With the Google Home Mini already aircraft and being delivered, we figured now would exist a good time to walk yous through how to set and become started with your new smart speaker. Thankfully, about of the setup procedure takes identify within the Home app, which ways the unabridged process simply takes a few minutes.

How to set up the Google Domicile Mini

  1. Unbox your Google Habitation Mini, taking out the unit itself and its microUSB ability cable
  2. Plug the Home Mini into the wall and await for information technology to play a chime and say that information technology's ready to exist prepare
  3. Download the Google Dwelling application from the Play Store
  4. Open theHome application and sign in with your Google account
  5. Select theDevices icon in the top correct corner of the brandish that looks like a television and speaker
  6. Yous should see your Google Home Mini at the top of the card, offering to let you ready information technology up. Tap onGear up Up
  7. Follow the on-screen steps which will walk you through connecting the smart speaker to your Wi-Fi network, telling the awarding where the Domicile Mini will be placed within your house, setting up Google Assistant, connecting it to your music services, setting a default music service, and more
  8. You will know that your Google Home Mini is fully set up and ready to get when it plays a chinkle

Now that everything is working, endeavour giving the Abode Mini a command by saying "Ok Google" or "Hey Google" followed past a query. Think that you tin also change the speaker's volume past either requesting it does so with a voice command or by tapping on either side of the unit itself.

Unfortunately, Google removed the touch-sensitive top layer of the device and then you won't be able to launch the Banana past just touching information technology.

Larn more than about the Google Home Mini

  • Review: Google Dwelling Mini at $49 joins the Chromecast in Google's collection of insta-purchase hardware
  • Google is permanently removing Dwelling Mini's top touch functionality due to e'er-recording bug
  • Google Home's Night Mode lets you lot lower its volume and lights at night, here's how to apply it
  • How to enable aural feedback for Google Home commands
  • How to connect to Google Dwelling house over Bluetooth
  • How to use your Google Vocalisation or Project Fi number for approachable Google Home calls

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