as we come up to CES we know that Google is going to come to that event in a big
way just like they did last year in 2019 but they've also given us access to a
number of new features and new updates that I want to share with you here today
Hello Automators, 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 with everything that the Google Home, Google Nest, and Google Assistant has to offer now today
I'm going to show you right away how to get the last conversation you had with
the Google Assistant right out of its memory immediately delete my last
conversation I deleted your most recent assistant activity you'll be able to see
the change on your assistant activity page in just a moment now of course if
you'd like to go deeper than that you can actually delete the day's activity
or the week's activity so delete my last day's activity okay I deleted that
assistant activity I got a message just a little while ago from Tom who follows
me on Twitter and he was actually asking me hey when is the Hulu support
rolling out for the Google Home and you know what he was right it is rolling out
for Google home and Google Assistant and it will look a lot like the integration
that you have with Netflix right now and the new Sling TV integration that we saw
come out just a little while ago so you'll be able to ask your Google
Assistant or your Google home product to play Hulu content on your chromecast or
your smart displays Google Keep integration is a really important
integration that a lot of people have been asking for for a long time but it's
not just limited to Google Keep there are actually some additional services
that you can get through the settings page and that notes and list settings
there so you can go into there and you can pick your default list provider now
any of the custom lists that you've created up to this point they are still
there they're called Google Assistant lists
and you can go ahead and call those up very simply with a very simple command
show me my lists you have quite a few lists
their tests keep my shopping list Automation ideas things to buy things to
move and many more now what you'll notice right away is that there are
different icons now for the different list types and you will originally have
those Google Assistant lists and that Google Assistant icon next to them but
next to that or with any of the new lists that you create it will use that
default service so I've gone ahead and connected my Google Keep account and
this has given me access to the list those lists and any new lists you create
just by saying create a list called to your Google Assistant that will go ahead
and create a new Google Keep list once you've brought up the list you can
navigate by hand or you can continue to use your voice to navigate through the
different lists which I'll show you in a second but as you navigate with your
hand you can tap to go into any of the lists and then you can go ahead and tap
on any item within those lists to remove it to complete that item within your
list now if you'd like to add something to a list let's say you have a guest
list for an event coming up just like I do you can go ahead and ask the Google
Assistant to add someone to that list so add Alan to my guest list
sure I know unfortunately you cannot remove with your voice either a list or
a individual item from any of the lists you can't do that yet but you can do
that on a phone or a tablet so you can actually ask your Android phone or
tablet or an iOS phone or tablet with the Google Assistant application on it
to bring up your lists and then you can go ahead and delete items that way as
well the Google Assistant was released to 15 additional countries and this is
based on the Arabic language that they have continued to grow support for
within the platform so you could see those different countries but you will
also find a new interpreter mode on Android phone so I'm going to go ahead
and ask for my phone to translate in Thai help me speak Thai okay
your interpreter how are you so you can have a conversation literally on the fly
now with your phone and you don't need any
other application especially if you have an Android phone already if you watched
any of our earlier Christmas videos you would have seen the series of read along
story books that Disney has put together the frozen story series I think is one
of the most popular ones out there and it's the one I always demonstrate and
there's a reason for that kids love this movie and the new frozen - movie also
has a new read long story for it there that you can go ahead and find actually
through the Google Home app which you will find now in that recap tab there
you will find much more about new updates and new features this is one of
the ways that Google is letting us know what new features are available and what
new updates they have something that I think is very useful and very quick to
use now through the Google Home application is the ability to actually
mirror your screen directly and I think this is a really good usage of that
space when you just tap in to go into any smart display or Chromecast device
you will see cast my screen or mirror my screen down at the bottom and next to
any of your nest cams that you have in your home as well so you can go ahead
and with just a couple of taps inside that Google Home application cast your
screen or or get your nest cams up on screen Google Stadia continues to build
out and their Google Assistant button now works within the home page of the
stadia that the whole stadia platform actually it doesn't yet work inside of
games but that Assistant button is now able to help you navigate that platform
as well as just ask general things with that controller from google now the
other thing that they have gone ahead and done is updated the old Chromecast
Ultras to work within that platform as well so I don't know exactly what
they're thinking here other than maybe just limiting the numbers of people on
that platform at the start but you still have to go and buy that founders pack
that gives you a new chromecast ultra and the controller so it's
little bit of a confusing time with that service but we are seeing the components
start to come in in case you missed it wise had a pretty significant privacy
concern here over the holidays with their platform and what at what that
actually caused them to do was disconnect from both Google and Amazon's
voice assistants so if you're finding your wise products are no longer showing
up you can't get the cameras to show up or you can't control your bulbs or plugs
then you're going to need to relink that service everything will come back in and
you'll be able to control things again now the other thing that you might have
noticed with the wise service and Google is that the contact sensors have
actually come in now we can't do anything with these at this point but
what we have seen is Amazon's voice assistant is now able to use both the
motion and the contact sensors as additional sensors to trigger some of
their automation on their side and as we see the works with Google Assistant
program come into its own here within kind of that early 2020 timeframe we
should see the ability to do things with those sensors so get ready for a lot of
different options here if you have wise and Google speaking of security concerns
Xiaomi's access to the Google assistant has actually been terminated until
Google and Xiaomi can get to the bottom of something kind of strange happening
with strangers camera feeds showing up on nest hubs and nest hub maxes you'll
also find the Lenovo Smart Clock updated with some new features the impromptu
alarm option is being rolled out to Lenovo Smart Displays that basically
creates an alarm that is based on the time of the day or the weather or
something to that effect you'll also find improvements in
automatic brightness music recommendation cards and the ability to
extend an alarm up to 60 minutes we know that Google will come to CES in
a big way and they've already confirmed that they're gonna do a huge display
again I can't wait to get there this is the first year I get to go and I'm going
to meet lots of the companies that we have talked about here on the channel
and I'm just there to really research and show you the best of Isis so what
you're going to see is at the end of the week here I'm going to show you the bed
gadgets and the best smart home devices the best automation devices that I can
from there but we are also going to see new clips and new LG sound bars that
have Google Assistant integration in them those have already been announced
pre CES along with a ton of other products that have come out otherwise I
think it's a great idea for you to catch up with our summary video so we kind of
talked about 2019 the year in the smart home what that was all about and 2020 my
predictions going forward both of those videos are up on screen and they have
been really well received I think because they give you a lot of foresight
into the industry what's going to happen so of course guys thanks for watching
here today and don't hate automate