Automated Home Show

About Automated Home Show

Talking all things smart homes and interviewing smart home industry insiders to inspire and keep you up to date.

Publisher

Marty Spargo

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Feb 2024

Latest episode

24 May 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 22 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Smart Home Timeout?

   Host [Host Name] interviews himself about pausing smart home tech for family health, offering insights on mindful technology adoption.

2. 

   2 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Smart homes can be so frustrating at times

   I've been trying to find a solution so that we can have smart lights in our new home for a few months. I bought an IKEA Jetstrom smart ceiling light, found a local electrician to help me get it powered and then...Failed completely. I guess this is one of those smart home fails you have to go through before getting to the next win!Learn more about Automated Home here.

3. 

   9 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Smart home update and some new toys

   In this solo episode, I share an update on what's happening in my smart home. Wifi 7 is great, smart lights are causing me some headaches and I got a few new toys to play with too.Learn more about Automated Home here.

Inside a recent episode

Smart Home Timeout?

Published 24 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So we had three bands created. One was 2.4 gigahertz only, which can be helpful with smart home tech. Sometimes it's difficult if you've got a merged band of 2.4 and 5. It's difficult to connect to smart home devices, as I'm sure you probably know. We also had a band that was 2.4 and 5 gigahertz combined. And then we had a third band that was 2.4 plus 5 plus 6. And that band was basically unusable. It was terrible. So I would say the only benefits we got really from that wifi router were one, the ability to split out all of these different bands at times that was helpful to have 2.4 only when trying to connect to new smart home devices. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,739,001

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

27

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

27

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