<story><title>Google Home</title><url>http://home.google.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Harmony remote, and all of the devices connected to my Harmony hub.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to access my Google calendar.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to make hands-free phone calls to anyone on my Google contacts.&lt;p&gt;If my grandmother falls, I want her to be able to call 911 by talking to the Google Home device.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to ask wolfram alpha questions by voice.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to have a back-and-forth conversation to arrive at a conclusion. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to say a perfectly formulated command like, &amp;quot;Add an event to my calendar on Jan 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm titled go to the pool party&amp;quot;. I want to be able to say, &amp;quot;Can you add an event to my calendar?&amp;quot;, and then answer a series of questions. I hate having to formulate complex commands as a single sentence.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to have a Google Home device in each room, without having to give each one its own wake-up word. Just have the closest one to me respond to my voice (based on how well it can hear me).&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to play music on all of my Google Home devices at the same time, and have the music perfectly synchronized.&lt;p&gt;This is my wish list. I am currently able to do more than half of these items with Amazon Echo, but I had to do a bunch of hacking and it was a pain in the ass.&lt;p&gt;If Google Home can deliver on these points, I would switch from Amazon Echo in a heartbeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxguy3</author><text>According to Ars Technica, Google Home is actually gonna be more locked down than Amazon Echo.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Initially, Google says that it will not be creating APIs for Assistant and Home and that as such, any integrations with services and other devices will have to come from Google first. This approach is a contrast with the Echo, which is designed to be extensible.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-assistant-and-google-home-amazon-echo-but-from-google&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;google-assistant-and...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dreams = crushed :(</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Home</title><url>http://home.google.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to control my Harmony remote, and all of the devices connected to my Harmony hub.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to access my Google calendar.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to make hands-free phone calls to anyone on my Google contacts.&lt;p&gt;If my grandmother falls, I want her to be able to call 911 by talking to the Google Home device.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to ask wolfram alpha questions by voice.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to have a back-and-forth conversation to arrive at a conclusion. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to say a perfectly formulated command like, &amp;quot;Add an event to my calendar on Jan 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm titled go to the pool party&amp;quot;. I want to be able to say, &amp;quot;Can you add an event to my calendar?&amp;quot;, and then answer a series of questions. I hate having to formulate complex commands as a single sentence.&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to have a Google Home device in each room, without having to give each one its own wake-up word. Just have the closest one to me respond to my voice (based on how well it can hear me).&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to play music on all of my Google Home devices at the same time, and have the music perfectly synchronized.&lt;p&gt;This is my wish list. I am currently able to do more than half of these items with Amazon Echo, but I had to do a bunch of hacking and it was a pain in the ass.&lt;p&gt;If Google Home can deliver on these points, I would switch from Amazon Echo in a heartbeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I have only two wishes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s one. The second one is, please make it self-hosted. No cloud bullshit.&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;ll probably never live to see the second one coming true.</text></comment>