hey guys! Juan here. Today I want to share with you another 10 Tips and Tricks for
the Google Home so let's get started
number 1. Turn TV on and off using a Chromecast. If you have a Chromecast
connected to your TV you can now use it with your Google Home to turn the TV on
and off. Now for this feature to work your TV must support HDMI-CEC. Also, you
want to have the Chromecast connected to an electrical outlet instead of a USB
connection on the back of the TV so like that when the TV is off the
Chromecast is still on and you're able to send a command to the Chromecast to
turn on the TV otherwise it's not gonna work. Number 2. Multiple commands at
once. Not too long ago, Google quietly released this update allowing to say two
commands in one single interaction. So you can now say for example turn on
living room lights and turn on living room TV or for example, play Linkin Park from
Spotify and set volume to 50%. You can also pair two commands together using
shortcuts and create a simple phrase that would trigger those commands.
Alright, number 3. Set up Audio Groups. With Audio Groups you can play music
or any other audio content on multiple Google Homes at the same time. To set up
a group open the home app tap on devices and open the menu for one
of the speakers that you would like to set up and then select create group now
set up a name and choose the speaker's that you want on the group and then tap
on Save. After the setup is done the new group will show up in the devices tab
whenever you want to play something on the new group you can simply say OK Google, plus
the content that you want to play and then the name of the home group that you
create for example OK Google, play the latest news on home group and you will start playing
on that group that we just created. Number 4 change the assistant voice
at the time of this video if you live in the u.s. you're able to change the
default female voice to a male voice. To do it you can simply ask OK Google change
your voice and pretty much it will play a little preview of how the male voice
sounds and then it would ask you to confirm if you want to change it. The other
way is via the home app when you open the app tap on the menu icon then go
into more settings preferences and a system voice here you have voice 1 which
is the female voice and voice 2 which is the male
voice if you click on the speaker icon on the right you can hear a preview of
how each voice sounds. Something to have in mind though that once you change the
assistant voice in the Google home it would also change it on your mobile
device. Number 5 Night Mode. Night Mode is one of the
number one features that you wanna enable on a new google home Night Mode
allows you to set up a schedule to automatically control the volume level
and the LEDs brightness on your Google home to set it up open the home app then
go into devices tap on the menu icon for one of the speakers and then settings
scroll down and tap enable night mode then set up the time and days that night
mode will be activated lastly set up the maximum volume levels and the
brightness that you would like for the nighttime have in mind that if you have
multiple Google homes you will need to repeat the steps for each individual
Google home. Number 6 use Google home to broadcast messages. The broadcast feature
in the Google home is one of my favorite features if you have multiple Google
homes you can now ask Google to relay a message for you and it will play that
message on all the Google homes that are connected on the same Wi-Fi now you can
also use the Google assistant on your phone to relay a message and you don't
need to be connected on the same Wi-Fi to learn more about broadcast you can
check out my previous video you can find a link up here and also in the
description below number 7. Sleep Timers if you're like me
you probably like to go to sleep listening to soft music and now with the
Google home it makes it very easy to just fire up a playlist now instead of
leaving the music playing online you can ask Google to set up a sleep timer. There
are multiple ways to set up a sleep timer if the music is already playing
for example you can say set up a sleep timer for 30 minutes or stop playing
music at 2:00 o'clock for example now the other way is when you're gonna set up the
music to play you can say Hey Google, play Jazz music until 2:00 o'clock or play it for
30 minutes and it will pretty much follows that path now if you want to
cancel the sleep timer you can simply just say OK Google, cancel sleep time and it will
cancel the sleep time number 8. Set up Guest Mode guest mode allows visitors to
connect to your Google home and share their favorite media without having to
be connected to your home Wi-Fi connection
now to enable guest mode open the home app on your device
then go into devices open the menu for the home speaker that you would like to
set up tap on guest mode and switch it on. Now your guest can open a Chromecast
enable app and tap on the cast icon and select nearby devices when the device
tries to connect Google home will automatically transfer a four-digit pin
using a short audio tone if that fails the person attempted to join will be
asked to enter a four-digit pin which can be found on the home app on your
device. Number 9. Find my Phone this is one of the features that my wife likes
everytime she can't find her phone Google home is always there to help her
find it now to use this feature you can quickly ask Google Hey Google, find my phone and the
Google assistant will play a loud sound on your phone even if your phone is in
do not disturb now for this feature to work anyone that wants to use it, needs
to have their Google account and their voice link to the Google home otherwise
it's not gonna work number 10 reminders there are two types of reminders that
you can use for example you can ask Google home to remind you to do
something on a specific day at a specific time and then when that date
and time comes you will get a reminder notification on your phone and also the
Google home will say that it has a reminder available for you and one of
the LED lights on the Google home would stay on until you listen to your
reminder another way of using reminders is that you can have Google home
remember where you left things for example you can say Hey Google, remember that I left
my spare keys in a white envelope in my desk and then the next time you're
looking for those keys you can say Hey Google, where are my spare keys and then Google will
tell you where they are. All right guys those were another 10 tips
and tricks for the Google home if you guys haven't watched my previous ten
tips you can find a link up here and also in the description below thank you
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