The great thing about smart home technology isn't just that you can turn the lights off without getting out of bed, but that you don't have to turn them off at all. With Google Home, you can harness ...

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One of the widgets offered by the Google app has been a shortcut for accessing your Home Routines. In the latest Google app beta, the Routines widget is no longer available. This loss arrives right in ...

From smarter lighting routines to real-time camera insights ... right away through the app to see just how much smarter your setup has become: The takeaway If you’ve invested in Google Home/Nest ...

Google appears to be prepping a number of changes for the Home app on Android, including AI-powered insights. How you create new routines and automations could be getting a UI makeover, including the ...

Smart home controls mean you never have to manually flip a light switch again or get up to adjust the thermometer. In your home, where you know the routines and voice comments and, most importantly, ...

For the past several weeks, the Google Home app’s Routines creator and editor had an edge-to-edge bug on Android 16, and a fix is now here. As of Google Home 3.37, various buttons at the top and ...

Pixel owners on Android 16 are having edge-to-edge issues with the Routines creator and editor in the Google Home app. When creating or editing Routines in the Automations tab, some interface elements ...

Google is taking a big step toward making your smart home feel, well, smart, by baking in Gemini AI into the Home APIs that developers use to build their own apps and devices. Announced during Google ...