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Please note it is the US edition, but works in the exact same way as an Australian edition. All you need is, a power adapter and set your preferences to Australian & you are done.
Enjoy… :)
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Agree… It actually should be customisable (if only that was a word)… You teach the device, what you want to address it. Not that difficult..
Imagine the amount of false triggering that would result in.
No one says 'computer' anymore, its all iphone, ipad, ishit, app, wifi and snapz…
Thats where you get creative and name it something that you dont use everyday.. i.e. Babe, honey, sweety etc.. :-/
Is customisable not a word? Lol I totally thought it was..
It's one of the 4 options available with the Amazon Echo. You can choose between Amazon, Alexa, Echo and Computer.
@xelfer: I was referring to what FindMeADeal initially said:
It actually should be customisable (if only that was a word)…
i.e. I always thought "customisable" was a legit word. Google seems to be ok with it?
we could use Customisable then, no false triggers
Agreed. Main reason I won't buy it is because I don't want to say OK Google!
You can say "Hey Google"…
You can also say Ok gugu / Hey gugu
You can say 'hey google' too. It might just be a matter of time before you can use other words though.
root it and it can listen to "Hey Pig"
The obvious name would be HAL9000 plus saying Hal nine thousand would never be mistaken for another word / name :)
Just don't lock yourself out!
I can't do that Dave….
logged in to upvote this one :-)
I aint buying until I don't have to say "OK/Hey google", just "Google" would be acceptable.
Alexa while a little deaf lets me choose 4 trigger names including "computer".
Once maybe OK, but I sometimes have to say "Alexa turn up the volume" 4 times in a row to get the TV volume to the desired level.
Can't you set it to a %? Eg. I say Hey Google set volume to 75%
Not sure about Google Home, but I'm guessing no, bcos I use it via a Harmony Elite, which only accepts "increase", and "decrease".
Lights work with 20%,50%…
I'd rather identify it as 'Jarvis' or 'Athena' - but yes, it should be customizable.
Great price! Will buy one when they include a battery in it so I can move it around. Kinda useless not being able to move it around. I don't own a one room house!
Unlikely that will happen as I'm pretty sure they're intended to be purchased per 'zone' for your house. As per the way SONOS works this allows different people in different areas of the house to be doing different things simultaneously ie. true multi-zoning. An Android phone/tablet is probably the closest thing you'll get to a battery powered Google Home Speaker… or you could simply cut the wire and make your own battery pack for one.
Problem is it can only be linked to one google account at a time. The use case scenarios don't really make sense.
Hmmm, interesting. Didn't even think about that. Only received mine today and only bought one to have a play around with it's all still 'unknown'. Bit of an oversight if you can't mesh them up and multi-zone like SONOS. Odd.
EDIT: Ahh 'eug' answered it above. Nice work :)
If by one you mean six….that's correct!
Myself, my wife and our 4 kids all have our own accounts linked to our GH.
How old are the kids? Could just let them use the guest account, I'm sure they don't need specific stuff
It's not an issue them having their own accounts, I was just making a point. They like the personalisation of having their own accounts anyway.
All good, understandable :)
Have 1 of these coming this week, already have some wifi lights. Just bough a CC audio and planning on getting more lights lol :) So I've been trying to research a bit before it comes in
Haha…welcome to the home automation land of spending money!!
In the last week I've bought:
2 x GH's;
SmartThings hub;
Harmony Companion;
Philips Hue kit;
2 Chromecast audio's; &
Chromecast.
1 thing worth mentioning is it comes with 6 months youtube red/google play for new subscribers. I cancelled my account, waited for it to expire and claimed the 6 months free on the same account.
You can use your Android phone if in another room …eg toilet … assistant is exclusive to google home …..
Dropping a steaming log triggers the device?
might be easier to just use your phone if in another room it does the same thing….
By the time these things do anything useful they'll be $50.
$50 for a lifetime of blowies…. I'm in
Can it spray some incense in the air on command? That be really useful
Hahaha, good one.
Moodo should be available soon.
V.I.Poo? For dealing with 'devil's doughnuts' lol
I normally buy a lot of gimmicky stuff but this……….I just have no reason why I would buy it.
I can't find a single reason for it.
Do you have smart devices connected to you WiFi that are google assistant enabled?
Do you use IFTTT?
Do you stream music in your house to speakers? If not do you stream Podcasts, listen to news?
Being so new, it's still behind in things like Alexa. However if it's compatible with devices that you own, then you have a reason to buy it.
I only have 2 WiFi enabled lights, however even outside of that functionality which I use all the time, I still use it everyday to listen to the daily news and reminders while I'm getting ready or play podcasts while I'm doing housework.
because your on OzBargain.. isnt that good enough reason ?
A good reason to buy a dictionary as well.
Oh, big business and government (whoever pays for the collected data) won't be pleased. Why won't you just buy this listening device that's connected to the web to put in your home?
Better throw your phone away!
MY phone's good. I rebuilt it myself and disabled the ad processes etc in each ap. And it's only connected to the net when I want to use the net.
@poohduck: That's what you think. The government has already hacked your phone. Why would you still keep that listening device that's connected to the web to carry on you everywhere you go? The government is also tracking every movement of yours based on your phone's sim card. Why are you allowing that??
