Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. You can see right here in front of
me is a brand new Google Home Hub I'm going to get it opened up today get it
set up here in my home and show you what it's all about at first glance
all right now let's go ahead get this open up show you what's inside the box
the first thing I noticed I'll tell you right off the bat was how small this box
is now I have a Lenovo Smart Display here in my home and I also have this
device now in a number of tablets of course but what has struck me about this
and even as I open it up you can see right here it is incredibly small so the
screen size is just blowing me away right out of the box so that's it that's
the entire device right there now inside of course there's just another
compartment here that you're basically going to lift up and this is what you're
getting inside here you can just see your power cable here in a couple of
getting started menus here all right now I did get everything out of the box you
can see there's a couple of manuals here basically a warranty and a safety manual
and how to get started now of course that's why you're watching this video
the power adapter nowadays is a very standard AC adapter from Google so this
is what we're seeing in the newer devices here there's no more USB
connection so and that goes right into the back of the device so you can see
right here where the device has its power adapter okay now I think it took
me about two minutes to get all the plastic film off here but you can see
the device it is about that that 7 inch display so if you had a large iPhone
excess max it's really very close to the same size now a couple of features to
talk to you about here on the back is actually your volume control rate here
so if you're not using your voice you can use that volume control of course
there's the little Google symbol rate up here and there is also right here the
power adapter place and of course the mute microphone spot here on the device
couple more features that tell you about here on top you're actually seeing
ambient light and color sensors here that can actually see different
spectrums of the light and of course there is the far field microphone array
here on your Google Home Hub as well so let's go ahead get this plugged in and
we'll start to talk about the functionality of the device all right
now I've gone ahead I've plugged in my Google Home Hub we're gonna get it set up
here and I'm gonna show you some of the screens here on this camera over here
now what I'm going to do is roll through the Google Home application it's very
very simple but what I want to tell you is you need the Google Home app it is
either for iPhone or Android go ahead get either of those and if you already
have a Google account and that's the one you want to use to set up this device
you will need one of those so let's go ahead and get this set up now inside of
my iPhone here I'm going to go into the Google Home application and as I do that
you're going to go to the home screen here and you can hit the Add button but
there's also a discover button and you can see right on the screen here it
actually has a name of that device they're calling it Google Home Hub9789
so you can go into the discover menu or this is probably the easiest for most
people is hitting add here right at the top of the Google Home application then
I'm going to tap setup device and setup new devices now here I have to choose a
home and I actually have multiple homes set up here if you don't know what I'm
talking about forget about it you just have to choose a home that you're you're
going to set this up in and you could create a second one this is
functionality I think for the future right now so I'm just going to hit next
and it is going out and looking for this device now okay so it's found multiple
devices it's showing me I could set up more smart home lights but alter
the Google Home Hub is what I want to set up and I'm hitting next now we're
coming up to the part where you're going to need Wi-Fi credentials if you're like
me and you've already put Wi-Fi credentials in this in this application
actually then you don't need to do that again but they will ask you this now do
I see the code yes I see the code on both devices so I'm just hitting yes do
I want to help improve Google Home Hub with statistics being sent I'm going to
choose no on that and they're also telling me that the Google Home Hub
because I'm in Canada and I imported this device it may not work with my
Wi-Fi network I'm going to go ahead and hit OK there
now next up I have to choose where this device is going to be in this is where
we're gonna get into a little bit of commentary for me the Google Home Hub
sits in a living room or a bedroom and there's a couple of reasons for that in
a living room with a chromecast enabled TV or one that has a chromecast
physically plugged into it this device is going to be able to cast to the
chromecast TV and so you're going to be able to speak to this device and have
things show up on your TV that's very nice functionality in as far as I'm
concerned on top of that there is no camera on the Google Home Hub so that's
a very important distinction from devices like the Lenovo smart display
and the JBL link view those devices do have a camera onboard so putting it in a
bedroom probably not the best idea in terms of privacy and Google has come out
and said we're not going to do that specifically for that reason it's also a
relatively small smart display so the seven inches here I think puts it in a
space where you could put it very comfortably on a bedside table and leave
it there for yourself so again I'm going to put this in my living room personally
and we're gonna start using that chromecast capability so I'm going to go
ahead hit next and it wants me to create a unique name I'm just going to leave
that name for now and now I've got to choose my Wi-Fi network so I'm going to
