this might be our largest Google Home new updates video ever and if you own a
Google Home a Google Nest or really any of the Nest cameras or devices then you
want to stick around for this one
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from Automate Your Life
and today I'm going to save you time in your smart home in your smart life
specifically with the Google Nest suite of devices and your Google Assistant as
there are just a ton of updates here unlike anything we've ever seen really
and the first thing we have to start with is actually something that you
wouldn't think I would start off with and that thing is actually a skill and
the reason I'm bringing it to you is because it's something that is requested
the most it is essentially a wait condition or a wait function that you
can use so this skill is called mr. homn and it's spelled out mr. and you need to
invoke it by saying speak to Mister Home and then you can also add in a key word
silently at the end to have it actually not make any noise
so you can speak to Mister Home for 30 seconds 30, minutes, or whatever time code
period you would like and when you do that you're actually getting a pause in
the middle of routine so go ahead and stick this in to the middle of routines
and you will have your time delay that you've been waiting for for a very long
time
start interval
a couple of new devices to tell you about we've talked about the chromecast
ultra 2 or that's what we're calling it now which is an Android TV dongle
basically and it will have a remote capability so it won't just be your
smartphone that you're just casting from this will be full Android TV or that's
the expectation and we are hearing one two three months with this and the same
really holds true with the Pixel 4, a lot has been leaked about this phone and
there's a lot of excitement growing about it because it appears to be a
really powerful option at a budget level if you kind of have a split between
Google Photos and Facebook photos in terms of the photos and videos you have
on those services well then you don't have all of your pictures available at
all times on your smart display so your ambient mode can't be as good as you
want it unless you spend time transferring now I actually created a
tutorial video with a new tool that Facebook rolled out for transferring all
of your photos and videos directly to Google Photos it works great and that
allows you to include all of those in ambient mode now I have my phone here
because we have had a massive update inside of the Google Home application
this is probably one of the biggest we've ever had and it will continue a
little bit as we go here so look for a Google Home application full walkthrough
as once I feel that things are kind of settled down in the application but the
first thing you're going to notice is this light section here and I like this
new interface you'll find the same thing actually on your smart displays right
away if you don't already have it where it's changed from off and on there used
to be two buttons sitting there and now it's just that lights interface and then
you can control them off and on by group they're really quickly so I like that
new interface I think it's a lot more useful than it was but the biggest
change actually happens when you go into the settings screen now what you're
seeing here are three different sections so there's general features and services
general is pretty self-explanatory your where it's at the household who's in
there and then the rooms and devices which used to actually take up most of
this page the feature section is much more interesting to me see number one
notifications you're gonna see a role in of a lot of different notifications
options coming into this section this was actually talked about fairly
recently on the channel as well and we haven't seen that change but look for it
right now you're probably only seeing the general notifications like I am
Digital well-being allows you to manage your your filters in your downtime
that's as per normal but that's on every one of your devices now the next thing
is nest Wi-Fi if you have that you can actually go in and you can get all your
network information it's a quick link to that now most importantly we have to
talk about the nest aware section because Google has actually modified the
Nest Aware subscription now and this whole service has been adjusted so
number one it used to be per camera used to pay a cost and it got really high and
out of control really quickly that is now essentially gone here in Canada the
cost is $8 for 30 day event history and then the only upsell really within
Google's platform right now is double the cost for 60 day history and 10 day
24/7 recording so if you wanted those 24/7 recordings that's double the cost
but now that's on all of your nest cameras all of your nest devices as well
and that's the other big difference and this is us only right now but if you
kind of scroll over on this page what you're going to find is the ability to
not only have your your cameras know who's there learning the faces of
different people but your speakers will start to identify sounds as well so you
can hear breaking glass detecting other sounds like smoke alarms so those are
very powerful and then emergency calling from within the app now I only see this
in the US right now not in Canada in other countries but you can start a
free trial and then number two if you have the existing subscription what you
show up here is the ability to convert from that old pricing model if you'd
like it's a choice once you've done within the feature section the services
section pretty much looks like everything you would expect here the
only real difference within this is that shopping list is not just shopping list
it's all of your notes and lists the works with Google program also gets a
pretty good kick in the pants here as this is where you can get into managing
