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To further improve the Home automation experience, Google will now let you send feedback about automations directly from the Google Home app. Long-press on an automation to bring up the feedback menu.

Google today also has a “foundational fix” that “improves support for continuous video clip downloads of up to 5 minutes” on home.google.com. This ensures long-form clips remain uninterrupted and can ...

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These methods and features are built into devices you already own.

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Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized home automation, offering higher levels of functionality. This paper presents a smart home automation system that uses different IoT ...