For most people, smart speakers play music and say what the weather is, and that’s pretty much it, but the latest Google Home software update could be exciting enough to turn casual Nest users into home automation geeks.
Google Home is the mobile app at the center of Google’s internet of things (IoT) ecosystem. But realistically, even if you own a Google Nest thermostat, for instance, you may or may not have bothered syncing it with the Google Home app, let alone paired it with a Nest smart speaker, and in turn paired that with your wifi-enabled lamp. But the updates posted this week by the Google Nest Team make this sort of integration between devices more fruitful than ever.
