NEW Google Home Routine Features That Will Make Your Day EASY

NEW Google Home Routine Features That Will Make Your Day EASY

It's not everyday we get new Google Home features and updates, and in the past couple of weeks they've given us 6 new routine features! All of these work with your Google Home app and Google Nest speakers and smart displays. They range from new starters in Google Home routines, to a whole new type of Google Home routine that will give you many ideas.

These are the latest updates for your Google Home system, and I will show you how to setup these Google Home routines for maximum effect in your smart home.

I think the new Daylong Routines for Google Home are very useful, and I'm enjoying setting up and running my day with them. I am even using a few new actions that work with Google Assistant routines, like the new news item feature that sends you up to 5 topics' worth of news.

Google home routines have always needed a wait command, but Google calls this Delays. You'll find delays at the bottom of the new routine page once you're picking an action. I think this works really well with Google Assistant's sunrise and sunset routines because now I can delay for 30 minutes (or more...or less) after Sunset to turn on my lighting. I just find that works out better.

I can also delay a routine as I leave my home now and have my door lock 5 minutes after I've left. All of these are good #GoogleHome tips and tricks now that #routines has been seriously updated!

All of this in today's #news, features, and new updates for your Google Home, home.

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Brian

[mjbmm]

Think it would be a complete game changer if the routines would integrate with Google Calendar. Not having the typical M-F schedule, it would be amazing to have routines based on calendar events.

[The_Independant_Pit]

The thing is, routines should be able to refer to the calendar for setting up routine. Having to remember to enable/disable routine is as bad as having to remember to do things in the first place in many cases... Still that's progress, and I salute it.

[jaycorbin]

A baby step forward, but Google still has an ocean to cross before they catch up with Alexa.

[niravniel]

Hi, thanks for the video, the big question is when Google will allow virtual switch to start a routine, for example, virtual switch on Smartthings to start a routine

[garethjones]

Good to see Google stepping the Routine functionality up a notch

[hometechUK]

Nice to see Google finally added usefully options BUT still cannot even do the basics like, running a routine from another routine & on radio & alarms incremental volume increases to a set level like the Google clock had been able to do for well over 4 years.

[andrewcbartlett]

Looks like Google routines are eventually catching up. Thanks for the video Brian.

[MrEdwardCarpenter]

Thank you for that thorough breakdown Brian 👍

[robertcreighton]

a very helpful tutorial, I was hoping to find a way to run a routine on a period of every second month, or every 60 days, but the only option appears to be a minimum of once per week.

[anandr]

This is very useful. What I need to do is have a routine play on a speaker AND on the phone of another household member. Is there a way to do this. Thank You.

[jaynunes]

Thanks Brian,
So nice to see google adding in more routine functionality. Looks like your prediction is coming true for this all important feature.

[siriustechxu]

Great video! Thanks Brian. I see detail actions in the routines, but I didn't see details in the routines about the trigger events. Does Google now support third-party door sensor, motion sensors, .. as trigger events in the routines?

[SCORPIORUL]

I remember months ago you could start a routine from a google home app and chose in which device run. I used to trigger some routines from my phone but now I can't find a way to do it. Basically I want to be able to initialize a routine from my phone and run in a specific device. Any ideas?
If I said "run name_routine on name_device" the routine run on my phone 😔

[pedrolopes]

Hey, great vídeos. Can you show us how to make a action (turn light on) in a period of time (between 7pm to 6am ?
How do you do periods of time?
Also how to just turn one light off IF plug is activated or turns on!

[Superhermit]

I'm gonna have to change all my routines to be timed and structured. Great update, thanks for walking through it.

[davidferguson]

I have a bedtime routine to turn off my bedroom tv at 3am and for my good morning routine I have it play youtube on my chromecast and play music on my nest mini 10am weekends

[NicholsHomeTeam]

This is awesome! One question my work schedule is rotating every other wend Thursday ext. Is there a way to set the daylong routines like that?

[mogenslunde]

Great video Brian! One thing I haven't been able to sort out yet is how to make a routine where lights are set to a certain brightness. It seems as the action only allow "On", "Off", "No change". Am I missing something here? Thanks.

[SultriAccess]

how would i configure to to my tv and not my smart clock? i tried to do it at the bottom where it says configure but i can't "figure" it out.

[gobananas]

Can I set a "Routine" that turns off our Nest Thermostat every day at 3:55-pm? We have electric time of use requirements in our area, and we need to remember to do this daily. A Routine would make it so much better. Thanks