The management of smart home devices revolves around the excellent Google Home application and, in these hours, many users in the US are starting to notice a new setting within it to show air quality. In fact, as the 9to5google colleagues report, in the Photo Frame item of the Google Home settings, there is now the Air quality setting, disabled by default, waiting for the rollout to make it available also on smartphones display.
Some users are starting to notice the appearance of a small badge in the UI of smart displays which, when plugged, enables a full-screen UI with a graph depicting the air quality in their area. It is mentioned that users can also receive information on this important parameter via voice queries using the key phrase “Hey Google, what’s the air quality around here?”. The patchy implementation in the US underlines how far the function is still far from being available to everyone. We have no information if and when it will also be available in our country.
New Home Screen with Weather Frog
Together with the classic backgrounds available on smart displays, that is Google Photos, Google artistic images and other types of backgrounds, “Weather Frog” represents a nice addition that seems to be coming to Google Nest Hub as well. The information available on the net indicates that the cute animated animal is integrated into the Google Nest Hub Max firmware 1.54 and 1.56, within the “Characters” menu of the settings.
The implementation seems not to be 100% ready yet, a sign that the Google team is still busy with the full development of the feature.
