today I'm going to show you how to get your nest mini set up and working in
your smart home let's get it going
hello Auto meters thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today we're going to get the new nest mini opened up so I'm taking the
frustration out of automation by showing you this great new device from Google
now there are some key changes this is the sky edition and I'm going to try and
make sure that my white balance is bang on here so that you can see the
differential here in the color from the last version so here you go
here is this is the aqua version of the Google home Mini and here is the nest
mini a couple key features to tell you about here really quickly there is your
power port at the back end as well the same switch that we've had for a while
here to mute the microphone now there is a new feature and that is this new
hanging wall mount so this is what you're going to be able to hang the
device with now as I get the new power cord opened up here I mean the feel the
look and feel of these is excellent at this point this one is at least my
wingspan which is close to six feet here and it is kind of a specialized power
adapter so you will have to make sure that this is what you have
so other than a couple of manuals here that's all you're getting in the box
there is no specific wall mount that you're getting here I kind of thought we
would get one inside the box now physically this is a question I'm going
to get a lot will my new nest mini work with my old mount now you can see it
here inside of an old Google home mini mount and there are certain ones but
what's different about this is the power adapter and so if you have a mount and
I'm actually just gonna grab one here from Kiwi they unfortunately have the
wrong power adapter so you can see that adapter versus this one here that is for
the new nest mini so you can see the differential obviously a mount like this
or a bat repacked like this is no longer going to
work hi to get started download the Google home app on a phone or tablet so
there are still a couple of controls you can raise and lower the volume simply
just tapping on the side there and then really what you need to do is get the
Google home application make sure you have Wi-Fi in your home at two point
four or five gigahertz so right now I'm heading into the Google home application
and we're going to see rate at the top setup one device once this has been
powered on now if you don't have an account you'll have to sign up for a
Google account make sure you use one if you already have one that you're going
to want to use throughout your home with a calendar those kinds of things use
that primary Google account so I'm going to tap the set up one device if you
don't see that there there is an ad button on the screen now we're going to
choose a home that we're putting it in you'll likely just have one here I have
two for reasons of demo purposes no I don't own two homes now the Google home
application is looking for this device and it's going to make a connection now
what it's saying is here's the nest mini it's given it kind of a name so you can
see it says Google home 1980 and we're just gonna tap on that and hit next now
if you're not seeing it there it's likely you don't have bluetooth on on
your phone or Wi-Fi on on your phone and you need to make sure both of those
things are on so now it's making the connection and it is now connected to
these two devices so it's asking me if I heard the sound simple answer is yes and
now they're asking me if I'd like to provide some data to help them kind of
deal with crashes or failures I'm going to say no thanks I have way too many
devices to be doing that now where is this device I'm going to put it in the
basement office if you need to you can actually scroll down to the bottom and
add a custom room or you can include it in any of the ones they've given you so
go ahead and hit next again and now you're going to connect it to Wi-Fi now
like I said two point four or five gigahertz you can go ahead and connect
to five gigahertz is a lot quicker so if you're intending
put this in a spot with good 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi coverage go ahead and utilize that
and that will likely help you with kind of managing your network a little bit
now I have a save password but you would likely have to put yours and so now it's
working through the passing of information actually about your Wi-Fi
network to the nest mini from the application here on the Google home
application if it's failing here you may need to look at where you're situated in
terms of your Wi-Fi signal strength and again make sure you have bluetooth and
Wi-Fi connected these devices also could be too close in some cases so give it
about you know three feet to a couple of meters of distance if you're struggling
there now we have to set up the Google assistant which is really the brains
behind the nest mini now there's some information here that I would recommend
that you read but I'm just gonna hit next and now we're moving on to voice
match now if you don't have voice match already set up this is your first nest
of ice or Google home device then you will have to actually speak the wake
word a number of times and agree to the terms and conditions here so make sure
you read those things again but you can see it already recognizes my voice so I
don't need to do anything here except hit next one of the questions that
you'll get here is do you want to turn on personal results with your voice so
what the nest mini here will do with that is it will actually give you
personalized results from say your calendar or if you have specific
requests and we will see this deepen and deepen as you go so I would recommend
always to turn on personal results it can really personalize the experience
for you so I'm going to hit agree and now you can choose your assistant voice
leader inside of the settings if you've watched any of our other videos here on
automate your life there's a lot more choices actually for voice assistants
I'm just going to head going to go ahead and choose one of these next up is your
address go ahead and enter that in and that will allow you to ask about
navigation to things like work or places of business and how long that's going to
take to get you there how long would it take for me to get to
the nearest Starbucks by car the trip to Starbucks is 22 minutes next up are
music services and I've already linked three of my different music services or
the ones I have access to here in Canada you will have access to different music
sources so if you don't see something like YouTube music like I have then
unfortunately you're not going to be able to utilize that in your country
right now so utilize the services you have and you can see here as I tap on
Deezer I could link my account so I just have
to hit yes link account and then put in credentials now some of these services
have a free option so YouTube music does have a free option so to Spotify
they can be used as free services or you can pay the subscription fees to get
kind of better content or better control of your music through your nest mini
next up you're going to choose a default music service so when you ask for music
you don't actually have to name the service unless you want to so you're
just choosing your default one you can tap on whichever service is your
favorite and then hit next so let's go ahead and start some music play royalty
free music on nest mini all right here's royalty free music on google play music
now you can see how I just pause the music right there this is a simple tap
in the middle of the device to start and stop music again you can also transfer
to other speakers which I'm going to show you just to give you the
differential here between these two speakers this is quite a powerful
speaker transfer the song to basement office - sure I'll play it on basement
office -
now the next thing is voice calls and this is something that may or may not be
available in your region so if you don't see this it's not yet available although
there are things you can do like change your language to English us on the
device to allow this to work later on so if you don't see this that's okay we can
get you there on the channel now go ahead and hit continue and it's going to
ask you to link a Google duo account I already have mine linked but right here
what you would do is utilize the Google duo application or use that account
number that you've already put in there to type into this and then you're able
to actually ask the device to make a voice call so there you go now from here
you can do things like control your whole home but guys
your nest mini is now set up thanks for watching everyone and of course don't
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