- Improvements go to the Google Home application
- Camera flows must be more reliable and faster
- Updates are deployed for Android and iOS devices
This is not the best time for the Google Home ecosystem, with a crescendo of user complaints that increases on Buggy devices and applications in recent weeks. Google now brings at least some improvements to the Google Home app for Android and iOS, connected to cameras and nesting bells.
In a somewhat apologetic article on electronic babibllards of the Google Nest community, a member of the Nest team describes improvements. Although the bugs reported with Google Smart Home Kit are not treated directly, they are mentioned.
“We also wanted to take a moment to thank you all,” reads the post. “Although we cannot always reach the brand, we remain determined to listen to our users and build intuitive, reliable and very efficient camera features for your home.”
If you have a camera of a certain description, here are five of the most notable upgrades that direct you.
1. Faster preview
The camera’s overviews will now display a cache image from a previous live view: although it means that the view can be slightly obsolete until it is completely loaded, it means that you can identify which camera is most quickly if you have several configurations in the application.
2. Improved gestures
The gestures have been simplified, so you can now switch between the views of the chronology and the events with a single blow. The expansion and collapse of live views and the dismissal of cameras flows are also controlled with a single scan, which facilitates the movement of the application.
3. Better notifications
Notification overviews have also been improved, so on Android and iOS, you will see a static miniature with a large animated overview – the intention is that you have a better idea of the alert without having to open the Google Home application.
4. Precise reports
Google says that the Google Home app is now better to point out whether your cameras are online or offline, so you know the condition of each camera at any time. The same optimizations under the hood should point out that live performance is also better.
5. Plus fluid performance
Speaking of performance, other adjustments made by the Google home team will reduce latency, reduce the probability of “available” errors “and make sure that the camera flows can be recovered faster when they are off, then back.
These improvements also come from the previous upgrades added by the Google team, which they also mention in the same article: they include increased clarity for videos, a more transparent chronology experience and quick functionality to jump through video clips.
In addition to these software improvements, it looks very much like the new hardware is on the way, because four new Nest devices have recently disclosed. Despite a lot of evidence of the opposite, it seems that Google may not have forgotten the smart house after all.
