Home Gadget Geeks (Video Large)

Hosted by Jim Collison · Jim Collison

4.5from 4 ratings

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Episodes: 4
Ratings: Daily
Cadence: 2023
First episode: 17K
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About Home Gadget Geeks (Video Large)

We cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home!

Publisher: Jim Collison
Category: news · technology
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 4 Feb 2023
Latest episode: 3 Oct 2026

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3 Oct 2026
Home Assistant AI Automation, Tesla FSD and Energy Monitoring with Phil Hawthorne – HGG691
Phil Hawthorne joins me to talk Home Assistant AI automation, the upcoming 2026.10 release, Tesla Full Self-Driving, smarter energy monitoring, climate zones and a 3D-printed presence-sensor planter. We also discover why my Home Assistant Container installation had fallen several releases behind.
26 Sept 2026
Tesla, Home Assistant, ESPHome and Smarter Automation with Gavin Campbell – HGG690
Gavin Campbell is back, and this one turns into a tour of what happens when Home Assistant stops being a dashboard and starts becoming the operating system for the house. We talk through Gavin’s first Tesla, garage-door automation, water and leak monitoring, ESPHome projects, lawn and soil sensors, emergency power, camera systems and the growing role AI can play in making sense of all that home data.
19 Sept 2026
POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689
Do kids need a full smartphone just to stay in touch? Mike Wieger joins me for HGG689 with a different answer: push-to-talk-over-cellular radios built around simple family communication. We also dig into practical off-site backups with Unraid, TrueNAS, ZFS and Tailscale, Apollo and Moonlight for using one gaming PC from almost anywhere, and Frigate 0.18 for a much easier local-camera and NVR setup. Chapters / Timestamps Guest Context Mike Wieger returns to Home Gadget Geeks with three practical technology topics aimed at parents, gamers and homelab enthusiasts. Mike has been a longtime HGG guest and brings a hands-on perspective from

Who has been a guest on Home Gadget Geeks (Video Large)

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Mike Wieger
Kevin Schoonover
TJ Huddleston
Doug Milburn

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YouTube views: 17,039; Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US): 4.5 / 5; 4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality: 59
Social presence: 0
YouTube: 76
Engagement: 32

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