if you have Google home devices in your residence and have been curious about
what types of smart home devices can work with the Google home as well as how
to set up these smart home devices with your Google assistant enabled devices
this is the video for you I'm Josh Teder for 6 Months Later
and in this video I'm going to talk a little bit about the different types of
categories of smart devices that can work with your Google home devices as
well as show you how to set up smart home devices with the Google assistant
in today's video we're going to be setting up a Lenovo smart switch but the
same process will work for pretty much any other brand of smart switch with the
Google assistant and we also have the Lenovo smart bulb here we'll be setting
these up as well again this process will work with a lot of different smart
devices out there so with that let's go ahead and dive into talking about what
types of smart home devices work with the Google assistant typically I think
about smart home devices with the Google assistant in a few different categories
you have thermostats smart lights smart switches security cameras security
systems smart door locks as well is another one that pretty much covers most
of the categories of devices out there and luckily for the Google assistant
setting up any of these smart home devices is pretty easy and the process
is very similar across all of the smart home device brands out there so let's go
ahead and dive in and first I'm going to start with how to set up a smart switch
so the first thing you're going to want to do with pretty much any smart device
with the Google assistant is after you've opened up your smart device
you're going to want to download the app associated with the smart device most
smart devices whether it's a thermostat light smart plugs etc are all going to
have their own companion app that you will need to download either on your iOS
or Android device so for this smart switch this is a Lenovo smart switch so
I'm going to want to go to the App Store and download the Lenovo link the next
step into setting up any smart device with the Google
is to go ahead and go through the steps of the companion app to make sure that
you get your device set up and running now sometimes in these devices if you
don't have an existing account which for most of the cases if you're setting up a
new smart device you're not going to have an account with this specific
manufacturer you'll need to add an account we've gone ahead and created an
account for this lanova device and now we're going to go ahead and add the
device so in oval-link here we're setting up the smart blog we're gonna
hit smart plug alright and now it's going to give us instructions now pretty
much for any other device manufacturer this process is going to be similar
you're going to need to power on the device then through your phone is going
to need to search for that device and then it will establish a link once the
device has been powered on and linked to your account you then will be able to
add it to the Google assistant through the Google assistant app so let's go
ahead and plug in the Lenovo smart switch all right the blue light is
pulsing we've copied the password over next alright now we'll need to connect
to the Lenovo smart plug Wi-Fi live a smart plug
all right we've connected to the lid of a smart plug now the app through the
phone is going to connect to the smart plug
all right and we've now connected to our smart plug I'm going to just title this
Lenovo plug now obviously if you have something plugged into a smart plug for
instance if a lamp is plugged into it or something else is plugged into your
smart plug you probably would want to name your smart plug mat but for this
video I'm just doing this as demo so I'm going to say it's a Lenovo plug let's
see it's in the living room we're going to get started all right and so now from
the Lenovo app we can turn on and off some smart switches are not as snappy as
this one this one is uh it like it's instantaneous when you turn it on and
off so the next step is to connect your smart device to your Google home app see
that you can control the smart device either on a Google home hub using the
touchscreen or more likely you're going to want to control it using your voice
this is the new redesigned Google home app in case you haven't seen it Google
has really made the smart devices and home control a priority and it's at the
forefront of their design of the home app so what we're going to do here is
we're going to set up a device setting up new devices this is what we would do
if we were setting up like a new Google home or Google home hub Google alarm
clock etc we already have something set up we're just linking the account to the
Google assistance so this is actually what we're going to choose and this is
what you would choose if you're setting up a tp-link smart switch a philips hue
bulb etc this is where you would just link accounts all right so now what you
do here is we're gonna click search and we're gonna hit search for Lenovo there
you go Lenovo smart home so I've gone ahead signed in I'll save that password
sure that wants to access your account just make sure you authorize it
all right and now we have gone ahead and our lenovo account has been linked to
the google assistant you'll see similar page when you do this with phillips you
or any of the other smart device brands here and it'll basically give you an
option of okay what devices do you want to bring into your environment and the
one we want to bring in is our lenovo plug we're going to choose a home to
connect this device to and then we're going to say okay we're in the home is
at which room so we're going to say this one is in the living room and that is it
we have now connected our smart device with our google home and you can see
here it is going to be in the living room and instead of having to go into
the lenovo app you can actually just go into the Google home app to control
everything within all of your rooms this is a really great solution if you have a
lot of different smart devices in your residence like I do now with smart bulbs
typically there are two types there are smart bulbs like this Lenovo smart ball
where it doesn't connect to a hub or there are smart bulbs like the most
popular the philips hue bulb which i have a ton of in my residence and these
smart bulbs all connect to a central hub and that hub will directly connect into
your router and then that's how the google assistant will connect to it for
these types of bulbs they are just directly going to connect to your Wi-Fi
network and then connect to the Google assistant so let's go ahead and set up a
smart bulb now we already have our Lenovo account linked up to the Google
home app so you may be thinking okay cool it's just the same process like we
did before when we link the Lenovo count you just sit set up a device works with
Google gray and Lenovo smart home and then you're like wait a minute I don't
want to unlike the account so what do we do here well what you actually need to
do is you need to tell Google to sync devices so all you have to do is use the
trigger word and tell Google sync devices all right now that we've synced
devices let's go ahead and refresh here now what you're not going to want to do
is you're not going to want to click Add again
we've already linked the Lenovo device and we've already synced devices to the
Google assistants so in theory the device should just show up in our home
but it's probably not the sign to a room and I'm exactly right because there it
is there's porch light so let's go ahead and open up porch light here and let's
add this to a room so we just click add to a room and we're going to add this to
we're gonna need a new room here we're going to say gonna create a new room
called porch and hit next all right so now the Lenovo smart bulb has been
synced up to the Google assistant and you will now be able to use either your
voice or the touch screen on a Google smart display if you have one to control
your Lenovo smart bulb again this works for any other bulbs like I've got
philips hue bulbs right there like they're in my closet there's a philips u
bulb it looks exactly the same on the device and works the same way it's just
linking the account can vary slightly but overall it's going to link to the
Google assistant in a very similar way that you saw when I went through and
linked our Lenovo account to the Google assistant app well that concludes our
video for smart home devices thank you guys so much for watching I hope you
enjoyed our deep dive into smart home devices with the Google assistant if you
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you'd like to see more videos like this one we've actually done a lot of videos
on the channel of smart home devices that do work with the Google assistant
I'll be sure to link those in the video right now as well as in the description
below so make sure you check those out if you're interested in a particular
product or smart home device category well that wraps up this video thanks
again so much for watching for 6 months later I'm Josh Tedder