I'm your host Calvin and today we're going to be talking of course about military and veterans issues also. I've got Mr. Steve Kelly who's going to be joining me, who's a veterans advocate. And like I say, we have a lot of people out there in the community who are doing a lot of good things. But Mr. Kelly is one of those individuals who went above and beyond the call of duty in a lot of cases and addressing a lot of the issues concerning the veterans and the military on a legal level. I'll let him talk about his background in just a moment. But before we begin, I wanted to make a comment. There's a lot of things that are happening here in this country that we are, many of us are woefully unaware of what's happening. We talk about our service members and men and women who are being sent overseas in the name of freedom. And a lot of people have questions about some of the policies that's going on, which is woefully so. As citizens of this country, we need to be kept aware of what's going on. Unfortunately, what I see and I think what a lot of people believe, we have a lot of laws or regulations that's in place right now that are created by what I call intellectually immoral individuals. And what I mean by that is that there's individuals who they can weave a verb sentence to an eye of a needle. It sounds good, but when it comes out, actually, instead of supporting the democratic process, it subverts it. And I think that's a real danger. We have too many policies right now, especially under the NDAA. We have policies right now, we're going to read something real quick as far as with the veterans concern. This is from the World Net Daily. There's been a, in place, it's called something Operation Vigilant Eagle. And this is a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009. And under this, it includes the returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And they're being, in some cases, categorized as being extremists, potential domestic terrorists. And because they seem to be disgruntled or disillusioned. When we start labeling our veterans, like, say, for no reason, we have them put up above Al Qaeda and a few other different extreme groups out there, there's something wrong with that picture there. Why are these people, like, say, classified as this? And, like, say, what is the reason for it? And I think a lot of it has to do with the way that they've been treated in the past, and across the board, like, say, it's not all doom and gloom. But there's too many circumstances where this system has not really been effective in dealing with a lot of different issues concerning the veterans. It is a popular consensus within the military and the veteran community. Because based on what we see as far as some of the programs, the way things have been geared towards the veterans community, is that some faction of the government is waiting for the veterans to die off so they can go ahead and balance the books. Now, this may sound like an extreme statement. But based on a lot of things that's been happening in the past, as far as, like, say, the number of deaths, suicides, and different programs that they talk about having to put into place, but seem to be ineffectual. That is the problem. Too many people nowadays where, again, with the less than 1% of the total population is involved in any form of fashion with the military, you know, you seem to miss certain things along the way. And that's why, as you said in the past, it's really extremely important, like, say, the citizens get out there and find out what's going on. Where in the cases where the military or the veterans cannot speak up for themselves, they need to know that you're there to back them, that you have their back.  And like I say again, it's unfortunate that we have individuals, leaders, so-called leaders in different military and also veterans organizations who I have not stepped up to the plate. Who basically have been Judas Goats, and that's my opinion, all right? So, again, whatever I'm saying right now as far as this commentary is concerned, this is based on information that I have that I believe, but I believe that is shared by a lot of people. Right now, I'm going to introduce Steve Kelly to the program. Steve, thanks for coming on the program.  Yes. Okay. Just a background, like I said, to make sure we have a lot to cover. And I know that over the years you've done a lot of things. You've made several presentations on a lot of different fronts to a lot of our elected officials about certain rules, regulations, or statutes that have been put in place as far back as World War II and beyond that have been ignored. Okay, first off, if you can give us your background, as far as, like I said, not only militarily, but as far as legally, how, like I said, you came into addressing a lot of these issues on a legal basis? Well, when I was in service, I was an EEO person. And when I found out that not only was I a lawyer, but I'm administrative law judge. So when I got out, I had a problem getting a job. And fortunately, the University of Hawaii then gave me credibility, and so did the state legal system. But I'm a federal officer, and thereby I cannot represent people because I'm still administrative judge. I can then help the individual argue his cases in sense of writing, what it done, and all the research I've done in reference to why are the veterans getting not really what they're supposed to get by the law, and that got me into research. And the research is looking at what the rules and regulations and policy were that were depriving us of benefits for those who come back, and those who didn't come back, which affect the wives, the deceased widows, and their children, not getting proper benefits. And I couldn't understand this. So I took on myself with the grace of God, helping me to find out why it was going on. And I think I've found the reasons for it to be done, like Calvin said. We have people who then have written laws, have written statutes, have written policies that take away our rights. And because when we get out of service, we don't know what rights we're supposed to have. And in that, that's a problem. They send our medical records to a storage facility. They send our personnel records to a storage facility. They don't give them to the individual when he gets out so he can prove his case. He can prove he got hurt in the line of duty. He can't do that. And when you get, you've got to