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Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs
Google is now an open smart home platform, and your Chromecast will be a Matter hub.
Smart home device maker Eve is using the APIs to bring its app to Android for the first time “and build helpful automations like lowering the blinds when the temperature drops at night.” Additionally, Google Pixel devices will use the APIs to bridge “the digital and physical worlds so that bedtime mode can not only dim your screen but can also automatically dim your bedroom lights, lower the shades and lock the front door.” “We are opening up access on a rolling basis so they can begin building and testing within their apps,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, told The Verge. These include lighting, thermostats, locks, refrigerators, dishwashers, dryers, ovens, smoke alarms, air quality monitors, EV chargers, and more.
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