While Gemini’s AI is about to be deployed in Google Home for certain tasks, Google is now preparing to update the app with a mode that many users have long requested: vacation mode. And this fills one of the biggest gaps in Google’s system so pretend there is someone home.
Simulating turning lights on and off at certain times, or raising or lowering blinds at certain times, randomly, is a very interesting security measure. Manually setting up Google Home to automate certain processes can be useful, but it’s extremely complex to do this way, and it’s almost better to abandon the idea.
Lo found in Google Home version 3.23.1.3 displays a setting for vacation mode. The new feature is not yet fully optimized or ready to be deployed like other features found very recently, but its discovery is a pleasant surprise to add more value to the Google app.
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Details are scarce, but it looks like the new mode will take care of that. automate some smart devices randomlysuch as the lighting system, playing music or activating the blinds to give the impression that there is someone inside the house activating them at certain times of the day.
This discovery joins Matter integration in a somewhat deeper way than it has been so far, and this system, to unify that of the different manufacturers and thus be able to manage all the devices from a central system, has not expanded as expected.
The new discovery determines that Setting up the topic will be easier
For now, according to Android PoliceThe deployment date of both options is unknown, and of course the most interesting is the possibility of activating the vacation mode to simulate the presence of people in the home. A mode that will surely be used by many, since the more smart devices you have at home, the easier it will be to activate them randomly to use them as an excellent security system.
