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Google Home a platform to centralize smart home control

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General

What is smart home?

  • A home that has elements that can be controlled by Voice and / or smartphone app.
  • What elements are controlled?
    • Lights
    • Hot water boiler
    • Air conditioner
    • TV
    • All IR controlled elements
    • Many many more

How to achieve smart-home?

Integrate Smart-home with Google Home

  • The next step of evolution for smart-home will be to integrate with Google Home.
  • What you will achieve with Google home (google play / app store)?
    • Share with other home members the ability to control devices with having them to install 3rd party apps.
    • Voice control over the devices.
  • Configure your devices by eWelink sonoff or by broadlink.
  • Add devices to google home and link accounts of Sonoff and Broadlink to google home.
  • Vocie control by smartphone or by google home app the devices at your home.
  • Note for Broadlink:
    • In order to integrate with Google home, user must use “Intelligent home control” – IHC app.
    • At least one scene must be defined at IHC app in order to be able to control the device.
    • How to operate the device by voice?
      • At google home state:
        • “Hey google” (or “OK google”) “turn on” (or “switch on”) [scene name at IHC] .

Sonoff – info / setup

  • How to connect
  • Step 1 – wiring as follows:
  • Step 2 – Long click on the button of the Sonoff
    • Device will enter setup mode.
  • Step 3 – Configure Ewelink app with sonoff device.

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