Smart home devices are fast taking root in modern homes. In light of this, you must have heard of Google Home smart bulbs from friends or family.
Such a smart system allows intelligent control of connected devices such as smart light bulbs mainly through voice commands issued to the smart home controllers.
One such smart home controller is Google Home. In this article, we explain how to perform smart bulb setup and how to control them through it.
Specific Steps for Setting up the Smart Bulbs
Follow, the following steps keenly to correctly run the Google Home smart bulb setup:
1. Connect your smart light bulb to a fixture and power it on.
2.Launch Google Home app.
3.Tap ‘Add’.
4.Tap on ‘Set up device’, then select the ‘Set up new devices’ option.
5.Tap on “Next”.
6.Give time for your Google Home app to search for your smart light bulb – takes a few moments.
7.Tap on ‘Set up some smart lights’, then tap on ‘Next’.
8.Select your smart bulb and wait for the bulb to blink a few times.
9.Tap on ‘Set up’.
10.Select a room for your smart bulb and tap ‘Next’.
11.Name the light bulb with an easy-to-remember word.
12.Google Home app takes a few seconds to set up the smart light bulb. Once complete, tap ‘Done’.
13.Adding more smart light bulbs to the Google Home app simply involves repeating the above steps.
How to Control Smart Bulbs Using Google Home app
Once you are done with the Google smart bulb setup, issuing voice commands to the Google Home app is the easiest way to control lights.
You begin commands with either “Okay Google” or “Hey Google” based on someone’s preference.
Examples include: ‘Ok Google, dim kitchen lights to 50%’, ‘Hey Google, schedule corridor lights to turn on at 3am’.
An advantage of Google Home is that you can give nicknames to smart lights, and can create routines for turn lights on and off at particular times everyday.
If you want to level up your setup, try grouping lights by room in the Google Home app.
Grouping essentially lets one control entire zones with a single command, like ‘Hey Google, turn off the bedroom lights’, making it super efficient for daily use.
Don’t forget you can synchronize your lights with other routines. For example, triggering them to gradually brighten when your morning alarm goes off—it’s a chill way to automate your space without lifting a finger.
