Google Home Hub review: the smart display to buy Google

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• Questions & Answers
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• Reviews
• Devices
• Get help at a glance with Google Home Hub

Swipe down from the top to reveal a panel with all your Google Assistant connected smart home devices. From there you can turn on lights and adjust their brightness and colours, see cameras, adjust the temperature or do anything else from an easy to use command and control screen. There’s even a button to turn it all off, right from the screen. We consciously decided to not include a camera on Google Home Hub, so you feel comfortable placing it in the private spaces of your home, like the bedroom. On the top of the device you’ll find the Ambient EQ light sensor.

Subscription are required to access certain content. Additional terms, conditions and/or charges may apply. The first thing you’ll notice about Google Home Hub is its beautiful design. We made this display to fit right into your home, and we hope you’ll consider it not just functional, but part of your decor.

Questions & Answers

I know you’ll love getting help and enjoying family time with Google Home Hub, just like my family does. You can buy Hub for $149, and starting today, you can pre-order from the Google Store. You’ll find Google Home Hub on shelves on October 22 at Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and other retailers. Google Home Hub is the newest member of the Google Home family, bringing you help at a glance.

Use your voice to show any of your pictures in Google Photos, and with Live Albums, see the best and latest photos of loved ones. Review events in your timeline easily and efficiently.

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Imagine everything you can do with a Reliant electricity plan that comes with a Nest Hub at no additional cost. Save time, boost your energy efficiency and make your everyday routines easier. Thread is the latest wireless mesh technology, designed to make your smart devices more connected and reliable. It helps extend the overall strength, capability, and reach of your home network.

With the Google Assistant built-in, you can use your voice to get the best of Google—Search, YouTube, Google Photos, Calendar, Maps and more—right on Google Home Hub’s display. Matter devices connect to each other locally over your smart home network using Wi-Fi or Thread, making your devices more responsive, reliable, and secure. Timers, alarms and all the usual smart assistant tools are there. On the Home Hub answers are accompanied by visual information, such as the hourly or daily weather forecast or a photo of Jeff Goldblum as it explains he is 65 years old. Weather reports are accompanied by sound effects such as birds tweeting for sunny days and rain for typical British weather.

Reviews

Customize your devices to do what you want, when you want, with new automations in the Google Home app. Welcome to the totally new Google Home app, now available in Public Preview. With Google Home, your Nest and Matter devices work together reliably to help with your household needs.

You can also ask for photos via voice, such as pictures from Portland or King’s Cross, or of people you’ve tagged in your image library. TheGoogle Terms of Serviceand supplementalNest Terms of Serviceapply to use of the Google Home app and devices set up via the app. The updated Google Home platform helps you get the most out of your devices.

Just look for smart devices with a Works with Google Home or Matter badge. Join the Public Preview to try new Google Home app features early. You can set up routines to do lots of different things and tie them to your own custom phrases.

Set the speaker to play your favorite party music on Friday evenings.2 Have your TV turn on when the living room lights go dark for movie night. With Google Home, easily create helpful automations with your devices. Schedule your cameras to turn on and your doors to automatically lock at sunset.

The 7” screen is like a floating display, the right size to fit on any surface and big enough to enjoy your photos from across the room. With its soft rounded corners, Google Home Hub fits naturally on any surface. My favorite places are my kitchen counter and nightstand. With four colors to choose from—Chalk, Charcoal, Aqua and Sand—it’s right for just about any room. Have your motion sensor turn on lights when you walk in the door. Google Home lets you see live feeds of your Nest cameras and doorbell from your browser, all in one view.

For busy working parents like me, every day is hectic—so these features are truly game-changing when I have my hands full or I’m strapped for time. Google Nest thermostat is compatible with most HVAC systems. Check the compatibility of your system at nest.com/works/reliant. Limited warranty provided by Google, and except for that limited warranty, Reliant and Google make no warranties.

Google Home Hub’s full-range speaker means crisp, clear sound every time. Most Nest smart displays and Wi-Fi devices have a Thread border router built in, so you won’t need a separate hub for adding Thread devices to your smart home. Now you can view live video from your Nest cameras and doorbell, right from the home screen in your Google Home app. Recipes are particularly good on the Home Hub, while the added one-touch smart home control, status and camera display is brilliant. It’s not a great music speaker for the money though and the fabric surface is going to be more difficult to keep clean in a kitchen. The Reliant Action for Google Assistant and Nest Hub work seamlessly together, so you can view customized snapshots of your weekly electricity use.

Automations Customize your devices to do what you want, when you want, with new automations in the Google Home app. Automate schedules so you don’t have to worry that you left something on when you’re away. Activity and Settings Use the activity tab to better understand what’s happening in and around your smart home. And easily find and manage devices, services, and members in the Settings tab. Lock the front door, arm the security system, and turn on your cameras at the same time each night – automatically.

Reliant is not affiliated with Google or the products and services it markets. Use the Reliant Action for Google Assistant to ask simple questions like “Hey Google, ask Reliant, how much electricity am I using? ” Also use voice commands to do things like pay your electricity bill, check your account balance, review plan details and more. At my house, Fridays are family night, and sometimes that means a dance-off. When you buy Hub, you’ll get six months of YouTube Premium on us, so you can enjoy not just YouTube Music, but all of YouTube ad-free. You can also enjoy music from Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and other popular music services .