For the last week, I’ve been testing out Google Home’s powerful new automation editor and trying to see if it could perform the kind of routines I need in my smart home. I was happy to see a few interesting additions, like adding time delays, but Google is still shooting itself in the foot by artificially restricting so many possible automations and actions.

As a Home Assistant and Google Home dual-platform user, I find the difference between what I can do on both laughable. Of course, I expect to do more in Home Assistant — that’s the whole point of a powerful and open platform like that — but so much of Google’s Home power is tied and limited, for no reason whatsoever.

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