apply for getting copy of your records. You don't know if you're getting all what's there. OK, one of the things that, OK, we have the VA, and we have other VSOs, or People's Schools of Representatives, to help them go ahead and get paperwork together. But sometimes, and I mean, I'm the people who brag about, like I say, the benefits they got. And they weren't even entitled to it, mainly because of people that they knew within the system. And that's been a problem. Well, we do have people who should be entitled to certain benefits and everything else because they don't know what's out there as far as the rules and regulations. And they have not been informed about what's going on. They wind up losing out. And something, as I mentioned on the past program, is that this affects, when you have a family, that the money, the funding has to come out of their pocket to help support a medical condition, that they were legally entitled to receiving. That's a drain, not only on the family, but again, it comes back to the community. I know there's a few things, as far as with your recognition, like I mentioned, that you have been championing this for a longest time, anyhow. You've been to a lot of our elected officials. You even got a letter from President Obama acknowledging some of your efforts. Could you go into a little bit of detail about this letter and the circumstances around it? Well, one of the things that when President Obama campaigned, he said he was going to do something for the veterans. But from the President's point of view, he then, like his staff or like all the executive departments, they're supposed to implement the laws. And although he said he was going to do something in the letter, stipulating to see if I had gotten my combat stress disorder and they were trying to get, I never got it. So in this sense, I don't blame him for saying that he's trying to do so, but there's too many people in the administrative aspects of our legal system who work on a detrimental aspect, which was written in 1958. And a lot of their actions are primed in this statute.  That don't make sense to me. But this is a law written by Congress. Okay, but again, we get into these legalese and everything else. Well, I'm just, yeah. But I'm just saying, the thing is sometimes, like I said, when you hear this, and like I said, you're very versing all this, that's one thing. And again, I'm really impressed with the, again, the due diligence that you've done over the years, because a lot of people don't know, again, your extensive background as far as what you've given up personally to address these issues anyhow.  And that's why I say, as far as there are some of our individuals who are supposed to be represented in this, are remiss because they are not adequately conveying what's in that statute into real life terms. And I think I need to quote the statute and the date it was done. And this is a public law, 88, 857, written in September eight, 1958. And it's 31, 38 USC, 1131. I'll repeat that again, 38 USC, 1131, basic entitlements. And it says, for disability rendering from personal injury or suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty or aggravated or preexisting injury, suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty, the active military naval air service during other than a period of war. I will repeat that again, during a period other than a period of war, the United States will pay any veteran, those disabled and who are discharged are released under the conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred. Our preexisting injury disease was aggravated compensation as provided in this sub chapter. But no compensation shall be paid if the disability is a result of the veteran's own willful misconduct on abuse of alcohol or drugs. Okay, to break it down to the lay terms, what exactly does that mean? If you went to war, you don't have any benefits.  You're not getting all the benefits, they cut it out. So what happened in 1968, I have a document which says that the American Psychological Association wrote a DSM which is a diagnostic statistic book that says it categorizes all the disabilities. But they took combat stress or combat disorder out of this medical document so doctors could not evaluate and provide and diagnose combat stress or combat trauma for a person who served in war. Now, in Vietnam, 1969, documentation shows there were 500,000 people, Americans, who were in Vietnam at that time. None of those could be diagnosed for combat stress or combat trauma because it was not in the manual for doctors to do so. So it's not in your medical records. There's nothing's gonna be in your medical records saying that you suffered from that. Even though you go to a doctor, even though you complained about the situation, you come back to the VA and they tell you it's not in your medical records, how's it gonna be in your records if they don't have the right to put it in? Okay, so this was a conscious part when some government entity decided to pull that out so that veterans would not be able to qualify for that. Well, go on, we're gonna qualify for it. Okay, one of the things we talked about on the previous program, I talked to an attorney by the name of Gary Porte because like I said with the DD 214 there's a coding on there. I didn't know how extensive the coding system was. Oh, yes, it is. And what it does, it did in a certain way, it does deny, it can deny your jobs and other benefits. Oh, yeah. What they do not tell you. Most people are familiar with the very basic codes as far as the RE codes, re-enlistment codes, things of that nature. But when you get more heavy into it, and again, there's some of these things that are not being told and are not being shared. Again, it's about having the information source to find out what's going on. So what you're saying, again, a lot of things that you bring to my attention, it surprises me because I know one of the things we'll get into in a little bit later, I guess after we take a break is the fact that certain documentations or certain applications that they say can be filed that the information is again, it's not readily available unless you know somebody within the system who can guide you through the maze. But the system is not set up to provide you rights as an employee of the government.   