hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm going to show you today how to
create basically an infinite loop with your Google Home products now you are
going to require at least two Google Home or Google Assistant enabled
products but after that let's have some fun the use case for this that I'm
showing you today is not the most impressive thing but what I'll tell you
is that you can now utilize this and something like if this than that which
we'll talk about in future videos to do a lot more interesting things with this
infinite loop we're going to start in the Google Home application and actually
that's all you're going to need as we go through this now
on your Google Home application there is a routines button that you can now click
on and if you scroll all the way to the bottom of your list of routines you'll
find that button manage routines now we're going to open up a new routine by
clicking on the plus and then from there we're going to hit add commands and this
is what you're going to trigger the entire loop off of so go ahead and pick
whatever you'd like what I'll tell you is that sometimes you'll want to play
with this word because ending it with a B for example just doesn't seem to
enunciate well out of the Google assistant so I called mine blink and
that seems to work fairly well now what we're always going to start any of these
routines with is setting the volume to whatever you think is best and you might
have to play with this a little bit I found 70% work very well with a Google
Home Hub whereas 50 % worked really well with a Google Home mini so it does help
if you have the same two devices sitting next to each other now for my demo I'm
going to just simply turn on a light with the first part of my routine set
here and that's all we're going to have to do other than say something
immediately after that and what we're going to say is the wake word for
another Google product and in the name of the second routine but
I'm not going to put that in this first one because it helps to add a delay with
Google Home Products so now that I have the wake word written in there I just
simply hit back and then I make sure there's check marks on the two actions I
want to add to my routine and then I hit the add button up in the top right so
what we have now is setting the volume to 70% adjusting our light and our plug
and then we say something and if I wanted to I could rearrange the order of
these things but that is the order that you're going to want so you can see on
the right there are the double lines and those I can just grab and drag actions
up and down to reorder them as I'd like to
we're going to again add another action and this is in the popular actions and
now I'm going to actually type in my exact name of the second routine so
we're going to create two separate routines here so that's important to
keep in mind in order to execute this loop you need at least two you could
make three or four or five if you'd like and just make sure that each one
references the next one so now we have four commands here in our new routine
called blank and what we're doing is setting the volume to 70% adjusting our
light our plug or doing whatever we want to do within this part of the routine or
the infinite loop and then we use the wake word and then in a separate say
something we use the name of this next routine in the series once we've done
all that we hit the check mark up in the top right and that creates our new
custom routine now we're going to create a second and this is the name of your
second routine or the thing you just referenced in the first routine so again
I had put in no blank as the name of the second routine and that's what my google
Home product or Google Assistant is saying and now we're really going to
follow the same process so we're going to set the volume on this device once
we've added that we're going to add a second action which is choosing popular
actions I'm going to adjust that light or plug or do whatever I want to do in
this second part of our loop and you can see I'm just turning off one light and
then I'm scrolling down to the bottom and I'm going to say something which is
again the wake word for our Google assistant
now finally we're going to add another say something component here so another
action and then choosing popular actions and then we're going to say something
and this is going to go to our next part of the loop but in this case it's just
the first name so because I only have a two part infinite loop I'm saying the
name of the first routine now I'm all done I have those same four steps and
then really the only difference here is that the last thing I say is that custom
routine name blank and here's my other one called no blank so that's it guys so
that's the entire process we're going to show you of course how this works and
you can go ahead and expand this with multiple parts of the routine obviously
you're going to hear your Google Assistant so this works better to start
and then walk away from and leave the speaker sitting in a room next to each
other no blink blink
no blink
Blink
alright guys now down below what you're seeing is links to other videos that
I've done related to routines and you can see Google integration with Amazon
echo and you can see an additional set of routines videos that will help you
out here and I'm going to be producing more of these as we go forward so look
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