How to Use IFTTT with Google Home

Google Home may not have as many skill out-of-the-box as the Amazon Echo, but the integration of Google Assistant with IFTTT (If This Then That) means that you can do a lot more with your smart speaker if you just spend a bit of time setting it up. If anything, you actually get the option of customizing your commands exactly the way you want, rather than working with the default commands programmed by Google. With IFTTT, you can use Google Home to add items to your shopping cart, turn your smart light on or off remotely, fire off an e-mail, send a text message, and do much, much more. To get started, all you need is an IFTTT account, which you can create for free either by going over to the official IFTTTwebsiteor by downloading the app for free from thePlay Storeor theApp Store. Once you’re there, you’ll find that there are lots of existing ‘applets’ or ‘recipes’ that you can use right away, but today, we’ll take a look at how you can create your own. So without further ado, here’s how you can set up an IFTTT applet that will allow you to send notifications simply by giving Google Home that instruction:

Use IFTTT with Google Home

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Use IFTTT to Increase the Functionality of Google Home

IFTTT is an amazing tool that lets you connect your favorite online services and smart devices to one another, creating a seamless experience and adding new functionality to them. The service supports many a platform, including Google Assistant, so if you already own a Google Home or even a smartphone with Google Assistant on it, now is as good a time as any to start taking advantage of the amazing powers of IFTTT if you haven’t been doing so already.

Kishalaya Kundu

Passionate techie. Professional tech writer. Proud geek.

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