I'm going to take a short break because I don't want to interrupt you anymore when you get it, you know, as far as explaining this anyhow. But we're going to take a short break and we'll be back in a few minutes. And again, this is Uniform in Hawaii. Hello, I'm Helen Dora Hayden, the host of Voice of the Veteran. Seen here live every Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. As a fellow veteran and veterans advocate with over 23 years experience serving veterans, active duty and family members, I hope to educate everyone on benefits and accessibility services by inviting professionals in the field to appear on the show. In addition, I hope to plan on inviting guest veterans to talk about their concerns and possibly offer solutions. As we navigate and work together through issues, we can all benefit. Please join me every Thursday at 1 p.m. for the Voice of the Veteran. Aloha. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. But I have a story and I don't know where to start. I feel alone in a crowd. I can't sleep. I feel overwhelmed. I don't even know who I am anymore. I still have nightmares. I can't live like this anymore. I'm really not so good. But are you ready to listen? Okay, you're back to with Hawaii in Uniform. I keep screwing up the name of my own program here anyhow. Anyhow, we're back with Steve Kelly. And Steve, to continue what you were talking about. And again, a lot of things that a lot of people are not aware of as far as, again, some of the rights, thinking that nature. Before we took a break, you mentioned that there's something else you wanted to discuss. Yes, one of the things that outside of them not putting in the DSM to give the diagnosis and treatment, it's not even in your military records. There's a lot of stuff in war that doesn't go in your military records. In the Army, we have a two-dash one. And in the two-dash one, it's supposed to lift all the duties that you perform in your MOS. One of the problems of that is, they give you a MOS, Military Occupational, especially. And when you go to war, you may never work in that. But it's not credited showing that you were working outside of what your primary MOS is. And then when you tell people that, yes, I did this, it's not there to be done, other than you knowing about what you did. It's not in your personnel records. And it's not classified as a duty performed. So here, you're not getting respect for what you may be a cook, but they put you in the infantry out there fighting. So here, you don't get credit for that unless you get a CIV, and what the military personnel do, if you're not in a combat arms, they'll take those off your records. Okay, I know that, well, there's certain jobs that when you, the equivalent to the civilian side, you can get certain predetions or something. Yeah. One of the, I'm gonna read this statute to you. It says, according to Title 61 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, A, who sequentially to May 1st, 1940, shall have entered into active duty on naval service or active duty in the land and naval forces of the United States by voluntary enlistment, and otherwise shall be entitled to receive in addition to their military pay compensation in their civilian position. We don't know that. We don't know that we have two occupations while we go on the one military, one civilian. So they discharge you based on rank and grade, which does not give you an occupation. You don't have a means of a qualification that you can be disabled from. Okay. This being the 50th anniversary of the commemoration of the Vietnam, I know that there's a lot of course, we still have a lot of Vietnam veterans left, but excuse me, over the years, it seems like again, they start recognizing all the different things or the flaws within the system in the past. But unfortunately, with so many veterans dying off or losing them at an alarming rate, it seems that again, it's like waiting after the barn doors closed before they start doing anything. Okay, what do you see in a positive vein that may be happening that is going on like say to accommodate the Vietnam vets and also the current veterans are coming back because they're still dealing with a lot of issues, but at a different time frame. I have created a packet, which is about 30 or 40 pages. It outlines all of these things that you did not get at discharge. When you got separated from service, there are certain statutes that still take away your rights. There's a law that's 38th section 1218. It's saying prior to getting out of service, you got to file with the Department of Veterans Affairs. They're not your employer. Your employer is responsible for all things that happen. That takes away from them having responsibility of giving you benefits, giving make sure at discharge, you're referred as a qualified disabled employee, which you don't have. And because veterans, the court of veterans appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, said veterans do not have constitutional rights because they belong to a right of a group, not an individual. So thereby your individual rights are belonging to as an employee. So when you file with VA, their primary emphasis is unemployability, not employment opportunity. So in that, you have a hard time getting a job and the minimum salary that you're getting, they give you a rating of 10%. How are you going to live off $250 a month? With all the, I know it's with some of the people viewing the program out there right now, what is something tangible that you can provide them right now as far as, they had a couple forms that you showed me as far as application for combat related benefits? Right, and trauma. Could you show the audience that and also? Oh yes. Please explain what these forms are about and where they can obtain them. This form here is a DD form 2860 that was put out in 2003 and it's entitled application for combat related special compensation. Well, we never get this form that you can apply for combat related injuries. But how are you going to prove that if it's not in your medical records? Okay, well this form, where do you get that from? And like I say, if you were- I got it online. Okay, you got it online. Okay, what web source did you get it from? On the disability website, I googled saying that combat injury and it came up with showing that there were different things in this form. Well, that form one more time if you can read the title on also the form number, so people can Google it. It's application for combat related special compensation and it's DD form 2860 that