When a person goes on vacation, it’s normal to be nervous about having to leave the house empty for so many days, fearing that thieves will take advantage of the family’s absence. but if you count this risk can be solved google home and google assistant.

Thanks to Google Home, you can pretend there is someone at home by automating your processes that enable you to turn on and off devices connected at home, such as light bulbs, compatible lights, speakers, or televisions.

This is how you can simulate a person’s presence with Google Home

To create a presence simulator in Google Home, you need to go to: routinespress the icon to add a new action and when the device asks if you want to program a full day routine, press . Yes. This option allows you to add all routines for any time of the day.

next step give the process a name for example “At work” and select the days you want to activate all the processes to be scheduled.

The next thing would be to tell Google Home which actions You want to perform at certain times of the day.

in the section + Add new time you have to choose a time and after clicking on it ‘Follow’, you can now specify the action you want to perform at that moment.

Recommended option ‘Try adding your own commands’ Because of the flexibility it offers, this is where you can type the Google Assistant commands you want Google Assistant to do at the time.

Here you have to go selected when? You want a certain action to take place in the house, like music or the radio playing in the morning, or the lights going on at night. We must also select the speaker or speakers with whom we want to perform these actions.

writable any Google Assistant command To automatically control our device:

– “Lower/raise the roller shutters of the runways. [nombre habitación]”

– “Turn on/off light [nombre habitación]”

– “Volume up/down [nombre altavoz]”.

– “To listen [nombre emisora de radio]”

– “Stop [nombre del altavoz]”.

– “Turn on/off TV”

– “Listen to music”

If you want to listen to music or radio when you are not at home, you need to create an action that stops playing and this command “have [nombre del orador]”. So you can say that the music plays at 8:00 in the morning and the music stops at 11:30.

Also, you need to create a speaker volume adjustment action. It is always better to check if the routines are working correctly before leaving the house.

You can also enhance the asset simulator by: youtube music anyone Spotify If you have a subscription, it lets you choose sounds or simulate music, as paying users can choose songs. noise from vacuum cleaner or washing machine If you want to trick your neighbors into believing you’re sweeping the floor or doing the laundry.

here you have to Create a loud playlist and stop playing it so it doesn’t automatically switch to a song when it’s finished, and also adjust the speaker volume so that the washing machine actually sounds like it is being vacuumed or washed.

For example, we can create an app list that says: “Vacuum cleaner” With a “Broom” playlist on YouTube Music.