hey guys one here from juanmtech.com and today I'm going to show you how to link
a Harmony Hub to Google home so you can send commands using your voice in a few
simple steps so let's get started
alright so to link your harmony account go into the home app, go into menu and
tap on Explorer now we're gonna search for Harmony then we're gonna open it up
and we're gonna click on link then you're gonna get a page from Logitech
for you to sign in to your Harmony Hub so go ahead and do that. Ok, before we
continue, something to have in mind is that you can only link one Hub to Google
Home so if you have multiple Hubs in your home you will need to use a
different method like IFTTT or Samsung things to be able to send commands to
those Hubs. I did make a tutorial video a few months back showing how to control
Harmony using IFTTT via Google Home so if you haven't seen that video
definitely check it out. You can find a link up here and also in the description
below okay so after you log in you're gonna get a page for you to select which
Harmony Hub you want to link to Google Home. If you only have one Hub like me
you're gonna go straight to the activity page where it's gonna show you all the
activities that you have set up on your Harmony Hub so you're able to select
which ones you want to be able to control to be a your Google home
you're also able to set up like a friendly name for each activity to make
it a little bit easier when you're sending commands through your go home
and going to the next page is just gonna chose their favorite channel so if you
set up favorite channels for your TV activity you're gonna see them listed
over here alright so let's go ahead and go to the next page and click on link
account okay so the account is now linked so we're now able to say for
example a Google ask Harmony to turn on my entertainment center or Hey Google ask
Harmony to turn on the TV. Now because we always have to say ask Harmony after Hey
Google some commands can get a bit long now we shortcut we can make those
commands a lot shorter here's how we can do it you can click on add new to add a
new shortcut or you can go straight to the man as shortcuts page
so let's go in there. Already, so I already have six shortcuts here created for the
Harmony now let me open one of them when you create a shortcut on the top
you're going to put the phrase that you're gonna be telling Google to
execute a command and on the bottom you're gonna put the actual command that
Google home is going to execute now each shortcut you are able to put up to five
different phrases that will execute that specific command once you're done just
click on save now why don't we go ahead and tests this shortcuts out to see how
everything works. All right so right now I have the TV off so we're gonna go
ahead and try to turn it on using the Google Home and we're gonna use the shortcuts
Hey Google, turn on TV okay here's harmony turning on TV alright so right now the
TV went on and also my cable box went on as well now it was originally on
chromecast so now it changed to regular TV alright so right now we're gonna try
to change the TV to chromecast which is pretty much HDMI 2 on the TV Hey Google
change TV to chromecast all right let's get harmony turning on chromecast
alright so that pretty much worked very well now let's go back to cable hey
Google change to TV all right here's harmony turning on TV alright so we're
gonna go ahead and change the channel to a specific channel number now I haven't
set up a shortcut for that yet so we're gonna use the long command hey Google
ask harmony to change to channel 47
sure here's harmony. Alright so the channel changed.
Now let's go ahead and mute the TV hey Google mute TV
Alright here's harmony muting volume alright so that's working well as well
now let's go ahead and turn it off hey Google turn off TV sure getting harmony
turning off TV all right so that's working well as well now let's try to
turn it back on hey Google turn on TV okay here's harmony turning on TV
alright so the TV is back on okay so all shortcuts are working properly we were
able to control activities with no problem and also send individual
commands like changing channels control the volume and also to change the input
or the TV. Alright guys that's about it for this video if you liked it and found
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