Utilize smart lights with Google Nest or Dwelling house devices

Supported smart lights

Made for Google

When you choose Made for Google light bulbs, y'all can set them upward from start to end in the Google Domicile app. You won't need a bridge or hub or the seedling maker's app.

Made for Google calorie-free bulbs:

  • C by GE

Works with the Google Assistant

Works with the Google Assistant low-cal bulbs are compatible with the Google Assistant but are not Made for Google. To ready up Works with the Google Assistant bulbs, yous'll need both the Google Home app and the seedling maker's app. You may besides need a bridge or hub from the bulb maker. Explore the Google Assistant partnerswhich brand Works with Google Assistant low-cal bulbs.

Ready and link your lite bulb

Made for Google lite bulbs

  1. Plug in your seedling in the same room equally your Google Nest or Habitation speaker or display.
  2. Set up your speaker or display, if you haven't already done so.
  3. Open the Google Abode appGoogle Home app.
  4. At the pinnacle left, tap Add  Ready deviceplus  New device .
  5. Select the low-cal seedling you'd like to set upward. Your bulb will blink when selected.
  6. Where is this device? Choose what room your seedling is in.
    1. To create a custom room, tapAdd custom room and then type in room nameand then tap Next.
  7. Create a unique proper noun. Type in the desired name for your bulb that you lot'll use for phonation commands. It's recommended to use a contextual name like "reading light" or "overhead light." For best results, don't include the room name in the light's name (your speaker or display already knows which room information technology's in).
  8. Setting up your smart low-cal. Your bulb may blink a few times.
  9. Your lite is gear up. TapDone.
  10. Setup is successful. You can at present command your lights with your speaker or display.

Works with the Google Assistant light bulbs

  1. Follow the bulb maker'southward instructions to fix your bulb. You may need to prepare up a bridge or hub, if you lot haven't already washed and so.
  2. Plug in and turn on your bulb in the aforementioned room equally your speaker or display.
  3. Gear up your speaker or display.
  4. Open the Google Home app Google Home app.
  5. At the superlative left, tap Add Set up device plus Works with Google.
  6. Tap your bulb maker'south logoand then follow the steps to complete setup. You may need to sign in to your seedling maker'due south app. The app will guide you through the rest of the steps.

Control your lights with your speaker or brandish

Basic voice commands

To do this: Say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google," then:
To turn a lite on or off "Turn on or off <calorie-free proper noun>"
Dim a calorie-free "Dim the <light proper noun>"
Brighten a calorie-free "Burnish the <light name>"
Fix a light brightness to a sure percentage "Set up <light name> to 50%"
Dim or brighten lights past a certain percentage

"Dim <light name> by 50%"

"Brighten <light proper noun> by 30%"

Change the color of a light "Turn <light proper name> dark-green"
Turn all lights in room on or off "Plow on or off lights in <room proper noun>"
Turn all lights on or off "Turn on or off all of the lights"

Use the Google Domicile app

Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app and then bear on and hold the lite you desire. You'll find controls for brightness. If your bulb has color options, you'll besides discover color controls.

Schedule and control multiple lights with Routines

You tin can use Routines to schedule your lights and control multiple lights with one vox command.

  1. Open the Google Home app Google Home app.
  2. Tap Routines and thenAdd a routine.
  3. To create any Routine, enter the voice command yous'll employ to tell the Google Assistant to start the Routine. You must always enter a voice command in the app, but if you schedule your Routine, it will beginning at the set day and fourth dimension without the voice command.
  4. To schedule a Routine, prepare the fourth dimension and day(s), and the speaker you want to apply.
  5. Tap Add together actionand then enter a Google Assistant control (optional) and then tap Pop deportment and then enter all the lights you desire your Assistant to arrange and any other actions yous want and then tap Add together.
  6. To include a command to play audio media, tap Add media and then the media yous desire to play and thenAdd.

Ready nicknames for your bulbs

For better control, requite each of your bulbs its own nickname.

