Automate Your Smart Lights With Google Home Routines

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With Google Home Routines you can easily automate your compatible smart lights & other smart devices. The time schedule feature is currenlty only available in the US.
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@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

What do you want to know next about smart lighting?

@zunkman1 4 жыл бұрын

Now if they would only add a control for sunrise and sunset.......

@calebkorthals6427 4 жыл бұрын

What is the best entry/beginner smart lighting (plugs, lights ,switches, etc.)?

@xdxnisx 4 жыл бұрын

The time routines are not only us they are in Germany and Canada too

@ScottvanBreda 4 жыл бұрын

How can i get routine speach to play on all speakers at once. Like telling me how much time there is before i should leave for work. Also is there a way to specify which routines play on which speakers?

@TomZ23 4 жыл бұрын

@@zunkman1 I was just going to ask if sunset/sunrise was possible.

@BookTube0ne 4 жыл бұрын

I just made a Christmas routine where I say Merry Christmas and all Christmas lights come on and I say Holy Night and all Christmas lights turn off

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Those are excellent commands! Mine were very boring compared to these.

@DanielWaun 4 жыл бұрын

This was great. Thanks, Brett. I've been using google home products for a couple years but until now had no idea I could automate my routines based on day/time. This saves a lot of time managing multiple apps for various smart plugs, lights, etc.

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect! This is exactly what I wanted to here. Hopefully this is able to simplify those automations.

@martydelaney 2 жыл бұрын

This was extremely helpful even 2 years later. Thank you!

@TechWithBrett 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped!

@molivar5 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video! I literally went to purchase the google mini and c by ge light bulbs and have set routines! this is great! I can't wait to have a completely smart home!

@stemotology 4 жыл бұрын

Just tried the time scheduling ability out. It also works in the Philippines and is not US only. Was able to finally unify SmartThings and Yeelight devices. Great video!

@PatHiggins-Mayo 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. Thanks

@ChannelAA 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Brett, Time of the day feature is available in Australia too. Is there an option to set sunset and sunrise timers for lights on the Google Home app? One more unrelated question, do you know whether there is an option to get Google Home app to show light on off status at a glance on the main summary screen? Please keep up the good work. Thanks and cheers.

@a1locjaw 4 жыл бұрын

Now I thought I'd share one of my automated lighting tips that I learned. Sometimes, there's pairs of Lights, or trios of Lights, or more that you want to act in unison and other times where you want them to act independently. I find that if I have two end tables with lights on on either end of a sofa that sometimes I want them to both to dim at the same light or change color the same and then other times I may want them to act independently, I named one sofa one and the other sofa two. The same with bedroom night tables I named one bed one and the other bed two. When I want them to act together I just say dim the bed lights, or dim the sofa lights, or change the sofa lights to Warm White. When I want them to act independently I meant I call them out as sofa 1 or sofa 2. This would also work if you had a room with, say 4 ceiling lights that sometimes you want to act independently another times altogether.

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

That is an excellent tip! This almost makes it better than trying to change an entire room but change sections. I'll have to try that out.

@annettefantanzo2811 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your videos. Is it possible to creat one routine that will function as a timer for your lights. For example turn on outdoor lights at sundown then shut off after 5 hours? Or must you create two routines that have on off functions? We would like this function when we are not home.

@lany_07gaming 4 жыл бұрын

That's nice info.

@KhesaPinkard Жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you!!! You just helped me to finally get my smart lights to work with Google Home!

@TechWithBrett Жыл бұрын

So glad I could help!

@NirimbaNet 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a way of turning on an effect with Google Assistant & LifX lights? I have worked out how to create a scene with multiple lights that have different colors, but I want to include the color cycle effect.

@gladiator_games Жыл бұрын

Iam going on vacation soon so I need my lights in the house to turn on a certain time and turn off this looks promising. 👍🏼😀

@TampaTec 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool. Good job 👍

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul!

@rjphllps7 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the walk through, did I miss it or is there a way to get info on those automatic shades? Thanks!

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Totally forgot to add the link about it. Check it out here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLGEq7SSnciRc58.html

@bramos4270 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I love all of your content and thank you for sharing :) I have a question. I'm from Belgium and my Google home app is set in Dutch. This means that I can't use routines. Is there a way to set the language to English to enable the routines? Thank you very much for your time :)

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

It might be possible. In the Google Home app go to Home Settings, More Settings, Assistant, Languages and you can change it there.

