Voice Control with Google Home鈩

Navigate your Hargray TV with Google Assistant smart speakers.听Google Home provides hands-free voice control of your Hargray TV experience.

What you will need:

  • Wi-Fi 果酱视频 Service
  • Your Hargray online account user name and password
  • Your Google Assistant account
  • Google Home App downloaded
  • Google Home device ready to go (Google Home鈩 or Google Home Mini鈩)

How to Set Up

1. Install your Google Home device.听 Have it plugged and ready for use.听 Be sure the Google Home App is downloaded on your mobile device with the Google Assistant.听 听

2. Wi-Fi Connection.听 Be sure you have a Wi-Fi connection for your device. 听

3. Position the Google Home device.听 Volume from the TV can overwhelm your voice.听 Place the device close to where you typically sit when watching TV, so Google Home hears your voice instead of the TV sound.

4. Link Hargray TV in Google Home App听

  • On Android庐, use the Google Assistant Home App. Just say 鈥淥k Google鈥
  • On iPhone庐 or iPad庐, use the Google Assistant App.听 Log into your Google account, if you have not done so.
  • Click the compass at the lower left or right corner of the Assistant screen.
  • Then say or search for Hargray.听

  • Link service to Hargray TV Account. A screen prompts you to sign in.
  • Type your Hargray online account user name and password. The same credentials you use to view your Hargray services online for your TV subscription is used for all Hargray Apps.

5. You are ready for hands-free control of your Hargray TV.听 Be sure your Set Top Box is on.

Voice Control your TV with Google Home

1. Use Hargray Voice Commands.听 Control the interactive TV guide of your cable box by using Hargray established voice commands. Over time, Hargray will add more voice commands. 听For now, you may:

  • change the TVs you control
  • search for programming
  • change channels

2. Wake up Google Home and use the Hargray invocation word. 听Say:

鈥淥k Google鈥 or 鈥淗ey, Google鈥
鈥淭ell Hargray to鈥.鈥澨 or 鈥淎sk Hargray to鈥︹

3. Change the TV you want to control.听 If you have multiple TVs, you may change which one your smart speaker controls. Use the commands:

鈥渟et TV鈥 or 鈥渟et the TV鈥
鈥渃hange TV鈥 or 鈥渃hange the TV鈥
鈥渟et receiver鈥 or 鈥渟et the receiver鈥
鈥渃hange receiver鈥 or 鈥渃hange the receiver鈥
鈥渃hange set top box鈥 or 鈥渃hange the set top box鈥

Examples:
鈥淥k Google, ask Hargray to change the TV鈥
鈥淗ey Google, tell Hargray to set the TV鈥

Then say the number, such as 1, 2 or 3, and so on, for each TV you set.

4. To Change the Channel: Tune to channel by number, call letters or name, use the commands:

鈥渨atch鈥, 鈥渢une to鈥, 鈥済o to鈥, 鈥渟witch to鈥, or 鈥渃hange to鈥

Examples:
鈥淥k Google, tell Hargray to watch Discovery Channel.鈥
鈥淗ey Home, ask Hargray to switch to 54.鈥

If you ask Google Home to tune to a channel not in the channel package which you subscribe, Google Home will still tune to the channel. You will see the general message displayed telling you to: 鈥淐ontact customer service to subscribe.鈥

5. To watch currently airing program.听 Use the commands:

鈥渨atch鈥 or 鈥減lay鈥

Then follow by saying the title of the program as it appears in the guide. Service starts at the top and works its way down.听 It finds the first occurrence of a program name, which may be an SD channel.

Examples:
鈥淥k Google, tell Hargray to watch Ice Road Truckers.鈥
鈥淗ey Google, tell Hargray to play Big Bang Theory.鈥

6. To Search or Find a Program, by program name, actor or director, use the commands:

鈥渇ind鈥 or 鈥渟earch for鈥

Examples:
鈥淥k Google, ask Hargray to search for William Shatner.鈥
鈥淗ey Google, tell Hargray to find Steven Spielberg.鈥

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