Use smart lights with Google Nest or Home devices

Supported smart lights

Fabricated for Google

When you choose Made for Google light bulbs, you can set them up from kickoff to end in the Google Home app. You won't need a bridge or hub or the bulb maker's app.

Made for Google lite bulbs:

  • C by GE

Works with the Google Banana

Works with the Google Banana light bulbs are uniform with the Google Assistant but are not Fabricated for Google. To set up Works with the Google Assistant bulbs, you'll need both the Google Home app and the bulb maker's app. Yous may as well need a bridge or hub from the bulb maker. Explore the Google Assistant partnerswhich brand Works with Google Assistant low-cal bulbs.

Prepare up and link your light bulb

Made for Google calorie-free bulbs

  1. Plug in your bulb in the aforementioned room as your Google Nest or Home speaker or brandish.
  2. Gear up your speaker or display, if you haven't already done so.
  3. Open the Google Domicile appGoogle Home app.
  4. At the tiptop left, tap Add  Set up deviceplus  New device .
  5. Select the lite bulb you'd like to set up. 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 together custom room and then type in room proper nameand then tap Next.
  7. Create a unique proper name. Type in the desired proper name for your bulb that you lot'll use for voice commands. Information technology'southward recommended to utilise a contextual proper name similar "reading light" or "overhead light." For all-time results, don't include the room proper noun in the calorie-free'south name (your speaker or display already knows which room it's in).
  8. Setting up your smart light. Your bulb may blink a few times.
  9. Your light is set. TapDone.
  10. Setup is successful. You can now control your lights with your speaker or display.

Works with the Google Assistant calorie-free bulbs

  1. Follow the seedling maker'southward instructions to ready your bulb. You may demand to set up a bridge or hub, if you haven't already done so.
  2. Plug in and plough on your bulb in the aforementioned room every bit your speaker or display.
  3. Fix your speaker or display.
  4. Open the Google Dwelling house app Google Home app.
  5. At the top left, tap Add Set up device plus Works with Google.
  6. Tap your bulb maker's logoand then follow the steps to complete setup. You may demand to sign in to your seedling maker's app. The app volition guide you through the residue of the steps.

Control your lights with your speaker or display

Basic voice commands

To exercise this: Say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google," then:
To turn a light on or off "Turn on or off <calorie-free name>"
Dim a light "Dim the <low-cal proper name>"
Brighten a lite "Brighten the <light proper name>"
Fix a light brightness to a certain per centum "Fix <light name> to l%"
Dim or brighten lights by a certain pct

"Dim <calorie-free proper noun> by 50%"

"Burnish <light name> by 30%"
Change the color of a light "Turn <light proper name> light-green"
Turn all lights in room on or off "Plough on or off lights in <room name>"
Plow all lights on or off "Turn on or off all of the lights"

Use the Google Home app

Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app and then touch on and hold the light you want. Yous'll detect controls for brightness. If your bulb has colour options, yous'll also find color controls.

Schedule and control multiple lights with Routines

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

  1. Open the Google Habitation app Google Home app.
  2. Tap Routines and thenAdd a routine.
  3. To create whatever Routine, enter the phonation command you'll employ to tell the Google Assistant to start the Routine. You must ever enter a voice control in the app, but if you schedule your Routine, information technology will start at the gear up day and fourth dimension without the phonation command.
  4. To schedule a Routine, set the time and day(southward), and the speaker you want to use.
  5. Tap Add together activityand then enter a Google Assistant command (optional) and then tap Popular actions and then enter all the lights you want your Banana to suit and whatsoever other actions you desire and then tap Add.
  6. To include a control to play sound media, tap Add media and then the media you desire to play and thenAdd.

Ready nicknames for your bulbs

For ameliorate control, give each of your bulbs its own nickname.

  1. To create or change a nickname, open the Google Habitation app Google Home app.
  2. Bear upon and hold your device's tile.
  3. At the top correct, tap Settings Settings iconand thenName.
  4. Enter a name and then tap Save.

Annotation: For best results, don't include the room name or a number in the nickname. As well, this nickname only appears in the Google Dwelling house app. If yous use your device maker'southward app, this nickname will non appear.

Assign your bulbs to a room

To command your lights more easily, assign them to a room in a abode. Y'all can create a new home, create a new room, or add your lights to an existing room.

Notation: All members of the home can control all lights in the home.

Add the bulb to an existing room in your current home

  1. Open up the Google Domicile appGoogle Home app.
  2. Impact and hold the bulb's tile you want to add together to a room.
  3. At the top right, tap Settings Settings icon and thenRoom and then choose a roomand then tap Salve.

Add together the bulb to a new room in your current home

  1. Open the Google Dwelling house appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and agree the bulb's tile you desire to add to a room.
  3. At the tiptop right, tap Settings Settings iconand thenRoomand then scroll to the bottom and tap Add a custom room and then enter the room nameand then tap Salvage.

Add the seedling to a room in a different home

  1. Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app.
  2. Impact and agree the bulb'southward tile you lot want to add to a room.
  3. At the top right, tap Settings Settings icon and thenDwelling house and then cull a dwelling house and then tap Next and then cull a room and then tap Next.

​Unlink your lights from speaker or display

  1. Open the Google Habitation appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and hold your device'southward tile.
  3. At the top right, tap SettingsSettings icon and then Remove device and then Remove.

Production specific information

C by GE

You can connect up to 6 C past GE light bulbs for each speaker or display.

