I have really enjoyed the google home. The shopping list, timers, alarms, weather and commute info alone are worth the price of google home. I also have a Samsung Smartthings hub and a Phillips Hue bridge. I did not have any interest in being able to talk to my lights, thermostats, or garage door. However, now that I have that ability I very much enjoy it and would nit go back to simply usings apps on my phone. Google home also plays well with IFTTT, which gives me all kinds of additional options for home automation. Unlike other devices I don't have to 'trigger' anything and there is no 'sending that to IFTTT', goggle home just executes the requested task. The only reason I did not give 5 stars is that unlike the google assistant on my phone, google home can not read or send text messages, and it can not execute routines built in Smartthings (using IFTTT there are some text sending functions). I have no doubt these options will be available in the future. I would absolutely recommend this device with or without Smartthings or Hue.

The Google Home is a great product, well designed, with a decent range of available functions. I use mine to control the house lights via Philips Hue, my heating and cooling via the Nest thermostat. I also play and control my music using Spotify. The speaker has, for its size, a pretty impressive sound range. You can also control and play TuneIn Radio through it. Though the Amazone Echo might have a little more available options at this point in time, I'm pretty certain that Google will be adding that and more on in the near future. For now additional functionality can be added using IFTTT. I find the Google Home's interaction and replies when talking to it to be more personable and a little bit more "human like" than the Echo. I have two in my house and would without question recommend it. Really enjoying the Google Home and looking forward to what it will be capable of doing next. Great product!

I didn't think I was going to like these and took me a while to purchase one. On Cyber Monday they were on sale from $68 ea and I bought 2. Love them and I couldn't be happier. Have one at my house and the other in my office. Love the phone call feature and casting. The sound is good. I have gone ahead and bought 2 google home mini's.

Overall I enjoy the google home. Hears pretty good, sounds good (almost as good as the beats pill +), looks nice, and starting to use it more and more. Could be smarter but seems like it's does get smarter as time goes on. Like setting timers, asking about my day when making coffee, adding stuff to my shopping list, controlling my Philips hue light, etc. my 4 year old son is always talking to it (not sure how I feel about that). I have a google pixel xl phone and they both respond when you say "ok, google" when next to both, but usually only answers from the home assistant.

When I saw the google home at Best Buy, I was given a great overview of how it works and the ease of use, and since I got it I am having so much fun with it.I spend time with it every day and am still learning something new every day,