was test on May 2003. And you can go and apply for that and check the boxes, but the information that they're looking at applies to many of the post-911 people and they just happen to have Vietnam on there. But the thing is that your trauma, your wartime disability is a hard time being documented because when you go in and talk to a doctor, for example, militarily the doctor has a given administrative issue to talk to and give all your information to the commander. They won't tell you what's going on, but they'll tell the command was why you came to see him. And it's mandated by policy that the doctor do that. Yeah, okay. I think it's one of the important things that we need to do as veterans is that, again, there's many different sources out there, but as far as connecting the dots sometimes and finding out what is out there is a little bit difficult. Even like say, people will tell you if you go to a wall, how come you didn't apply for this? Well, you didn't tell me about it or whatever. But what I'm encouraging, if there's any veterans out there that have any information that could be pertinent to other vets, certain administrative shortcuts that could be taken or any knowledge that you can pass, contact us here at the station. And like I said, we like to pass that on. Even have you come on to explain certain things anyhow. And Steve, I know you've got another form that you wanted to point out. Yeah, this is a form that was, it's a VA form, 2109-660-C5, and it is a general nervous system, neurological diseases, except traumatic brain injury. Except traumatic brain injury. What do you think you did? What do you think that you're getting when you have a trauma?  That's trauma that's facing that psychologically affecting your whole body. But here you cannot get compensated as a service-connected disability for it. Okay, we're getting on to the wire, but one thing I wanna ask you about real quick as far as the neurological thing, we touched briefly in the past, but we're gonna do a more extensive program in the future about some of the medical and psychological issues that apply to the dependence, because a lot of things that were genetically haven't passed on, that has not been open, we talked about all these different things, yeah. So with the form you're talking about, real briefly, does that include, or is it another? That I don't know. Okay, we're gonna go ahead and do some more checking on that. Yeah, it has to do some more, because I just got this this week off, well, day four yesterday offline. I didn't know they existed. Okay, well, we'll do some more research about that, because we're gonna have, like I say, people who are knowledgeable like yourself and other individuals to come on and explain to the audience some of the things that we may not be aware of, that we shouldn't be aware of anyhow. Like in 20 seconds or less, and I know it didn't wanna time you, but any partying, any thing you'd like to pass on to the audience. Yes, one of the things that I do is that I don't charge a veteran for doing anything. I do, this is not pro bono, this is a veteran assistant of veteran, and your wives, your children, anybody who think they did not get proper compensation, proper rights, call me. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Call me and we can set up a time and any group that wants to issue or deal with this, I'm glad to be there. Steve, I wanna thank you for coming on the program and I wanna thank the viewers for watching the program. Again, like we'll be touching on some other sensitive issues that are essential, but thank you, God bless and until that time.


Hey everybody, Brett here, and today I am excited to show you something that we've had in the plans for a long time Kind of had this idea since we created the photo studio here, and let me show you what I'm thinking Over here is our workstation for our photographer and for me when I'm doing my videos Basically, we take the photos and then we can upload them right away To the internet But we got obviously we've got some touch-up paint. We've got some rags and towels and Cleaning products over here that don't make a very attractive background So my plan was all along to build Basically an office in here so that all that would be covered up So when we take the photos and videos and spins and everything They that wouldn't show and we finally got our stuff in today.  So basically, I don't even know what this is called But they're basically like LEGO blocks and we're gonna be making a wall around that area there today So that's pretty exciting and just wanted to show you what it looks like before and then once we get it all Unpackaged and everything and set up. We'll show you what it looks like after so thanks for checking out the video so basically I've got probably four stacks Four wide of these and then I'm just gonna pull them off like that and then get them put into place And then we can start building the wall so we're starting construction of the wall here and As you can see they go together just like LEGO blocks and Comes with these end pieces Which I'm assuming Are to put on the end so that we can get a nice flat Wall area. We're just gonna alternate those over and then we have a wall that's gonna go that way and Should be pretty easy. So here we go All right, we got the wall up. It's pretty easy to do and A company is called expo actually the the brand of the stuff is expo and Versari is the company expo.com Xpo.com looks really good and Everybody left So now our computer and everything is hidden so that it's not in the photos and looks really good Summon auto.com here we go


