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Control and manage your favourite compatible devices, all in one place. Access the Google Home app when you want, where you want – from any device, with ease.1
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Control and manage your favourite compatible devices, all in one place. Access the Google Home app when you want, where you want – from any device, with ease.1
Say goodbye to smart device app overload, and hello to your whole home in a single, personalised view.
Google Home brings together all of your compatible smart devices from Google – and thousands of your favourite Works with Google Home partner brands. With seamless compatibility, easy setup and control from a single app, the possibilities are endless.
Create helpful routines to automate everyday household tasks, from opening blinds and turning off porch lights to making coffee and locking your doors.2,3
When the last person leaves home, turn on cameras, set thermostats to Eco temps, lock doors and turn off certain lights.2,3
Set up a lawn watering routine that turns on the sprinklers, sets a timer and makes an announcement.2,3
Reduce water usage by turning off taps or adjusting sprinkler schedules based on weather forecasts or soil moisture levels.2,3
When the TV turns on, set speaker volume to 50% and cast audio to living room speakers.2,3
Slowly turn on your lights and play calming music over a period of 30 minutes to help you wake up gently to a peaceful sunrise.2,3
Every night, at a time that you choose, set your lights to a warm white colour, then slowly dim them over the next 30 minutes.2,3
Turn on entryway lights when someone's home. Presence sensing can understand when the first person arrives.2,3
Keeps your home clean and tidy by using smart vacuums and mops, and scheduling them to clean when you're away.2,3
When someone presses the doorbell, lights inside the home will pulse and then have a colour loop effect.2,3
When a package is delivered to the doorstep, the smart doorbell will detect the motion and send a notification.2,3,5
Learn about premium features available through subscriptions that help you get the most help possible from your smart home.
Know what's happening at home with more intelligent alerts across all your Nest devices, including cameras, doorbells, speakers and displays.3
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Google uses your compatible devices and data to make your home more helpful – and in the ways that you prefer. So you can rest easy knowing that you're in control of your personal information, and that you're backed by world-class security.
Matter is the new, universal standard for smart home devices; making your smart home more compatible, easy to set up and reliable. To add Matter-enabled devices to Google Home and the ability to control them remotely when you're away, you need a hub device.6
Seamlessly control all of your favourite Google devices, Works with Google Home partner devices and Matter devices over your home Wi-Fi network.
These hub devices use your existing home Wi-Fi to keep your Matter devices connected seamlessly.6
Seamlessly control all of your favourite Google devices, Works with Google Home partner devices and Matter devices over your home Wi-Fi and Thread networks.
These hub devices have a Thread border router built in to help your Matter devices with Thread work together faster than Wi-Fi, with less interference and from further away.6
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Google Home unites all of your compatible smart devices to work together in harmony, in a single app. This means that you no longer need to constantly switch between apps to get things done or tweak minor settings.
Help is always within reach across all of your compatible smart devices from your phone, Wear OS watch, tablet, laptop or desktop, smart display and Google TV, and even just using your voice by saying 'Hey Google' to get help from Google Assistant.
Set up helpful routines to get automatic help from your home.2
Google Home supports the latest smart home device categories and technologies to ensure that your smart home is always ready to help.
Intelligent alerts from Google Nest Aware subscriptions make your smart home even more helpful through premium features that ensure that you are getting the most out of your smart home.
It's easy to get started, and as your needs grow, so does the help from Google Home.
Google Home works with all of your favourite devices made by Google, as well as over 80,000 compatible Works with Google Home devices from your other favourite brands.
Additionally, the new standard for smart home devices, Matter, was designed around the vision of making all Matter-enabled devices compatible with one another.6
Because Google Home supports Matter, as more smart home device makers adopt this technology, your smart home will automatically be compatible with them as they become available.
Yes. The Google Home app is compatible with and available for download on both Android and iOS devices alike.
Yes. No matter which family member sets up Google Home, all members of the family will be able to control your smart devices via the app and personalised routines, or even simply by using their voice.
