The AI-powered Ask Home feature is also expanding beyond the app with this update. In the near future, the Home-specific ...

Smarter Google Home: Expanded automation triggers, upgraded Gemini assistant, and improved camera features make Google Home more responsive to real-world conditions. Home Assistant leap: Native RF ...

Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant ...

Gemini 3.1 has fully rolled out to Gemini for Home early access users, improving multi-step requests, alarms, and more.

The MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB is an open-source replacement mainboard designed to convert a 1st Gen Google Home Mini ...

Why it stands out: Home Assistant combines devices from many brands, supports advanced automation, and operates locally for greater control than Alexa or Google. Voice control upgrade: Alexa and ...

We didn’t get a real update about Gemini on smart speakers and display at I/O 2025 last week, but Google Home recently added a new “Voice assistant experiments” setting for it. Since testing got ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google has been pushing Gemini into every corner of its ecosystem this year, and now it’s coming for smart speakers and displays.

Enter the MiciMike Home Mini Drop-in Board. It’s a drop-in replacement for the original Google Home Mini printed circuit board that fits inside the case and works with the same speaker hardware. But ...

I have used several smart speakers powered by Google Assistant for quite a while. The first device I picked up was the Nest Mini, which was followed by the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. I have one ...

You can now order an $85 kit to convert your Google Home Mini into a Home Assistant-compatible offline smart speaker.

Google Home update adds Gemini AI voice assistant, smarter automation, and improved camera controls for a faster, more ...