Hey everyone shabber 1,000 here tonight.  Hopefully if we catch something we'll clean it up We'll cook it and then we'll have story time. So stick around Should be fun Okay, so Monkey and Bruno is just left. They're gonna stop back here in a couple hours. They're gonna bring me some more pop And a pillow But we're out here on the boat We fished here before I got a line out that way and I'm lying out that way Before we was kind of pulled up in there right up in there and then I also fished I just let the current take the boat right over into them pads there them lily pads and just let it set so Fish jumping there I usually do pretty good here so if that don't work then all I'll just ease over there and We'll just let the current just park itself And then I'll just fish out in a couple different areas there. So stick around. Okay guys So we just moved spots. I wanted to show you this this is a midden mound here I didn't know that one was there, but there's a little kind of like memorial here for a gentlemen Dean Must have really liked it out here I'm guessing that would be his helmet so Yeah, right next to it's a midden mound Very interesting. So we're just right across from we were parked right over right over there so We're gonna try it here. I'm just gonna cast straight out here see what we can do here. Okay guys we're back at the campsite and it is About 442 Monkeys coming back about seven dropped me off a couple things But I had to come back because I forgot the bug spray and I was getting eat up down there They was just starting to bite and I was getting tore up So I came back get the bug spray and just thought well try it here for a few minutes, but um Yeah, I thought man. I should have because I sent the thermo cell with her I was like I'm not gonna need it. I thought I should have kept that but I probably would have left it here too there's a squirrel about 10 feet behind me. He's over there playing these buddies up in the tree. They're over there having a good time So I'm gonna try it here. I start catching anything There you go. Let's start catching anything. I'll turn you on. Okay guys. I got a little fish on here. Don't make catfish All right, that's fish number one. I'm gonna throw him back and See if we can get fish number two this some monkeys full door still fin digging into my hand Fish number one That's the perfect shot and he went in. Oh head first All right, fish number one. I haven't had a bite in a while. So I took the drone up flew it around and uh It didn't seem like it took all the photos That I took but I don't know. Anyway, I got some footage and I'll show you the two photos that I did have If they're just in a I don't know if I find them all put the rest of them up, but I definitely got two Getting a little hunger. I'll probably regret this.  These things are awesome I got two pieces of chicken in there and I got this these noodles, but I'm gonna eat the noodles I'm gonna have these for breakfast, but I think I'm going to eat them tonight because them things are so good And I'm getting hunger having eight all day so That's what we're going to do next There are sausages in here sizzle sizzle. All right now Gotta add this stuff. Excuse me dollar 25 a dollar tree best stuff you'll ever have man She left me some garlic A head of garlic in there. Well, I have had I used uh half of it last night to make our dinner, but She left some of that in there for me and uh In case I catch a fish and I got some flour and I got some butter I got some oil. So if we do catch a big fish, we might do a late night fish fry So let me get these cooked up and then we'll put on some of our noodles in there And I'm just going to put it in one of my pans here. I got it You know That is in my mess kit in my backpack So I'll be back with you. She'll be She'll be showing up out here for a long it's 6 30 now. She said about seven So she gonna come out. All right now. Let's put some of our noodles in better move this Or I'll probably regret it Already dropped one little piece of my sausage I cut them I cut them up in thirds Now I'm going to put these back on well on then Uh, let's we forget you got to have the seasoning This this is better than any steak seasoning I've ever had in my life Man, it's getting dark quick. I got to get a light out for you guys too. All right. So this is done All I had this is um leftover noodles. I had the night four last I made for monkey and I Something just happened to my a thing just stripped Can you believe it?  I mean there was a couple hundred I mean they were just all over that light. I turned that thermos cell on And the wind was blowing that way But they were still flying around the smoke was going that way and The light was on this side of the fire ring which is over there So I know it wasn't the smoke, but I turned that thermos cell on which was behind the light And within about 20 minutes there was maybe three four tops So I probably should have had her leave that with me Mosquitoes down here. I don't think I got to worry too much about the bears It being February Man I got him buzzing around my ear now All right I am going To eat my supper And then I'll be back with you guys here shortly. Okay guys Monkey showed up. She's just leaving. She's still got the trailer on she can unhook it But she doesn't trust herself hooking up back up Because she don't want it coming off But I've you know stood there while she didn't she does it just fine.  I want to make sure you're warm. So that's like oh, thank you so Yeah, she brought me some something happened to my hat. Oh There we go Let's have my head down but yeah, so I might call it an early night tonight I might take the boat for a little cruise. I don't know a night cruise but Yeah, I think I'll head into the tent and Finish watching my movie that that it movie that I was watching last night on yesterday. Let's Last video You know, it's two discs Long and I didn't get through the first desk and I got tired, but it was like four four four thirty so That's called a night So Excuse me guys. All right There we are We're back in camp Camera looks really dark for some reason Usually doesn't yeah, there's the tent. All right guys. Well as you can see though from the drone footage As you can probably tell I'm the only one out here in this whole wide space I'm the only one here Let's not say someone won't show up like three o'clock in the morning. They've done that before but you know Right now. I'm the only one here. So Yeah, pretty cool. Okay guys, so I thought I'd taken a little night ride on the boat Uh, I got you a night vision because well, uh my light back here Quit working. I just checked it before I left so um, but It's dark time and we are on a river. So we're not going to be doing any full tilt buggy or anything like that Okay, well Monkey left me the meat sticks Because she had them up here And this thing but I took them out and rolled this up because it's it goes right in my face I know I had four meat sticks Because I showed you guys in the last video, but for some reason I only have three now. Hmm Now If for some reason I didn't lose it from there to right here Monk You know anything about my meat stick All right, well I'm gonna call an early night. I'm gonna watch. Well, I'll be up a while. I