Here are Google Assistant posts where he (mostly) performs solo. He’ll play your favorite music, automate your daily routines, control your entertainment system and your smart lights, and much more.
Don’t miss the not so solo Google Assistant posts. You’ll find more smart devices and comparisons to other voice assistants.
Today, on 18th May 2016, five years ago, Google Assistant and Google Home were announced at the Google I/O 2016. Time flies by for the young ones. Can you imagine our smart little fellow is already five years old? Time to celebrate and look into the highlights of our youngest assistant.
In this post, we will explore all the Google music commands to enjoy all the music services supported by our Google Home and Nest devices. From basic playback commands and playing our favorite music, to setting sleep timers, music alarms, and creating our own music commands with Google Routines.
Google is an amazing storyteller! We will look into the many ways to listen to his stories, but this post is actually about quality time with your kids, your partner, or yourself. We will create Google Routines, where he will magically set the perfect ambience to put us in the middle of the story we … Read more
It started years ago with shortcuts, then came Google’s ready-made routines. Nowadays, we can create custom routines just by entering any Google Assistant command or by choosing from 20 popular actions. Google Routines are one of the helpful features of our voice assistant, which allow us to automate many aspects of our smart home and … Read more
In this post, we will look into the setup of Philips Hue for Google Home, Nest and Assistant. You’ll find all the voice commands, the gentle sleep and wake feature, and also examples how to group and automate your Philips Hue lights with Google Routines and Philips Hue Zones (beta).
Ok, we were a bit disappointed. There were quite some bugs in the initial integration of Logitech Harmony and Google Home. Guess what? It took some time and now the bugs are fixed. Time to update this post to reflect the recent improvements in setup and voice commands. And, we’ve also tested the integration with … Read more
Let’s introduce our Google Home to Nanoleaf Aurora. In this post we will set up our little Google Home assistant to talk to Captain Muks. We will look into the basic setup and additional tricks to get the most out of our setup.
UPDATE 2018-11-12: Please note that this post is outdated. We have already added a post for the new blue Harmony Service in Google Home: Logitech Harmony and Google Home: New Setup and Voice Commands additionally to the old retired red Harmony Service in Google Home: Logitech Harmony and Google Assistant: (Retired) Setup and Voice Commands UPDATE 2018-11-08: The integration … Read more
This should have become only one post: Google and our privacy and security. But I realized very soon too late, that such a post would be very, very dangerous. Dangerous for you and dangerous for me. Some of you would be shocked to the point, that you start to hate smartenlight. Some of you would keep asking me … Read more
WARNING: If you’ve accidentally arrived here, without the explicit decision to take the “red pill“, please leave now! This post is a fictional story for insiders, who are curious about the potential impact of artificial intelligence. Have they left? Let me check in GA! No. Ok, let’s rephrase: WARNING: This is going to be the … Read more
Google is an advertising company. Ads finance the free services we can use. Google collects a lot of our data and transparently informs us, what they collect and how they use it. We are in control, what data we give to Google. Our data is safe at Google.
In this post, we will connect Google Assistant with our Logitech Harmony Hub. In case you have not already set up your Harmony devices, activities and favorites, it is a good time to do so. Refer to the post Logitech Harmony: a Hub and its Elite, Ultimate, Companion for the Logitech Harmony setup. UPDATE 2018-11-12: This post … Read more
Finally our Google Home supports Philips Hue scenes natively! Still, if this feature does not work for you, here’s a workaround. Before we start, let me warn you that with this workaround you will need to configure every scene manually. It is a terrible workaround, but if you are new to IFTTT, you might find … Read more
As with our other assistants, I tried to interview Google Assistant. It threw me off when it started to ask back. So, here is just a summary: Google Assistant’s age is two in dog years (it does bark after that). Google Assistant was born in a meeting. At first, it was just a rough concept, now it’s … Read more
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