Mac Power Users episode 402.

Home Automation with Robert Spivet.

Welcome back to the Mac Power Users Podcast.

Welcome back to the Mac Power Users Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside my

pal David Sparks. You're a little under the weather today David. How are you?

I'm good Katie. I've got a cold or something. I'm kind of a mess. I'm highly medicated so let's just see what happens.

That could make for an interesting show.

Yeah, just everything's unhinged here, but I think I'll be fine. I feel a lot better today than I did this

afternoon than I did this morning, so that's good.

That's progress heading in the right direction.

We also want to welcome to MacPowell users, longtime listener first-time caller I guess as they say

Welcome Robert Spivak. Thank you glad to be here

Now we've been in correspondence for a long time, you've always written in some with some thoughtful

comments and feedback about the show, and you've always had some insightful things to say, but I

guess I did not realize until you actually chimed up that you make your living doing home automation

installs for people. That's right I really got into it by accident and it's

become my full-time gig at this point. I just want to say that Robert we actually you were a

guest we spent a long time looking for because we've talked about home

animation and our own experiences with it and Katie and I are like blind hogs looking for an acorn, you know, but the, but we've had some experiences.

But then every time I got a hold of a home automation expert because there's guys out there like you

And I start talking to them what are you what do you spend your time doing they all spend their time installing like $50,000 systems in very rich people's homes, which is of almost

no interest to 99% of our audience.

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