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My favorite hidden Google Assistant trick
Routines for Google Assistant let you control multiple smart home gadgets at once, get info about your calendar or the weather, play music or podcasts, and more. These versatile grouped commands are fully customizable and can be programmed to give custom responses as well. We dive into the routines feature and take a look at…
terry kemp
June 2, 2020 at 12:34 pm
Alexa is miles ahead and always will be.
Zion Kinniebrew
June 2, 2020 at 12:43 pm
How so
terry kemp
June 2, 2020 at 12:48 pm
@Zion Kinniebrew . Alexa’s AI is more advanced and it can do much more things.
DragoBludvist
June 2, 2020 at 12:49 pm
@terry kemp I strongly disagree with you on this one. There’s no virtual assistant out there better in any way than Google Assistant
Jeffrey Wigington
June 2, 2020 at 4:05 pm
ahead of…Siri, yes.
Simon P
June 2, 2020 at 12:42 pm
I haven’t really use the custom commands because I found it hard to get used to with google.
It was a similar thing with she who should not be named.
David Hartin
June 2, 2020 at 12:58 pm
I wish the nest mini sounded like an echo.
I like Google assistant way more than Alexa.
مستقبل التكلولوجية
June 2, 2020 at 1:01 pm
😘😘
CJ Hicks
June 2, 2020 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for muting you saying hey Google. My whole house didn’t go off
Mack McCord
June 2, 2020 at 5:09 pm
lol at whole house. Same here
MEGA
June 2, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Mass surveillance device
donna starkey
June 2, 2020 at 1:42 pm
yet you still cannot get it to respond to only your voice
YouAndImpact
June 2, 2020 at 1:49 pm
Great video.👍
noslover11
June 2, 2020 at 1:51 pm
how is this useful, its just meh
Nigel Uno
June 2, 2020 at 2:03 pm
A baby version of iOS shortcuts. I’ve extensively used both platforms and can tell you aside from Apple forcing their ecosystem down your throat (can’t tell Siri to use Google Maps), the shortcuts version is better.
Raymond Kirby
June 2, 2020 at 2:43 pm
Doesn’t work consistently. No way to debug complex scripts
Isaac Abraham
June 2, 2020 at 3:10 pm
Immediately like for blocking out the hotword
John Fox
June 2, 2020 at 3:47 pm
I wouldn’t call routines ‘hidden’ as much as ‘poorly designed to be found easily’.
We don’t use too many routines, but my wife loves the one that I set up for when we go to bed. It turns on the stairway and 2nd-floor hall light, turns off all other lights, turns off all the TVs, and locks the front door. The routine leaves the master bedroom lights unchanged in case one of us is already in there.
Other than that, I personally haven’t’ found too much use for them. Google already controls almost all of the lights, thermostats, and several outlets and it didn’t seem like there was too much of a need to combine many of them. Google has built-in programming that if I say ‘turn off master bedroom lights’, it knows which lights to shut off without having to create a routine because it knows what room (master bedroom) and what type of device (lights). No need to group. If I hear strange noise, I can tell Google to turn on all lights and the entire house gets lit up like an airport, including the outside lights.
Mihai Popa
June 2, 2020 at 4:53 pm
Great for newbies, thanks!
Niles Hallie
June 2, 2020 at 5:16 pm
Thank you so much for the phone number you entered made me smile and now the song is stuck in my head.
Nicholas Lovan
June 2, 2020 at 5:51 pm
B a n j o j a m s
John Michael Stock
June 2, 2020 at 6:12 pm
What you on about, routines are not ‘hidden’
yaynative
June 2, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Much appreciated. Looks like Routines is more robust then when I first checked them out.
Predatory Mistress- TAP ON MY PHOTO
June 2, 2020 at 6:32 pm
🤡 👱♀️ 😻
Ryan Snook
June 2, 2020 at 8:25 pm
What’s the hidden feature?
medic8613
June 2, 2020 at 10:06 pm
How is this hidden? Theres a giant routines button in the Home app begging to be used.
Aaron Crawford
June 2, 2020 at 10:16 pm
Nice to see that cool smart watch rather than an Apple Watch on a tech reviewer
Kevin A
June 2, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Your beard is a bit puby..sorry
angergoggles
June 2, 2020 at 11:30 pm
This video isn’t about a hidden trick at all. You don’t fool me any more!
Dapoptart
June 3, 2020 at 7:14 am
It doesn’t work
Joseph Liu
June 3, 2020 at 10:42 am
…Just find some friends dude…
Alisa Parker Albert
June 3, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Mess mini
ANAND JOSEPH
June 3, 2020 at 5:35 pm
What phone is that? Looks like an iPhone with home button but the forehead looks smaller compared to the chin which is not how iphones are?
cjxgraphics
June 3, 2020 at 6:05 pm
Hey Google, is it time for the kids to go to bed?
“Yes, it’s bedtime. Do what your dad says.”
But my favorite, uses IFTT. All my kid has to do is “Hey Google, tell dad blah blah blah.”
And I’ll get a notification on my phone, “blah blah blah” or whatever my kid wanted to tell me. 🙂
Goldfire // Project.R
June 4, 2020 at 5:43 am
Yea… This isn’t a hidden feature… at all.
Sam Prince
June 4, 2020 at 5:33 pm
My favourite clickbaity headline…
chenwd9106
June 4, 2020 at 10:40 pm
audio needs some improvement
ChyroBeast
June 5, 2020 at 2:46 pm
I can use it as my wingman. *with a girl* “hey google, put on sexytime music” “oh you brought home ABOTHER girl this week”
Lord Adams
June 5, 2020 at 2:56 pm
Have to save up for smart appliances I’m too lazy to control them physically
finisek 123
June 5, 2020 at 3:15 pm
This isnt hidden, its just called a feature