hello Automators, thanks for tuning in again I'm going to take you through five
frequently asked questions that I get about the Google Home and the Google
Home suite of products as it relates to music and video that you can play on
these devices one of the big questions I get all the time is can my Google Home
device play radio the answer is in general yes but it depends which country
you're in and then it depends with that country you're in which service will
work but in general right off the bat if you just ask your Google home to play
radio that will work now what I'm going to show you is how to find out which
service that it will actually that will actually work in your country country
here and if I go into the Browse tab of the Google Home application you can see
I've already scrolled all the way down to the bottom and you can see this
tuning radio rate here so tune in radio works in Canada and I can go ahead and
access that what's interesting is if I have our i heart radio it doesn't
integrate in Canada with Google Home but I have the application on my phone on my
phone or tablet so it's showing up here as my services that I have access to so
what you will find is down here in the add more services section the different
applications that you can go ahead and install and have them work in your
country and this is what I mean by it will depend on your region or your
country you can see this add more services down here I could get this
application and I don't know if it works in Canada but what I can tell you is
that India just got access to this application and the radio stations in
their country so this is happening it's a it's a slow rollout but in general if
you just ask your device to play radio then you're going to get that to happen
now let me show you a couple of ways to actually go ahead and request radio to
start on your Google Home three streaming 100.3 the bear from tune
in play 100.3 beaver streaming beaver 100.3 from tune
in play the bear sure here's 100.3 the bear on tune in play
the bear on iHeartRadio sorry I Heart Radio isn't available in your
country probably the second biggest question I get and the most popular
features still to this day on Google Home Products is what music can i play
on my device or can I play music on a Google Home a Google Home Mini the
answer is again yes absolutely you can and there are many services that you can
use but again it's going to be dependent on which country you're in now in order
to tell what you can do I'm going to hit the button down here to go to my account
and you can see in the Google assistants section this isn't the only way to get
to this but there is a music button now as you tap on that music you can see the
different music services that are available so down here at the bottom
these are the ones that are available to me here in Canada and the ones at the
top are the ones available to me in Canada that I have already connected to
my Google Home products now what this means is I can go ahead and use any of
the music services that I've connected with my Google Home products and you can
see that I can unlink certain certain services like Spotify here in Canada at
any time if I don't want to use that service any longer now I'm going to show
you a demo again of how to use the different services as well but what I
wanted to tell you is if the surface is not showing up here than it is not going
to work for you you don't have access to it in your
country so that's the key piece play Foo Fighters playing Foo Fighters on Google
play music
play Foo Fighters on YouTube music alright check out this Foo Fighters
station on YouTube music playful fighters on Spotify sure playing Foo
Fighters on Spotify play my old playlist okay your Google Play Music playlist
called old here you go play rock music
sure here's a Google Play Music station called feel-good classic rock now that
I've shown you how to play with those default music services the question
really becomes can i play itunes on my Google Home or Apple Music on my Google
home or can I play even Amazon music which I get a lot of questions about
these days as well the answer is yes but it's not in the same method what you are
going to do is connect through bluetooth and again I'll show you how to do this
in a second but you're going to connect through bluetooth and then you can play
through that service let's go ahead and get Bluetooth enabled now there's a
couple of different ways you can go through the app which I'll show you in a
little bit but ultimately I think the easiest way is simply to request your
Google Home product to enable bluetooth now I'm going to use this for most of
the demo but ultimately you can do the same thing here so enable bluetooth all
right devices now ultimately you can see I scrolled down to the bottom here and
there's my living room hub that's this device right here now you saw it
actually make that connection it is physically connected and there's a play
in a stop button here which we'll talk about later if we even need to but in
general you shouldn't have to touch those buttons now you can see on my
iPhone there is actually a connected status showing for my living room hub
that's this device all right looking for paired devices bluetooth is connected to
Brian's iPhone
next song well stop disable Bluetooth okay bluetooth is disconnected
