Google Home's new script editor can make smart device automations even more powerful
. It gives users even more granular control over automations, letting them do things like"dim lights and lower blinds when the living room TV is on after dark," to cite one Google example. It does require some basic programming abilities, though, as it uses the YAML data serialization language.
Building an automation requires three elements: starters, conditions and actions. A starter triggers the automation, for example flipping on the TV in the above example. Conditions, meanwhile, are prerequisites to be met before the script will run; for example the time must be between sunset and sunrise. Finally, actions specify which devices will then be triggered, i.e., lowering the blinds and turning off the lights.
The script editor is available in a public preview build of the Google Home app or on the web, along with a variety of
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