Google Home (previously: Google's October 4th Event)

bmyoungs · Postby **bmyoungs** » Wed Dec 26, 2018 5:40 pm

ejhartman91 wrote:
bmyoungs wrote:Source of the post What activities do you have set up?
I have a "Watch TV" and "Watch Netflix" activity. I think I just need to set up a bunch of shortcuts which makes the commands shorter.

Yeah those are my only activities. I did set up shortcuts so I don't have to say "ask Harmony" for every little thing.

I do need to set up my Roku with assistant on my other than that has no sound bar. That would actually be useful.

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Corey · Postby **Corey** » Wed Dec 26, 2018 10:38 pm

My parents got an Echo Dot and I set up the Harmony skill for them. That works pretty slick with cable as you can ask it to turn to specific channels. I even made it so my dad can say turn on the Twins game then it turns on FSN. They were impressed with it.

For our house we just use turn on/off with Assistant. We have multiple hubs so I am stuck using IFTTT until I decide to mess around with it some more. Shield TV just released some Google Assistant integration that I need to test out.

Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 7:59 am

Corey wrote:Source of the post My parents got an Echo Dot and I set up the Harmony skill for them. That works pretty slick with cable as you can ask it to turn to specific channels. I even made it so my dad can say turn on the Twins game then it turns on FSN. They were impressed with it.

HTC Cable? Does the box/DVR enable all that?

Corey · Postby **Corey** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:17 am

Tyler wrote:
Corey wrote:Source of the post My parents got an Echo Dot and I set up the Harmony skill for them. That works pretty slick with cable as you can ask it to turn to specific channels. I even made it so my dad can say turn on the Twins game then it turns on FSN. They were impressed with it.

HTC Cable? Does the box/DVR enable all that?

Anything would work with it. It's just Harmony integration that punches in the tv channel.

Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:24 am

Corey wrote:Source of the post Anything would work with it. It's just Harmony integration that punches in the tv channel.

Ahhh. I misread your post. Didn't see you were doing this through the Harmony hub, I thought it was Dot directly to cable box.

bmyoungs · Postby **bmyoungs** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:35 am

That would be the only good thing about cable again.

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Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:06 am

Costco has the 10" Lenovo Smart Display for $150. Killer deal. If I had an easy way to get back to Costco (was with sister yesterday) I would buy it and sell my 8" for $75. Maybe I'll make it there by the end of the month, otherwise the 8" one is fine for me.

Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:36 am

Tyler wrote:Costco has the 10" Lenovo Smart Display for $150. Killer deal. If I had an easy way to get back to Costco (was with sister yesterday) I would buy it and sell my 8" for $75. Maybe I'll make it there by the end of the month, otherwise the 8" one is fine for me.

I found someone to buy it today for me and tylersucks is buying my 8". $75 upgrade, I'm cool with that.

Now that Jocelyn uses it to watch TV while cooking she will appreciate the size increase.

Not sure if I'll get away with having the 10" Lenovo and 11.6" Dakboard in the kitchen at the same time

Corey · Postby **Corey** » Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:14 am

Tyler wrote:Source of the post
Tyler wrote:Costco has the 10" Lenovo Smart Display for $150. Killer deal. If I had an easy way to get back to Costco (was with sister yesterday) I would buy it and sell my 8" for $75. Maybe I'll make it there by the end of the month, otherwise the 8" one is fine for me.
I found someone to buy it today for me and tylersucks is buying my 8". $75 upgrade, I'm cool with that.

Now that Jocelyn uses it to watch TV while cooking she will appreciate the size increase.

Not sure if I'll get away with having the 10" Lenovo and 11.6" Dakboard in the kitchen at the same time

Time to get a Fire HD 10 and wall mount it nicely

Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:24 pm

New 10" boy. Will find a better spot for it in new kitchen. Hard to tell it's bigger in this picture

ejhartman91 · Postby **ejhartman91** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:46 am

Anyone see this from CES? Makes me slightly regret getting a Google Home Hub for the kitchen now...it is a bit pricier though (we got our Home Hub for $99 from Target with 2 free Home minis).

Tyler · Postby **Tyler** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:16 am

ejhartman91 wrote:Anyone see this from CES? Makes me slightly regret getting a Google Home Hub for the kitchen now...it is a bit pricier though (we got our Home Hub for $99 from Target with 2 free Home minis).

No mention of camera. That's a requirement for me. Looks smaller than Lenovo, both in screen and form factor. Being water resistant is nice, but I don't see it being required. I'm not dropping mine in the sink.

Good looking device. No video. $200+? No deal.

wags83 · Postby **wags83** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:40 pm

Tyler wrote:
ejhartman91 wrote:Anyone see this from CES? Makes me slightly regret getting a Google Home Hub for the kitchen now...it is a bit pricier though (we got our Home Hub for $99 from Target with 2 free Home minis).
Being water resistant is nice, but I don't see it being required. I'm not dropping mine in the sink.

Yeah but you're super messy with sauces

ejhartman91 · Postby **ejhartman91** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:45 pm

Tyler wrote:Source of the post I'm not dropping mine in the sink.

But what if you could?