Control your smart home The powerful assistant is capable of all sorts, from making phone calls to playing music. But perhaps one of the most important features of your Google Home Mini is that it has the ability to control your smart home, acting as a hub for your connected smart devices.

The Google Home app is a single place to set up, manage, automate, and control thousands of compatible devices in your home3. Create custom Routines that can automatically turn on compatible lights, check the weather, play the news, and more.

What are the benefits of using Google Home? Google Home offers hands-free convenience, voice-controlled automation, access to a wealth of information, seamless integration with other Google services, and the ability to control smart home devices with simple voice commands.

Google Home provides many functionalities for controlling your smart home devices easily. Below are eight examples of what you can do with the app: Routines: Create automated routines that control your home without you. Lights: Turn your lights on and off and adjust brightness and color.

What are the benefits of using Google Home? Google Home offers hands-free convenience, voice-controlled automation, access to a wealth of information, seamless integration with other Google services, and the ability to control smart home devices with simple voice commands.

Google Home alerts you when someone rings the bell, and lets you view who's at the door from your phone, TV, or Smart Display. If you have a Chromecast, Smart Display, or a smart TV with Google Assistant built-in, you can also use your voice to fast-forward and adjust the volume on your streaming shows.

And once you get to the point where it's asking where the device is you can choose what location in your home it is in and you can always change this. Later.

The best feature of Home, however, is Google Assistant's ability to answer questions. It does so better than any rival, including Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa, as it has Google's massive data set to answer them.

A personalised view of your whole home. The Google Home app helps give you a customised view of what's going on in your home3. Pin your favourite smart devices so you see them in your home view. Use Spaces to view cameras right when you open the app3.

You can control over 50,000 smart home devices like TVs, lights, appliances, plugs, thermostats, sensors, and more when you add them to the Google Home app. To start, set up your device in the Google Home app, then check that they've been synced.

Google Home routines create a world of possibilities for users. Say basic voice commands to start a favorite playlist from YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio. If you have Chromecast with Google TV or a Google Home-compatible television, you can surf or launch programs by simply asking.

Kick start your connected home with our lighting package, featuring the Nest Mini and two GE tunable white bulbs. Use your voice to control lights, adjust the warmth and dim or brighten instantly. Set routines, like when you say “Hey Google, let's go to work” to turn off bedroom lights and turn on your desk light.