mean It's real early, but I'm gonna watch my Watch my Watch that movie. It's only eight o'clock but So I'm gonna watch my movie I heard a tree Fall right up here behind me Like the next site over And there's nobody up there. So I don't know what that was all about And I don't know what happened to my meat stick I don't know if Sam Squange came in and took it or what But I know I had four but I didn't count them when I took them out. I just took them out Set them down right there so I don't know All right, I'm gonna watch a little bit of my movie. I'll be back with you guys shortly hang tight story time. Okay, so Monkey wanted to tell one of me to tell you guys the stories of my animal encounters and these are all true and she can verify it um Since I've been down here in florida so I have told these stories before but in different videos, but she wanted me she said she You should just tell them all for your story time tonight So I was like, okay, I'll I'll do that man. She likes to hear hear the stories.   Let me just back out a little bit here so, you know, I just kind of flicked it off of me and um When I seen it it landed on on the back You know the little concrete pad out back and landed on there and was running away and this thing was huge man. It was Probably Okay, there's a pop can this thing was probably and this is my koozie About Big around is the bottom of that can there so Or that koozie. So that's you know That's pretty big around Now it's looking and I there was two bite marks. You can see them just plain as day two big Bite marks and I looked it up. Of course. I googled it. I want to know what kind of spider that was Hadn't been down here florida very long.  It kind of goes like this in the front legs and uh I'll put a picture up right now, but that's what it looked like and uh The people around here calling florida huntsman spiders. I don't I don't know if it's actually a huntsman But it was huge because I know the banana spiders. I've seen them bigger than that down here.  They were there for almost a week before they dissipated and went away and then uh Right here at this this very site Monkey and I's first boat So it's fitting since yesterday was was uh, uh valentine's day. So Our first valentine's day together We got together in November 2016 so February 2017 well, I I'd asked her, you know what she wanted for for uh, valentine's day. She said a boat That's what seriously. She said no seriously. I want a boat And it was funny because the next day a guy worked with his name Brian Brian said, you know, buddy anybody looking for a boat? I said, what kind of boat? He said a wide bottom guino That's how big he said 16 foot I said, yeah, well, he went for it. He said a hundred bucks I said, yeah, I'll buy it. So I bought it right then and there site unseen. He says it's not the prettiest thing It's an old boat from the 70s. I said, I don't care Monkey picked me up but worked at that. So wouldn't you say you wanted for valentine's day? She said and this was the 13th. I think or something real close She said I told you I wanted a boat and I said, well, I got you a boat What where I said, we gotta go pick it up tomorrow. I got you a boat Are you kidding me? I said, no, it's just a little guinoop. She said, I don't care If it's on if it'll go down if it'll go on water. I don't care And we had that boat everywhere man. We had it in solar springs and all over the place but Yeah, so um But anyway that boat I was right on this river right where our boats parked right now Uh, we we had took a trip on this river and and we had a 60 pound thrust. I think it had my Minn kota trolling motor on it and I had two 12 volt, you know, two Deep cycle batteries, which I still have one was bigger than the other but because we bought one used and one We bought brand new and still have them and they're still get great batteries um but So we took this trip, right and I'm thinking I kept watching the gauge on on the minn kota because it was It was pretty spot on, you know, so I figured when we get about halfway You know it's Would actually be going let's see this river runs It runs north so we were heading north But I didn't think it through so when we got about halfway We just a little more than halfway on on the gauge. I said, well, we'll turn around come back And the current got stronger and we was coming up current and ended up We just used both both batteries just slam out Just warm out but and we paddled it a little bit now Okay, so the next story is with this same night but okay, so When the batteries started running low and we kind of got got close to a sandbar and and Uh, the seaweed's got all tangled up in the prop, right and she's paddling like crazy And I'm doing all I can with that motor and it just it just didn't want to come up out of there Uh, where we was come something like little rapids, you know, and there's this gator sitting over here On the bank on the other side of the bank, right and of course our boat started drifting backwards and she's Bust her hard poor thing. She's up front doing all the paddling she can to keep that gator keep me away from that gator, but I got within Probably eight feet of that thing And finally the boat got stopped, right? So she kind of held it there so I left the motor up as far as I could but I still had to reach down in the water because it didn't raise up real far It didn't raise up like our trolling motor does because it's just a trolling motor.  She can verify this and If he lunged yeah, I mean he could he could have took my arm off or you know took me into the river But he didn't he just but he stared at me. He didn't hiss or nothing like they do And that's what was scary because we had seen probably 15 18 gators that day and they would all come down off the bank And into the water You know, so they didn't want confrontation. This one didn't do that. He was sitting there On our way up the river, right? He was sitting there And coming back that's when you know things started going south force And uh, but he was still there and yes, he was alive.  So I said we'll pull in here because there was campers here. Well, this was on a sunday When we went, you know up the river when we went past But when we came back there was nobody here because you know, I was like, well, we'll stop there Maybe some will give us a ride back to boat ramp But there wasn't nobody here. So we We pull up it's just starting to get dark It was still daylight. Yeah, we didn't need lights yet.  