@Shaunalae 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question Brett do I need a smart light bulb? Your video is GREAT by the way

@familienbilyk2989 4 жыл бұрын

Hello Brett I have a question and hope you can help :-) When I am turning on/off my wifi switch using the voice command, google is saying everytime for ex. "OK the Christmas tree light is turning off/on". It's quite annoying. Is it possible to set it such way that google doesn't say anything but just do what I ask to do, or just a short answer OK or audio signal would be fine. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

@sakuyya 4 жыл бұрын

I Love your Videos!!!!

@xtimex1 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Bret, I wish you a nice holiday and I have a few question for you: Please tell me, if it possible that in routines set when turn on Led Rgb lights, that light show desired colour and how do this? I thought what the command should be? Also me interesting how to set routine, that starting some video from youtube of fireplace, tnx. And last, how setup that when the music is turned on from routine, that music will start playing in shufle mode. Thank you

@UberDurable 3 жыл бұрын

Do you need the external speaker? The microphone on the phone can't pick up spoken commands?

@sirchimpy6059 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a way I can create a routine that changes the colours of my lights, I tried but it can only change one at a time

@janeleekeller 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You Brett 🙂 Saving To "Building a Smart Home" Playlist 👍 JL 🕊️

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@janeleekeller 4 жыл бұрын

@@TechWithBrett Sorry, I Typed "Smart Home" but Google Auto Corrects Me ! Google's BAD ! Tried to Correct it, but unable to do so ! Hence, the Reply 😏. OOOPS - I see the Correction Worked ! Please Disregard the Reply 😟 ! JL 🕊️

@markloughtonUK 4 жыл бұрын

Time based is also available in the UK but without the sunset settings it's no good for me and I have to stick to using the Kasa app :(

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that is definitely something I would like to have as well.

@ChannelAA 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@GerardCorbier 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Now my Ikea Tradfri lights turn on when The sun sets. Nice.

@battistuzzijohn 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Im John from Italy.... I'm a big fan. I am looking for a woreless battery powered external pir motion sensor that can trigger my external flood lights as a traditional sensor but I would like to create some routines to control my flood lights through a sonoff basic. Any idea's? The basic idea is for security purposes or to light up the surroundings at my arrival at night through a voice command or IFTT geofencing. Thanks and continue making great content

@lisxqrv 3 жыл бұрын

Bro amazing youtuber 🔥🔥🔥

@aryp1622 2 жыл бұрын

If you set a time as a starter, do you still need the voice command?

@victorzamora1429 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Brett i have an issue, ive added a second google home mini to my home and added it to a room but if i tell it to turn off the lights it turns off all the ligths of the home, its suposed to only control the lights in the room that is assigned rigth???

@molivar5 4 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on your smart shades? I'm very interested :D

@DonClark 4 жыл бұрын

I have a routine currently working that I want to change. I just downloaded the app and I do not see the option for routines. I dug around in the app and cant find it anywhere. Any ideas? And why cant we access these controls via a website (like the nest scheduling)? Any help is greatly appreciated!

@McCuneWindandSolar 4 жыл бұрын

I want to create a wake up call routine. Like I want to turn my kids Lights and Play reveille. to get them up I want their speakers to play Reveille and turn there lights on how can you get this to play on both speakers or do I need to create a group just for that.

@Hyalos Жыл бұрын

hey i want to buy 3 smart lights, i want them to turn on at the sametime via voice command, is it possible to have a single voice command to turn on and off all the lights at the same time?

@gizmo020489 3 жыл бұрын

Btw, since you already have all your Christmas lights in a room called Christmas, you can also make a custom command where you write," turn on Christmas" This method is better, then the same routine is valid if you add more Christmas lights later on. It saves you the hassle of changing the routine.

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

Great idea! That does make it much easier.

@billymcdonald8802 2 жыл бұрын

hi my lights work in my app for them ..when i go to the google app it has the lights showing up but if i go to the google mini speaker and ask it to turn it on i get please add lights in the app(yet if i ask the google phone app to turn it on they work)??????

@dgbrownnt 4 жыл бұрын

Since IFTTT is no longer supported for Nest products, is there a way that Google Home supports turning on lights when a Nest Detect senses a door has been opened? (I recently got a Nest Hub and didn't realize that updating my Nest account to Google Home would nuke my automation)

@Lachlan1905 4 жыл бұрын

Routines that run on time also work in Australia

@dmathe 3 жыл бұрын

Hi! I own a Google Nest and just bought a (Google compatible) smart light. I can turn it on or off from both its own app (Smart Life) or Google Home, but imagined I'd be able to more than that. For instance, I would like it to go on as a night light in my kids' room, but then gradually go light bright around 7 am to help them wake up. And I want them to be able to manually turn it on or off during the day and use it as a regular neutral white light. I'm assuming all of this can be achieved, but don't know where to start. Help please.

