How to set up and use Google Home to connect devices at home

Smart speakers are the latest trend to connect the different devices in our home. One of the most important devices that has arrived in our country within this sector is the Google Home.

If you have gotten hold of one, but you are a little lost, we have prepared for you a small tutorial so that you know the basics and necessary in terms of configuration, and thus be able to start it up as soon as possible.

First steps

The first thing is to connect it to the network with the cable. We will then see how the Google Home begins to animate, with the colors red, blue and green, until the voice itself will welcome us. At that time, we will be asked to use the Google Home app to synchronize with other devices that we have at home. We can find it both in the Play Store or App Store.

When we enter, we must identify ourselves with a Gmail account and activate bluetooth in our terminal. At that point, the app will begin the process of searching for a device. When we find it, we must select Continue to link it.

The pairing process will initially be done via bluetooth, but once the device is recognized, we will be asked to select a Wi-Fi network , which will be the new way of communication between Google Home and our different devices at home.

Google Assistant

It's time to configure Google Assistant for our Google Home. First we will have to establish our location, and then we will select the sound system we want to link: Spotify, Google Music, Pandora, YouTube Music or any other we have contracted (except Apple Music, of course).

We will then start doing voice tests with Google Assistant, learning to ask the assistant to talk to us about the day, the weather, as well as command him to play music. The Google Home app will also encourage us to interrupt the speaker, either to ask it to stop talking or to turn up or down the volume of what is playing.

Use Chromecast

In addition to interacting with the Google Home speaker and asking it to play music, another of the main uses it will have is to play movies. To do this we will have tohave a Chromecast connected to our television In the Google Home app we will have the option to search for new devices, in case they had not initially appeared , and link them, the same way we originally did with Google Home itself. In any case, the app itself will send us a notice every time a new Google device is installed at home.

Other devices

In addition to Google products, there are other associated devices that we can connect via bluetooth and WiFi using the Google Home app. The Philips Hue lighting programming systems are one of them, as well as Nest brand thermostats (owned by Google) or the Samsung SmarThings system, to control household appliances of the Korean brand.

Apart from Google speakers, we can also connect some compatible ones, such as the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay A6. Finally, if we want to, pwe can even link our door lock with Google Home August Smart Lock would be your option in this case, a smart lock that we can open or close remotely.

Once we have these devices connected, we can use the smart speaker to request that one or the other actions be carried out, without having to depend on from the app itself. We can prepare to have an interconnected home where traffic information, our favorite music and movies and much more is just a voice away.