Google Assistant
Automate your Google Assistant with useful commands and actions.
Create advanced Assistant widgets onto your home screen
You may have heard about Google's new Action Blocks app for Android and how it has the potential to make Assistant infinitely more useful. When you get to know the app you will discover some hidden power-user possibilities that make it even more valuable.
Action Blocks lets you create one-tap buttons for triggering Assistant actions from your home screen — without having to say anything out loud or risk having the wrong Assistant device pick up your command.
It turns out, its buttons can do a lot more than you'd expect.
For instance, you can create an Action Block that triggers multiple Assistant actions at the same time ("Take my phone off silent and read my messages," "Turn on Bluetooth and set my media volume to 80%," or even "Put my phone on silent and set an alarm for 7am and play babbling brook sounds," for example)
Or you can create Action Block widgets that make things happen across different Assistant devices in one fell swoop (e.g. "Put my phone on silent and turn off the office lights and play nature sounds on my office display").
You can also use Action Blocks to trigger Assistant routines and even do some super-advanced stuff with the help of third-party services.
You can get the Action Blocks app in the Play Store and then check out this complete guide from Computer World to explore the possibilities.
Wake up your Google Assistant with a trigger command.
Use the default "O.K. Google" [or "Hey Google" on Google Home devices] and ask questions, do searches or issue useful commands.
Set Up, Tips & Tricks
Click here for an AndroidPit article "Google Assistant tips and tricks: beginner to expert" that covers set up and teaches you a few tips and tricks.
An overview, with tips, of the Google Assistant
Click here for a 9to5Google guide "Google Assistant Overview" that is updated regularly.
Examples of popular Voice Commands
Click here for an AndroidPit article "Make the most of Google Assistant with these voice commands" that explains lots of useful things to do.
Getting More From Google Now
Click here for a TechRepublic article on using CommandR with Google Now
Use your Google Assistant to trigger complex Tasker commands.
Tasker integration with the Google Assistant
Click here for a video that introduces you to some useful ways of using the "Tasker" App from your Google Assistant to automated just about anything.
Apart from the above links see the related site Help4YourHome that covers more features of Smart Speakers and the use of the Google Assistant App in more detail.