Okay, we're we're I'm keeping that right now So we're walking up through there and we kept hearing something beside us But we couldn't see it and and I figured it was bear. So she's got her whistle and she's blowing her whistle so Finally We get to the gate. We did not know It had a locked gate I was like, oh my god, no way because you know, it's like a mile up through there Then it's just a little bit.  She said, well, so what are you going to do?  All right I said, it's going to be dark and it's going to take me a little bit And I'll just meet you back here at the ramp. I said, don't go anywhere. Just you know, just wait on me It's going to take me a little bit. She was like, okay so So She said, well, what about that bear? I said, look, it probably wasn't a bear Which I I thought it probably was which I was right. It it was a bear Uh because I know this now But I told her I said, oh, it was probably just some coons or some, you know Armadillos or something. I said, it's It's okay. You know, I'll be fine because I didn't want her worried and I didn't want to psych myself out So I went walking back got to the gate went around the gate this time now.  It is dark so But there was a there was a pretty good moon out but it didn't show much through the trees, right? So I'm walking up through there. I'm singing songs and stuff and Hey bear, yo bear and I'm hearing something beside me, you know And I'm starting to psych myself out again. I'm like, wait a minute You know, this is just just it's probably a possum coon armadillos or something because they make a lot of noise and about that time I heard a branch break and feet and It got quiet like it stopped and I turned around There's a black bear standing there probably within 20 feet of me. That's no joke Just standing there So I try to make myself look big now. I'm talking real calm to this bear. I said look I said bear I'm just passing through I'll be I'll be out of your way in no time. Just let me go and I'll be passing through So I started walking backwards and the bear started walking, you know, like towards me, but I was walking backwards Like he wasn't gaining on me or anything like that I would stop and that bear would stop So I keep doing that and I keep talking real calm to this bear. I'm like, you know, yeah It's pretty nice night out.  I can't really turn around. So this thing probably about About a half a mile probably half the length of this room This thing followed me Not once did it get aggressive not once did it claw to ground not once did it growl or hiss or snort It just followed me and every time I stopped It would stop And I come walking out here and just as I got right here just Just to where it breaks open out into this area here As soon as I come into here where it breaks open The bear just stopped And he looked at me and he turned and walked about I don't know five steps. He stopped turned around look back at me again and then turned around just Went up the road Probably 30 feet and then went up into the To the woods and I can hear him going away from me It was almost like he turned around to say I see you later, you know Good talking to you or whatever But it's kind of like he knew people was here or something Or you know, I like to think he was making sure I got here. Okay, you know, I got here the boat was here, you know so But yeah, so I got down the boat and and you know I hadn't paddled all the way because the batteries were done all the way up to the boat ramp So let me see So that was my gator and bear story and spider story the gator and that gator and bear story happened the same day Now this story now monkey monkey can verify them all except Except for the uh the bear that was here, but she knew I mean She she knew I don't lie.  He was he wasn't aggressive I just talked.  I mean he was really really close so All right, then uh, what was it last year well, yeah had to be last year, but last summer We were out here on this river. We were accidentally about a half a mile from where we're at now up the river and uh So It was right right before we get to our little island I think I showed you guys that island before the one I'm going to camp on we went past there tonight And the water was low enough. I could have done my solo there, but so we were coming Up through there and I'm just you know You know I got more I'm like yes at the side of the boat and I had my hand just You know because our top was up. So I just would have my hand rested there You know kind of like on on the poles that come down on the bimini top And so it just kind of hanging over just a little bit because and I like to feel the water splash up, you know a little bit and We were just cruising we weren't going wide open So we were just cruising you probably 10 miles an hour or whatever And I heard a thump and as soon as I heard a thump This gator's head come out of the water. He was like going to the right of me And as soon as I heard that thump this gator's head come out of the water and Right at my hand and just as I moved my hand. I felt his teeth Hit my finger in fact it scraped my finger monkey will tell you that it's it's too scraped my finger Now I think what I think he was underwater going across and I think he touched the boat and his natural reaction Was just to turn around and bite it whatever was there and he almost got my hand I felt his teeth, you know kind of go like that, you know like When when I pulled my hand back so he almost got my my pinky And it it did have a scrape down it so the monkey will verify that So those those are some pretty good stories. Um One more actually that we forgot about that we was talking about today was uh, uh, Bruno one night we come home. It was kind of late and we Did you hear that thump right before the frog was Croaking I heard a thump. I hear something beside me in the tent or not in the tent Hope it's not in the tent All right. So anyway, uh, I forget where we was coming back. The Bruno was with us and it was dark And I didn't see him but we pulled him the driveway and you know, when we get out Bruno will hop out He'll go do his business go up here or whatever before we go into house Just his routine. That's what we taught him, you know, so we don't get in then have to take him back out He started walking across the or to go pee and all once I heard And and he took off up the street Right to the edge of the That's when I seen them they were crossing the road and he seen them. So right to the edge of our yard They they went waddling into the uh There's like ferns that grew there they went waddling into there And he was on them like that and he he had a hold of one just And that thing was grilling and screeching And I was like Bruno was loud and as mean sounding as I could get over here And finally he he come over just tail wagging like he'd done something me I was like they they were they bothering you and boy, he don't he don't like them armadillos, man He was on that one. Uh, I believe he could have took it out if he wanted to or if I hadn't stopped him But yeah, we forgot that one monkey.  