go ahead and hit next note sits here for about a minute and it goes through the
connection process to Wi-Fi again if you didn't already have those
credentials plugged into the Google Home application you would need to do that
now now moving on to setting up Google Assistant so that's what powers the
Google Home Hub if you don't already know
it's basically what you're speaking to all the time now they want to tell you
about their partners and privacy settings and I'm gonna let you read all
about that I'm just going to hit next for now now the next part is teaching
the Google Assistant your voice now I've done that multiple times here in my home
so Google doesn't allow me to do that anymore but teaching the Google Home Hub
here your voice basically it's going to allow you later
to get personal results and to kind of secure the device in a number of ways
now here's where they're talking about getting personal results and again I'm
just going to go ahead and agree to that I'm also going to agree to my address
being put in here because that helps with navigation in the future so I'm
going to hit next on that and we're into the media services now again because I
have an account already here I already have set up YouTube Music, Spotify, Google
Play Music, I could hit that plus right there and set up Deezer if I'd like but
for right now I'm just going to leave those music services basically all it is
is you have to hit the plus put in credentials to that account and you're
good you're good to go in the case of Google Play Music or YouTube Music
they're actually using that Google account that you put in here so that's
an important component that if you have YouTube red or the YouTube premium music
you're not going to want to use a different account to set up the Google
Home Hub you're going to want to use that same account now next is duo
calling and this is interesting actually my phone numbers already been put into
Google Home's application for previous uses where I just made phone calls with
my Google Home or my Google Home Mini now the duo calling gives you that
access to your contacts there on duo and but the important thing to remember here
is there's no camera what they will let you
do is audio dual calling so I'm going to go ahead and hit use duo here if you
didn't have that setup you'd have to put in your phone number and authorize that
usage basically now choosing an ambient mode what I'll tell you is later you can
adjust this setting right now I'm going to choose just basically a full screen
clock and then later we'll change that to mode called experimental mode which
allows you to connect to Facebook pictures so now I've got to go ahead and
choose a clock otherwise I'd have to have chosen albums that I want to
displayed on this but I'm just going to choose one of these here I think I like
the look of that one and I'm going to hit next now they're basically telling
me I'm done I could go ahead and review any of my choices previously but now I'm
just going to hit next and it's all set up and ready to go so one of the
features that I think was very important from Google here is this ambient EQ
light sensor so this is on the top of the device and it automatically adjusts
the screen brightness up and down in the room and are based on the room lighting
actually so that's an interesting little feature there I told you about the mic
mute switch and the volume controls on the back of the device these are
standard things for the Google Home Hub and we are now at the point where we're
ready to go so there is one last thing I have to do I do actually have to hit
finish setup here on the device and now we're completely ready welcome to your
Google Home Hub it has the Google Assistant built-in hi how can I help so
you can use your voice to get help at a glance alright so that was quite the
demo video actually that Google gives you when this device first starts up
obviously I couldn't show you that whole thing but ultimately the Google Home Hub
is now set up what I'm going to do now is switch the perspective of the camera
I need to get you a good shot of this device and what I need to do next is go
through a number of the functions that you can use right out of the box so
let's get going with that similar to the other smart displays on the market
you swipe to the left to bring up the menu just at the start here you can see
the date the time the weather and then you can swipe over to the left to get
your news your music YouTube and then there's kind of routines and extra
functions here and then you can explore more of what your assistant can do these
are just other visual cues for you for other things that you can do obviously
you can ask the Google Assistant almost everything or anything but these are
just some of the main things that people tend to use again very similar to other
smart displays now swiping from the top to the bottom you actually get your home
control screen and I went into the lights right away but you also have
media and the ability to broadcast as well now inside of media you can choose
any of your Google Cast-enabled devices and you can cast to them what's the
message hello and then the broadcast capability you're just instantly asked
would you like to broadcast across your home now it'll just broadcast that out
across all your devices in that home and there is also a capability of viewing
rooms and this is what you're seeing on the latest Google Home application this
is the control interface that you have there so you can see all of this
capability is there right away now when you actually just hit play like that
on your device and you're not actually telling the Google Assistant what you'd
like to hear it's actually going to make the choice for you and then you know
sometimes that's gonna hit the mark and sometimes it's not so it's a bit of a
random thing there stop now one of the key functions of course is to manage
your calendar you can add an event simply by tapping or you could ask the
