what's going on everyone Mites here with mtech and do you guys think you know all
the commands that the Google home mini can do? I'm thinking the answer to that
is no because there's a lot of commands out there that they just don't advertise
like the fact that you can use it as a Bluetooth speaker,
I made a separate video about that and there's quite a few people that just
didn't know you could do that. I'll link the video up here and in the description
below if you guys are interested in that one but today I have for you guys five
all new things that the Google home mini can do that I think most people don't
know about but are pretty cool so let's get started
alright so starting off the number one we have Google homes newest ability and
that is setting music alarms so this one's super simple to use you just have
to say set a music alarm at whatever time to whatever music so it goes like
this set a music alarm sure when's the alarm for five minutes from now sure in
what music would you like me to play Kendrick Lamar there I'll play Kendrick
Lamar music for 2:32 p.m. there we go so let's see if we can get through all
the rest of these before that alarm goes off. Next up we have at number two we
have another music-ish related item and that's playing relaxing sounds so
this is something I recently discovered and it's pretty awesome so if you're
someone who has trouble falling asleep or would like to meditate or just
someone who wants some background noise while doing tasks you can ask Google
home to play some relaxing sounds for you there's a whole bunch of different
sounds to choose from and I'll leave a list in the description for you guys but
I'm partial to the fireplace sounds and thunderstorm sounds so the way you
activate it is just by saying play whatever sounds so, *ok google* play thunderstorm
sounds this is the sound of a thunderstorm
*ok google* stop *ok google* play fireplace sounds here's what a fireplace sounds like stop so there you
have it this is a pretty cool one that I just discovered recently and yeah it
seems pretty useful if you guys have trouble falling asleep and number three
we have a new thing where you can do two commands at once so this is done simply
by just using the word "and" or the word "then". I mainly use this in kitchen
setting timers if I had to send multiple timers at the same time I'll go ahead
and say with the word and or when I'm about to play music and I want to
specify the volume before it starts playing like it with or if I know it's
gonna be too loud I want to turn it down or vice versa so you do this by simply
saying the word and so *ok google* play Kendrick Lamar and turn the volume to 100% okay
playing songs by Kendrick Lamar from your google play music library
*ok google* stop so there you go that saves you a lot of time activating
it once again with the hot word so I find a little annoying to say okay
Google and this way you don't have to say it twice you can just say it's a
one-time and it's good and at number four we have something that's gonna
actually require you to have more than one Google home it's not an absolute
requirement but it is very beneficial if you have more than one and it's
broadcasting so what broadcasting is is a way to use your Google homes together
as an intercom system so you just say broadcast and followed by your message
and it'll just broadcast it throughout your house excluding the one you're
speaking to so this is really cool because you can tell someone else in
another room you know whatever you have to say so if you have Google assistant
on your phone you can also do this from your phone so I'm gonna go ahead and
show you guys how to do it from my phone right here so I'm just gonna hit I'm
gonna activate Google assistant say broadcast hello
in addition to just broadcasting those normal things it has a couple of cool ones so you can do
this broadcast I'm home hey there has arrived so it's pretty nice another one
it can do actually is broadcast breakfast is ready
it's time for breakfast come and get it so it's a pretty delightful little
feature that you can have and finally at number five we have another one that
requires more than one Google home or a Google home and a cast device so right
here I have my vizio speaker and I'm gonna use it together with this to play
music together so so at number 5 we have creating audio groups inside of home so
you can play the same music throughout your entire house so the way this works
is you have to set up a group inside of the Google home app and I'll show you
guys how to do that right now ok so the way you set up a Google home audio group
is by opening up the Google home app for Android or iOS you click the top right
button right here it's to take you to your devices it's a little tiny icon
right there and then you see all your devices right there
and then you got to click on one of these three little dots next to one of
those devices and then there's an option to create a group click on that it'll
take you to the option where you can select which devices you want to include
in that group I'm just gonna go ahead and include both of those devices you
get to name the group I'm just gonna keep a home group and hit save and it
will save your group might take a second or two and there you go so it is saved I
know it doesn't show up here immediately but it is saved and I found that if you
wait a little bit it'll come back into it so let me go ahead and try to going
back into the app go back to devices and there you go you can see the home group
is right there so now I just need to talk to Google home and ask it to play
using the home group like this and once that's done all you have to do is say
play Kendrick Lamar on home group ok here are songs by Kendrick Lamar from
your google play music library and they'll play from both speakers so
let me show you guys if I turn this down you can still hear it's gone now playing
for the vizio speaker whereas if I turn the videos people I turn the video
speaker down and turn this one up I think you see it's playing from both
stop and there you go so that's how you use that so those are my five tips for
using Google home trying to get the most out of it hey I'm actually get through
it before the alarm went off which is kind of Awesome a few moments later
waiting for the alarm to go off waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting
waiting waiting waiting for the alarm eventually and there you have it I think
that's the music starting I don't know what song it specifically but there you
go
stop and there you have it that's how you set a music alarm and that's what it
sounds like when it goes off you might want to specify a song specifically if
you're interested but it can work with just a general artists name too
so there you guys go hopefully a few of those commands are new for you guys and
you guys can try them out if you guys think there's any commands I didn't
cover that you guys know about that you think other people don't go ahead and
leave a comment down below and as always don't forget to hit the like button and
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you guys I'll see you guys the next one bye