I don't think he liked the way they squawked it Like that, I don't think he liked that But he's they don't bother him anymore And like coyotes like And we hear him at the house all the time, you know, within about a mile of us I know where they hang out at and we'll hear them. They'll get the reason how and we'll be outside and he He thinks nothing of it. But if he hears a dog way off in the distance of bark that we can't hardly hear He starts growling and barking him But the coyotes don't bother him just like last night.  He was pointing and I I showed you guys that He was pointing Looking right behind me, which is over that way Towards the wood line I turned around I didn't see nothing, but I didn't look real hard monkey says she didn't see anything, but You know, I mean she said well, I didn't see any eyes glowing. That's well, you know It might not have been looking this way if it wasn't looking this way with the light Yeah, you wouldn't have seen his eyes glowing. She said well true um She said well, maybe he just heard something But when that dog hears something his ears will go up and he'll stop but he'll look around and he'll sniff You know because he hears somebody like you don't know where it is Last night he saw something because when he sees something his ears go up Tail goes out and that one paw goes up and that's what he was doing sitting on monkey's lap. So Yeah, that's that's pretty cool So anyway guys, uh still haven't watched my movie yet. I was uh putting the My videos onto her dad's computer just in case the card gets corrupted or You know something happens at least, you know, I'll have most of them. I'll have them all except for this one So not have it's been edited yet yesterday's or today's so But anyway guys, I'm going to watch my movie and if anything else Happens, uh, I'll kick you on but I'll definitely kick you on say good night before I go to sleep or try to go to sleep and uh Yeah That's pretty much it. So, uh, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and do that and I'll talk you guys in a minute Hope you enjoyed my story. I appreciate it. Good morning, everyone. It is 9 30 Uh Went to bed. Well went to sleep Around four o'clock a little after four I got up I got back up about eight o'clock came out here for a little bit It was nice nice night And uh, then I went in laid down a little bit more took a little nap. So it's about 9 35 right now But uh, yeah, uh It was supposed to get colder last night than it was the night before but I wasn't cold either nights, but last night Uh, I was pretty much hot all night I uh Cracked the window open on the You know open the door the window for the door here Opened it up and that helped and Cooled down a little bit. I can see my breath, but I was hot. I mean I didn't you know Uh, when when I was watching my movie I had to Uh, I just unzipped my sleeping bag and just laid on top of it. So yeah, it was a beautiful night though um But throughout the night, you know, I came out here and looked around and listened to the night birds and The raccoons there's a bunch of raccoons over there across the river playing I couldn't see him, but I could hear them. They were over there chattering having a good time. So It's a beautiful night. This place is This place is really nice, but yeah, I've been out here myself all night long so Yeah, that's pretty cool Uh Unusual but yeah, it's cool. So I'm gonna start packing up here in a little bit We'll meet monkey up at the boat ramp. So it won't take long to you know, all I gotta do is take the tent down and Uh, I just got a lot of small stuff Not a lot, but you know like I got my battery and Tackle box my little chair and stuff like that So Yeah, it was a great time man. Hope you enjoyed it But uh, I'm not gonna bore you with the tent Tent down. You saw me set it up. So, you know, it's It's not interesting. I know But yeah our went out so um, but Yeah, I'm gonna sit here and Drink my coke and Might throw a line in the water for a little bit. I got time See if I can catch anything. So I'll be back to you guys here in just a minute. All right guys Sit around a little bit too long I gotta get all this stuff in that boat Get the boat started Drive a couple miles up the river In 20 minutes. Let's try it though. I got it 40 minutes after And there she comes cool I'll be back with you in a second. Okay guys, so there it is Sheba, the Mr. Man Ledge. I'm gone for now. We'll see you guys in the next one Hope you guys enjoyed the video. It was supposed to be a fishing solo, but I mean I caught two fish One was during the video with her and then one was yesterday. You guys saw that one last night You should caught two fish. I didn't get anything No, and I gave up So it was more or less a solo camp story time. Yeah, so hopefully you guys enjoyed it They should have fun. It was gorgeous. Like I said, it's nice today. Oh, it is nice breeze But I I was only four minutes late so Well, you were here when I was here. So you weren't late for me I thought surely she'll wait like 10 minutes. You know, I didn't mean like if I wasn't here at 12 You know 1159 Noon I gotta go check on him. I would have waited until about 1215. Yeah Had trouble getting the boat started. It was in gear If that thing would have started first crank like it used to I would have been over the back You would have seen your boat going past. Hey, there he is. Where's he at? There's no driver.  She's been me walking down the road soaking wet. Hey, did you see the boat? That thing we're running a long time on five gallons of gas. Yeah Well, we only used about a gallon. So yeah, it's six gallon tank. All right guys Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. Say a prayer to met the man alleged. I'm going for now. I'm up We'll see you guys. Take care