You can use the Google Home app to control your home from anywhere. There are a number of different features you can use to do this.
You can set up your eligible TV as a hub for Google Home. This enables you to control and manage your Google Home devices right from your TV.
- Make sure that your TV and the devices with the Google Home app are connected to the same network.
- On your TV, go to the home page and select Home hub
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- Sign in to your Google Account.
- Review the Google Privacy Policy and accept the Google Terms of Service.
- Select Continue. Grant any other necessary consent and permission to Google Home and the TV manufacturer.
- After signing in with your Google account, you can opt in to sharing diagnostic information with Google by toggling the Help improve Google Home option during setup.
- Assign your TV to a room. If you haven't set up a Google Home account yet, follow the on-screen instructions to create a new one.
Once you enable your TV as a hub for Google Home, you can use the Google Home app or other supported apps to manage devices connected to your Google Home.
On selected TVs, you can interact with your smart devices directly on your TV. Simply allow access to specific smart devices as needed or remove access to those devices that you don't want to control from the TV.
You can use Home/Away assist to control all of your Nest products to automatically change their behaviour as people come and go. For example, it can turn on your Nest Cam to help you monitor things when you leave home, and turn it off when you're home and don't need it.
Learn how Home/Away Assist uses presence sensing to adjust your devices.
Learn more about how to Change Home/Away Assist settings.You can set your Nest thermostat to switch to Eco Temperature when your home is set to Away.
Tap the switch near the top of the menu to enable or disable this option.
The 'How it responds' section tells you what happens when your home is in each mode:
- Home: Your thermostat will use your normal schedule whenever anybody's home.
- Away: Your thermostat will switch itself to Eco Temperature when no one's home.
Tap Eco Temperature at the bottom of the menu if you want to change the Eco Temperature that your thermostat will try to maintain when you're gone.
Tip: Because your thermostat tries to help save energy when it's set to Eco Temperature, it won't turn on your HVAC equipment in advance to meet a scheduled temperature. For more information, refer to Nest thermostat temperature schedules.
Learn about Eco Temperature and how to change settings.You can lock and unlock the Nest x Yale lock through multiple methods, such as the Google Home app, One Touch locking, the lock’s keypad, and more. Learn how to lock and unlock the Nest × Yale Lock.
You can also enable Auto-lock for Nest x Yale lock. You can turn Auto-lock on for Home, Away, or both. You can also choose how long your lock will wait before re-locking itself.
You can use Wear OS to control compatible smart home devices that you’ve set up in your Google Home app. Your Google Home for Wear OS also lets you receive Nest camera and doorbell alerts on your Wear OS watch.
You can use the Google Home app on a Google Pixel Watch or other compatible watch, and control devices that you’ve already added to the Google Home app on your phone.
You can also create shortcuts in the Google Home app for quick access to your favorite devices, making it easier to control from a Wear OS watch.
Go back to the Google Home Learning Center