I have over 20 different updates for you here about the Google Home the Google
Nest products and the Google Assistant so let's get going hello Automaters
thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life and today I'm
going to take the frustration out of automation by doing the same thing I do
every Sunday here on automate your life and that is giving you the smart home
news so you can use your products in the best ways possible one of the features
that people are so excited about right now is the ability for Google Assistant
to read what's on a page back to you now let me show you a demonstration of this
on my Google pixel 4 with the Google Assistant on board from automate your
life Wyze smart home plug WL qp1 review wise Labs has developed its own version
of the smart home plug the wise smart home plug WL qp1 features you would need
to integrate the wise plug into Google Assistant or Amazon's Alexa, you can then
use the Wyze app or your voice commands to power up the device remotely
schedules the Wyze app will provide configurations for routines shortcuts
mode triggers like most of the Wyze family products you also make an
otherwise I think it's every week that I get a question about being able to
broadcast to a certain Google Home device and guys it is coming it is
finally actually coming what you might find is the next time you try and use
the broadcast service you might get a response back from your Google Assistant
on any of your devices that you can actually broadcast to a specific device
the syntax is very simple unfortunately I can't show you this one but it is
broadcast 2 and then your device name and that's how you can go ahead and see
if you're able to do that today now this is coming in small select testing groups
right now but it is being rolled out now there are a few leaks of Google's
hardware products out there right now that I think are really important to
tell you about the Google pixel for a appears to be fully leaked and we're
getting used to this with Google smartphones but that device has a couple
of updates and upgrades that people are really excited about I'm always excited
to see these new phones from Google and I
what they're doing with their budget line up there but you guys will probably
be more excited about what looks to be a Google branded Nvidia shield or an
upgrade of the chromecast and chromecast ultra devices because it will have
Android TV on it the reason I take this leak so seriously because Google hasn't
said anything about this device yet but if you look into the source code inside
a fuchsia you will find a device called Lewis now Lewis has the right chip on it
in order to be used in Android TV boxes so this is the right series it's called
a video smart vs 680 and that type of chip is used in other Android boxes you
smell even if you smelt it I'll take the brain for Delta yet now as of late I've
been telling people to maybe hold off on a Google Nest hub so the smaller version
of this the reason is again if you're looking into the source code of fuchsia
it appears that we are going to get a refresh of the Nest Hub in just a few
months time now the processor has a slight update to it but that slight
update gives the Google Nest hub or what we think is the Google Nest hub the
ability to do AI processing so number one that's an improvement on the
existing processor probably helps it do more of the Nest Aware type of things
some of that local processing and helps with putting the Google Assistant right
on the device but I would expect something as well as a camera to show up
on the Google Nest Hub the smaller version here now help me wash my hands
wash wash wash your hands for 40 seconds please so will chase the germs away so
you don't coughing please despite Google IO being canceled I do
see a number of products coming out still around that time so let's go
through a few of those a Chrome OS tablet with the Google Assistant on
board despite earlier issues with pixel slates and devices like that we should
see that the new Pixel buds should still come around that time frame although we
could see delays because of the supply chain issues
that that the world is having right now now I'm also seeing the makings of some
new Nest sensors different sensor types and also new Nest cameras and Nest Hello
devices coming out from Google if not right in that time frame then later in
the year so we are seeing those devices start to line up and be ready for
inclusion in your Google Assistant your Google Home and Google Nest product now
here's something that kind of lends itself to what I just said sensors have
been added as a device type one thing that is missing from the different
sensor types is motion sensor so right now you still don't have those but you
do also have three other device types that were added water softeners
water purifiers and carbon monoxide detectors which kind of paves the way
for our Nest Protect's to finally get properly integrated into our Google Home
product what's the temperature in the entry it's currently twenty point five
degrees what's the temperature in the fridge the fridge temp is currently zero
point five degrees no just because I like to play with your emotions and also
because I don't want to be the bearer of bad news I'm going to let Montana talk
to you guys about the current and ongoing issue with Google Home products
and their Bluetooth capability hey guys if you're one of those people who have
been using Bluetooth with your Google Home or Google Nest product that I'm
sure you've been experiencing some repeat disconnections there is no fix
for this issue right now but just like any other company Google needs feedback
in order to fix the issues they have with their product how do you do that
well I'm here to tell you the specifics speak to your device and say send
feedback then say ght three Bluetooth in keeps on disconnect that's it if you
want to upload on this as an issue that Google should address then follow the
link below that's all I have for now back to Brian now let's get back to some
of the positive updates here from Google and we're going to see some improvements
in the Google Home application now number one Google is talking about
improvements in terms of shortcuts for turning on and off your lighting now
additionally what I have noticed personally here in just the last week is
an incredibly fast response in terms of either issuing commands in the Google
Home application talking to the Google Assistant but anytime I issue a command
now about lighting what I'm finding is before the Google Assistant actually
responds the action has executed so this is definitely being done locally on many
