Zello

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Daniel's been using Zello for something more serious than most of us ever will, and he's got four questions hiding inside one prompt.

Key and Hannah used it during the war with Iran to coordinate shelter locations when they were both out, and had cellular.

Now he's home, parenting a 14-month-old, and he wants the same immediacy for reaching his wife when hands are full and phones are off.

The problem he ran into is that the portable Bluetooth speakers they use constantly for podcasts won't work with Zello because their buttons are mapped to media controls.

So he's asking first whether any Android app can intercept and rebind button events for one specific Bluetooth device without affecting others.

Second, what's the use case for standalone PTT buttons versus a speaker with an integrated one? how long they last on a charge, and whether one can stay connected alongside a Bluetooth headset that lacks a PTT button.

Third, what value do standalone Zello devices, these Android walkie-talkies with their own networking stack, provide over just running the app? And fourth, the unconventional one.

Daniel's been reading the Bluetooth spec again, and he's got a whole stack of peripherals he wants to glue to one phone.

Headphones, a push-to-talk button for Zello, a camera trigger, and a keyboard, all connected at once.

And he wants to know whether Android actually keeps that many plates spinning without dropping one.

The short answer is yes, mostly.

That's not a problem for the phone.

The phone just sees one ATDP connection.

But if he's using those headphones for Zello while also connected to his laptop, and a call comes in on the laptop, the headset has to decide which source wins.

That's headset firmware territory, not Android.

They migrated it, now they're on group calling apps.

Zello is the big one, the walkie talkie style app where you press a button and talk, and everyone in the channel hears you in real time.

WhatsApp groups are huge too, and what happens in those channels is a mix of work and social.

Traffic updates, fair tips, which hotel has a long queue right now, which dispatcher is giving out good jobs, but also just banter, jokes, arguments about football, someone's kid graduating, someone's mother in the hospital, It's the virtual water cooler.

In high-crime areas, the earpiece is a lifeline.

Drivers report incidents in real time.

A driver gets robbed at a red light, he hits the button on his Zello, and within seconds, 40 other drivers know the intersection, the description of the guy, the direction he ran.

That's a decentralized security system.

Awesome.

I think Zello was the app or was downloaded in the hurricane.

Yeah.

Zello.

Yeah, that was like the old Nextel.

And then you can also find out what people's houses are worth.

I didn't mean that.

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What's on your wrist? What's on your wrist? What's on your wrist? What's on your wrist? Lauren's group chat gonna make me broke again.

What's on your wrist? Take ourselves too seriously

Extra drinks are $1 if you want to split a meal.

And it's a cash and Zello payment accepted.

And if anybody has any questions, they can contact Mary Lou at 928-369-6854.

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Today, people still use the service during emergencies to contact first aid services as well as their loved ones.

Now, the name of the app we were looking for, the Zello app, rhymes with jello.

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And we have no winners today.

So to make it simple, POC means push to talk over cellular.

And basically, it's similar to Zello, but it's more dedicated to a radio versus having your cell phone and using it.

One of the benefits of using the radios is we're actually a distributor for a company called YCTel, which is the largest global...

SIM card provider for POC radios for pretty much all the companies.

There's no RF line of sight requirement.

Now, if you want to operate just the POC portion of the radio, you can use a consumer network like Zello or there's one called VILPTT and other different manufacturers have different cellular networks that they use.

And those don't require any licenses.

So you can operate those with a family member and they could be across the country and you can talk to them.

It's a glorified cell phone that only works on data, but it has the push-to-talk switch and acts like a radio in that regard.

So let's see.

Out of the box, almost every POC radio ship's ready to run on Zillow, now our real PTT.

Those are general-purpose PTT over-the-internet apps that are used by trucking fleets, security teams, preppers, hobbyists, and there's no amateur license required or no connection to ham radio systems at all.

So, yeah, he got stuck at the other property where we run the sheep.

And I didn't know, and apparently he queued up, and I didn't hear it, because that keeps happening with Zello, and we need a better way to communicate than Zello at this time, because their app has stopped working very well.

And, like, I'll get his messages sometime.

It'll just show up as a message that never plays sometimes, and that's not the point of it.