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One popular routine is for automating lights. This is a simple one that runs differently throughout the day. For example, the ...

The Google Home smart speaker gives you voice control over lots of smart-home devices. See what our writers and editors recommend for building up your smart home.

If you’re trying to build the best Google smart home, make sure to get devices that are natively compatible with Google Home, so you don’t have to go hacking them together.

Google’s smart speakers used to bear the Google Home name. But these days Google Home is a much wider term that encompasses the entire Google smart home ecosystem and these smart home devices have ...

The OS of the Google TV Streamer works seamlessly with Google itself. You can do a Google search of a movie and then added it ...

For each smart home, it's important to have a control center, one device that will kick off your collection of devices. For a Google-centric smart home, I recommend starting with the second-gen ...

In 2021 we shipped Fuchsia to millions of Google smart displays, now it’s time to expand to additional smart devices and other form factors. Come join us and work on the next-generation Google ...

Fundamentally, gBridge is a Google Assistant to MQTT translator. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is the messaging protocol that many smart home devices use, as it runs over TCP and ...

It's also possible that the smart home devices you want to use aren't compatible with HomeKit. For example, if you've got your eye on a Nest Learning Thermostat, you'll have to use Google or Alexa ...