Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. What I have here today is a Google
Home Mini, and what we're going to do is get this fully set up and ready for you
to use in your home. So let's get going.
I've already opened up the Google Home Mini here, it's just this simple,
here's the box, and once you get that opened you have a Google Home Mini
itself, you can see this is the charcoal version, there is a power connector on
the back, and there is also a mute mic switch here on the back. There's also
some physical controls, which I'll show you in a bit.
The second thing here that you get is a power adapter, it's a mini USB and
obviously that's going to connect into the back of the Google Home Mini, and the
third thing you're getting is just simply put, a manual of sorts. Now we
don't need this because you're watching this video here, so let's get going with
the setup process. Alright now, there are a couple of things you're going to
need in your home before you can set up a Google Home Mini or a Google Home if
you have one. So the first thing is Wi-Fi in your home. So obviously you need to be
connected to the Internet and your Wi-Fi signal has to be broadcast such that
this device can pick it up. The other thing you're going to need is a smart
phone of some sort. Now I have an iPhone but ultimately you could have an iPhone
or an Android device. Getting into this, I've already plugged in my power
adaptor actually below me, and we're just going to go ahead and connect in to the
Google Home Mini, and what you're about to see is some lights start to light up
here, and a short process that it goes through. So you could see those lights
starting to go, and when you get to four lights that are fully on and you get an
audible sound here from the Google Home Mini, you're ready to set it up on the
iPhone or Android Google Home application.
"Welcome to Google Home. To get started, download the Google Home app on a phone
or tablet." So there you go, they're already telling you you're going to need
the Google Home application. Now as I said before there's a couple of physical
things that you can do on this device, so right here that's the volume up on the
speaker, and on this side that's the volume down, so those are two buttons for
control, and then there is this mic switch on the back, and mic is muted.
You can mute "The mic's back on." and bring it back on just that easily.
We're going to get into the set up process here. I'm going to go into
the Google Home application and there are a couple of things you're going to
need there, so you will need a Google Account. You can sign up in this
application for a new Google Account if you don't already have one, but I'm not
going to do that today, just suffice it to say that there should be a Google
account up at the top left of this by the time you're done. What I will do is
leave a link down below for where you can go and sign up for a Google Account
if you don't already have one. Again it would just be a matter of putting in the
credentials that you create through that Google Account into the Google Home
application as you go through the setup process for the very first time. Now as I
said, I have that in here and so what's shown up is that a device is found. It'
ready to set up, so I'm going to tap that card, and it's starting the connection
process already. You can actually see that the lights on the Google Home Mini
have gone blue here, and that we're starting this connection process. So it's
quickly asking me did I hear the sound? Yes I did obviously. Do I want to help
improve Google Home Mini? This a pretty standard thing that companies now ask
you whether or not you want to help them improve by sending reports to them when
there's issues. So I'm going to say no thanks, I don't want to do that. Now what
you're doing is you're choosing where the device is. This
can change over time. You're able to change the room that this device is set
up in, and for now I'm going to choose my living room, so I've chosen next, and now
the next step in the process is to set up my Wi-Fi network. So I'm going to go
ahead and I'm going to tap on the Wi-Fi network here, tap next, and it's asking
for the Wi-Fi password. Now clearly I'm not going to show you my Wi-Fi password,
but I am going to type it in here, and once I've done that, I can also choose to
use this Wi-Fi network in the future. So Google will save the credentials, some
people might like that, some people don't, so I'm going to hit done and connect, and
you can see it's now changed from the blue lights back to white, and it's going
through a connection process here on the Google Home application. So now we have a connected
device here and your Google Home Mini is starting to show some different lights
there. You can see it running through and the Google Assistant, basically they want
to tell you some things, so there is some privacy discussion here on this page,
you'll want to understand how guests can use this device in your home, so there
are capabilities here that you'll have to be aware of, and then there's also
partners where they share data. This is kind of a standard thing for really using
anything Google related. So now that I've gone ahead and I've accepted or
understood some of those things that Google was telling me about, I do have to
go through a little bit more related to the Google Assistant itself. So you can
see that there are a couple of settings here. Do I want to give some device
information, so store information about my contacts, the calendars, that really
works much better with an Android device than it does with an iPhone in terms of
the calendars, but it does still work in terms of contacts here with an iPhone, so
keep that in mind, there's music, other data in your device, and basically the
voice and audio activity. So this is Google actually recording what you're
doing with the Google Mini. They actually do record what
you say on their servers, you could say no thanks at this point and it would not
store that information, but what it does is Google over time does learn your
requests, your voice, what you do with the device, and it helps to give you better
results over time. So for myself I'm going to go ahead and turn that on. I
don't mind that and you can clear that. We have videos like that on the channel.
