Google Home Thread

[poofyhairguy]

Anyone else have a Google Home? Have any thoughts or found any neat easter egg questions?

In my experience the voice detection is amazing and smart. Like for example I have a Spotify playlist called "80/90's Cheese" but if I just say "ok google, play my 80/90s playlist" it picks that one. Every other assistant like this isn't so forgiving.

I find the app easy to use and the tie to my Chromecasts and my Smarthings hub is very useful. Casting Netflix or Youtube via my voice is a great demo to show people. My only problem is my E Series Vizio TV with Chromecast built in doesn't support the Google Home for some reason, but I got into the beta program and hopefully there will be a fix.

 

[Red Storm]

I want one, just haven't gotten it yet. I am waiting for support for multiple accounts.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I want one, just haven't gotten it yet. I am waiting for support for multiple accounts.

Yeah one account is a pain. Early on I didn't think it was a problem because my wife uses Google Calendar and I don't really so I just tied it to her account. That screwed me up recently when they added photo capability because all our photos are in my account not hers. I will probably move a token amount to her account just so I can demo that feature to house guests.

I made a video showing off Google Home's contextual awareness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQNuzCOIc4U