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Google Home ‘Routines’ can read out Fitbit stats with Assistant

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By Alap Naik Desai
April 08, 2024
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Google Home “Routines” has gained the option to read out Fitbit stats for the day. Google Assistant can deliver key metrics such as step count, distance traveled, calories burned, and much more.

Just like a digital motivational coach, Google Assistant can now summarize Fitbit health data, the fitness tracker has gathered in a day. Such verbal readouts could help Google Fitbit owners stay on track with their physical routines.

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Google Home Routines is an interesting feature compilation of the smart home assistant. Users can merge specific keywords with the data or information they need. For example, users can club keywords such as “Good Morning”, “Tell me about my day,” or “I’m up” with their day’s to-do list, calendar, and so on.

Similarly, Google Fitbit users can reportedly club the keyword “Goodnight” with Google Fitbit sensor data. The Google Assistant Goodnight Routine can now verbally inform Fitbit users of their key vital health stats of the day. Users can even request their sleep data from the night before.

Google Home app has an “Automations” tab. The search giant has now added a new option for Routines, called “Get Wellness Info”. This tab essentially collects and collates Google Fit sensor data.

Google has included the new routine inside Google Home’s “Personal Routines”. Once activated, Google Home can deliver the day’s data, which has been made a part of a routine or automation, when a user speaks the preset keyword.

Google Fitbit users can choose to hear their daily activity and/or sleep data with the following categories:

  • Step count
  • Distance travelled
  • Calories burned
  • Days exercised out of the week
  • Hours slept
  • Sleep start time

It is not clear why Google decided to offer a verbal readout of Fitbit stats through Home Assistant so late. The company had plugged Fitbit into Google Assistant more than three years ago.

Google Assistant has been struggling with the simplest of verbal instructions. Several users were so frustrated with their Google Home initiating a Google Search instead of obeying their instructions, some recently developed a workaround.