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

If you have bulbs already set up in the C by GE app, you can delete them from the C by GE app and set them up in the Google Dwelling house app.

Plow 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 volition manufacturing plant reset the bulbs. They volition blink 3 times if the factory reset is successful. If they don't blink, you will need to mill reset each seedling manually. Note that the reset sequence is different depending on your bulbs' firmware version. If the first reset sequence doesn't piece of work, you have an older firmware version and will need to utilise the second reset sequence.

Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app and follow the setup sequence for Made for Google.

Annotation: The bulb may blink during its first firmware update afterward being ready up with the Google Home App.

Colour control vocalization commands for C-Slumber bulbs

To practise this: Say "Hey Google" or "Ok Google," then:
Set C-Sleep bulbs to Vibrant or wake color "Ready lights to bright white"
Set C-Slumber bulbs to Active or everyday color "Ready lights to soft white"
Set C-Sleep bulbs to Calm or sleep colour "Set lights to candlelight"
Change the colour temperature of C-Sleep bulbs "Change lights to 2700 kelvin" (2000-7000 range)

Unlink your bulb(s) from your speaker or display

Note: Yous cannot unlink individual C by GE smart lights. When you remove one seedling through the "Unlink C by GE" flow, it volition remove all C past GE light bulbs.

  1. Make sure your bulb(south) are powered on.
  2. Open the Google Home appGoogle Home app.
  3. Bear upon and hold the C past GE light bulb'due south tile.
  4. Tap Settings Settings icon and then Remove device and then Remove. (This will remove all your GE bulbs. This currently doesn't support the removal of individual C past GE calorie-free bulbs).

If the Google Dwelling app tin't discover your bulb during set upwards

  • Plough the bulb off for ten seconds, then turn information technology dorsum on.
  • Make sure you accept the latest version of the Google Dwelling house app.
  • Reboot your speaker or display.
  • Forcefulness close the Google Home app.
  • Factory reset your C by GE bulb.
  • Factory reset your speaker or display.

Notation: If your bulbs don't show up in either the Google Habitation app or the C past GE app, they probably demand to be factory reset. They might also use older firmware, so follow the 2nd manufacturing plant reset sequence if the starting time sequence doesn't work.

If your bulb doesn't respond

  • Make sure the wall outlet receives ability. Check that your wall switch is on.
  • Plow the bulb off and on. The bulb takes up to 1 infinitesimal afterward receiving power to reconnect to the speaker or display. Effort your light and check if it works. If so, you're done.
  • Attempt to use the bulb in a unlike lamp or socket.
  • If the higher up steps don't work, you may need to manufacturing plant reset your C by GE seedling and prepare up the bulb once more.

If yous get the error bulletin "Something went wrong"

  • The signal betwixt your seedling and your speaker or display might not exist strong enough. To increment the signal forcefulness, move the seedling and your speaker or display closer to each other. They should be no more than fifteen feet apart.
  • You might non be a member of the habitation that the bulb was set in. Ask the person who created the home to add y'all equally a member.
  • Other devices near your speaker or brandish, or C by GE bulbs, might cause interference. If you have a nearby Wi-Fi router, cordless telephone, microwave, or Bluetooth speaker, motility it further abroad if you can.
  • You might have too many C past GE bulbs on ane speakers and displays. You can add upwards to 6 bulbs on each speakers and displays.

If you're still unable to resolve the effect, share feedback about speakers and displays.

Factory reset your C past GE bulbs

  1. Make sure all your bulbs are turned on.
  2. Factory reset your bulbs. Note that the reset sequence is different depending on your bulbs' firmware version. If your bulbs don't flash on and off three times after you finish the first reset sequence, you'll demand to utilise the 2d reset sequence.
  3. Reboot the speaker or display you use to set up your bulbs. Then attempt to re-setup your bulbs using the Google Dwelling app.

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

Philips Hue

Phonation commands for Philips Hue scenes

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

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

  1. Say the vox control, "Hey Google, sync all devices."
  2. Check the following items on your Philips Hue span:
    1. Is your Philips Hue bridge powered up?
    2. Have you plugged your bridge into your Wi-Fi router?
    3. Are all the lights on the summit of the bridge illuminated?
  3. Make sure your speaker or display, and Philips Hue bridge, are on the same Wi-Fi network and continued to the same router.
  4. Reboot your speaker or display and the Philips Hue bridge.

Full general troubleshooting

Initial checklist

  1. Is your speaker or display powered on?
  2. Is your speaker or display successfully fix on your Wi-Fi network?
  3. Are your smart light bulbs successfully set on the same WiFi network?
  4. Are you using the supported phonation commands listed above?
  5. If your lights are also set up in the device maker'south 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 low-cal bulbs, are all on the same Wi-Fi network. If y'all use a span, too check the Wi-Fi network of the span.
  • Make sure your mobile device and your speakers and displays are linked to the aforementioned Google Account.
  • Brand sure your calorie-free bulbs are linked in the Google Home app.
  • Say the vocalization command, "Hey Google, sync all devices."
  • Rename your light bulb.
    • Remove the room proper name from the light name. For example, use "Desk Light" instead of "Sleeping room Desk Low-cal."
    • Remove numbers and special characters from the low-cal proper noun. For example, use "Favorite Light" instead of "The #1 Light."
    • Brand all seedling names unique. For example, use "Reading Light" and "TV Light" instead of "Right Sofa Light" and "Left Sofa Light."

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