@eug: Well, they haven't hacked it. If you leave you phone as standard, then yes that can happen, thankyou google. They can cross reference with towers, look at when you made or received calls, or if the cia is prepared to share their huge listening device that searches for key words. None of that data means a lot though, unless I'm on the run, of course.
Well, they haven't hacked it.
Perfect, that's exactly what they want you to think. :)
None of that data means a lot though
Exactly.
People are ignorant enough to believe they aren't spending more money as they're manipulated by these devices despite billions of dollars being spent to do just that.
Which is a ridiculous position.
Hope you're enjoying your Nokia 3310 and 23" CRT TV! Surely you haven't been manipulated by big businesses into buying expensive new phones and TVs right? You're so clever.
For fun ask it "Is Google Home a complete waste of money?". It'll tell you straight up that it is.
Just gotta find the right uses for it. I use Google Assistant a lot.
But your phone?
Yea on my phone. Which has a crappy speaker, and terrible mic range….
Works great for home automation. You can say "ok google, lights off" in the bedroom and all the wifi-enabled lights in the living room, bathrooms, corridors, kitchen, etc can be switched off in one go. It's quicker than loading up the Wemo/lifx/whatever app on your phone and turning things off there.
Just reading your multi-user link above and it answered another question I had about them… if you have multiple users then what would stop your little darling children from turning all your Wifi connected lights & appliances on and off just for fun? Looks like it only responds to the first registered user. Nice.
Well not really.
I have Lifx lights and TP-Link Kaza controlling devices around the house. Both my flatmate and I can control lighting in the house, though he doesn't have his account hooked up to google home (He's an apple fan, don't think he even has a google account).
However, if he says "What's on my schedule" it will respond "Sorry, I cannot recognise you".
Hmm, OK. Sounds like I'm going to have to have a play around then. Thinking about the lighting situation a bit further, I'd actually want to allow more than one person to control things anyway ie. the wife! If it only responded to my voice then it'd be as useless as allowing everyone to control it. There must be a way of telling it who's boss/es and ignore everyone else… surely!?
@SteveAndBelle: Multi-user thing is pretty new. it used to be only one user and no voice recognition before. Maybe they would implement new features as you go on.
The thing that annoys me the most is Spotify, my account is hooked up to Google home. I would be merrily walking along some street listening to music when my flatmate, whos at home says "Play some music", and Spotify just cuts me off as it doesn't allow the same account to play at two locations.
Can you change the default media player on the guest account to Google Play Music, for example?
I have an Amazon alexa connected to wifi plugs and when we leave or go out we say "Alexa turn off everything" and every device we have gets the power cut.
Love it.
Hope you just do short trips or your milk will go off.
Or you could not connect a smart plug to your fridge?
Yeah kinda don't connect the dvices I never turn off like the fridge and chest freezer to the turn off everything function.
I pictured it much much more exciting with every time you leave the house becoming like an episode of 24, "quick we only have 3 hours till the ice cream thaws".
you can even set it up to be triggered when you say "Goodbye" or "Goodnight".
It will respond "Have a nice day!" or "Sweet dreams!" before turning the lights off :D
Google do everything for me because i'm a lazy c**t
'Cat' only has three letters!
I'd much rather be a lazy cat than a lazy (profanity). That's the difference between being a hipster and a bogan :P
Pretty good sound for a small speaker, and seems to respond well to our requests. Link it to a Spotify Premium free trial for heaps of music.
whats after that? pay 11 bucks every month..? Why are people obsessed with this little ass speaker? Alot of other options out there. connect your phone with a Bluetooth speaker and that will do the same job.
whats after that? pay 11 bucks every month..?
So you're against streaming music services?
Alot of other options out there. connect your phone with a Bluetooth speaker and that will do the same job.
Evidently you don't understand how this speaker works. It's far different to a bluetooth speaker. It handles its own voice recognition processing, and doesn't require you to keep connecting your phone to it for it to do anything.
It's a bit like asking why do people use google maps? Just use a street directory - it does exactly the same job doesn't it?
I got one. It's great.
Like a lot of technology, it's not so attractive unless you have something very new and groundbreaking
Google home shaves seconds off boring duties every day so it doesn't have that revolutionary X-factor that gets people excited.
I recommend it, particularly for the price.
If you're in the kitchen, and you're out of apples you don't often return to your shopping list and write it down.
With google home, you just tell it to add it.
That way you're not like ehhhhh I'm out of apples where's my shopping list you weeeehhhh.
When I buy this I'm gonna connect all
Of my kitchen appliances to google home & then it will not only turn off lights it'll
Make my breakfast, lunch & dinner.
The future is here
Thought you were going for a haiku for a second.
It will also wipe your butt.
Any different to the Aus version?
Apart from, I'm assuming, the power adapter
I was just about to ask the same question, I have an Australian Version of Google Home, and this deal is enticing however I'm curious if it'll work exactly the same once you set the location.
And the price u can get a google home Aussie version for $134.80 lowest price so far from ow or goodguys or jb
I heard that news sources are apparently different? Any truth to that?
Love mine got it linked with harmony hub and Phillips Hue and I can feel the kgs pilling on already
Whose controlling who? That is the question
PPffft.. takes less energy to flick a switch as I walk past than to talk to this thing.
I assume you live in a one-bedroom flat and have all the light switches next to your bed?
Haha yeah
Nope, the basement.
If only instead of having to say "OK Google", you can say "Computer"