You can control smart home devices that your Google Account can access, including those added later, by connecting the Google Home app to the Gemini mobile app. This includes the following smart home devices:
- Lights & power, like lights, outlets, and switches
- Climate control, like air conditioning units, thermostats, heaters, and fans
- Window coverings, like curtains, blinds, and shutters
- Media devices, like TVs and speakers
- Other smart devices, like washers, coffee makers, and vacuums
Important: We've started to make this feature available outside of Public Preview. This is a gradual release, so it might not be available to you outside of Public Preview just yet.
What you need
- An Android phone or tablet.
- The Gemini mobile app, including as your mobile assistant. Learn more about the Gemini mobile app.
- The Google Home app is currently not supported in Gemini in Google Messages or the Gemini web app.
- Gemini Apps Activity on. Apps are only available when Gemini Apps Activity is on.
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To use this feature, you must be signed in to Gemini Apps. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
Important:
- For now, the Google Home app only works with prompts in English.
- Connected apps work in the same way for both spoken and typed prompts. On Android mobile devices, if "Hey Google" doesn’t work, check if “Hey Google” and Voice Match are set up.
Before you connect Google Home to Gemini Apps
Important: Home controls are for convenience only, not safety- or security-critical purposes. Don't rely on Gemini for requests that could result in injury or harm if they fail to start or stop.
Gemini can’t help you with some actions on security devices, like unlocking a door for you. For unsupported actions, the Gemini mobile app opens the Google Home app or gives you a link to it where you can control these devices.
If you connect Google Home to Gemini, your Gemini mobile app can:
- Help you control and manage the same homes and devices in the Google Home app as your signed-in Google Account. This includes any homes and devices that are added later.
- Access information about smart home devices that you may share with other household members in the Google Home app. Remember to keep household members in mind when you control these devices with the Google Home app in Gemini. Learn more about household members.
Connect Google Home to Gemini Apps
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
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- Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with Google Home.
- Ask the Gemini mobile app to perform an action on a smart home device, like
turn on living room lights.- Tip: If Gemini doesn’t use the Google Home app, you can include
@Google Homein your prompt.
- Tip: If Gemini doesn’t use the Google Home app, you can include
- If you haven’t connected Google Home to Gemini Apps, you’ll get the option to connect it.
- If you connect Google Home to Gemini Apps, you give Gemini permission to access and control the same homes and devices as this account in the Google Home app. This includes any homes and devices added or shared with you later.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Tips:
- You can also enable or disable the Google Home app on your Apps page in Gemini settings settings. Learn how to manage apps in Gemini.
- You can ask the Gemini mobile app to perform certain actions while your phone is locked if Gemini on lock screen is on. Learn how to turn on Gemini on lock screen.
Examples
- Set the dining room for a romantic date night
- Set the AC to a good temperature for sleeping
- Turn off the bedroom TV and lights
- The sun is too bright in the living room (to close window coverings)
- Help me clean up the kitchen (to start vacuum)
Control smart home devices
There are a lot of smart home devices that the Google Home app can help you control. The devices listed below are just a few of the common ones that are supported.
Lights
- Turn on/off [light name].
- Turn on/off all of the lights.
- Turn my [room name] lights on/off.
- Dim the [light name].
- Dim the [room name] lights.
- Brighten the [light name].
- Set [light name] to 50%.
- Turn [light name] green.
Switches or outlets
- Turn on/off [outlet name].
- Turn on/off [switch name].
Thermostats
- Turn on or off
- Turn on heating/cooling mode.
- Turn on heat-cool mode.
- Turn off thermostat.
- Set or adjust the temperature
- Set the heat to [temperature].
- Set heat-cool to [temperature].
- Set the air conditioning to [temperature].
- Set the [room name] thermostat to [temperature].
- Make it warmer/cooler.
- Raise/lower the temp.
- Raise/lower the temp by 2 degrees.
- Switch heating or cooling modes
- Turn on heating/cooling.
- Set thermostat to cooling/heating.
- Turn thermostat to heat-cool mode.
Fans, heaters & A/C units
- Turn on/off [fan, heater, A/C, device name].
- Increase the temperature on my heater
- Increase/decrease the fan speed
- Open/close [curtain name]
- Open/close [blinds name]
- Open/close [shutters name]
- Turn on/off [TV name]
- Turn volume up/down on [TV name, speaker name]
- Pause/resume [TV name, speaker name]
Other devices, like a vacuum, washer, coffee maker & more
- Start [device name]
- Stop [device name]
- Vacuum the [room]
- Turn on/off [device name]
What Gemini can't do with the Google Home app
- Broadcast messages on connected devices in your home.
- Complete security device actions that require a pin.
- Add or delete devices from your home.
- You can manage and share devices in the Google Home app.
- Execute Routines.
- While Routines aren’t supported with connected apps in Gemini yet, some Routines functionality is supported in your Gemini mobile app with help from Google Assistant. Learn more about Routines powered by Google Assistant in your Gemini mobile app.
How apps work in Gemini
- Gemini only connects to apps that are on your Apps page in Gemini settings. This includes apps you turn on when you specify them in your prompt with an "@" mention.
- Gemini checks for apps that can help it generate a more helpful response. If Gemini finds an app that can help, it automatically sends information from your conversation and other relevant information to that app. For example, Gemini will send your location data to Google Maps if you ask for coffee shops near you and the Google Maps app is on in your Apps page in Gemini settings.
- Gemini won’t access your personal content in other services without your permission. Gemini is designed to automatically work with some apps, including tools and content, on your device to help you seamlessly interact with it.
- If you directly interact with another Google service in Gemini Apps, your activity might be saved by that other service. For example, if you watch a YouTube video in a Gemini app, YouTube may:
- Collect your personal information.
- Store and use that information according to YouTube’s terms of service.
- Store your watch history in your YouTube History. Learn how to manage your YouTube watch history.
- Gemini Apps can connect with third-party apps and services. When they do, Gemini Apps share information with those apps and services to fulfill your requests. That information is then used by those third-party apps and services according to their own developers' privacy policies.
- If you disable the YouTube app, you can still talk Live about a video you’re viewing in the YouTube app.
Learn more about how connected apps work with your personal data.