How to schedule your smart home lights with the Google Assistant
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Earlier this year at CES 2020, Google announced that its assistant would be able to schedule any connected device to turn on or off , such as coffee makers, plugs or smart lights. Apparently, this feature is already being rolled out and will be coming sooner rather than later to all users.
If you have a speaker or smart display integrated with the Google Assistant, you can ask it to turn your lights on at a certain time or turn them off at the end of a countdown.Fortunately, this new feature is also available to everyone who uses the assistant from their mobile phone
Some specialized media report that, despite the announcement of the imminent arrival of this function by the North American company, the assistant still shows an error in some caseswhen temporary adverbs such as «tomorrow» or phrases such as «next week» are used. Obviously, this bug is expected to be fixed soon and device power-on/off scheduling is definitely implemented.
How to program my home devices with Google Home
If you're a regular Google Assistant user, you can easily use this new feature on your favorite device.All you have to do is go to the speaker, screen or mobile phone using the command OK Google You can then use any of these phrases:
- Turn on the dining room at 7 in the morning.
- Turn on the coffee maker at 6 in the morning.
- Turn off the nightstand at 9pm.
- Turn off the heating plug at 10 pm.
Of course, all these phrases are just examples that are intended to give you ideas to take advantage of the new function of Google Assistant. Of course, the name of the rooms and the devices will depend on each case, as will the hours. If you are having trouble using event scheduling in the wizard, there may be a number of causes.
- The app on your device is out of date. Make sure you have the latest version of the Google Assistant for Android and iOS.
- Smart speakers or displays have not been updated yet. It's a matter of time before your smart devices are updated.
- The new feature is not yet available in some regions. Again, in this case, there is no choice but to wait.
