Jam time!
Stop. All right now what you just saw is I use Siri on my iPhone and you could
use an iPad to trigger Google Assistant automation now that means I can utilize
any of these Google Home or Google Home or a Google Assistant related automation
and of course I can go ahead get the news the weather whatever I want to do
with my Google Assistant so let me show you how to do that in your home or even
on the road just with your iPhone now the first thing to do and I already set
this up so I'm going to have to just run it on the screen here on my phone but
you know you basically the first time you go into the Google Assistant
application when it's been updated to the appropriate version on your iPhone
you will see the function of clicking add to Siri and once you add it to Siri
once you go through that little process you have the ability now within
shortcuts which is an iOS 12 and greater basically functionality here that allows
you to trigger automation once you've added the Google Assistant to Siri
there's a couple things I want you to check so I'm going to go into my iPhone
settings here and I'm going to scroll down to the actual assistant application
within the settings here now you can see I'm allowing location to be used and all
these other things but Syrian search is where I want you to go into here so once
inside of there you see this Siri and suggestions there and there's also the
shortcuts showing up because I've already set up one here or I've already
set up actually a number of these now once you've used Google Assistant what
starts to happen is these recent shortcuts start to show up and this
means that they show up as suggestions when you're going to set up a new
shortcut I'll show you what that means in a second here but you want to make
sure that that Siri and suggestions is checked on or turned on here and that's
just the easiest way to go through creating shortcuts with your Google
Assistant now once you've done that we can go into the Google
Assistent application so you're going to need that you're going to need it signed
into the same account that you're using for all of your home automation if you
want to use this at home so you make sure your google Home app is signed into
the same as your Google Assistant app when you do this now the other thing
you're going to do is actually use the Google Assistants' so you you give it
whatever command you'd like to teach so what I did is I said basically play
music on my basement office display that's what this device is called in the
Google Home application so once I said that it showed up as a shortcut in the
in the Siri And Suggestions there and also in that settings page that I just
showed you alright so what I'm going to do next is actually teach Syria command
through the Google Assistant now I'm going to start a YouTube video that you
should be pretty familiar with here on my basement living room display this is
a Google Home Hub so I'm just going to tap the microphone here play automate
your life on YouTube on basement living room okay so there you go I started and
I stopped now what I've done is I've created a series a gesture to go ahead
and use so let me show you how to use that next so now switching over to
shortcuts here now shortcuts is the application if you don't already have it
you can download it on the App Store but it should be on any iOS device twelve
point oh and greater basically now you can see my jam time shortcut that I
created earlier in the video you saw that run actually just random music here
that's the command I had set up but we're going to create a brand new
shortcut so top right I'm hitting the plus here and now that I'm in here I go
to the search bar and I can go to Siri suggestions and you can see all the
different google Assistant ones that I've recently done so I want to play
automate your life on YouTube on base living room display so that's the one I
want to use and you can see I have an untitled shortcut and if I hit that
little play button it will run this shortcut and right away start that on my
basement living room my google Home Hub now there's a couple of things to do to
move forward here and make sure that Siri works seamlessly for you because
you don't want to be saying that every time and that's one of the nice features
here of shortcuts so the first thing I'm going to do is hit the little switches
here and I can rename it up at the top so I'm going to call this one myself now
I can change the icon of course if you wanted to go and pick something else you
could I don't really care for now but add to Siri is the important piece here
so we're going to tap that and now it wants me to record a sound or a
soundbite basically that basically makes this shortcut trigger in iOS now it
allows you to say anything you'd like here you could set anything really but
keep in mind if you're using some of those basic commands that Siri is going
to use all the time like show me the weather you know Siri might interpret
that as actually show me the weather which is embedded inside of Syria these
days so you have to think a little bit outside of the box and so I'm going to
use something a little bit different here show me so now I could rerecord
that phrase if I didn't like how that turned out but I'm going to hit done and
now it's added to Siri and any times I anytime I say show me to Siri now it's
going to run that little basically script essentially now and it's going to
bring in the Google Assistant and run that so let's go ahead now and do a demo
so now that I've gone ahead and I've created that phrase obviously if I
wanted I could do a number of other things here I'm not gonna run through
adding it to the home screen so you can trigger that with a button that's
obviously something that you can do though you can share the shortcut so you
could send this to your family if they couldn't figure out how to do this
but in general we're done here and we can go ahead and run this with Siri or
we can do it inside the shortcuts application so you can see now I have
this this applet here this shortcut down at the bottom of the shortcuts
application so if I just tap on that it will run it and bring it up but that's
not the point here I want to show you how to use Siri to do this so now let's
go ahead and I'm just going to hold the button here start Siri up and then we're
going to go ahead and use the Google Assistant through Siri show me now if
you're watching the screen you can actually see it rolling through the
different portions of the Google Assistant and you can see that command
went in that full command and now we're playing the video on YouTube here on all
through Siri all through iOS shortcuts so stop so there you go I think that's a
pretty good demo now obviously you can take this a lot further you have devices
that are connected to home kit you have devices that are you know connected to
Google Home that aren't connected to home kit and now if you want through a
shortcut you can use a home kit device trigger a scene and then you can use
Google Assistant so you can actually tie together now home kit and your
Google Home and I'll be showing that as we go forward here on automate your life
obviously I'm not going to show you everything today but I think this gives
you a good basis for moving forward with your Google Assistant if you're on the
road you can use that as well and your Google Home suite of products in your
home along with your iPhone and it basically this functionality catches
those of us with an iPhone up to those people with an Android device who have
Google Assistant embedded this allows you to catch up with just a little bit
of extra setup alright guys there you go now you
tell me what you think about this new functionality from Google using Apple
system of shortcuts there that's all I'm going to show you today thanks for
watching and we'll see you next time