Google Home's new automation editor adds a lot of powerful triggers and conditions, but it's still far behind what I require from my smart home.

Google has rolled out a major update to its Home app, officially replacing Google Assistant with Gemini AI. This new system ...

Smart home devices are so common that it's challenging to find things that aren't connected or smart. With numerous products and brands, managing our smart homes and integrating devices from different ...

Google added Gemini integration to Google Home in 2024. While basic at first, the company has steadily improved the integration, making Gemini a better smart home assistant than Google Assistant.

For the past several weeks, the Google Home app’s Routines creator and editor had an edge-to-edge bug on Android 16, and a fix is now here. As of Google Home 3.37, various buttons at the top and ...

Gemini replaces Assistant in your smart home, as Google redesigns the Home app and launches a new generation of Nest devices.

Pixel owners on Android 16 are having edge-to-edge issues with the Routines creator and editor in the Google Home app. When creating or editing Routines in the Automations tab, some interface elements ...

Google’s revamped editor for smart home automations just got a few more tools in its toolbox, including more ways to determine when routines should be triggered as well as one-time-only automations.

Chris Wedel is a seasoned technology journalist with a rich background writing for top publications like CNET, Android Police, and Digital Trends. His work spans the consumer electronics landscape, ...