Sengled Bulbs & Google Home (Things To Know).

According to the US department of energy, lighting accounts for around 15% of an average home’s electricity use, and people wanna reduce their bills by switching to smart LED bulbs which are considered a good choice because these intelligent lamps will operate at about 7 to 9.5 Watts to produce the incandescent bulb equivalent of 60 watts.

Sengled is a company that offers a variety of smart bulbs that works with Wifi, Zigbee, or Bluetooth and they provide so many features such as the possibility to adjust the brightness and change color, also remote control from the Sengled Home app, and the ability to integrate it with other smart home devices.

For some buyers, the compatibility of the device with Google Home is mandatory when they buy their connected gadgets so they are asking if Sengled bulbs work with Google Home, and this is our main topic in this article.

Can Sengled bulbs work with Google Home?

The answer is yes Sengled bulbs are compatible with Google Home so they can be controlled from devices such as “Google Home mini”, “Nest Hub”, “Nest Audio” and also your Android tablets and smartphones.

So you can easily use your voice to turn ON and OFF the lights, modify the level of brightness and change the color.

Note: Some Sengled bulbs that rely on Bluetooth as a communication protocol are not compatible with Google Home.

Pros of Google Home and Sengled bulb integration.

Integrating your Sengled bulbs with Google Home will add so much convenience to your home that you won’t have to walk to the wall switch or launch your mobile app to turn your lights on or off, so all you need is to say some voice commands to the voice assistant and it will take care of the rest.

Also, people who want to integrate all their smart home devices with Google Home such as their cameras, doorbells, or locks will not have any problem when adding Sengled bulbs to their collection.

Without forgetting the category that is not comfortable with using a mobile app like the elderly or visually impaired people who can’t see the phone screen very well.

How to connect Sengled bulbs to Google Home?

So if you see that pairing the bulbs with Google Home is for you and you want to control and manage your smart lamps by using your voice this chapter will show you how to connect Google Home to your Sengled bulbs.

Important 1: Sengled Zigbee lights communicate with Google devices via compatible Zigbee hubs and Wi-Fi Bulbs connect directly to Google Home devices.

Important 2: The following instructions show how to integrate the bulbs that are already set up in your Sengled Home app.

Now follow the steps below to pair your Sengled lamps with Google Home:

1. Launch the Google Home app on your Android device.
2. Tap the “+” icon on the top left corner of the screen.
3. Select “Set up device”, then tap on “Works with Google”.
4. On the search bar search for Sengled, then choose “Sengled Home”.
5. Another screen will appear to login to your Sengled Home accout (Use the same login credentials that are associated with your Sengled Home app).
6. Once the account is linked, you will be redirected to the “Choose device” page.
7. Choose the Sengled bulb you want to add, then tap on Next.
8. Select the room to which you would like to assign the bulb and then tap Next (put the bulb in the same room if you want them to act as a group).
   .Repeat this process until all of your bulbs are organized in the Google Home app.

After that you can go and deactivate the Do Not Disturb mode in order to receive notifications on your smart speaker, display, or mobile phones, and here’s how to do it:

1. Make sure your mobile device or tablet is linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
2. Launch the Google Home app.
3. Choose your speaker or display.
4. Go to Settings and choose Notifications & digital wellbeing, then Do not disturb.
5. Turn Do not disturb off.

If your voice assistant is having trouble identifying the name you assigned to the bulb, you can easily change it by following the steps below:

1. Open the Google Home app.
2. Choose the Sengled bulb you want to edit.
3. At the top right corner, tap Settings.
4. Then Device information and then Device name.
5. Enter a new name and tap Save.

Note: Make sure to give a simple name to your lamps without special characters or an emoji to make it easier for the voice assistant to identify.

Routines can also be created on the Google Home app Profile > More Settings > Assistant > Routines. Add a routine by setting the command phrase, schedule if you like, then set what your devices should do under ‘add action’.

Google Home voice commands to use with your Sengled bulbs.

As we mentioned before control your bulbs through your Google voice assistant you need to memorize some voice commands and use them when you want to change the color, adjust the brightness or turn the lights ON and OFF.

Here are the commands that you need to know:

1. “Google, set (bulb’s name) to (0-100) percent.”
2. “Okay Google, set (group’s name) to (0-100) percent.”
3. “Hey Google, turn (bulb’s name) on/off.”
4. “Okay Google, turn (group’s name)on/off.”
5. “Google, set (bulb’s name) to green.”
6. “Hey Google, set (group’s name) to pink.”
7. “Google, turn on (bulb’s name/group’s name) and make the color blue.”

How to unlink Sengled Home from Google Home?

Maybe some people will not find the Google Home integration as an interesting feature and they want to unlink their bulbs for the Google app and continue using them from the Sengled app without the voice feature.

So here are the steps to follow in order to unlink your Sengled bulb from the Google Home app:

1. Open the Google Home app.
2. Tap on the “+” icon at the top left corner.
3. Select Set up a device, then choose “Works with Google”.
4. On the account listed press “Sengled Home” and select Unlink account.
5. A popup message will appear, tap on Unlink.

Now all your Sengled devices are deleted from the Google Home app and if you want to add them again you need to follow the steps I showed you in this article.

Final Words.

So we’ve covered everything about the relationship between Google Home and Sengled bulbs and if you have additional questions you can visit other articles in our website or contact Sengled customer support.