of your Google Home devices and the command is being sent to the partner
devices and it feels like locally here so let's let's watch turn on the accent
lighting sure turning on three lights turn off the
accent lighting sure turning off three lights now you guys saw how fast that
was it was incredibly fast now that's through a hub so you would kind of
expect that but that's still faster than I've experienced in the past and I'll
tell you what my wise lighting is just as fast so this is Wi-Fi based hub based
it is executing before the command goes to the cloud now there are some other
updates inside the application so number one when you change a smart plug to the
word light or you include the word light in a smart plug it will actually change
icons and get included now in terms of your smart home lighting that's a big
change there you'll also now see Nest Cam event showing up in your feed page
now this is very important and starts to bring more into that feed page because
we kind of went down from four tabs in the Google Home app to two and that feed
page has been relatively unused but you will now find those events in that page
as well you can review them right in app I love you Wow if you love me you must
think I'm really helpful best day ever one of the things that I think a lot of
people are not using right now is the ability to receive google duo calls now
this is very important to a lot of people because in your home you probably
have unlimited Wi-Fi on limit to internet access or at least a lot
more than your cell phone no people can make video calls and they can make audio
calls to your Google Home and your Google Nest devices so I'm going to show
you a demonstration here of how that can happen what you need to do is head into
services within the main settings page and then you can go into voice and video
calls and then choose the devices that can receive dual calls if you don't have
anything on this page related to duo you might be able to set that up now
depending on your country and then you can start using this feature now people
that you know can make calls to any of those speakers that you've allowed any
smart display speaker and of course it's going to ring on your Android phone with
Google dual or your iPhone with Google dual on it so you have the ability to
receive these data based calls instead now if someone makes a videophone call
to you with their cell phone say then and you pick up on a nest mini then they
will have the video interface up they can't see you but you can speak to them
it becomes a Google dual audio call so very nice feature for you guys to use
and I think more people should be doing this cool for Brian it's from Brian
another update that's come out from Google is called ambient IQ now this
will mean that the volume will actually raise on your speakers if the noise in
your room gets louder so what you will have this work on unfortunately not
music they decided not to do that but other kind of spoken word things like
podcasts audiobooks and new so let's try this to create its own bank in the state
of Utah Square says it expects to launch its banks
cafes pubs and restaurants to close after tonight it's also offering to John
Legend's voice will be removed on March 23rd so you're not going to be able to
hear that sultry voice I'm sure my celebrity voice is coming to the Google
Assistant I just don't know exactly when but the pics will stand and we talked
about this in our last updates that Chargers were being added as a device
type into the Google Home and Google Assistant now the Pixel Stand is getting
added additionally there and what it will be given is more of the ambient
mode capabilities around it so it will be added as a device type and you'll be
able to get a ton of information but the difference between this and normal
ambient mode that we are seeing on other Android devices is that it's going to
give you an additional interface for controlling your smart home so there's
going to be a focus on controlling lights and thermostats and other smart
home devices directly when you put your pixel device into the pixel stand let's
shift over to a few updates about Google Assistant enabled Android phones now
if you go into the Google Home application you go into settings more
settings and you go into assistant and then continued conversations you're
going to see a different slider here now so your phone is actually capable of
turning on and off continued conversations separately from your other
Google Home devices next up is the ability to actually schedule dark-themed
now what they've given you in terms of options right now is either turn it off
or on but they've also given you the ability to now schedule it between
sunset and sunrise so you can have that dark theme come up now the nice thing
about pixel settings and Android settings in general is that you can
search for dark theme and that will bring up this settings page very quickly
for you speaking of searching and I can't show you this one yet because it
hasn't happened but one of the biggest issues with the Google Home application
is you will struggle finding all these different settings and I'm really
excited for this but they are turning the settings page
into the same thing as those pixel settings that I talked to you about you
will get a search bar so you will have the ability to search for what kind of
setting or what kind of capability you are looking for in the Google Home and
the Google Assistant applications one thing that's coming to the Google Home
application as we build up to the Nest Aware subscription packages changing
over to the new subscription model and getting the ability to use our Google
Home devices as additional security is the ability to make emergency phone
calls now this was actually unearthed by Jane Wong who does this she does this as
a side hobby and she actually back engineers or reverse engineers
applications and software now really interesting person to follow on Twitter
so I'll leave that down below but what she found was the ability to make those
emergency calls and have your address included on the channel I have created a
massive comparison of Google Assistant Amazon's voice assistant and Apple's
voice assistant and it is indexed and broken up into segments so you can go
and find out which of the voice assistants are the best for your smart
home or whether or not you want to put a few of those in so go ahead click on
that otherwise watch some of our smart home news guys there's a ton more coming
on automate your life and there's probably some videos you haven't seen
yet so thanks for watching everyone and of course don't hate, Automate.