Google Assistant adds support for router and network control

You'll soon be able to voice-control third-party networking equipment

These days, you can control most of your smart home using only your voice — Google Assistant lets you adjust your bed, mow the lawn, open your closets, start your Xbox, control your TV, and so much more. Routers and networks are the latest new addition to the Assistant's library of natively supported actions, allowing for things like reboots, software updates, and parental controls on third-party networking devices.

On top of these, you also have access to more advanced functions such as "enabling the guest network and reporting network-specific information such as the current internet throughput rates." While it's fairly obvious what routers are, Google defines networks as "a group of router nodes or a mesh network controlled as one entity rather than as individual devices," so in essence, you can control the same set of options on both routers and networks.

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