Video guide – FOX Wi-Fi system. How to control it with your voice? Examples

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How to control your home using voice commands? We show practical examples of FOX voice control using Google Assistant.

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What voice commands should you use so that Google Assistant understands them? The command should consist of two specific parts. Turn on or off and indicate the device, group of devices or location where the command is to be executed. "Turn on bedroom", "turn off TV", etc. Discover the possibilities of the control system based on the FOX Wi-Fi network.

Voice control in a smart home

Home control. The capabilities of smart home systems.

The most frequently mentionedadvantages of smart home automationareconvenience, safety and savings. A well-designed smart home installation simply gives youcontrolover your home. And it is difficult to disagree with this description of smart home systems. In a home equipped with a smart home installation, the choice of control'tools'also increases. These are all the devices we use to initiate a specific action. In this way, we can activate a single device or several at the same time. We can control a smart homeusing wall-mounted buttons, wall-mounted control panels, remote controls ormobileapplications.Among the latter, the most popular device is definitelythe smartphone. We can also control the homeusing voice commands.

Voice control in a smart home

Voice controlused to be the domainof science fiction films and books.Many years ago, it was unthinkable thatdevicesin the homewould respond to voice commands.Now, "conversations" with the home or office are slowly becoming something natural. Of course, for voice control to be possible at all, we need to equip our home with a smart home system.This means installing controllers and relays that will introduce smart automation into our home. Only then will the devices in our home respond to our commands.Buteven then, only if certain conditions are met.

Smart home voice control. How is it possible?

Not every device responds to voice commands. Similarly, not every smart home system offers such capabilities. Therefore, if you expect such functionality, you should make sure that, for example, the selected smart home system allows voice control.One way to enable voice control of your home is to integrate the selected system with Google Home.How is this possible? Let's look at the example of FOX, a smart home control system usingWi-Fi.

How to useWi-Fito control your home? FOX smart control

The FOX system is a simple control system for basic home functions. UsingWi-Fi, we can turn lights on and off and adjust their brightness. We can open and close entrance gates, garage doors and wickets. We can control the operation of roller blinds, shutters, awnings and electrically operated curtains. We can adjust the angle of the slats on blinds. We can control electrical sockets and, consequently, the devices connected to them. Using the appropriate FOX relay, we can also check how much electricity a device is consuming. We can control everything locally or remotely. Locally, using wall-mounted buttons. Remotely using the FOX application for mobile devices.The FOX application allows us to go a step further and, thanks to integration with Google Home, also control the house by voice.How to do it?

Voice control in the FOX system

I have installed FOX relays. I can see the devices in the application. Is that enough to control my home using voice commands? Unfortunately, it is not enough. First, you need to enable voice control for the devices in the application. This means that you can only controlselected devicesin your home with your voice. The next step is to install the Google Home app. We integrate the devices indicated in the FOX app with the Google Home app. We create a location or locations, and similarly group devices for operation. At this point, we can already control our home with a smartphone using Google Home. We are only one step away from voice control. Install Google Assistant. Once configured, your home devices are within voice range.

How to communicate with Google Assistant?

Voice control of your home requires some practice, but you do not need to memorise the correct commands.The advantage of Google Assistant is that it communicates in Polish and responds to different commands for the same action.