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can use both the Google and Smart Life app to control. Everything should work but it depends on the devices. If it is a light bulb, and the kids turn off the actual light switch, it won't turn on in the morning unless the switch is on. There are automations you can make to gradually bright the light one step at a time.

@xdxnisx 4 жыл бұрын

No the time feature is in Germany too

@markclifford6623 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you can help me where I could turn my light red for 1 minute white for 1 minute and then blue for 1 minute then repeat back to the first One red white and blue. I would appreciate your help thank great video by the way 😊

@terencedcruze9293 3 жыл бұрын

Can it turn on any lights in the house or do I need to buy specific lights that work with the google nest mini?

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

You will need to purchase devices that work with Google Assistant. So your old devices won't work.

@markloughtonUK 4 жыл бұрын

I have been saying "Time for bed" for the last couple of weeks and all my lights go off yet last night it didn't work. I just looked at my routines and that command is not part of of the 'goodnight' default routine so very strange how it has worked up until now ?! Anyway ... Does anyone know how to share routines as I also have one so when I say "make it Christmas" all the lights come on yet it doesn't work when my wife or son says it :(

@MinecraftXM 4 жыл бұрын

Just let them set it up on their own google home account.

@martinsoto1735 4 жыл бұрын

Have anyone tried using Hue Bluetooth bulbs? Do you need a bridge in order to make it work?

@chefhawk 3 жыл бұрын

Subbed...cheers

@itFredda 4 жыл бұрын

It's so stupid that the app here in Sweden is so crippled. Now i do this on my Alexa units but want to be able to do it in Swedish on Google home.

@JrgenDurkeHansen 4 жыл бұрын

Same here in Denmark. Routines doesn't exist in the home app.

@DFSJoAI 2 жыл бұрын

why doesnt my google look like tyours at all i click routines it says household routines home and away then personal routines then start your routines on edifier google? im so confused

@tobiastan5094 3 жыл бұрын

Why only available in the us, doesn't available in the Indonesia, can you explain

@josefbuckland 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like guy from queens of the Stone Age lol

@a1locjaw 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Brett! I really enjoy your videos, thank you very much. One question I have about routines that is always stumped me. I have five smart lights in my living room and at 5 p.m.I want the sofa lights to come on at 50%, the table light to come on at 30% and the floor light to come on at 40%.as far as I can see, there's no way to do routine that can change the brightness of individual bulbs. I hope I'm wrong here Again, thank you very much.

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

That is a great question. I wish the brightness option was in there by default but this is how I would do it. 1. Set the routine to turn on all 3 lights like you have already done. 2. Add a custom command and type in, "set the Sofa Lights to 50% brightness" 3. Then create another custom command for the table light and one for the floor light. And that's it! Let me know if that works for you.

@a1locjaw 4 жыл бұрын

Hey bro! Work like a charm, thanks! Theoretically you could use the same thing to change color as well as brightness. Thank you again very much!... John

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

@@a1locjaw That is great news! Routines make it possible to do so many things you just have to think a bit outside of the box.

@toms6932 3 жыл бұрын

A year after this post and Google still falls short on having a sunset/sunrise feature that its competitors have. Such a pain to have to adjust light routines every time daylighy savings comes around

@ashihtaka 2 жыл бұрын

It's now available

@bradleyjones6269 2 жыл бұрын

When using smart lights do I had to use all of the same brand they all had to be say Phillips wiz??

@GreeniusGenius 2 жыл бұрын

You should probably consolidate brands, but if you’re controlling them via a Google Home routine it wouldn’t matter whether they were the same brand, as long as they all ‘Work with Google Assistant’

@innocent4all 4 жыл бұрын

can i turn smart light remotely when i am not home?

@grimtastabod 4 жыл бұрын

I'm very tech savvy and even I have struggled differentiating between Google Assistant Routines and what you can setup in SmartThings. Brett, how would you differentiate the two in your own words? I have both, but feel I am not utilizing either as much as I could. Thanks for the awesome video!

