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This item works well with other WIFI products and associated accessories such as door locks, Z Wave lighting, wall outlets and music. Controls my zone thermostats on demand and with the updated associated mobile application you’re able to link and modify multiple home mini speakers into groups. If you want honk your TV remote is addictive this device is awesome. Excellent S a cooking assistant, providing recipes, setting timers, alarms, and updating you with current events in the news and weather. I now have four (4) of these placed in strategic locations throughout my home. Love it!
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Purchased for my 80 year old Mother in Law, she loves it! Nice gentle alarm function and she can play music and check the weather and news anytime she likes. Far easier for her to use than a radio because of voice commands. highly recommended for the elderly once you coach them to say OK or Hey instead of just "GOOGLE" each time! Broadcast feature isn't as handy as you might think but still nice to have. Looking forward to more assistant functions in the future. Can also be used to voice command lights with a SONOFF family product or compatible smart bulb.
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Love my google mini! Only reason I rated 4 stars instead of 5 is because sometimes it doesn't recognize my voice when I try to set a reminder. Not sure why as it recognizes my voice for everything else. Seems to only be an issue with reminders. I did send google feedback, but just today. Love google's clever remarks, love the knowledge it has, love how easy it is to work and love the side taps that can change the volume even though there are no physically visible buttons. I have 4 Alexa devices in my home and I still love my google mini. They have different knowledge and it seems google knows more and has several clever comebacks for the same question asked over. Alexa always responds with the same one response answer. I still do love my Alexa's also, though. Oh also in my opinion sound quality is very crisp very good.Read full review
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I mainly got this to replace my Echo because I already pay for Google Play Music and I wanted to use that instead of Prime Music. Minus one star because there's no "real" Bluetooth functionality as it can't play to Bluetooth speakers, so I had to end up getting a chromecast to play it on my TV (via my home theater setup).
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I really like the design and quality of this device, it's quite neutral but very responsive. I bought this to compare it to the Amazon echo, a product I use now. Google home mini has some nice advantages compared to the Amazon echo, the voice recognition seems to be a lot better and it's better at picking up your voice in a noisy environment. It also just looks a lot nicer. However, the software, Google Home, used to manage this device is just awful. The Google Home app has almost no gui tools to work with a smart home environment, for some strange reason Google wants you to use your voice commands to set this up. This is done by asking google home mini to scan for new devices and then you can manage them through additional voice commands, but if you haven't configured your device names with the specific intention of using voice control you have a major problem. I for example have a light in your living room named LightWallLeftLRoom, you can imagine the problems getting a voice recognition system selecting this device. For Amazon echo I can set up routines using the Alexa app gui, which gives me easy visual access to administrate my smart home devices. Using routines i can connect the voice commands i want to use to the devices i want to manage, for example i have a routine called "Good night" which turns off all lights and media center devices. I know Google is implementing something similar, but for now it's only available to the US as far as i can find. I can also mention that Amazon support also is a lot better than Google, from Amazon i at least get a response from a human while Google just links me some random forum threads if i get any response at all.Read full review
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