all your accounts so there is a pretty big difference in that settings page but
what you're probably noticing is there's no more settings at the bottom of that
so where do you go to find your assistant settings that's actually up
top right when you hit your icon there's two settings screens in here now the
whole map settings which is more related to the app itself not something you're
gonna care about a lot but then you have the assistant settings within here one
app update to give you within your places what you're going to find and I
don't have this yet is when you tap on a place you're able to get the traffic or
the weather there so this is something that is coming to the application you
may have it already this is another major update that came out just recently
and this is something that I would like you guys to do and that is voice match
now the new voice match is much more complex so you used to just basically
say the wake word four times you're now going to be giving phrases and this is
going to help your Google Assistant to understand you better the other thing
that you have access to is the wake word sensitivity function when you go into it
here you're able to adjust the sensitivity for each specific device now
I've actually turned it up on this device because it's kind of sitting in
an echo-y type of location now that does cause a few extra triggers when I don't
want it to happen but it is hearing me better now than it was previously this
isn't necessarily totally new but when you go into calendars I just wanted to
show you guys this you can add all of your different calendar
to be pulled from when you're asking for which events you have so this is the
different calendars that are connected to the account this isn't here yet but
it has shown up on some iOS phones now when you go into the equalizer settings
on your iOS device you might find an assistant volume capability so this is
able to be adjusted separately from your music volume Google Duo continues to
increase in its importance and we're seeing things like Google Meets show up
and Google's overall video conferencing services are getting better all the time
but they have put out four specific updates and I think will actually help
you quite a bit the first one is a video codec which you probably don't care
about at first blush but to be honest it's probably the most impactful because
in low bandwidth locations or connections you're going to still be
able to use that and get a fairly decent looking video signal there we talked
about the ability to have 12 people on Google Duo calls on the channel before
it's not on the smart displays but that 12 person is an increase from the
previous eight now you can also take pictures that can be shared while you're
in a video chat they're on google duo and then there's some AR options and
I've actually received a couple of those messages here on my smart display from
different people and they're full AR you get lots of cute effects with them and
so you can employ all of these right now along with the updated pricing for the
Nest Aware subscription service you'll also find the Nest Indoor cam at $130
us and new pricing for the Nest Hub as well at
$90 us this won't hit you for a little while but Google has actually
opened up the ability for other Wi-Fi routers and mesh systems to be connected
directly into the Google Assistant give you those same commands and capabilities
that they have with their nest Wi-Fi so we will see some vendors integrate that
here coming up one thing on the smart displays if you have Nest Wi-Fi today
you can actually go and find your guest Wi-Fi information extremely quickly and
I don't know how I feel about this from a privacy
perspective but it's right there people can actually scan a QR code and they can
see the full credentials they'll need to get on your guests Wi-Fi I don't have
this yet but if you have music that you've uploaded to Google play music you
could now have access to upload that music to YouTube music you will see a
banner actually show up at the top of the application when you first log in to
the same account that you use with Google Play Music now this is being
rolled out only to a few people at a time
Android TV boxes look poised to be getting an update where they can be
included in home speaker groups or Google Home speaker groups now that
would make sense with the chromecast ultra 2 with that Android TV on it and
it did show up on some Nvidia shield devices but apparently has been removed
I don't have one to test with so go ahead leave that comment down below if
you have one and you have that ability this has been really interesting to do
Stadia has been giving out free trials if you go and you do that you can
actually use the Google Assistant to launch on any of your chromecast
displays or on your phone your smart phone so Google looks poised to actually
launch a Google payment card not unlike what Apple did a little while ago and
not that surprising now why am I talking about that within kind of Google Home
updates because I think this is one of the things that's been holding Google
back or that they haven't prioritized the ability to purchase a lot of things
within the Google Home system so they've had partners for a little while in terms
of companies and shopping experiences here with different actions but really
they haven't had a good payment service and now with that I think we will see
Google move in that direction now that's all we're going to have for Google Home
updates but our previous video actually had a ton of different features as well
that you're probably not using yet because Google has been sneaking in this
stuff so you can Oh watch that watch our last Google Home
news update or you can watch our other smart home news on the channel here both
of those links are on screen otherwise guys thanks for watching and of course
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