  1. To create or modify a nickname, open up the Google Dwelling app Google Home app.
  2. Touch and concur your device'southward tile.
  3. At the height correct, tap Settings Settings iconand thenName.
  4. Enter a name and then tap Salve.

Notation: For best results, don't include the room name or a number in the nickname. Also, this nickname only appears in the Google Dwelling app. If you utilise your device maker'southward app, this nickname will not appear.

Assign your bulbs to a room

To control your lights more easily, assign them to a room in a home. You tin create a new home, create a new room, or add your lights to an existing room.

Note: All members of the dwelling house can command all lights in the abode.

Add the bulb to an existing room in your current abode

  1. Open the Google Dwelling house appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and hold the seedling'due south tile you want to add to a room.
  3. At the acme right, tap Settings Settings icon and thenRoom and then cull a roomand then tap Save.

Add together the seedling to a new room in your current dwelling

  1. Open up the Google Habitation appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and agree the bulb's tile you want to add to a room.
  3. At the top correct, tap Settings Settings iconand thenRoomand then whorl to the bottom and tap Add a custom room and then enter the room nameand then tap Save.

Add together the bulb to a room in a different home

  1. Open the Google Dwelling house appGoogle Home app.
  2. Affect and hold the bulb's tile you want to add to a room.
  3. At the top right, tap Settings Settings icon and thenHome and then cull a home and then tap Next and then choose a room and then tap Next.

Unlink your lights from speaker or brandish

  1. Open the Google Domicile appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and agree your device's tile.
  3. At the height right, tap SettingsSettings icon and then Remove device and then Remove.

Product specific information

C by GE

You can connect up to six C by GE calorie-free bulbs for each speaker or display.

Move C by GE bulbs from the C by GE app to the Google Domicile app

If y'all have bulbs already set up in the C by GE app, yous tin delete them from the C by GE app and fix them upward in the Google Domicile app.

Turn on your C past GE lights. The bulbs must be turned on before you continue.

Delete the bulbs from the C by GE app. This will manufactory reset the bulbs. They will blink 3 times if the manufacturing plant reset is successful. If they don't blink, you lot will demand to factory reset each seedling manually. Annotation that the reset sequence is different depending on your bulbs' firmware version. If the beginning reset sequence doesn't work, you have an older firmware version and will need to use the second reset sequence.

Open up the Google Habitation appGoogle Home app and follow the setup sequence for Fabricated for Google.

Note: The seedling may blink during its first firmware update subsequently being set up with the Google Home App.

Colour control voice commands for C-Sleep bulbs

To do this: Say "Hey Google" or "Ok Google," so:
Gear up C-Sleep bulbs to Vibrant or wake color "Set up lights to vivid white"
Set C-Sleep bulbs to Active or everyday colour "Set lights to soft white"
Set C-Sleep bulbs to Calm or sleep color "Set lights to candlelight"
Alter the colour temperature of C-Sleep bulbs "Change lights to 2700 kelvin" (2000-7000 range)

Unlink your bulb(southward) from your speaker or display

Note: You cannot unlink individual C past GE smart lights. When you remove i bulb through the "Unlink C by GE" flow, it will remove all C by GE light bulbs.

  1. Brand sure your bulb(s) are powered on.
  2. Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app.
  3. Touch and hold the C by GE light seedling's tile.
  4. Tap Settings Settings icon and then Remove device and then Remove. (This volition remove all your GE bulbs. This currently doesn't support the removal of private C by GE light bulbs).

If the Google Home app tin can't discover your bulb during set up

  • Plough the bulb off for 10 seconds, then plough it back on.
  • Brand certain you take the latest version of the Google Home app.
  • Reboot your speaker or display.
  • Force close the Google Home app.
  • Factory reset your C by GE seedling.
  • Manufactory reset your speaker or brandish.

Notation: If your bulbs don't show upwards in either the Google Home app or the C by GE app, they probably demand to be factory reset. They might likewise apply older firmware, and so follow the second factory reset sequence if the first sequence doesn't work.