moving on to video type services so can i play netflix can i play hulu can i
play youtube on these devices well obviously you know a Google Home and a
Google Home Mini you can't really play those video services on but you can use
those to cast to other cast enabled devices in your home this is a cast
enabled device but it does have some specific restrictions on it that we'll
talk about here in a minute your chromecast device and built-in
chromecast although some of the built-in chromecast on TVs are are struggling
right now with Google and the Google Home products but in general you can
request those services to be cast over to your Google Home or your Google
Chromecast rather now I'm going to show you how to find out which services are
available in your country again because it's all country dependent I hit the
Settings button on the main page and I'm just gonna go a little bit of a
different way for me the TV and video is right here at the bottom but if you're
not finding it you can go into more settings and then go into the services
side and you will find TV and video now I've already gone ahead and linked my
Netflix and a YouTube kids account as well so YouTube by by default is enabled
on this device on a Google Home Hub as soon as you've installed this it will
work and you will have access to YouTube there YouTube kids is a little bit
different obviously because it's just kid curated content now what's funny
about this and I'm going to show you a demo again is only YouTube will natively
play here Netflix you can't start a Netflix show on a Google Home Hub you
will have to use a cast enabled device or you will have to cast two
device in order to play Netflix play the latest video from automate your life on
YouTube okay playing the latest video from automate
your life on YouTube hello Auto meters we're ready for a whole news update stop
so there you go you could see very quickly I can go ahead and request a
video role play there but when I try and Netflix play designated survivor on
Netflix okay showing designated survivor on Netflix sorry I can't do that yet so
there you go no it looked like it was gonna do it or it sounded like it was
gonna do it but it didn't in the end so what you do have to do is actually go to
your Netflix application and nope there it is once you're in your Netflix
application then you can cast two different devices in your home so right
away as I'm in my Netflix application here you can see the little cast button
now what it's doing is it's looking for the different cast devices in my home
and right now I don't actually have any of them turned off so my chromecast
devices go off if I've left my TV's off that I just power them down entirely
and so what this means is there's no device for me to connect to now there is
a little hack if you have a samsung tablet there is a way to cast to these
devices that I'm going to play you now starting out in our tablet here what
you're going to want to do is swipe down from the top and this is the screen you
get you can see Smart View sitting right there
now as you tap on Smart View it brings up this application and you're going to
want to find your Google Home Hub now mine is called living room hub that I'm
going to show the demo on and as I tap you can see it goes through a connection
process and then once it's done what you get is actually taken back to your base
screen now from here you can go into any application and you can also see there
are some buttons if you just click on that Smart View button
on the right-hand side you actually get a little menu to pause sharing change of
the device or disconnect or you can pull down from the top menu as well and then
simply tap on that livingroom hub you can see it's actually connected to that
and as it's connected to that if you tap on there you can actually disconnect
and/or switch devices as well so a couple different ways to do that now
here's the result of it on my Google Home Hub
the last question that I want to talk to can Google Home control my Sonos device
and there are a couple of ways that you can make this happen but natively your
device will not connect to your Sonos any of your sono speakers from a Google
Home this will change as we get the Google Home or the sorry the Sonos one
rather with a Google Assistant on board I believe that will totally change but
Sonos and Google right now do not have a native connection so what that means is
you have to use a third-party service now there are two third-party services
out there that I know of today that work very well between Google and Sonos and
those are the if this than that service as well as the you know me service now
both of them have improved capabilities since their first release and what that
means is you can wake your Sonos devices because Sonos device is going to a bit
of a sleep mode and they have to be woken up before you're going to be able
to control them so again I'm going to show you the if this in that video a
little bit of that video where I showed how to connect Sonos to Google Home and
control it using if this than that I've gone ahead and gone to ifttt.com and I
already have an account there you're going to need to sign up for that as
soon as you go to that website you'll see a sign-up process get an account
there you're also going to need to do two other things here I'm just going to
