# HOT 206: Automating Roller Shades & Connecting Printers

**URL:** <https://www.twit.community/t/hot-206-automating-roller-shades-connecting-printers/18151>\
**Category:** Hands-On Tech\
**Tags:** episode\
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/hot-206-automating-roller-shades-connecting-printers/18151 "2025-03-09T21:47:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/leo/32/16203_2.png) [@Leo](https://www.twit.community/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/hot-206-automating-roller-shades-connecting-printers/18151/1 "2025-03-09T21:47:30Z")

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Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…

> **[Automating Roller Shades & Connecting Printers | TWiT.TV](https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech/episodes/206)**
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> In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent answers two questions from Kevin: about how to control multiple roller shades with different remotes from a smartphone via

What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!

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**Author:** ![Clayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/clayton/32/711_2.png) [@Clayton](https://www.twit.community/u/Clayton)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/hot-206-automating-roller-shades-connecting-printers/18151/2 "2025-03-14T17:26:01Z")

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Although I’m in Club TWiT, I generally listen to show feeds with ads, to help keep the number of ad impressions up. So I get to hear the auto-insert ads when they are needed.

I’m in the UK, and know that auto-insert ads are usually tailored for the download location. Often they’re very UK-specific, using presenters with regional UK accents. However, for this HoT episode I heard two adverts that sounded as if they were in an Eastern European language, certainly nothing that sounded like a Western European language. As they were at different points in the show (one at the end I think) they could have been for the same product - think I heard the word “telecom”, but can’t be certain.

None of this is a complaint, just mentioning it in case there’s any fine tuning that would improve ad targeting.

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**Author:** ![Clayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/clayton/32/711_2.png) [@Clayton](https://www.twit.community/u/Clayton)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/hot-206-automating-roller-shades-connecting-printers/18151/3 "2025-03-14T18:30:12Z")

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Unfortunately, my podcast player deletes every download straight after it’s played, so I can’t recreate exactly what I heard - when I re-downloaded the show I got one ad insertion in the middle for Indeed, and no insertion at the end. Which might mean that the insertion I thought was at the end of HoT was actually at the beginning of another, possibly non-TWiT, podcast. And I have no way of knowing for certain what was the case. So unless there have been other comments about ad inserts in odd languages, I think my comment probably goes under the heading of “interesting, but unhelpful”. Sorry.