start day right now in a minutes - 14 and sunny it's a start day currently
traffic on your commute looks pretty clear hey start day part 2 part 3
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hello Automaters thanks for tuning in again now you just saw a routine
basically start on a Google Home Hub here and trigger a routine on the Amazon
Echo Plus and actually they continued to trigger routines between each other so
what I'm going to show you today is how your Google Home Hub can control Amazon
or vice versa your Amazon Echo device can control a Google Home product and
I'm going to do this all through routines now I have to set this up a
little bit to give you a guys an idea why you might want to do this first of
all some of the services are better with Amazon or they're better with Google for
example the calendar over here is a little bit better you have three
different options if you have a Microsoft calendar well at office 360
calendar or an iOS calendar this is the only device that's going to let you
access that now on the flip side on the Google side of things you're probably
going to find the services for things like Finance or Google search or really
any information you know a lot better over here and I find the commute
information to be better over here with my Google Home now on top of that you
may have smart home devices that only integrate or integrate better with one
of these two systems the rain cameras are a great example or the ring system
is a great example of that you might want to do just certain things over here
so let's go forward let me show you how to set up a couple of routines on each
of these systems that can interact with each other as we go through the demo I
am going to show you or give you some tips and tricks for working with both of
the root here they do each have their own kind of
nuances so just bear with me as we go through this on both an Android and an
iOS device there is a really easy way of navigating two routines you can see the
button on the main page and once you tap that you get the full list of routines
that you have from there you're going to scroll all the way to the bottom and go
to manage routines once you're there tap on manage routines
and you will end up on this page that works for Google Home now let's skip
over to Amazon just so I can show you how to get to the routines page really
quickly in Amazon's application navigating to routines is quite simple
you just have to click the menu up in the top left or tap on that menu in the
top left and simply go to routines and you're already there so let's get back
to the Google Home application and start building our routines I'm in the
routines section of the Google Home application and we're going to start
with a plus here and then I'm going to add a command now the command is what
you will say to your Google Home to start the whole process so this is my
first routine and you could start this in either Amazon Alexa voice assistant or
Google's voice assistant it really doesn't matter which one you want to
start with but I'm starting with Google today so let me just type in my first
command I've typed in start day and now I'm just hitting OK I could add
additional commands that's one of the nice things about Google Home routines
if I wanted to have something else that was said I could do that now if I put
good morning here in Google Home that would not work because that's a
ready-made routine that exists in Google Home all the time so you do have to have
a unique command here now from there what I'll tell you is you should always
probably start by setting the volume to whatever's reasonable for this routine
so I've set the volume to 50% and then I'm going to hit add now from there
let's say I really like the weather so I'm choosing popular actions and I like
the weather from Google Home and I like it on my Google Home
Hub so I'm going to use that now I could add additional things in here and
so what I'm also going to add is a custom response to say something now
this is where I'm actually going to trigger Amazon Alexa voice assistant so I'm
just going to type in the full command now you can see I'm using the voice
assistant name over on the Amazon side and then I'm actually using the same
name for the routine so start day will be what I use over on Amazon's
Alexa application now I go back I make sure there's a check mark here on say
something and I make sure there's a check mark here on tell me about the
weather and then I hit add now if I needed to I could change the order
simply by clicking here and then I can drag these up and down as needed but in
general what I'll tell you is you want this to be the last thing that happens
in your routine on the Google Home side if not it can be trouble for your
routine it might not work triggering your Amazon Alexa voice assistant now
now that I'm done here and I could do more if I wanted but right now I'm going
to call that good and we're going to skip over to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant
over on Amazon's Alexa voice assistant I just click the plus up at the top to start a
new routine and again I'm going to trigger this by voice and all I have to
do is say the name that I used on Google Home's first routine so I've typed in
start day and that's the command that will trigger this and on this side what
I was doing in the demo you saw is I actually managed some of my smart home
devices or one of my smart home devices now you could control a group or turn on
a scene if you'd like but I'm just going to control one device in this case just
for this demo and that's this light I can choose to power it on I can choose
the brightness which I had very low and then I can set the color to whatever I'd
like now some people do complain about the color scheme over here on the Amazon Alexa
voice assistant because it doesn't give you access to all of the colors but to
me that's not a big deal I just like using mostly primary colors
but anyways moving on my next step was I reported traffic so this is a simple
choice and you just go ahead and hit that and then you're going to hit next
so now I have two steps I turn on the light I report traffic now I told you
usually I like to set the volume as my first action so we're going to click the
plus and we're going to hit device settings and we're going to go to volume
and I'm going to leave it at 50% as well and hit add now I have the same problem
here that I showed you on the Google Home side if I want to I can grab and
pull up by those two lines and it allows me to rearrange things so the first
thing I want to do is set the volume to five and then I want to change the light
and then report the traffic now I need one additional thing to trigger back
over to my Google Home and this is where your Amazon voice assistant is going to
say something so we're going to choose custom and now we're going to type in
the phrase that we want to use again for your Google Home to be triggered so I've
typed the Wake word for the Google Voice assistant and then start day part two
and you'll notice I typed out the word part two in general I'll tell you it's
better to type out those words it just helps with recognition I think on both
sides and pronunciation it really shouldn't but I have found when I put
the number two in here it just doesn't seem to work all the time now I go ahead
and I hit add and now I have a four step routine and I can also choose the device
that I want but I'm just going to leave it on the device I speak to that makes
this capable all over my home then so we're going to hit save and that's
created the first routine for Amazon but we now have to go over our back over to
Google Home to create that second part the routine so again over here in Google
Home I'm going to add a couple of commands so you can see in this case
over on the Google Home side I can add multiple commands that trigger this and
I just put in the number two as well as the word two so that recognition is
handled a little better so you can just do that over on the Google Home side
that's one of the nice things that they do so again I can add more actions and
we're going to keep this fairly simple after I've typed in set the volume to
50% I'm going to add another action and choose popular actions and again I'm
going to say something custom because I'm going to trigger a second routine
over on Amazon side
so I've typed in the weight word for Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and then start
day part three so that's the name of the new routine that I'm going to create on
Amazon side so we're bouncing back and forth between these two voice assistants
now and I just have to click Add
now if you'd like to you can go ahead and add media of any sort on here I do
also have a video that shows you how to execute routines on multiple devices or
multiple speakers so you can play some songs or music or radio on multiple
speakers but for now we're just going to choose to play sleep sounds just like I
did in the demonstration so I've gone ahead and I've triggered this after I've
triggered my Amazon voice assistant so keep in mind that it is quiet as I
trigger each voice assistant and that is something very important to do keep the
room quiet as they're going back and forth between each other so I'm going to
save that routine and we're gonna skip back over to amazon's voice assistant
and create that start day part 3 so again you can see I've just typed in
that name start day part 3 the one thing about Amazon is I can't type for that
out with multiple different commands that's okay I really just need the one
anyways it seems to work almost every time now what I did in the demo is I
just chose to read today's calendar and again this is because Amazon's calendar
is a little bit better than Google's because I can access multiple calendars
if I'd like to now again I can choose the from device I speak to or other
devices so you can do whatever you'd like here as you trigger routines on
each device so let's go ahead and save that and we're all done this setup so
let me show you the full demo of what we just did start day right now in a Linux
-14 and sunny today it'll be partly cloudy with a forecasted high of minus
eleven and a low of minus sixteen to start day currently traffic on your
commute looks pretty clear the fastest route takes about 45 minutes hey start
day part 2
start day part three there's nothing scheduled for the rest of the day