show you how to do that through the search so the first thing I'm going to
search for is Google Assistant you will need to connect this service so you can
see I'm going to the services tab tapping on Google Assistant and top
right it says settings for me but what you would have there is connect if you
didn't already connect that service to if this then that same thing for Sonos
here I'm going to go to the service and Sonos is right here so you're going to
need to connect Sonos and Google Assistant and as well you're going to
need an if this than that account now top right I can go to new applet and
from here I can tap Plus and now I search for Google
Assistant once I tap on that you can see there's four choices here and I'm just
going to choose say a simple phrase you may need to choose a different one later
now just to show you my Deadpool throwback I'm going to say just Lam to
my Google Assistant and or I could say Deadpool throwback if I'd like and of
course what I want the assistant to say is Deadpool throwback on Sonos and then
I tap on create trigger now we move forward from there
let's hit the that portion of this choose solos and here I want to show you
just a ton of things that you can do with Sonos this is rare for me I haven't
seen these many control functions from a service in a long time so you can play
any of your favorites that's the my Sonos component in the Sonos application
you can play a stream which is straight from a URL so you could pick a radio
station straight off the internet and choose that you can skip back and forth
and tracks volume up and down or you can set the volume like you saw earlier in
the demo a mute and an unmute function allows you to mute the sound but
continue the play back in the background and of course you can go ahead and pause
and unpause which will stop and start the music as you'd like now for this
action I'm going to tap on play favorite and now I'm just going to choose which
favorite and you can see in here I have a ton of different favorites I have
radio stations I'm going to choose the Careless Whisper here but I have radio
stations I have playlists I have albums I have artists whatever you want and you
can choose which devices in which rooms and you can now of course group rooms
within the Sonos application as well so I'm going to click create action and now
we're done here this is all created and now anytime I say Wham to any Google
assistant that includes a Google Home a Google Home mini whatever it's now going
to play that song for me and now what I can do from there
is I can use a number of other applets or create a number of other applets here
so there's a couple of pre-made ones that you'll find on so Knossos page when
you just search for it here on if this than that so you can see this one use
Google Assistant to set the volume to zero to a hundred so I just have to say
set Sonos volume to and that number sign is a variable that you will actually say
as part of your command and it will set it to that in the room you'd like if
you'd like you can include grouped rooms that's that applet right there you could
of course create it through the process I just showed you as well
you saw me resume Google Assistant again this is on the Sonos page and you could
just simply search for this within the if this than that service as well you
can play a favorite and this is the other one that I was I was using earlier
in the video where I just said start so no so you know guys overall there's not
a lot to tell you beyond this I will show you how to make sure that things
show up in your favorite list here on the Sonos application so let's switch
over to my iPhone now down at the bottom of the Sonos application you can see my
solos and just as I scroll through here you're seeing all the different items
now I just brought up the Careless Whisper they're the song from Deadpool
that's how I chose that you can see I can also choose an album a playlist a
song or a radio station if I'd like and that's just what I have set up here now
if you wanted to you could go to another part of the application called the
search portion you can search for whatever you'd like I'm going to search
for Wham that's the artist actually and you can see it's connected to Google
Play Music and I can choose top songs and if I tap the top right three dots I
can add that playlist to my Sonos and now when I go back to them my sono side
of the application you can see top songs that one on the left is what I just
added that's now accessible from if this than that if I'd like to choose that as
a favorite with a different commands so there you have it everyone that's
basically how I got to the point of playing anything I wanted on my Sonos
through my Google Home or Google Assistant resume Sonos resuming Sonos
set so nose volume to 30 so nose volume set to 30 so you can see right there it
did drop down pause so nose pausing so nose start so nose
okay now playing on so nose now guys if you'd like to know more about Google
home and the music capabilities the media capabilities you want to know how
to set up you know multi-speaker groups well of course I have videos here on
automate your life and I'm going to leave them here as links at the end of
this video so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time