Hack your old Google Home Mini into a Home Assistant-ready offline smart speaker with this DIY kit

You can now order an $85 kit to convert your Google Home Mini into a Home Assistant-compatible offline smart speaker.
Liliputing

Bring Home Assistant to a Google Home Mini with this $85 drop-in board (open hardware)

Enter the MiciMike Home Mini Drop-in Board. It’s a drop-in replacement for the original Google Home Mini printed circuit board that fits inside the case and works with the same speaker hardware. But ...
CNX Software

MiciMike’s open-source drop-in PCB converts Google Home Mini into a local voice assistant (Crowdfunding)

The MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB is an open-source replacement mainboard designed to convert a 1st Gen Google Home Mini ...

Google Home's latest update wants to solve your biggest smart camera headaches

Google's released update notes for the Google Home app, and the latest version includes some key improvements for camera ...
9to5Google

Google Home app modernizes camera & media controls, Gemini voice assistant gets speed upgrades

Google is ending April with a rather sizable Home app and Gemini for Home voice assistant updates. This starts ...

Google Wants To Speed Up Your Smart Home

Google Home gets a major speed boost... the latest "Gemini for Home" update cuts response times by 1.5 seconds and fixes ...
9to5Google

Google Home isn’t killing automations, but phone-related actions are going away

Google confirmed in a reply to one affected user that Home automations are not going away, but certain actions are. During the first week of May – coming up quickly – Google Home will stop supporting ...