At I/O 2025, Google announced a new “Home Summary Widget” for Pixel devices, while bringing Gemini to the Home APIs for third-party developers.
This new homescreen widget features the Home icon badged by a sparkle, with a refresh icon and when it was last updated on the other side. The goal is to provide “insights about your home without having to open an app.”
This “personalized, real-time summary” of what’s happening at home is based on your “usage and preferences.” You get a sentence noting recent occurrences in a conversational manner, while it’s expanded upon in the list below with accompanying actions. For example:
- Package seen at front door: View
- Upstairs vacuum started: Stop
- Downstairs heating to 70 degrees: Adjust
On Pixel devices, this is powered by Gemini Nano. Google says the “Home Summary Widget on Pixel” is currently in testing “with a select set of users.”
Meanwhile, Google provided an update on third-party apps and hardware using the Home APIs, with developers able to access over 750 million devices (connected to Google Home).
Google is bringing Gemini to the Home APIs to allow for developers to access features like AI descriptions of video and searching camera history.
Another new Gemini capability for the Automations API is Suggested Automations that “proactively suggests potentially useful automations they might not have thought of.” There’s also new, more sophisticated Automation starters/triggers like dates and weather conditions.
Notable early access partner examples include:
- First Alert: “ Control your smoke alarm from the First Alert app or the Google Home app and seamlessly interconnect with your existing Nest Protects.”
- Yale: “Yale’s upcoming Matter lock, the successor to the Nest x Yale lock, takes advantage of the best-in-class lock features in the Google Home app, built using the Home APIs.”
- Cync: “Imagine your home automatically adjusting lighting and fan settings to ensure your pet’s comfort when you’re away. Cync is making this a reality.”
- iRobot: “Select iRobot Roomba® robots can create automations using Google Home presence sensing, so they can automatically clean your home when you leave the house, ensuring a spotless return.”
- Motorola Moto Tag: “You can create custom smart home routines triggered by simple tag interactions, offering unparalleled personalization.”
- Tuya Smart: “Tuya Smart is enhancing seamless interoperability. Now, users can easily set up a Matter device and control devices connected to Google directly in Tuya Smart app.”
FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.
Comments