More and more homes have a smart speaker or assistant. These began as something purely anecdotal, and little by little they have been dazzling the public with their various functions. From the mobile phone itself we can make all kinds of settings to configure our voice assistant, and therefore, extend this configuration to your smart speaker.
In this article we show you how to set up ‘Family Notices’, a feature that can offer us a lot of play when it comes to issue common reminders from a smart speaker. In this way, the assistant can give you a hand to notify you to clean the house, water the plants, watch a family movie, and much more.
How to activate a family reminder with the Google Assistant
If you are one of those who like to make family plans, perhaps this feature will come in handy, since it is a way to take advantage of the smart speaker to send notices at home. The only thing we need is a speaker or any device compatible with Google Assistant.
Activating family notifications is very easy. For it, we must access the Google Assistant settings from a compatible mobile phone. On Android we can do it from the Google app that is included natively on the phone. In the case of iOS, it will have to be downloaded from the App Store.
From the Google app, we press the icon of our profile located in the upper right and select ‘Settings’. Once here, we go to ‘Google Assistant’ and sliding down we select the option of ‘family notice’.
As you can see, the options that come by default are very diverse, since there are predefined notifications for, for example, watching a movie, having breakfast, watering the plants, cleaning the house, and much more. However, also allows us to configure our own custom notices.
To add a custom notice, all we have to do is click on the option ‘Add an alarm’ and fill in the ‘Warning’ and ‘Time’ boxes. In addition, it is possible to make it repeat for several days of the week. Under the selection of the days, also we can configure on which device we want the alarm to soundbe it on a smart speaker, on an Android phone, or on a TV compatible with Google Assistant, among others.
When the alarm is active and configured, the Google Assistant will alert us with its own voice and the message that we have left. In addition, the function has the option activated that guests can also create alarms by default. To deactivate this option, all you have to do is click on the settings icon in the same family notifications menu and disable the option.