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Now Everyone Can Control Smart Home Devices With Gemini App

Tim January 23, 2025 1

Last year, Google started pushing the ability for select users to control smart home devices via the Gemini app on Android. This is now officially leaving Public Preview and rolling out to all supported users. On top of making it available to all, Google has...

Google Home Gains Support for Nest Protect Smoke Alarms and You Can Delete Your Nest App Now

Kellen January 16, 2025 20

As a part of the Public Preview program for the Google Home app, Google is introducing support for Nest Protect smoke and CO alarms. These might be the final Nest devices that were stuck in the old Nest app, so this is pretty big news for those of us who...

Google Opens Public Developer Beta for Home APIs

Tim January 7, 2025 2

It was at 2024's Google I/O when Google announced the Home APIs, allowing developers increased access to create "innovative experiences for the home." This week during CES, the company announced that it has opened a public developer beta for the Android...

Google Home Devices Get First Taste of Gemini in Place of Assistant

Kellen December 13, 2024 8

We are inching closer to the day that Google Assistant is fully retired and Gemini takes its place as the assistant-like service on our devices. Google is already heavily pushing Gemini on phones and now it appears to be testing the waters for your Google Home...

All Nest Cams Now Eligible for Google Home Transfer in Public Preview

Tim November 19, 2024 4

Google announced this week that it has opened eligibility in Public Preview for all Nest cameras dating back to 2015 to be transferred over to Google Home. This means that your eligible camera will be controlled via the Google Home app instead of the Nest app,...

Your Google Home is Getting New Gemini-Powered Features

Tim November 12, 2024 3

The Google Home team announced a whole bunch of new and exciting features for users this week, mostly thanks to the injection of Gemini into the service. For Nest users, Gemini can now view your clips and understand what it's looking at, then provide...

Gemini Users Can Now Control Smart Home Devices

Tim October 31, 2024 9

For those in the Google Home Public Preview, you can now control your smart home devices and compatible accessories with what's described as "natural language" thanks to the updated Google Home extension inside of the Gemini mobile app. This means that to...

Google TV Gets Google Home Panel, AI Wallpapers, New Sports Page

Kellen September 23, 2024 5

To celebrate the launch of the Google TV Streamer this week, Google is pushing out a handful of big features to the Google TV ecosystem. Previously announced AI wallpapers and the Google Home panel will land on all Google TV devices, plus a new Sports page is...