Now here we are at the voice match portion of the setup. What this is doing
is you're basically teaching your Hoogle Home Mini how to use your voice, so you
can see it's asking me to say. "ok Google".
It's just running through a voice match setup process. What it's
actually doing is taking my voice from here and putting it on the Google Home
Mini, kind of teaching the Google Assistant in the cloud as well what my
voice sounds like when using those words. So now we have the ability to get
personal results with my voice. So personal results it gives you a lot of
opportunity to things like your calendars again, your contacts, those
kinds of things that are specific to you as a person. So I'm going to go ahead and
turn that on as well, I would suggest for most people, go ahead and do that now
right out of the box. There are two voices that you can choose from, you can
pick from the samples, but in the end you will actually get a choice from eight
different voices, when you're using the English language here. So I'm going to go
ahead, tap next, and now I've got to enter in my address. This is for the maps and
navigation portion of the Google Home Mini. Now we're on to something that I
think a lot of people are going to care about. There is Google Play Music, YouTube
Music, Spotify and Deezer. These are all base services that you can use on the
Google Home Mini, if you have any of these accounts, you can go ahead and sign
in now. You can see that Google Play Music has already been added,
that's associated with your Google account that you started with at the
start of this process in the Google Home application. So if you have a Google Play
Music subscription, or now a YouTube Music subscription, which can also be
YouTube red in the US, if you have that, use that account to set up your Google
Home Mini. Now I'm not going to go ahead and add any other services here, but you
would just simply click the plus there and go ahead and put in your credentials
to that other music service. Now if you also have Chromecast devices in your
home, they're going to show up here, if they're already set up you can simply
tap a checkmark to set it up as a cast device associated with this Google Home
Mini. If you don't have those in your home you can add them later, don't worry
about it, but we're just gonna go ahead and tap next again. Google wants to know
if you want to go ahead and sign up for any of their surveys. I'm going to go
ahead and tap no thanks, and now we're almost done here. So we're kind of in a
review portion. If I want to add a caller ID, so when you make phone calls with
your Google Home Mini, what you can do, if you want to use your own number I'll
show you how to set that up. I'm going to add a phone number here, and you do have
to choose your country, so I'm in Canada, I'm going to go ahead tap on that, and
then type in my phone number here. So I've gone ahead and done that, and I've
tapped verify now. What Google always does is basically that second step of
verification. Did I get a code, yes I did.
Now I've gone ahead, typed that in, and right away
Google has verified my number, so that will be my caller ID now as I make phone
calls on my Google Home Mini. So now I just go ahead and tap back, and again if
I'd like, I can link more music services, I can change all these other components
to the setup if I'd like, or I can just simply hit next, and we're into
installing an update now. So this will bring me up to the latest version, and
this is the only time with a Google Home, a Google Home Mini, or a Google Home
Max that you will have to sit and witness an installation of an update.
Otherwise what happens is your Google Home mini will install updates in the
background, you won't even know they've occurred in a lot of cases, and you can
check on the device settings when those are installed if you'd like, or you can
look at what's called the cast firmware version. Okay, so now the update has been
installed and they're going to go ahead and take me to
learn a few things you can do. Continue in the Google Home app. All
right, so we're all done the setup process, they're going to take me through
a little bit of what you can do with your Google Home Mini, that's not the
point of this but what I can tell you right now is this Google Home Mini is
ready to answer questions for you, it's ready to make phone calls, you can go
ahead and get that started, you can obviously start music and if you had a
Chromecast in your home already you can cast to that device or ask it to play
content on that device. So you already have a great deal of capability. On the
channel are all kinds of usage videos in terms of setting up home control,
obviously making those phone calls, how to do that specifically, connecting to
bluetooth with a phone or a tablet, or another device, using a lot of other
devices and functionality that the Google Home
is capable of. So I'm going to leave it there, but thanks for watching everyone,
we'll see you next time.