Google Home version 2.27 includes a lot of new highlights to the application, remembering new for application controls for Nest home security items on iOS and Android and extended gadget uphold for Android 11’s Power Menu alternate ways. Goodness, and there’s at long last a dim mode on Android—however it may be difficult to turn on. Here’s the way to get to all the new highlights.
New Nest Camera and Smart Lock highlights (iOS and Android)
Nest clients who have exchanged over to Google Home as their essential control application will be glad to discover that the application is getting a couple helpful highlights explicitly intended for Nest items. You’ll have the option to utilize it to:
View all Nest cameras from the Camera page. In the event that you utilize various Nest cameras in your home, you would now be able to see every live feed at the same time in the Google Home application, like what the Nest application used to show. To see all your Nest cameras immediately, open the Google Home application and tap the “Cameras” alternative under your home name.
Open keen locks (just around the corner). Home Smart Lock clients will before long have the option to open their gadgets distantly from inside the Google Home application. Google prodded the forthcoming element with a production featuring Fred Armisen and referenced it in the adaptation 2.27 fix note for Google Home on iOS, however it’s not yet accessible in the Android application. Odds are Google simply needs to flip a switch on its end, which ideally will happen soon.
More gadgets upheld in Android 11’s Power Menu
Android 11 lets you control associated shrewd home gadgets from the Google Home Power Menu. Adaptation 2.27 grows Power Menu backing to shrewd to all Nest and Chromecast gadgets, remembering items with worked for Chromecasts.
To add a gadget to the Power Menu:
- Open Google Home.
- Go to the Power menu.
- Tap the menu symbol close to your Home’s name
- Tap “Add Controls.”
- Select which gadgets you need to be constrained by the force menu alternate ways. (In the event that the gadget is controlled through another application on your telephone, tap “See other apps.”)
- Tap “Save.”
- Back in the Power menu, quickly push on the gadget/gathering’s tile to turn it on/off or tap one of the alternate ways from the head of the menu to play out the activity for every pertinent gadget.
Dark Theme on Android
A Google Home dim subject is a piece of the rendition 2.27 update also, as indicated by Android Police. It shows up you can just empower it by turning on your Android gadget’s framework level dim subject—there’s no in-application switch (at any rate not yet).
Android’s dull mode settings can be changed by going to Settings > Display > Dark Theme, or via looking for “dark theme” in your gadget’s settings application (its area can contrast among telephones and forms of Android).
