Roger Fingas / Android Authority
TL;DR Google Home is developing a new workflow for setting up new devices.
The interface is search-based, letting you look up a brand’s app or individual models.
You can easily see which hardware supports Matter, and confirm your results with a picture.
The Gemini-fication of Google Home has begun, and if you signed up for early access, you’ve had the opportunity to try out the new Home UI for a few weeks now. But not all the changes we saw Google working on have been implemented yet. Today we’re taking another look at one of those WIP tweaks, as we preview what Home is doing to make it easier to set up new devices.
Last time around, we were able to surface a new interface for the screen the Home app uses to scan a QR code for adding a new device.
Google Home - Current UI Google Home - Upcoming UI
Even with early access, we’re still seeing that screen on the left. But today we’re not so much concerned with this QR-based workflow as we are with that button at the bottom of the new UI for alternate setup methods. That wasn’t working at all for us when we took a peek last month, but now we’re finally able to get an advance look at the changes waiting behind it.
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