If your seedling doesn't answer

  • Make sure the wall outlet receives power. Bank check that your wall switch is on.
  • Turn the bulb off and on. The bulb takes up to one minute subsequently receiving power to reconnect to the speaker or display. Try your low-cal and check if information technology works. If and then, you're done.
  • Endeavor to use the bulb in a dissimilar lamp or socket.
  • If the above steps don't work, you lot may need to manufacturing plant reset your C by GE seedling and prepare up the bulb again.

If you become the fault bulletin "Something went wrong"

  • The signal betwixt your seedling and your speaker or display might not be strong enough. To increase the betoken forcefulness, motility the bulb and your speaker or brandish closer to each other. They should be no more than fifteen feet apart.
  • You might not be a member of the dwelling house that the bulb was set upwardly in. Inquire the person who created the abode to add you every bit a member.
  • Other devices nearly your speaker or display, or C by GE bulbs, might cause interference. If you take a nearby Wi-Fi router, cordless phone, microwave, or Bluetooth speaker, motility it further abroad if you lot can.
  • You might accept likewise many C by GE bulbs on one speakers and displays. You tin can add up to 6 bulbs on each speakers and displays.

If y'all're all the same unable to resolve the issue, share feedback nigh speakers and displays.

Factory reset your C past GE bulbs

  1. Make sure all your bulbs are turned on.
  2. Factory reset your bulbs. Notation that the reset sequence is different depending on your bulbs' firmware version. If your bulbs don't flash on and off iii times after y'all finish the commencement reset sequence, you lot'll need to use the 2nd reset sequence.
  3. Reboot the speaker or brandish you use to set up your bulbs. So endeavour to re-setup your bulbs using the Google Home app.

Note: If your bulbs are continued to the C by GE app, you can also factory reset your bulbs by unlinking them from the C past GE app. The bulbs will blink 3 times when unlinked from the app. This confirms the manufactory reset was successful.

Philips Hue

Vocalisation commands for Philips Hue scenes

To do this: Say "Hey Google," then:
Activate a scene "Actuate <scene name>" or "Set <scene proper noun>"
"Set <room name> to <scene name>"
Deactivate a scene "Deactivate <scene name>"

If you can't pair your Philips Hue bridge with speaker or display

  1. Say the phonation command, "Hey Google, sync all devices."
  2. Check the post-obit items on your Philips Hue bridge:
    1. Is your Philips Hue bridge powered up?
    2. Have you lot plugged your bridge into your Wi-Fi router?
    3. Are all the lights on the top of the bridge illuminated?
  3. Make sure your speaker or brandish, and Philips Hue bridge, are on the aforementioned Wi-Fi network and connected to the same router.
  4. Reboot your speaker or display and the Philips Hue span.

Full general troubleshooting

Initial checklist

  1. Is your speaker or display powered on?
  2. Is your speaker or display successfully fix up on your Wi-Fi network?
  3. Are your smart light bulbs successfully set up on the aforementioned WiFi network?
  4. Are you using the supported voice commands listed above?
  5. If your lights are too ready in the device maker'southward app, are yous able to control your lights through that app?

Troubleshooting steps

  • Make sure your mobile device, your speaker or display, and your smart lite bulbs, are all on the same Wi-Fi network. If you lot employ a bridge, besides cheque the Wi-Fi network of the bridge.
  • Brand certain your mobile device and your speakers and displays are linked to the same Google Account.
  • Make sure your light bulbs are linked in the Google Home app.
  • Say the vox control, "Hey Google, sync all devices."
  • Rename your light bulb.
    • Remove the room name from the light proper noun. For instance, utilise "Desk Lite" instead of "Bedchamber Desk Calorie-free."
    • Remove numbers and special characters from the low-cal name. For example, use "Favorite Light" instead of "The #ane Light."
    • Make all bulb names unique. For example, use "Reading Light" and "TV Low-cal" instead of "Right Sofa Light" and "Left Sofa Low-cal."

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