This widget allows you to control your houses as if they were mobile applications

Automation in Europe is something that is part of our daily lives. While complex or pre-installed systems are always minority, Most houses generally have an intelligent speaker, or a connected screen, or a smarttv Or, above all, an intelligent bulb or mouth.

Control of them is very simple, especially because Most brands have integration with Alexa or Google Homewhich are two applications which are generally installed on the mobile. In addition, they can be checked by voice commands, from accessories at home or from mobile.

But there is a form of control with which we do not know, and it is the Google Home widget. This application, unlike many others from Google, has only one widget available to put on the desk, but is sufficiently versatile and useful.

To be able to use it We just have to install Google HomeAlthough it is standard in most mobile phones in Europe. In case this is not the case, we can download it from the Google Play Store. Press an empty desktop and select Widget Area. We are looking for Google Home and add it.

Here we will ask you If we want to add all the devices that we have marked as favorites on the web or, better still, than Let's select the ones we want for the widget. This is very useful, because we can reveal that the houses of the house, to light them without errors when we press and activate something else.

When we finish selecting them, the widget Will display a button for each light, And simply with a pulsation, we can activate or deactivate them without having to enter any application. Also, as It is shown in yellow which lights are activeIt is possible to see at a glance if one has been on and turned it off quickly.

Of course, in addition to the lights, we can put other devices if we wish. And as the widget can be resolved, it is viable to make the office area that we want, with a large part of it to a minor area in a corner, according to our preferences and our needs. And if we click on The house icon in the upper right corner will serve direct access to the Google Home applicationBe able to withdraw the shortcut if we had it from the office.