Google On App Launched For Your Smart Home

Today the first Google On app has been launched, prepared at first for the device OnHub, a device Google says is "a router for the new way to Wi-Fi." Inside this app you won't find a whole lot – unless you've already got a Google OnHub in your home. For now this device will act as a smart Wi-fi control tower, distributing your internet service throughout your home in a set of smart ways. In the future, the Google OnHub and On app will act as smart controllers for all of the smart home products in your immediate environment.

Below you'll see the setup sequence included with the Google On app for OnHub. Once your OnHub is connected, you'll find some interesting ways to work with the Wi-fi service already active in your home.

One of the interesting or otherwise new ways in which you'll be connecting to the web with the OnHub is with sound. Instead of entering a Wi-fi password on your device, you'll simply have your device listen for a tone emitted from the Google OnHub device.

The Google On app will allow users to monitor the connections the OnHub is making with devices requiring internet in its environment. In the future, this app will also show smart home devices in the Google On network.

For more information on how the Google smart home will work, have a peek at our feature Google OnHub and the Brillo device network. Google On incoming!

ABOVE: Early views of the Google smart home app system as shared at Google I/O 2015.

The Google On app is available in the Google Play app store right this minute. While it has not yet appeared, there's a possibility that this app will launch for iOS as well – expect it!