Additionally, if you would like to limit access for certain household members or guests, the Limited access feature in the Google Home app lets you customise how much access to allow for different members of your household or guests, and what level of information Google Home should share.
Smart home automations and smart home routines both involve automating tasks and actions within your smart home system.2 So, they are basically the same. But there are some key differences.
Routines are typically initiated by a voice command (e.g. 'Hey Google, good morning') or a manual action (e.g. tapping in the app).
Automations are triggered by events or certain household conditions like specific events occurring within your home. This could be a sensor detecting motion, a door opening or simply the time of day.
Automations are more flexible and customisable because they offer more granular control and customisation options, allowing you to set scenarios for automating that are as simple or as complex as you like (e.g. 'if motion is detected after sunset, turn on the porch light').
Routines in the Google Home app are automations for your home devices that can help you and your household automate tasks throughout the day.
Smart home industry leaders (from platforms like Google Home, Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa and Samsung SmartThings to smart device makers like Philips Hue, August Home, Nanoleaf, TP-Link and hundreds more) have all partnered together to create a new, single technology for smart home devices. This ensures that they can all easily speak to one another and can be controlled from any Matter-certified smart home platform.
To add Matter to Google Home, or any other smart home platform, simply add a device that acts as a Matter hub with the smart home platform that you are using.6 After adding a device that works as a hub for Matter, you will be able to easily set up Matter devices and control them remotely when away from home.7
Matter was created by smart home industry leaders working together with the vision of solving smart home device compatibility issues across ecosystems.6 Before this, smart home devices were built and designed to work with specific smart home platforms. Additionally, they were only controllable over certain smart home connectivity technologies like Wi-Fi, Zigbee or Z-Wave.
As a result, many smart home consumers were frustrated by the lack of compatibility from one device to another. This made it difficult to choose which devices would work in their home or with their smart home platform app of choice.
Matter, the new, universal standard for smart home devices, was created to make smart devices more compatible, easier to set up and more reliable. And for connecting devices together, Matter devices use either your home Wi-Fi network or Thread, the latest connectivity technology for faster smart devices that reach further than ever before in your home.
A hub device for Matter is required for every smart home platform that you want to control your Matter smart devices with. This enables you to set up your Matter devices and to control them remotely when you are away from home.7 Once you have a Matter hub added to your Google Home, all of your favourite Google, Works with Google Home and Matter devices will work together seamlessly and smoothly.
Thread is the latest wireless technology like Wi-Fi, but designed specifically for smart home devices.
Smart devices that use Thread to connect with one another work faster and reach further than smart devices that only use Wi-Fi to connect.
Thread also uses less power than Wi-Fi, so certain smart devices that use batteries (e.g. sensors and door locks) can last much longer between battery changes.
Thread devices create a mesh network to make your smart device connections stronger.
Thread devices require a Thread border router to connect them together. This border router also acts as a bridge between your Thread network of smart devices and your existing home Wi-Fi network. This allows Thread-enabled devices to communicate with other non-Thread smart devices and also access the Internet. Additionally, this expands the reach of your smart home and enables communication between devices that might be too far away from each other to work over Wi-Fi alone.
Some features, including mobile and browser notifications, remote control, video streaming and video recording, require working Internet and Wi-Fi.
Home automations require additional enrolment and setup, and depend on working Internet, Wi-Fi and service availability from Google and third parties that manufacture devices included in the automations.
Requires a compatible smart device.
Google TV Streamer (4K) requires a TV with an HDMI port, an HDMI 2.1 cable, a Wi-Fi network, a Google Account, a nearby electrical socket and a compatible mobile device. Minimum OS requirements are available at g.co/cast/req
Package detection is not available on Nest Cam and requires a Nest Aware subscription on Nest Doorbell (wired, 1st gen). Animal and vehicle detection features are not available on Nest Doorbell (wired, 1st gen). Certain features are not available or may require a Nest Aware subscription on older Nest cameras and doorbells. Learn more at g.co/nest/meetaware.
Many Google devices have been updated to support Matter. Check g.co/nest/matternow for more information on Matter-enabled devices and functionality.
Requires working Internet and Wi-Fi.