phrases in this video may trigger google assistant if you have one please
consider muting it or listening with headphones the newest trick for google
assistant is something called routines it allows you to string together a
number of actions by saying just one key phrase and I'm going to test it out
so routines is something that's been promised for a few months by Google it
is a feature that's already on Amazon Alexa so Google assistant playing a
little bit of catch-up in this case there are going to be six initial
routines one for when you wake up one for when you go to sleep one for when
you leave your house and one for when you come back one for when you commute
to work on one fall when you start your commute home initially this week the
good morning one is the one that's become available first I'm going to try
that I have a Google home mini here and then also a lamp plugged into a Wii most
smart switch and then various other smart home devices around the place
there's my Google home I'm gonna click the click the menu item here and go into
more settings and scroll up here and in the services one of them mentioned is
routine so I'm going to click that and at the top there you see the good
morning routine at the moment no actions are defined so it's to find some action
let's click into it so when I say good morning or tell me about my date my
assistant should and there's a bunch of different things it can do these will
appear depending on what devices you have in your house and what Google
assistant is capable of doing so one of the things I do want it to do is switch
on the light so let's say adjust lights also let's have it
let's have it play the so I play the radio too now exactly what radio station
exactly what light you want to come on you can program in here too so if I
click the Settings button at the end of that it already knows that I have a
light plugged into this smart switch so I'm going to tell it to turn on what
what is called the dining-room light at the moment and then for the radio click
that again and I can tell it to play radio station I've already put one
so hopefully this should work I got to save it
hopefully this should work and now we're seeing we have two actions so let's give
it a try hey Google good morning good morning Martin yes and the radio which
is because I was following and all hope you weren't reading and there's the
radio hey Google's going stop so that's it
lamp comes on radio comes on I can accomplish these several things just by
saying good morning rather than having to go through and say switch the lights
on switch the radio on turn the thermostat up all of that kind of stuff
when some of the other routines the bedtime routine is going to be the
opposite you can do things like switch off the switch off the lights and turn
down the radio and the thermostat you little also be able to tell you about
tomorrow's weather and your calendar and set an alarm for you another example
when you start your commute home and you tell it you're doing that that one can
adjust lights and plugs and thermostats in your house so you can have the the
lights on and the house warmed up when you come home it will also send texts so
I guess you could program it to send a text to someone saying hey I'm just
leaving the office on my way home and it could also do things like read unread
text so if there's a message you've got you in the day that you missed it could
tell you when you're on your way home and you start to figure out what you're
going to do that evening so that is Google assistant routines it's already
in the Google home app you might need to update yours
there's the good morning one there at the moment and there are five more
coming and then hopefully a bunch more as well so that's Google assistant
routines