{"id":287293,"date":"2026-07-08T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/google-home-is-making-it-easier-to-get-started-with-automations\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:45:13","slug":"google-home-is-making-it-easier-to-get-started-with-automations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/google-home-is-making-it-easier-to-get-started-with-automations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Home is making it easier to get started with automations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-suggested-automations-3685516\/\">Google Home is making it easier to get started with automations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-suggested-automations-3685516\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-suggested-automations-3685516\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-08 15:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Home is adding prebuilt \u2018suggested automations\u2019 that users can implement with minimal effort.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing is changing for custom automations. Suggested automations can also be customized before being applied.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, Onn\u2019s newest Google Home-compatible cameras are getting new lighting controls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re into Google Home but you haven\u2019t tried out the ecosystem\u2019s automation features, Google\u2019s got an update for you. The latest version of the Google Home app includes \u201cready-made automations tailored to real-life tasks\u201d on the Automations tab, letting you set up new routines in just a few taps.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced the new suggested automations in the release notes for Google Home changes rolling out now. If you haven\u2019t set up any automations yet, suggested automations will appear at the top of the Automations tab in Google Home. Otherwise, you can find them below the list of your existing automations.<\/p>\n<p>Examples shared by Google include prebuilt routines to do things like lowering smart speaker volume and playing relaxing music near bedtime, or flipping on security cameras and outdoor lighting around sunset. You can edit any of the suggested automations the Home app serves up before integrating them into your system.<\/p>\n<p>The types of automations the Home app will recommend aren\u2019t special; you could create the same ones manually without much work. But it\u2019s a smart, low-friction way to introduce new users to the concept of Google Home automations.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s also announced a couple of marginal improvements to cameras in Google Home, too. There\u2019s a new button in the UI for Onn\u2019s Outdoor Camera Plug-in and Floodlight Camera Hardwired to quickly turn on the cameras\u2019 built-in lighting. Google also says that \u201colder Nest cameras\u201d will now be easier to set up.<\/p>\n<p>All these changes are available in version 4.20 of the Google Home app. I\u2019m not seeing that update as available on my own devices just yet,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-suggested-automations-3685516\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Home is making it easier to get started with automations https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-home-suggested-automations-3685516\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/google-home-app-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,57],"class_list":["post-287293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287295,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287293\/revisions\/287295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}