Google Home will let you share control with household routines
Big things are happening in Google’s smart home ecosystem, starting with arevamped user interfacefor the Home app, which is still in the preview phase. Ahead of its widespread rollout, we saw the app extendthe convenience of device triggersto some users last week. That feature is now making its way to even more Google Home users, alongside a new option for household routines.
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Icons in the routine creation menu are also now slightly different for personal and household routines. Device triggers are seen widely in the menu to create the latter, and seem to be backwards-compatible with the now-discontinuedGoogle Nest Secure system. However, the Home app reportedly refuses to conform to the dark/light mode set on the device.
Hopefully the availability of this new option will help smooth things over for busy households, where you don’t want just one person in charge of editing and creating all the requisite home automation routines. We’re not sure precisely why this is arriving alongside greater availability of device triggers, but hey — we’ll take ‘em both.
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