Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

Back at Google I/O, Google proclaimed 2 new options for Google Assistant: custom routines and schedules — each that specialize in automating belongings you do often, however in several ways that.

The first enables you to trigger multiple commands with one custom phrase — like locution “Hey Google, I’m awake” to unsilence your phone, activate the lights and skim the news. Schedules, meanwhile, may trigger a series of commands at a particular time on specific days, while not you wanting to say a factor.

While custom routines launched rapidly once I/O, programing has been curiously absent. It’s beginning to roll out nowadays.

As first noticed by DroidLife, it looks like scheduling has started rolling out to users by way of the Google Home app.

To make a schedule:

Open the Google Home app
Go to Settings>Routines
Create a new routine with the + button
Scroll to the “Set a time and day” option to schedule things ahead of time

If you don’t see the “time and day” option yet, check back in a day or two. Google is rolling it out over the next few days (generally done in case there’s some bug it missed), so it might pop up without much fanfare.

Want your bedroom lights to turn on every morning at 7 am on workdays? You can do that. Want that song from the Six Flags commercials to play every day at noon to get you over the hump and/or drive your roommates up a wall? Sure! Want to double-check the door lock, dim the downstairs lights and make sure your entertainment center is off at 2 am? If you’ve got all the smart home hardware required, it should be able to handle it.

While a lot of things you might use Google Assistant for can already be scheduled through their respective third-party apps (most smart lights, for example, have apps with built-in scheduling options), this moves to bring everything under one roof while letting you fire off more complicated sequences all at once. And if something breaks? You’ll know where to look.