In your Nest Smart Home you can connect and control numerous devices with Google Assistant. We’ll show you how to connect vacuum and mopping robots or smart lamp systems.
Many smart home devices can be connected and controlled via Google Assistant voice control. (Source: IKEA / Screenshot: Netzwelt)
Connect smart home devices with Google Assistant
Control speakers with Google voice control
Control smart lighting systems with Google Assistant
Control vacuum and mopping robots with Google Assistant
A safer home: Control surveillance cameras and electronic locks with Google Assistant
Problems controlling the smart home with Google Assistant
You can equip your smart home with numerous practical devices such as vacuum and mopping robots, smart speakers or surveillance cameras for indoors and outdoors. You can easily operate the smart devices via remote control, apps or voice control.
Operating smart home devices using a voice assistant such as Google Assistant is particularly easy and makes your everyday life easier. You’ll save a lot of time in the long run if you don’t have to switch on the household appliances individually every time and even create helpful routines that you can set up on your smartphone or tablet via your Google Home app.
Connect smart home devices with Google Assistant
Whether with speakers, smart door locks or a smart lighting system: the connection to the devices can be done in just a few steps and works with many different manufacturers and models.
Control speakers with Google voice control Sonos can be easily connected and controlled with Google Assistant. (Source: Sonos / Screenshot: Netzwelt)
Google Assistant can not only be connected to Google Home smart speakers such as Google Nest Mini or Google Nest Audio. Google’s voice assistant is also supported by manufacturers such as Sonos and is compatible with their speakers.
To connect, you just need to access your Google Home app and the Sonos Controller app on your smartphone or tablet. You can read how the link to Sonos speakers like the Sonos Era 100 works in the following instructions:
Control smart lighting systems with Google Assistant The smart Ikea Tradfri lighting system can be easily connected and controlled with voice control. (Source: The Ikea Tradfri smart lighting system can be easily connected and controlled with voice control.)
If you use smart lighting systems like those from Philips Hue or Ikea Tradfri in your home, you can use them even more easily with Google Assistant. The connection to the voice assistant is very easy and can be linked in just a few steps.
Before you connect your smart lamps to Google voice control, you should download the Philips Hue app or the Ikea Smart Home app and use it together with the Google Home app on your smartphone or tablet. Then follow our detailed instructions for the smart lighting systems in your smart home:
Control vacuum and mopping robots with Google Assistant Robot vacuum cleaners can relieve you of some of your daily housework and can be easily connected to Google voice control. (Source: diego_cervo / depositphotos.com)
Vacuum and mopping robots can now be found in many households and serve as practical support in daily housework. Many Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Roborock, Ecovacs or Dreamme offer numerous cost-effective and efficient models such as the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra, the Ecovacs Deebot N10 Plus or the Dreame L10 Prime.
To make it even easier to control your little household helper, you can connect your devices to Google Assistant. Before linking your vacuum robots, you should download the Xiaomi Home app, which serves as a control center for your smart home products, which also include the manufacturers Roborock and Dreame. In addition to the Google Home app, you can also install the Roborock app, the Dreamehome app or the Ecovacs Home app on your smartphone or tablet before starting with the following instructions:
A safer home: Control surveillance cameras and electronic locks with Google Assistant With the Nuki Smart Lock you are particularly safe and protect your smart home. (Source: Nuki)
Anyone who attaches particular importance to security can set themselves up with practical devices such as electronic door locks from Nuki, smart thermostats from Tado and surveillance cameras from Ring, Blink and Eufy.
If you want to control these smart home devices particularly easily, you can use Google Assistant. The connection to the voice assistant works with just a few clicks. In addition to the Google Home app, you should first download the corresponding apps for the smart household appliances such as the eufy Clean (EufyHome) app on your smartphone or tablet in order to then start with the detailed instructions:
Problems controlling the smart home with Google Assistant
If you notice problems with your smart home devices, you can use the following links to access our respective fault reporter. There you can check whether your devices are currently struggling with technical difficulties and whether there are any problems with their use.