How to Add a New Room to Google Home
When building your smart home, you naturally assign your devices to each of the appropriate rooms. This makes controlling your home easier, especially if you have two or more of the same device (e.g., TV, lights, speaker). Your smart assistant wouldn’t be confused about what device you’re talking about as all you have to do is mention the specific room it’s in.
This is why it’s important to know how to add and manage the rooms in your smart home. If you’re using Google Home, here’s how you can do so.
How to Add a New Room
There are two ways you can add a new room to your household. One is when you’resetting up your Google Home devicefor the first time. During this initial setup, you will be asked to pick from a list of predefined rooms or create a new one with a personalized name.
However, if you’ve already set up your device and want to add a new room after the fact, you can do the second method instead. Here, you will add a new room by changing your device’s current one. To do this, follow the steps below:
Your device should now reflect the room changes you made.
How to Rename a Room
Like any other home, the rooms in your house are not always permanent. You may begin moving things around and start converting rooms to something else. For instance, you might want to use your old guestroom as your new office. Thankfully, you can easily rename a room in Google Home to prevent confusion.
Once you have the Google Home app opened, make sure you’re in the right household first. If not, change into the household where the room you want to rename is located. Then, tap on theSettings gear iconon the home page. SelectRooms and groupsunderGeneral. Tap on the room you want to rename, and then tap onName. In theRoom namefield, type in the new name. HitSavein the top-right corner of the screen.
How to Delete a Room
If you have no use for a room on your Google Home anymore, it’s possible to simply delete it. To remove a room, launch your Google Home app and go toSettingson the homepage. OpenRooms and groupsunderGeneral. Pick the room you want to delete. SelectDelete room. On the pop-up, tapRemoveto confirm.
When deleting a room, any devices you have in that room will automatically be removed. However, these devices will not be deleted from your household and can still be added to your other rooms.
Another way to delete custom-made rooms is byresetting your Google Home deviceas this will set your device to its factory settings.
Manage Your Rooms With Ease on Google Home
An organized household is an easy-to-manage household, so as much as possible, you should know how to manage your rooms. This is especially important as you build your smart home and start equipping every nook and cranny with all kinds of devices. It will save you time and energy if you know how to add, rename, and delete rooms as your smart home gets bigger and bigger.
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