Controlling smart devices in our home is easier with Google Home. Following the update that added a new top bar to the application to find our devices, Google big update in your home ecosystem.

Doubts about the replacement of Google Assistant with Gemini are starting to disappear: we already know how Google’s AI will behave with home devices. we tell you everything is new What this fall update brings.

Google Home gets new superpowers thanks to Gemini

With Gemini integrated into Android, you have less and less to do, thanks to the application that also allows you to replace Google Assistant with an artificial intelligence version. Complete the Google puzzle. We knew Google Home would make its way to Gemini via a leaked extension, and now it’s here.

Google announced the update, which first reached users registered in the Nest ecosystem, on the Nest ecosystem blog. preview program. It will then be expanded to others and all these new capabilities will be brought to our digital home.

First of all comes the above mentioned. Google Home extension for GeminiIt allows you to control home automation devices like lights or thermostats using natural language directly from the Gemini app. So Gemini is finally getting some features that have been in Assistant for years.

Not only that: if you have cameras in your home, Gemini will be able to see through them to provide certain information: locating a lost object or knowing what’s going on in our home will be a matter of asking the AI. Of course, it’s currently only available to users in the United States.

On the other hand, Google also announced that the new “Help me create” function will soon come to the Google Home application. This allows create automations for our homebut instead of doing this manually until now, artificial intelligence will do it for us. Gemini will create automation that will lock the doors every night and turn on the lights in the living room, for example, by saying, “Don’t forget to lock the door at night and make it look like someone is home.”

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“Help me create” It will be available to Nest Aware Plus subscribers at the end of the year, so it is excluded from a possible global rollout. We’ll have to keep waiting to see if Google is willing to give us this news.

There is more newssmall but no less important: see who’s knocking right on the Pixel Watch, a new clock for the Pixel Tablet, a home panel screensaver, home automation control from Google TV, movie and series recaps, and some Improved media controls from Google Home .

Want to try these new features before others? Join the preview program: You can do this from the web version of Google Home. Tap the “Public Preview” icon in the upper right corner. You can go out whenever you want.

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