To set a routine, you should be on the same WiFi network as your Google devices.
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So even if you work out how to do something, when you use the app again some weeks or months later, you won’t remember exactly how to repeat processes you previously worked out. I suspect that most users don’t use the app all that regularly, mostly using it when they set up new devices on their home network. I think it needs a top to bottom redesign since too many important things are buried away in sub-menus. I’ve got to be honest: while it has improved in recent iterations, I find the Google Home app particularly messy. It might be possible to set this up purely by voice (as you can with Amazon Alexa), but if it is, I’ve not worked out how to do it. To make this work, you need to use Routines from within the Google Home app.
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Note that I’m using Android apps throughout. Let’s see how easy it is with the Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. BBC iPlayer Radio, Radioplayer and Tune-In all have this functionality – they all also have sleep timers too ( BBC Sounds, for some reason, has not yet added this functionality).īut you want to do this by voice. Before we continue, I should note that all the major radio apps have this basic functionality built in by default. I don’t think that’s anything too complex. And perhaps you’d like to have different alarms set for the weekend. We’ll assume that your use case is that you’d like the radio to switch on perhaps 5, 6 or 7 days a week, with the station of your choice, at the volume of your choice. And let’s hope that you didn’t leave your phone in a jacket pocket or a bag the night before, or you forgot to put it on charge so that it went flat and as a result your alarm failed to go off. Of course if you happen to charge your phone away from your bedroom Alexa, then you could be in trouble. So at 7am or whenever, your phone pipes up: “Alexa, Play Radio 1” and then the nearby Alexa in your bedroom starts blasting you with Greg James. It involved recording yourself on your mobile phone saying something like “Alexa, Play Radio 1.” Then use this recording as an alarm sound on your phone.
So prior to that, the preferred solution was an hilarious hack. The methods I describe below have only become available relatively recently. Indeed, when I asked a few owners smart speakers if they did it, I was usually informed that it wasn’t possible.īefore I started, I did a fair bit of Googling to see how easy it was. Can you use these to wake up to the radio? In general, they sound better than your mobile’s speaker. But you’ve been busy buying smart speakers to kit out your home. While there are still a disappointingly large number of basic FM models that don’t look like they’ve had a refresh in thirty years, you can at least buy DAB models on most of Europe. Well, you could still go out and buy a radio alarm clock. Recall that the biggest radio audiences are to be found in the morning.įast forward to 2018 and what do you do to wake up to the radio in the morning? Having a radio turn on and wake you up in the morning is a basic use case for radio. Most manufacturers of radios built at least one, and probably more, radio models. What is more certain is that over time, the radio alarm clock became a significant category in the radio world. It was a grandfather clock with a radio built in that did indeed switch on according to a timer. It’s not entirely clear when the first radio alarm clock was created, but the Bulova M-781 from 1932 seems the most likely.
iOS apps may vary – but hopefully not very much. Also, I’m doing this with the Android Apps for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. It’s also worth noting that I’m in the UK, and these solutions may not work in your region. This piece was published in November 2018, and it’s entirely possible – indeed probable – that things will have changed if you’re reading this at any point after that date.
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