This is Google Assistant just like what you’ll find on Google Home, so all of the same interaction and features are here, including asking the TicHome Mini to play music which it will do using whatever service you, asking it questions and simple queries, playing audio games like the new Stranger Things game which was launched to promote the second season of the show on Netflix, and you can even use it to order a pizza or an Uber ride so long as you have a payment method set up in the Google Home app.
Naturally, the TicHome Mini can be used to control other smart home devices too as long as those devices support Google Home and Google Assistant. Asking Google to turn on or turn off the lamp that the bulb was screwed into. This also worked better than when doing the same thing with Google Assistant on the phone, as the mic picks up voices much easier and from further away distances, so if you left my phone upstairs you could still ask Google to initiate the action and the TicHome Mini would get the job done. The speaker will respond to both OK Google and Hey Google commands too, so depending on what you prefer or what just feels easier, you’ll be able to initiate conversation and activate Google Assistant. Aside from ordering things, controlling smart home products, and asking questions, Google Assistant allows the TicHome mini to be used for streaming things from Netflix or YouTube, playing podcasts, and asking about upcoming calendar events. It seems that this will work for any events that are logged in your calendar for the upcoming week, so whether you have two events or seven events you can ask the speaker to read them off for you. If games are your thing, you can use it to play trivia games or any number of other games which Google Home will now support, which can be a fun thing to do with multiple people around.