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

The difficult part is the setup can be completely different for each person. I think of it this way. SmartThings is there to add devices that require a hub into my home. Google Home is then my controller and automation center for all my devices. I know some who like of it differently where then just use the Google Home to control their SmartThings devices by voice and they use SmartThings to automate everything. There are some benefits to this because SmartThings can turn on/off devices based on sunset without me ever having to go and change the time. Making this video it took me 10 minutes to find my SmartThings automations so I would choose one location and stick to that.

@BeardedTechGuy 4 жыл бұрын

SmartThings (or any Home Automation Hub) is going to provide you with a much wider range of automation control over a voice assistant (Google or Alexa). The voice assistants are great for people who just want to manually control devices by their voice or app and maybe even setup some basic automations, but if you want to do anything more outside of simple on off tasks you'll need to be looking at some form of hub to have that ability. If you are looking to get into setting up a lot of automation I would strongly encourage you to check out webCoRE. It's free and makes SmartThings actually useful outside of just a connection point for different devices for Google to use.

@trueblu8 4 жыл бұрын

So if I want to have my lights on and off automatically I have to add 2 custom routines right?

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Yep. The other option would be to see what is available to do directly in the smart light app from the manufacturer.

@trueblu8 4 жыл бұрын

@@TechWithBrett I did it in Google home. Works perfect. Thanks!

@peterjohnson7148 3 жыл бұрын

The smart things app is completely broke now what do you suggest now to yous

@hisyedadil 3 жыл бұрын

Can we add timier? Like turn off the light after 15min?

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

This is suppose to be coming but I have not seen it available yet.

@aaaa00443 3 жыл бұрын

Can I connect a smart bulb to a smart switch? Do I really have to keep the switch on everytime?

@quacks2358 3 жыл бұрын

Yes bc when you switch it off the smart bulb will reset maybe you can buy a smart remote

@aaaa00443 3 жыл бұрын

@@quacks2358 aww man I already have the smart switches but I also want smart bulbs because of the RGB. (I'm talking about my ceiling lights)

@giseletheriault8633 3 жыл бұрын

This is very frustrating. I don't have a smart things icon. I just got a power strip and put two lights on it. I can turn them on and off. That took me hours to figure out. I now know that google home and google nest are the same thing. That took a half hour. I am ready to throw it out the window. I don't have a manage routines. I'm in Canada. Okay, now I found the + icon. You go so fast I have to keep starting and stopping and rewinding to catch what you are doing. I think I have my window light on a routine now. I don't know how to check if it will work. Maybe you could start a seniors channel to explain the obvious and go slow?

@hdstudio1875 4 жыл бұрын

Which phone is this person using?

@Bobman4000 3 жыл бұрын

On my geeni app it had a rainbow scene I want my routine to change it to my rainbow scene but I just want that but nobody has that as a video

@adeelpuri 4 жыл бұрын

hi, how can I turn on some lights for only 10 mints with routine? and they go off automatically

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

This functionality is not built into the Google Home but you could get something like a WeMo device and it has the built in as an option when ever you turn on specific lights.

@adeelpuri 4 жыл бұрын

@@TechWithBrett thanks for your reply

@michaelmurphy-scully9555 3 жыл бұрын

My home app only has media and settings options. How do o get the rest of these?

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

By adding other products to your Home and I think your Google Assistant isn't fully activated. Try opening the Google Assistant app and see if that works.

@rahmanshah396 3 жыл бұрын

How about with Google assistant

@kave7247 4 жыл бұрын

How do you do this without google home speakers?

@armijnvanoudenhoven9455 4 жыл бұрын

Can someone help me? I cant find the routines pictogram(maybe because i dont have smart light but i have smart blinds) thanks

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

Try this: Create a Custom Routine Make sure your mobile device or tablet is connected to the same Wi-Fi as your Google Nest or Google Home speaker or display. Tap Settings, Scroll down to "Google Assistant services," then tap More Settings. Select Assistant, then tap Routines, Add a routine.

@armijnvanoudenhoven9455 4 жыл бұрын

@@TechWithBrett i just see my day

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

@@armijnvanoudenhoven9455 can you change your Assistant Language to English US and see if it adds the option?

@jflory0207 4 жыл бұрын

No chance to work with sunset or sunrise?

@metube336 3 жыл бұрын

Can a routine turn on a light at a dimmed level, say 50%? Good video, BTW.

