sure knock knock who's there
a broken pencil a broken pencil who oh
never mind it's pointless right let's
talk about home assistance virtual
assistants and those little devices
they've been around for a little bit to
be honest I never got into those I never
saw the need for it I think that they're
a cool little party trick but
unfortunately that trick is limited I
mean is only so much you can say ok
Google what's the weather in Dallas
ok Google what's the time in New York
right now
ok Google tell me a joke not so exciting
Right ok but fast-forward to 2017 and
Verizon were kind enough to send me the
Google Home Mini
thanks for the guys no this is not
a sponsored video just wanted to give a
shout out to them and I decided that
well it was time to test out 2017
version of the home assistant has it got
any smarter than the original party
trick so let's give it a bash and I'm
gonna share with you five commands
that I tend to use quite often check
this out You know the situation you're in the
kitchen your hands are full you've got
things in and out the fridge the
cupboards you got the spices going and
now you're cooking your frozen dinner or
your frozen lunch or whatever it may
be and at this stage well you've got to
follow some instructions which I tend to
sometime follow but there is always a cooking
time so this says cook for 17
minutes Ok Google set timer for 17
minutes
a few moments later I'm back in the
kitchen this time I'm making biltong
a favourite South African
dried meat think jerky lots of spices
lots of flavors but you tend to run out
of things often OK Googlea dd corriender to my shopping list
what I do like about the shopping
list is that you can share it you can
allow other people to have access into
it so that is whether it's me or my wife
whichever one of us happens to be at the
shop that day we check the list and see
what we're out of okay this one is a
great one when one of the kids loses
their phone it's typically ask your
father or call your mother
but now we've got Google
Home so okay Google find my phone I
found a few phones the first listed is a
s6 edge should I ring it yes please
all right your phone should be ringing
now
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so this is probably one of our favorites
this is the Google home control
effectively from your Google Home Mini
you're able to take over and take
control of any of these smart home
services I personally use hive to make
my home smarter but there's lots of
other facilities and option that you can
integrate you simply add them and now
instead of using the app you could use
your voice to control everything okay
Google switch on lights in the lounge okay
turning two lights on okay Google set
light color to red in the lounge okay
changing to lights to red okay Google
set to lights to blue in the lounge okay
changing to lights to blue okay Google
switch off lights sure turning off two
lights do you ever forget I forget I
forget all the time this is perfect
okay Google set reminder to pay credit
card tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m. your
reminder pay credit card for tomorrow at
9:00 a.m. is ready do you want to save
it yes
okay reminder save so what do you think
is this something that you are gonna be
using is this on your Christmas shopping
list the price is really really good for
the Google home Mini and I think you can
do quite a bit and it's learning as it's
going along so it's not perfect by any
means and you know there's still some
kind of learning and your answers that
you got to get used to and you do tend
to fight with it a lot like saying no
that's not what I meant but you know for
what it does and for the price that
you're gonna pay for it well maybe it's
not a bad way to get into the virtual
assistant home assistant of course it's
nothing that your phone can't already do
but adding the voice commands and having
something a physical little puck hiding
in your kitchen or somewhere around the
house well does bring a different
element to things so that's my take on
the Google home mini agree disagree
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