in this video I'm gonna teach you how to send text messages with the Google home
Mini coming up hey everyone my name is Aymaan Rahman and if this is your first
time on this channel thank you so much for stopping by I'm a tech enthusiast
and in this channel I make videos about technology so in this video I'm gonna
teach you how to send text messages with the Google home Mini because by default
the Google home Mini doesn't support sending text messages so I'm gonna do
this with the help of a service called IFTTT so let me just explain what we are
doing we are making a custom command with IFTTT so that when we tell
Google home mini to send a text message it will use the phone I have set
IFTTT on and it will send the text message from that phone like a normal
sms text message to the person we want so for demonstration purposes I will
send a message with my phone from my number to my phone that has the same
number so sending a message from my number to my number if it didn't make
sense watch that again it will. So I have already downloaded the IFTTT app in
the Google Play Store so I'll press open and you'll need to make an account first
an IFTTT account so once you have made an account and you're in the app you'll
press here and then you press the Add button and then you'll press if this you
will create a trigger and then you'll select you'll search for Google
assistant and there it is the Google assistant so when you are going to
select Google assistant as a trigger in IFTTT for the first time the app will
ask you to link your Google account so make sure that you link the same Google
account that you use for the Google Home Mini and then you'll select say a phrase
with a text ingredient and then here in what do
you want to say we will type text and we'll type the name of the person
so let's say Aymaan
and then we'll put a dollar sign so the dollar sign indicates where we want to
say the text ingredient and in what's another way to say it
we'll say send Aymaan and then dollar sign we are entering different ways to
say it because if we say text sometimes it won't work sometimes Google home
Mini will give an error saying that it doesn't support text messages so in and
another way we will put post Aymaan and then the dollar sign
so here under what do you want the assistant to say in response we will put
ok message sent and then we'll press create trigger so here then that we'll
press on that and then we'll select Android SMS we'll search for Android SMS
and it's right there Android SMS and we'll press send an SMS so here
we're gonna put the phone number of the person we are messaging so you have to
put the country code of the person so I'll just add +880
its the country code of Bangladesh so
so now we will press create action so I'm gonna turn on this slider so that I
receive notifications whenever this applet runs so we'll press finish so now
we have our applet so now let's test it ok Google text Aymaan how are you
Google Home Mini: ok message sent
ok
right here I got the message let's try sending another message ok Google post
to Aymaan this is a YouTube video
Google Home Mini: ok message sent
so right here we got our message
Question of the day: Have you ever used
IFTTT to automate things? let me know in the comments down below so thank you for
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channel for future videos you can also watch the recent Google Home Mini and
Xiaomi Yeelight LED Bulb Color review which i did it'll be in the YouTube
cards as well as in the description down below so again thank you for watching
bye