the update allows you to better manage your entire Wi-Fi network

August 11, 2020

Google has updated its health home automation app. This new version includes all the parameters necessary for adjusting Google WiFi, the mesh router (or repeater) developed by the Mountain View firm. The update, numbered 2.26, is being rolled out in the Play Store.

Google has developed, with Nest, a wide range of health home automation products. In France, you can acquire the Google health home series (standard, Mini or Max), the Nest Hub series (standard, Mini or Max as well), cameras, smoke detectors, thermostats and a handy little product, the Nest WiFi, the first generation of which is called Google WiFi.

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This is a WiFi repeater (or mesh router) whose purpose is extend the range of WiFi from your Box, for example, to reach places in your health home that are not covered by the wireless network. Its use is simple: it takes the initial signal from the WiFi router and simply extends it. The repeater can be configured from your smartphone through an app called Google WiFi.

But that will change soon. Our colleagues from 9to5Google have discovered a Google health home app update. This is the nerve center of your health home automation network. From the latter, you can turn on a smart health connected bulb, open a smart health connected lock or adjust the temperature of your thermostat. Until now, Google health home did not support the repeater setting and referred to the dedicated application. This is no longer the case.

All settings now in Google health home

Within the version 2.26 from Google health home, several changes have been discovered. The most important is the integration of an advanced configuration menu for the repeater network. From there, you can manage DNS addresses, wireless (SSID and password) or wired settings, reservation of local IP addresses for certain devices (such as a health home server, for example), activation of the UPnP service, the management of network ports (which P2P enthusiasts are familiar with), etc.

The new version of Google health home also sees the arrival of new settings for manage devices smart health connected to the health home network. It is now possible from the app to monitoring the activity of all devices. And this in a much more visual way. From there, if you want to restrict network access to one device, Google health home gives you the option in just a few moments. Google health home 2.26 is reportedly being rolled out on the Play Store and should soon arrive on the French version.

Source: 9to5Google