Google Assistant can now gently wake you up with Philips Hue lights

Table of Content

• Google Home can now turn up the lights to wake you gently
• How do I set up the Philips Hue and Google Assistant sleep and wake up feature?
• Control your home
• How many Philips Hue lights can be part of the Philips Hue and Google Assistant sleep and wake up feature?
• Get support
• How to Connect Philips Hue to Google Home

Not only does this mean that it’s incredibly easy to set your Philips Hue wake up settings but it also removes the need to use your phone just before bed to set an alarm, which can be disruptive to falling asleep. The Philips Hue sleep and wake up feature in partnership with Google Assistant, differs from the previous edition as it now allows you to control the feature using just your voice. It also works in conjunction with your Google Assistant alarm, gradually waking you up and bringing your lights up to full brightness just as your alarm goes off.

Once the app has discovered the light, tap it to select. Whether you’ve got bulbs, light fixtures, or all of the above, your Philips Hue lights are compatible with Google Home. With its flexible and extendable design, this lightstrip can accent your room with color. Run it underneath the bed or behind a dresser to complete your custom sunrise. Link to rooms – Google use their own room groups so you will need to go through each bulb and tag it to a room.

Google Home can now turn up the lights to wake you gently

The updated google home app on iOS does not have a “home control” menu option. Below are a list of popular commands you can say to changes the lights in your home via your Google assistant. Users can instruct their Philips Hue lights via the Google Assistant to sleep and wake immediately, meaning the Philips Hue lights will activate the sleep and wake process directly for the 30-minute duration. Lights added – Once set up all your Hue bulbs and lights will be automatically shown. The feature won't be widely available, at least not for a while.

The new Philips Hue and Google Assistant sleep and wake up feature is a new functionality which offers you the option to activate sleep and wake up light settings with a simple voice command. Smart lights still tend to offer a rude awakening if you tie them to your alarm, but Google wants to fix that. It's delivering a promised Gentle Sleep & Wake feature for Home speakers that gradually dims or brightens your Philips Hue lights to provide a more natural rest. Say the right command (such as "turn on Gentle Wake Up," "wake up my lights" or "sleep my lights") and the lights will change over the course of half an hour. You can set specific times if you intend to use it as part of your daily routine. This feature is available for all smart lights, switches and plugs that are set up under the device type 'Light' in the Google Home app.

How do I set up the Philips Hue and Google Assistant sleep and wake up feature?

Philips first announced this integration at CES earlier this year, with a planned rollout in March. Looks like that took a little while longer, as Google and Philips gently brought this feature to life. Your light will now appear in the Home app and can be controlled with Google Assistant. Tap the back arrow icon to return to the main screen of the Google Home app. All your Philips Hue lights and Rooms will now be listed. How you connect Hue lights to Google Assistant depends on whether you want to connect with a Hue Bridge or Bluetooth.

Here you can see a long list of supported devices, you are looking for Philips Hue, once found tap to select. You will be redirected to your Philips Hue account page. Tap Yes to grant the Google Home app permission to control your Hue lights. The app will link Philips Hue to Google Assistant.

Control your home

No connection to Google at all, cant log into account in setting, just asks for permission and blanks out, blank web page when connecting in assistant, abslote waste of time, so very poor be sending straight back. Reconnected Google Home, add the hue, redirected to the hue site to acknowledge Google Home can use the device. Login/Authorise – Once selected you may need to login to your Philips Hue account and authorise access for this app, you may also need to pair with the bridge depending on your set up.

We guide you through adding hue lights to Google home and how to do this. The feature — fittingly called Gentle Sleep & Wake — is designed to mimic a sunrise and sunset. It will let you get the kind of luxury experience that people who can afford homes and apartments with natural light get on a daily basis but through cold, artificial Wi-Fi lightbulbs instead. Choose when your sunrise begins, as well as its duration, brightness, and even the type of sunrise it is. Let the morning sun wake you in your bedroom no matter what time of year or season it is. It’s a personal wake-up call designed by our lighting experts, and then customized by you.

Who cares if the lights come on slowly or all at once? ” Scientific studies have shown that slowly increasing the brightness of your lights mimics the rise of the sun and helps promote serotonin production. This results in you waking up more alert and ready to face the day. If you struggle to find the energy to get out of bed in the morning — or you fight with grogginess for hours after waking — this is a much-needed boon. Set a sunset by telling your Google Home, “OK Google, sleep the lights.” And you will create a 30 minute sunset.

You can even turn your Hue bulbs different colors too, just by saying ‘Ok Google, turn my lounge lamp red’ and it will turn red. Melatonin, the hormone that helps to regulate our wake and sleep cycle, is influenced by light, whether that’s natural or artificial light. By having the right light as we prepare for bed, we can get a better night’s sleep, whereas waking up with the right light can help us start the day feeling more energized. Smart lighting can help you wind down after a busy day and wake up gradually, improving your overall well-being, mood and even cognitive performance. When you connect Hue lights to Google Assistant, you get voice control — and the possibility to bring all the smart devices in your home together.

This functionality will work similarly to when you would like to wake up. Signify has developed the Philips Hue and Google Assistant sleep and wake up feature to enable you to activate your go to sleep and wake up functions using just your voice. Responding to Philips Hue fans’ desire for enhanced control and ease of use, this new update in partnership with Google Assistant will help you to realize the full benefits of having a truly connected home. However, it's good to see Google adding features to its own smart devices, making it quicker and easier to set up the sunrise simulation, and negating the need to reach for your smartphone when thinking about bedtime.

The brightening lights should wake you up over time instead of abruptly like standard alarms. It's not working as designed right now, but once it is fixed, there is a 'scheduling' function available in any custom routine you make in Google Home. So, while it doesn't necessarily tie it to your Sleep Cycle app and automate after the alarm, it does allow you to indicate a specific time of day that you want it to trigger every day. Adding via the Google Home app, you log in, then are prompted to “simply tap the big button” to authenticate.