Google’s Gemini app can now control smart homes through Google Home extensions. GEMINI can understand natural languages and complete the task. The purpose is to make smart homes more intuitive and easier to manage.
Google wants Gemini to control the smart home device, so that you can manage all the connected devices in the same way as asking AI assistants to answer other queries. Upgraded the GEMINI app with a new Google Home extension. Therefore, if you control the Gemini app and device with Google Home, you can link Gemini to the Google Home account.
This extension links GEMINI with lighting, thermostat, and other smart home devices, but makes use of the more flexible conversation ability of GEMINI. In other words, there is no need to specify that the lighting is set to 50%, and it is possible to darken the lighting by saying “this is too bright”. You can also manage multiple devices in more casual languages. Instead of adjusting the device settings individually, you can say, “Dark the lighting in the living room, attach a bedroom lamp and lower the blinds.” GEMINI can grasp three commands on three sets of devices and act accordingly.
The same is true for media control. GEMINI can adjust the volume, playback, and other elements of music players and video players with the same flexibility. Also, if you want to ensure the security of the house, Gemini can automatically open the Google Home app when handling cameras and keys, so confidential data is safe.
One of the outstanding functions is a function that answers serious questions such as “Did you keep the lights on the pouch?” Gemini will check and let me know, so you don’t have to walk outside with pajamas to check yourself. Thanks to Gemini Live, some devices can also be directly controlled from the lock screen of the mobile phone.
Gemini’s house
Google has fought with Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and other smart home assistants for many years, but people have been waiting for Alexa upgrades planned by Amazon and experimenting with small brands. Meanwhile, GEMINI and their natural language controls may give the company an advantage.
Smart Home has always emphasized convenience, but Google seems to be expecting residents and people who want a house with close attention to their needs. For now, its precautions are limited to practical tasks such as darkening and playing music. But nobody knows it because AI continues to evolve. Perhaps someday, if you say “stress is accumulated”, you may brew tea, remove lighting, and play a pleasant playlist.
Despite the incomplete points, GEMINI’s new features are promising steps for the company’s dream of incorporating Gemini into every aspect of life. Gemini is becoming an everyday assistant who understands the difference between the thermostat and demanding things to cool things and cooling the mood lighting and the Barry White to make things cool.
