Switching and dimming your Crownstones directly in your Google Home app, adding Crownstones to your Google routines, and more is possible thanks to the integration of Crownstone and Google Home.
If you already have Google Assistant, you can also control the Crownstones with your voice. This is handy if you don’t have your phone with you. All you need to do is to say something like: “Hey Google, dim the lights!”.
We have included some instructions below for you to set up the Crownstone integration with Google Home. This guide assumes that you have already created a Home profile in the Google Home app.
In the search menu type Crownstone and select this option.
Great! Now your Google Home app is linked to your Crownstone account.
After linking your Crownstone account, the device(s) that you have in your Crownstone app will be also available in the Google Home app, but they are not assigned to any room. That’s what we will do next:
Finally, select a room in which you want to allocate this Crownstone and press on Next.
Google routines allow you to trigger a sequence of actions based on a specific starter. This starter can be a voice command you say to Google Assistant, a certain time or event. The action or actions triggered can be from getting weather updates to adjust home devices such as lights, plugs, and more. Below we show an example of a simple Google routine where a Crownstone device is included:
Press on Save to finish creating your new Assistant routine.
You can go to this page to check some of the most frequent questions related to the Crownstone integration with Google Home.