hello Automators thanks for tuning in those of us with multiple Google Home products
in our home know that currently when you say good morning to your Google Home the
media the music at the end will not play on multiple devices however I'm going to
show you today how to do that there are two use cases in routines right now from
Google that I think are really important for us to talk about today now we're
going to get into the demo in a second here but I want to just cue this up a
bit the first type is custom routines so these are the routines that you make and
you know for myself I use a gym time routine to go ahead and trigger on
multiple devices and I will play multiple devices media on those devices
the other thing is I think the good morning routine that just about everyone
wants to wake up to music and I think it helps a lot of people start their days
so I'm going to show you how to modify that routine as well today to make sure
that you can play on multiple devices so let's get going
first I'm going to show you how to get two routines on an iOS device and then
we'll use Android from this point on so on an iPhone you're going to head to the
bottom right account section and then you're going to tap on settings and
finally scroll all the way to the bottom two more settings within more settings
you're going to tap on the assistant menu and then you'll scroll down to
routines once inside of routines were ready to go but over on Android this is
the same process really down in the bottom right there's account and now you
hit settings here and the difference with Android is your rate into this menu
so you tap on assistant and then you just find routines at the bottom and
we're ready to go so now that we're in the routine section
I'm going to use my Android but really this process is exactly the same so down
in the bottom right I'm going to create a new routine by clicking on that blue
plus now I have to add a command and what I'll say in general is that you
want to add a command for this type of a routine but you could also have it
already in an existing one and it could be a scheduled routine as well that will
cause struggles to play it on multiple devices but you can still cause that to
happen so I'm going to call this routine gym time and then I'm just going to
click OK so this is the command I will give my Google Home device or Google
Assistant whenever I'd like it to trigger and this is where you can set a
time and day but again we're not going to do that now my assistant should do
the following I'm going to add an action now in this case I'm going to type in
and not choose a popular action because what I want to do is set the volume for
one of my Google Home devices so we've gone ahead and I've typed in set the
volume to 50% on a specific device now my device is called basement office -
and I'm just going to hit the Add button up in the top so this is my first action
now you're going to do that multiple times based on how many devices you
would actually like to have play here so again I've typed in set the volume to
50% on living room hub which is another one of my devices so now I have on two
devices set the volume to 50% now I also have created a group in the past and
I'll show you this in a second but I'm going to go ahead and ask for it to play
music on that group so here's my command I'm just saying play Foo Fighters on gym
team and that gym team which I'll show you again in a second
it is my group name so my three commands are really very simple set the volume to
50% on a device at the volume to 50% on a device and play on a group of devices
so what you'll notice is I'm not using the add Media button down here this
would allow you to play music or radio on one device or do any of these other
things but in order to play it on multiple devices you actually have to
use the group name and type in your specific request now of course I could
go ahead and add additional actions to this I could use light bulbs and do all
those different things so what I'm going to do just at the bottom here is choose
to say something and I've just got a click that check mark and then hit the
gear and now I have to type in what I'd like Google Assistant to say so I've
gone ahead and typed in enjoy your workout now I just go back and then I
hit that Add button up in the top right now that means I've gone ahead and I've
created four actions for this and now I can go ahead and hit change order and
just drag up this item to say something which is enjoy your workout and then it
will set the volume on my two devices and play multiple devices so let's go
ahead and click the check mark and we're all done this routine
now there's my gym time let me show you a demo of how this works
gym time enjoy your workout
now as I promised I will show you at the bottom of the homepage you can actually
go and find your different groups of speaker so if you haven't already
created these you can see here's a couple of mine here's the gym team group
I know it's a little hard to read that and then the hub group so these are the
two I'm showing in the demo today and as I go into gym team I just click on the
other icon here the gear icon sorry and now I can see the name and I could
modify that if I just click there and I can also choose different devices if I'd
like to add additional devices to have play within my routine now just remember
you have to set the volume to whatever you want and and do any other actions
you'd like with these devices as you do that and you just hit the Save button
down at the bottom or you hit back and once you're done the group settings you
go ahead and head back and head back to your main screen and that group will be
updated now down here the ready-made good morning routine this is something
that I think a lot of people are going to want to have their routine start
multiple devices playing music now you can see the same trick here that I've
done where I set the volume to 30% on living room hub set the volume to 30% on
my bedroom display and then I play country music because my life my wife
loves country music on what's called hub group and that's a group that you have
to have set up now I'm choosing to play nothing down here and that's very
important for you to basically make sure that you're not playing anything else
and that will start this so let's go ahead and see that good morning routine
running as well good morning hi Brian the time is 152 p.m. by the way don't
forget to do a video also don't forget to stop talking to Google support
have a nice day
there you have it your Google Home routine should be working of course if
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