Home Gadget Geeks

Jim Collison

Booking Overview

A technology interview podcast focused on practical home gadgets, smart-home systems, homelabs, gaming, photography, backups, and related consumer technology, typically featuring technically knowledgeable practitioners and creators. Credible pitches include hands-on smart-home builders, home-server and networking experts, gadget specialists, photographers, and developers with practical projects or product expertise; booking difficulty is likely low because the show favors accessible niche professionals over highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 50

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Gender skew: Male

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 1.5k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jim@theaverageguy.tv

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Host

Jim Collison - Technology podcaster covering practical gadgets, home technology, smart-home systems, and homelab topics.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Hands-on expertise in consumer technology, smart homes, home automation, homelabs, photography gear, networking, backups, gaming, or related home technology projects.

Required Achievements:

Recent Guest Discussions

Mike Wieger - Push-to-talk-over-cellular Radios For Children, Unraid And Truenas Backups, ZFS, Tailscale, Remote Gaming, Apollo, Moonlight, And Frigate.

Jay Franze - Concert Photography Gear, Nikon Cameras, RAW Workflows, Redundant Backups, AI Photo Editing, Mastering, And Spatial Audio.

Seth Johnson - Programmable Pixel Lights, Holiday Displays, Holidaycoro, Quinled, WLED, Xlights, Home Assistant, Robot Mowers, And Electrical Planning.

Phil Hawthorne - Home Assistant Blueprints, Area-based Automations, Esphome Bluetooth Proxies, E-ink Dashboards, AI Integration, And The Open Home Foundation.

T.J. Huddleston - Pollinator Gardens, Smart Irrigation, A Solar-powered Shed, And Hermes For Safer Home Assistant Tools.

Recent Topics

Technology, Smart Home, Home Automation, Homelab, Consumer Electronics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Home Gadget Geeks

Home Assistant AI Automation, Tesla FSD and Energy Monitoring with Phil Hawthorne – HGG691

October 03, 2026

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.

Tesla, Home Assistant, ESPHome and Smarter Automation with Gavin Campbell – HGG690

September 26, 2026

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.

POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689

September 19, 2026

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. For a broader setup walkthrough, see the complete guide to Frigate and Home Assistant. Chapters...

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