- Hey this video is one in a series
that is sponsored by Lowe's.
You know them, home improvement store.
You go there at least five or six times a week
after you buy a house right?
I probably shoulda' bought stock now that I think about it.
But in any event they are paying for this video.
I'm doin' it like normal, just as we always would.
So it works out well for both of us.
Ready, let's go do it.
Okay now see if this sounds familiar to you at all.
I've got a million pictures
of friends and family on my phone.
And I've got a million connected devices
here around the house right?
I've got lights, and outlets, and switches,
and phones, and TV's, and boxes, and doorbells,
and cameras, and all that kinda stuff right.
What I haven't had is one thing
that really ties it all together.
And if you've been watching these videos for any time now
you know I've been wanting this sort of thing for ever.
Well finally, finally, Google has blessed us
with the Google Home Hub.
Ah hah hah!
So if you can tell I'm a little excited right?
And this has very quickly risen
to the top of the list of things
that I would go buy somebody this holiday season.
So what is Google Home Hub and why do you want one?
Let's go do this.
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So this is it, this is the Google Home Hub.
It costs $149 when it's not on sale.
It's maybe a little smaller than you think
with a seven inch touch screen
and a speaker that's good enough for bedside use
but really not too much more than that.
So it ties in your network over Wi-Fi
and can handle Bluetooth music
if you'd prefer things that way.
It's got a microphone array so it can hear you clearly
and it works with Google's multi room audio
so you can connect it to other Google Home speakers
you might have lying around.
Basically it's a Google Home speaker with a screen.
So it's great on a bedside table, that's where I keep mine.
And if you've seen the commercials yeah, it also works
really well in the kitchen.
You can put it where ever you want
but those are probably
the two main places you're lookin' at.
So what's it missing?
Well it doesn't have a camera built into that
and I'm okay with that
'cause I don't really do a lot of video calling anyway.
And I'm really not all that crazy about
having a camera in the bedroom just inches away
from my face as I'm sleeping.
Come to think of it my wife's okay with not having that too.
What's really the most important feature here?
It's the screen, and Google Assistant.
The first thing you'll notice
Google Home Hub is an excellent digital picture frame.
You can have it show some really good album art
that comes from Google itself.
There's some really cool stuff in there.
Or you can set up your own albums in Google Photos
which I highly recommend doing.
That's what I use most of the time.
If you want it'll also work with Facebook or Flickr pictures
but me I just use pictures I've taken
and curated into an album each year.
And there's also a great ambient light sensor on this thing
and that turns the screen down when the room is darker.
It's gonna keep from bothering you at night.
But when you turns the lights on
the screen will get brighter so you can still see it.
It's also got this big digital clock
that it puts on in the middle of the night when it's dark.
I love it because I can just kinda,
ah, what time is it?
Oh, I'm going back to sleep.
Love it, really cool.
Let me just put it this way okay,
even with that seven inch screen
hasn't bothered me once in the middle of the night.
Google really nailed that.
And of course where there's a screen
there's information and entertainment.
So maybe you want to learn about
do it yourself home security systems
or connected thermostats.
Or maybe you want to watch some dude get overly excited
about driving an electric car!
That'd be me.
Or maybe you want to watch some other stuff.
I don't know, it's the internet.
It's YouTube, you know what's out there.
You know what you like.
You can watch it all right here.
Let's move out of the bedroom, back to the kitchen
and there's that other use case, right.
Put it on the counter and you can look up recipes.
You can get tips and help while you're cooking.
You can look up videos that'll help
keep you from burning dinner
night, after night, after night.
That wasn't me, I didn't do it.
I'm a pretty good cook.
But even cooler than that
I think it's all of the Smart Home integrations.
So you'll connect all your services
through the Google Home app
and then it makes it super easy to control your lights,
or your switches, or your outlets,
or pretty much anything.
You can use your voice if that's still how you do things.
But I almost prefer to actually just use the touch screen.
Just swipe down from the top of the screen
and you can turn your lights on and off.
You can lock the door.
You can change the thermostat.
You can check on any of your cameras
that you have hooked into it.
Probably my favorite thing though
and you know what's coming right?
It's the doorbell.
As soon as somebody rings it, they pop up on the screen.
I can see 'em, I can answer 'em, I can ignore them.
Whatever I want to do but it's all right there
and it's all really easy.
And because Google is always
updating the software on this sort of thing
it's only going to get better over time.
So that's it in nutshell for Google Home Hub.
Now look if it looks like a smaller version
of a Smart Display.
Yeah, you're right, it is.
But here's the thing.
It fits in so many places so much better.
It's the perfect size for your nightstand
or just tucking into a corner in the kitchen.
It's also way less expensive at $150.
And by the way I've got links in the description
if you want to go buy one, be sure to hit them up.
If you've got anymore questions on Google Home Hub
ask me in the comments.
Hit me up on the socials.
I'll do my best to answer them for ya.
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That's it, see you next time.