Google Home can use what cameras see as automation starters
9to5Google • • technology
Key Points:
- The latest Google Home update integrates Gemini’s advanced camera scene understanding to enable smart home automations triggered by visual events detected by Nest and select Gemini Built-in cameras.
- Users can create automations using natural language prompts based on specific visual insights, such as identifying a red BMW in the driveway, a familiar person exiting a car, or an Amazon delivery.
- Google Home app version 4.17 introduces a more responsive Android widget for instant control of smart plugs, lights, and switches, along with improvements to Wear OS watch favorites management and the Familiar Faces interface.
- Users can now share feedback and video clips with Google to help improve the product and AI models, enhancing overall user experience and troubleshooting.
- The Gemini for Home voice assistant update allows combining multiple actions into a single command, streamlining tasks like setting timers, starting devices, and playing music simultaneously.