Google made it extremely easy to control smart home devices. However, you still needed to toggle to turn them on or off.
Google Assistant is adding a new feature called “Scheduled Actions” where you can schedule smart home devices to turn on or off at a specific time. For instance, you can say, “Hey Google, turn on the lights in five minutes” or something like, “Hey Google, turn on the lights at 7 AM.”
You can even ask Google Assistant to keep a smart home device turned on for a specific period of time. You can say, for instance, “Hey Google, turn on the lights for 5 minutes” which will keep the lights on for the specified time period.
According to Google, you can also use ask smart device to turn on or off at a particular day “within the next seven day period.” For example, you can say, ‘Hey Google, turn on my coffee maker at 8 AM tomorrow.”
If you want to remove the Scheduled Action, you can simply “Hey Google, cancel my scheduled Actions.” If its a particular device, you can say, “Hey Google, remove my <device>s’ schedule.”
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