This Google Home update will change everything for home automation

If you use Google Home and home automation devices compatible with the Google ecosystem, but also and above all with the Matter protocol, this new feature concerns you… and it is even possible that you are waiting for it.

Google has, in fact, just started the deployment of a new update to Google Home allowing complete local control of Matter compatible devices. In other words, this new feature will now allow you to control, with the Google Assistant, the connected objects installed in your home without needing an internet connection.

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Home automation controllable without internet arrives at Google

Detailed by Google in a blog article, this new feature does not come out of nowhere. It was, in fact, already possible to control, in part, the Matter devices locally. The update deployed by Google, however, allows you to go much further, in particular thanks to the integration of the Google Runtime device into the Google Home Hubs. This device allows direct local communication between different compatible devices, emphasizes Hypertextual.

This update makes it possible to remedy one of the main flaws in home automation ecosystems: their uselessness in the event of an internet outage. By implementing a local control system, Google ensures that users in its ecosystem will not be confronted, for example, with bulbs that cannot be turned on with Google Assistant in the event of a network outage, internet outage or problem. with Wi-Fi.

Note that in parallel with this new feature relating to offline control of your connected devices, Google is also investing in opening its ecosystem to third-party companies. We learn, in fact, that the firm has opened its Home APIs to third-party developers. This should in particular allow them to integrate Google Home devices and automation routines directly into their own applications.

The idea? Further boost the potential of the connected home by ensuring more complex interactions and automation between disparate devices.