@stijn8866 3 жыл бұрын

Same question

@metube336 3 жыл бұрын

@@stijn8866 Found the answer myself. Yes you can select whatever brightness you want

@stijn8866 3 жыл бұрын

@@metube336 do you have ios

@mogenslunde801 2 жыл бұрын

@@metube336 How? As far as I can see you can only chose between "On", "Off", "Do not change"

@TonyLovell 2 жыл бұрын

How do you do this with only wifi and a phone running Google Home app? I'm not putting ugly speakers in my house

@TechWithBrett 2 жыл бұрын

Since this video they have updated the Routines option in the Google Home app so you no longer need to select a speaker and can create time based Routines that can run your devices.

@techdaily9413 3 жыл бұрын

will this work with smart plugs

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

Yep!

@RC44E 3 жыл бұрын

So I have a bought a teckin smart bulb and teckin light strip. I have them listed in the same room. One called light. The other called light strip. When in the room. And I say hey Google light on. It turns all the lights in the bedroom on. Not just the bulb called light. Why is that?

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

Each Google Home will turn on and off the light linked in the same room if you just say turn on the light. This makes it so if you have multiple rooms with lights, it only turns on the one room. To fix this you could change the light strip name to just "colored strip" (removing light from the name) and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, you would need to move the light strip to a different room within the Google Home app and that will work too.

@RC44E 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the fast response. Explaining deeper.... Why on GHM in a single room does it automatically group all lights together. On Alexa don't you have to make lighting groups? In my case the main light is the bedroom over head light. If different bedrooms have smart overhead lights. Each room can't just call that bulb "light or bedroom light" or by saying that it would turn on all rooms with bulbs named "light"? *I have mostly Alexa's and one GHM. But this is my first attempt to set up smart accessories. Lights are always first I assume. Whether by smart plug or bulb. Sorry there are a lot of questions here.

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the difference between Google home and Alexa are quite different here. So the best thing to do is name your lights based on room ie: bedroom light or family room light and put them in their corresponding room name. Then when you say turn off the light with Google, only the lights in the same room as the Google home will actually turn off. So instead of using groups like Alexa, you're going to be using rooms. If you want all lights to turn off you can you can say, "Turn off all lights" or if you just want it to turn of all lamps say, "turn off lamp" and then it will turn off all lights with Lamp in the name.

@RC44E 3 жыл бұрын

So here is what I tried. The bedroom light is called "light". The light strip was called "test strip ". But when they are in the same "room" GHM won't let two lights work in the same room (on my app). When I say turn off test strip. It's says sorry I don't understand. And in the app it says not responding. But if I move the test strip to a new "room" it will now work. Doesn't seem right.

@TechWithBrett 3 жыл бұрын

That is odd. Sometimes it is best to change the name in the app you set up the lights and then ask Google to, "sync my devices" and it will refresh the accounts connected and update the app.

@JanBoromeusz 4 жыл бұрын

Routine: Close Sesame :-)

@TechWithBrett 4 жыл бұрын

May the forever be with you! Haha.

@birdnest16 4 жыл бұрын

Still no dutch routines here so i have Alexa for routines

@MinecraftXM 4 жыл бұрын

Echt waardeloos hoe weinig functies de google home app heeft op dit moment

@birdnest16 4 жыл бұрын

Dutch Guy stoor ik me ook vreselijk aan, de app is ook niet overzichtelijk vind ik zelf. En jammer dan chromecast geen bluetooth heeft of dat je in de slaapkamer airpods kan gebruiken om netflix te kijken, aangezien me tv geen bluetooth heeft is dat vrij vervelend

@MinecraftXM 4 жыл бұрын

@@birdnest16 Zonder routines heb je bijna niks aan de app, je moet alles per apparaat aanzetten kost ontzettend veel tijd.

@birdnest16 4 жыл бұрын

Dutch Guy je kan een ruimte maken maar dat is vreselijk idd, ik kan je een alexa aanraden. Ze is goedkoop handig en kan veel meer. Heb een good night dat alles uitgaat Heb een cinema mode bepaalde lampen En een ik ben thuis dat de woonkamer verlicht super simpel

@MinecraftXM 4 жыл бұрын

@@birdnest16 Gebruik daar op dit moment ifttt voor dat werkt ook maar Google moet echt tijd gaan investeren in updates

@itsmagmaman1052 4 жыл бұрын

Hiii

@DD-xz1ec Жыл бұрын

My light bulbs are not recognized by Google home app.

@lucrems1199 4 жыл бұрын

As usual, not available in Belgium like a lot of other features and languages. Like it is a country that is not discovered yet. Why isn't this function available to everyone. It's a god damn function, how can this be different from country to country?? 🙄