Google makes it easier to let friends and kids control your smart home

Google Home’s latest update will facilitate the decision of who in your household can control your smart home. It is delivered with a new feature, which Google began to test last year, which will allow you to award “administrative” and “members” roles to people.

People with administration status have total control of all devices, services and users of their smart home, while members can only use “basic” peripheral commands, such as watching the live view of a security camera. However, administrators can give members additional privileges by giving them “parameters” access, allowing to control the parameters of the device and the house. Administrators can also activate access to “activity” so that members can keep an eye on the history of devices and recent events, such as a visitor picked up by a doorbell camera.

Google also simplifies the process of adding a child under the age of 13 to domestic application. Once you have configured your child with a Google account via a family link, you can invite them to your Google Home, which will add it as a default member.

The previous process concerned using the family Link, Google Home or Google Assistant settings to add your child’s voice to your smart home before inviting them to your home, and many users had trouble working. It seems that Google is now rationalizing the process by allowing you to invite a child to your home via the Google Home application, as long as you add to your Google family group.