First, ensure the Google Home and Google Assistant apps have all necessary permissions. Routines require access to your phone ...

Creating an alarm on your smart speaker is common, whether you set it to wake you up in the morning or keep you on task during the day. For some, a standard alarm going off isn’t enough to get them ...

Google has announced a new update for the Google Home app's automation editor on both iOS and Android to make your smart home even smarter. While the automations on Google's Home app worked, they were ...

For the last week, I’ve been testing out Google Home’s powerful new automation editor and trying to see if it could perform the kind of routines I need in my smart home. I was happy to see a few ...

Google’s revamped editor for smart home automations just got a few more tools in its toolbox, including more ways to determine when routines should be triggered as well as one-time-only automations.

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