How to Create Your Own Google Assistant Home Routine

Here are simple steps to create daily home routine for google assistant to make use of your smart assistant effectively.

We know that Google Assistant is an AI voice assistant that can perform a number of activities obeying our voice commands. Its ability to answer any of our questions is also undoubtedly amazing. Recently, Google released a feature to set up and manage Routines that can help Google Assistant to perform better and use its abilities to the fullest.

What is Google Assistant Home Routine? 

With a command, the google assistant can take care of our regular morning, evening, or night activities and sometimes even without any command.

The premade routines that are suggested in Google Home focus on making our jobs effortless and quick. It makes complicated long commands short and has the ability to comprise more than one command in a Routine. For example, when the morning routine is activated Google Assistant can do several things from waking you up with an alarm, turning the lights on, to reading the news. The premade routines are customizable and new routines can also be added according to our needs.

It is clear now what are Routines and how useful they are to our daily lives. Let’s know how to set them up and start using it.

How to set up Google routine.

Connect your mobile device or tablet to the same Wi-Fi network that your smart speaker is connected to before you start the process. Even you can set up routines for your smartphone without a smart speaker.

• Open the Google Home/Google Assistance app and tap Routines.
• From the list of ready-made routines given select one to edit.

Note: If google home is not found on your device, Long press the Home button will start google assistant, just type of voice command Google Assistance with the “Google Assistance Settings/Google Routine Settings” command to open it.

Tap the boxes next to the activities you want Google Assistant to perform also add more actions if you want.

• To create your own custom Routine, Tap on the Add button “+”
• Enter the command that you want to say to trigger the Routine under “When….” option.
• Tap OK and Save.
• Add action (what the Assistant should do) under the “Assistant will…..” option.
• Tap on Add media to select media source and customize it to your will.
• Tao Add and Save.

We can also schedule our Routines to happen at a given time on particular days. This will automatically trigger the routine and the activities under the routine will be taken care of without our commands. Follow these steps to set it up.

To schedule Routines.

• Add the command to trigger a Routine though it will be performed automatically.
• Now tap on Set a time and day.
• Choose a time for your Routine and choose which days it should repeat.
• If you use more than one speaker tap on “Choose which speaker will start it” and select the speaker.
• You can also get notified about the Routines on your phones by checking the box given.
• Tap Save after customizing the Routine and wait for it to perform the activities.

The Routines can be edited whenever we want to change the activities that we want the Assistant to do for us. Routines is a feature that is turning out to be very essential for many users around the world. Things are getting done quickly without any manual actions and this gives people the time to concentrate on other important work. By exploring the Google Home app you can find out many other features that will make your day to day lives easier.