Differing commands based on room

[beninsteon]

Hi,

 

Has anyone figured out how to make 2 Google home devices execute different commands based on which room they're in?

 

This is complicated for echo, but at least possible (just made the switch to GH because of the awesome Chromecast audio support).

 

Eg. I have kitchen table lights and dining table lights, but in different rooms. When the kitchen GH hears "turn on table lights" I want the kitchen table lights on, and when the dining room one hears the same thing I want the dining table lights on. The devices are far enough apart that one won't get triggered from the other room.

 

Thanks,

 

Ben

[James Peterson]

I have not experimented like this, but have you assigned the GH to a room and then assigned the lights to same room?  

[brians]

This does not seem possible yet. My wife figured it out and thinks it’s real funny to tell google “turn the lights off” and the whole house shuts off. Or sometimes she does the opposite and turns everything on.

 

I wish google would fix this because it would be very simple to do. Or at least disable the ability to turn on or off all lights in my house with one simple voice command.

[beninsteon]

I wish google would fix this because it would be very simple to do. Or at least disable the ability to turn on or off all lights in my house with one simple voice command.

This is possible. Use a shortcut that makes "turn off everything", "turn off all the lights", "turn off lights", etc do something else. This will override the default Google action to turn everything off (Hamburger icon --> more settings --> shortcuts). The same can be done for the turn on commands.

Edited January 8, 2018 by beninsteon

[MWareman]

It does make me wonder why (in the Home app) it makes it very visible that Google want you to assign rooms to devices. So far, there does not appear to be any way Home uses this association.

 

Even pairing a chromecast to Home is a separate thing...

 

I’m betting it will arrive... maybe... hopefully. I now have 6 Google Homes around the house - right now it’s our intercom (‘Hey Google, Broadcast.....’)

[James Peterson]

It does make me wonder why (in the Home app) it makes it very visible that Google want you to assign rooms to devices. So far, there does not appear to be any way Home uses this association.

 

Even pairing a chromecast to Home is a separate thing...

 

I’m betting it will arrive... maybe... hopefully. I now have 6 Google Homes around the house - right now it’s our intercom (‘Hey Google, Broadcast.....’)

I use the "rooms" in google home to say for example "turn on the "kitchen"  lights" . and it will turn on all the lights I have in the kitchen. 

[stusviews]

Alexa offers options, different wake words, different accounts, and with the smartphone app, different groups, all free. With competition like that, Google surely will respond

[MWareman]

I use the "rooms" in google home to say for example "turn on the "kitchen" lights" . and it will turn on all the lights I have in the kitchen.

True, forgot about that...

 

It’s a shame that the command ‘turn on the lights’ when received by a Home that’s assigned to the Kitchen also doesn’t turn on only the Kitchen lights.