Google Assistant to do the same here you can obviously go through and tell it
when and what the title is and you know in general this is the same
functionality that you will find with your goal assistant once you've created
that event as long as you have the Google Calendar app on your iPhone or
your Android device which it would come Nate
I say get that event as a reminder and you can see it's also showing up on the
smart display itself now again back through the menus the news the music and
YouTube those are connected services here natively and you can see that right
there that's the good night routine that I have already set up as part of the
Google Home application so when I tap on it it actually runs through that full
routine now of course we can always use the Google Assistant to adjust a number
of things you can adjust the volume and then also what you'll notice is if you
swipe up from the top you have a couple of different sliders here there's the
brightness and that turns off that ambient EQ mode you can also go into
some about the device and you can also adjust your sound or your volume level
there as well so that menu down at the bottom also contains a do not disturb
mode so you can turn that on or off or you can ask the Google Assistant to do
that now of course home control is a big portion of this and not only can you do
things with your voice but you can also then through the interface here actually
change things like the colors the brightness navigate through all the
lights in the room as well so very impressive visual interface as well now
one of the things I mentioned earlier you can go ahead and cast to your other
cast enabled devices through your voice here and that's where this starts to
really work well as a device in a living room or in a bedroom as well YouTube
videos you can ask just to be shown how to do something and it will bring up
YouTube's first search result on that topic news capabilities are all there
everything that you would expect from the Google Assistant you can get news
from different sources and you can set those up in the app now of course with
all the latest news service updates from Google you can actually just ask for
specific topics of news if you'd like or just the positive news as well if you
need it as well there's a visual interface for weather once you've
actually asked for it and then of course there is the fantastic Google Duo
calling which is audio based but you can see the other individual as you make the
phone call there is a ton of other settings to deal with in the Google Home
application now you can see basement living room - that is my new Google Home
hub I'm going to tap on that you can see I can adjust the volume here and then
I'm going to be able to go into the settings which is at the top you can see
the linked accounts the name the home that this device is in the group Wi-Fi
and Digital wellbeing all there I can obviously adjust the room that I'm in if
I'd like I can even adjust which rooms it's in so this allows you multi-room
audio so I just went ahead I tapped on those I could add it to both of those
groups if I want but I've added it to one now there's the equalizer and I
could adjust the equalizer to hear the speaker play a little bit differently
and I can change the default speaker and pair another Bluetooth speaker to it if
I'd like something else that's important to do is to choose a default TV then I
don't have to say that I want to cast it to basement Chrome I've chosen that now
every time I say just play Netflix or something it will go to that basement
Chrome immediately now of course there's the alarms and timer settings it's
really just the volume right there now there is the display adjustment mode so
do you want it to activate in low light so you kind of dim it here during low
light or what do you want to show during those times you can also deal with
ambient eq and whether you'd like it to be a little bit dimmer or a little bit
brighter based off of the settings that Google brings with the device now of
course night mode with a device like this is going to be important if it's a
bedside table device you can go ahead and enable that and then it will be
relatively quiet at night there's the Do Not Disturb mode which
again you can turn on on the device physically if you'd like through that
menu swiping up from the bottom and here's where you adjust ambient mode so
I'm going to switch it to Facebook and you would have to connect your Facebook
account if you hadn't already done this but you can go ahead and make the
adjustment to that experimental mode pick the albums you'd like to just roll
through here and then you have the more settings where you can show the weather
show the time and I like to hide the personal photo data because then it
doesn't show my name on every picture here of course there's all kinds of
accessibility options which I'll go through at a later date as well and
there's the paired Bluetooth devices you can enable the pairing mode through your
voice if you'd like or do it there and then pair a device now down at the very
bottom the one thing you're gonna want to note here is the system firmware
version the cast firmware version your country code your language all of those
things are important going forward but for now this is a good run-through of
the device settings that you can go ahead and adjust right off the bat so
there you have it everyone that's our setup our unbox video here for the
Google Home Hub I hope this has helped helped you out worked out for you
obviously I want you to join up here with our channel I'm going to show you
how we go and use this device now and of course I'm going to compare it to some
of its competitors here the Google Home Hub versus the Lenovo Smart Display and
of course the Amazon Echo Show we have to talk about that as well how those
devices are stacking up so thanks for watching everyone and we'll see you next
time