of course Google has been hard at work creating new features new capabilities
and new updates for your Google Nest your Google Home and of course your
Google Assistant and today I'm going to bring you all the latest from them
hello Automaters thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by keeping
you up to date here really with all of your Google Home products and making
sure you're getting the most out of those products now there has been a ton
but the biggest thing that I think a lot of people are looking at right now is
actually with one of the older devices in the platform so the Google Home and
the Google Home Mini have both been given an update two stereo pair now you're going
to find this in the application when you have the appropriate update inside one
of your Google Mini or your Google home devices you go into their settings and
then you will be able to see stereo pair actually as an option within there you
can go through a quick setup process it's quite simple and then those two
devices will be in a stereo pair and that will basically be your default
speaker going forward you can make modifications to how it works and you
can split them apart now the management becomes a little bit different when you
do this stereo pairing that kind of become one device in a lot of ways so
this has not rolled out to the smart displays as far as I've seen although
I'm betting maybe by the time I even release this video it will show up but
it's not there yet it's just those old Google Home Mini and your Google
Home not to be outdone the Google Nest Hub has actually received an update with
ultrasonic sensing capability so we saw this come out this is a Nest Mini in the
sky blue and this is the Nest Hub Max those devices have this ultrasonic
sensing capability and now the NestHhub is actually getting updated with that
now what this leads us to and why this is important why I tell you about this
is because one of the biggest complaints right now and I have this complaint
myself is I can be speaking to one speaker and something way across the
room and another takes over now that's what this is
about so as you get these newer devices that
have the ability to sense individuals how far away they are from a smart
speaker from Google then you will get this ability to have the right one
respond to you one interesting thing that was actually brought to my
attention by Phil who brings me great stuff all the time on Twitter and he
actually showed me that his old Google Wi-Fi is now getting that better
integration with the Google smart display so you're able to ask
information and get that information displayed one thing you will see is the
continual development of the Google home app has really accelerated here and one
of the big things that's happened is an events tab or a priority events tab that
has shown up and a couple of the other tabs have disappeared now what you're
seeing in there is the future and not just the future of Google home the
application but the Nest Aware subscription now what we're seeing right
now is just a few events here and there some devices are being installed and
they show up there but the Nest Aware subscription and the inclusion of Nest
cams into the Google Home application happening here in early 2020 will mean
that events like a sensing of a sound when you're not at home stuff like the
Alexa Guard that is going to start showing up
just the same in the Google Nest Mini the Nest Hub Max these devices with
ultrasonic capabilities and microphones are going to be able to listen and
report events to you in your smart home if you haven't noticed that's well on
the home page the little plus sign is now replacing the add button and so you
really got some changes moving through the application speaking of which you're
about to see Disney+ integration go live with the chrome casts as that
service comes out tile integration is live now you can ask for those trackers
through Google Assistant or your Google Home devices and we're also seeing
Sirius XM show and a new radio option so it's not just
music anymore inside of the Google Home application you will actually find radio
and Sirius XM is sitting there and available if you're a subscriber they're
probably the best upgrade though to the entire application is the media section
so this is replacing that play button that was on the front or the home page
there you now have the media button which brings you into a space where you
get cards for things that are playing in your home and you can transfer by using
the cast button on that screen you can actually transfer to another speaker or
another group of speakers or your stereo pairs it's very powerful and I've had
four streams running at the same time and you can just swipe between them and
manage your entire home it's music or its content that is playing throughout a
couple of new things that Google is working on Stadia has shown up in the
Google Play Store but if you have one of those invitation codes because you were
an early adopter you can go ahead and input that and you will get access now
the other thing is a really interesting component for website builders or people
who own a website and this is something we've been doing on the website Alan's
been doing a great job creating structured content and he does it with
FAQ pages so we create FAQ pages or more specifically Alan does all the work and
I get to say we create it but he goes and he creates this structured content
that allows Google to pull out snippets into their search results and this means
we rank higher and he does a really great job at bringing people into the
site anyways after that to get more information but you can also use
structured content now to create entire Google Assistant actions and this
relates to how-to video so I guarantee we will create one I don't have one to
show you at this point but as a website owner and someone who
maybe creates how-to videos or any kind of how-to component or tutorials you're
going to be able to create some incredible actions that will work within
the Google Assistant platform and this is a really sneaky
way that Google is getting creators without any coding experience to create
actions now a couple of issues to actually tell you about and this is
probably the first hack that I'm going to say is reputable now what's happened
is a number of researchers have gone out and they've actually used lasers they're
freaking laser beams here people that they are using to direct at the
microphones within Google products Amazon products really anything with a
microphone and they can emulate the way sound waves work within your Google
assistant products in this case now what that means is if they can emulate your
voice or they can emulate commands they can go ahead and cause things to trigger
in your smart home so this is the first reputable one that I will say is really
hard for anyone to guard against from Google or Amazon or any of these makers
because it's a microphone and so what you want to think about here with this
one is your placement because now that this is out there and there isn't an
easy solve for it this could become a security risk for people and there are
brute-force methods that they can use to get your PIN safe or unlocking your
smart lock so this is one that I would definitely pay attention to and just
think about your placement versus windows in your home and the access to
the microphones within that so we'll see what Google can do with this but there's
nothing right now I can tell you other than that now if you did actually have a
recent firmware upgrade brick your Google home and this was happening to a
number of devices and a number of people they are replacing those so make sure
you check the link down below for that you can go ahead and talk to Google
support about that I advise that right away if you've had one just stopped
responding to you and in lots of cases they were showing up with four lights
sitting on them and people didn't know what was going on there so make sure you
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