Google Home Just Got a Bunch of Cool New Features

Google Assistant has constantly been ranked as the 'smartest' among all the vox-based smart digital administration, bar none. Certain, Alexa, Siri, Bixby and the others have quite a few cool tricks up their sleeves, simply none of them can quite compete on even terms with Banana, all things considered. While Google keeps adding new funtionalities to its digital assistant from time the fourth dimension, the latest update rolled out to the software now brings a bunch of new features that have but increased its capabilities on the Google Home smart speaker.

According to the official support pages for Google Domicile, the smart speaker will gain the ability to control smart lights with "scenes" that are a bunch of color presets which can be used co-ordinate to the mood of the user. It is important to note here that this is non a revolutionary feature by any means, and Google has been really been tardy in adding 'scenes' support for Assistant. Having said that, for Google Abode users, it's withal a instance of better tardily than never.

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One thing that is still not entirely clear, though, is how the characteristic will be implemented, as the support pages merely mentions commands about activating or deactivating scenes and non much more. Where these 'scenes' volition come from is still something that needs to be figured out, because there'southward no direct mention of whether Home will be able to save its own scenes or will need to infringe them from other apps.

Some other cool characteristic being rolled out is direct control of several smart home appliances, including washers, dryers, vacuums cleaners and dishwashers. While you could use IFTTT to command these devices with Google Home, the fact that y'all tin can now bypass third-party apps and practise so directly is certainly a pace in the right direction, although, it beggars conventionalities that information technology took this long for Google to roll this out.