🎄 Holiday Hacks

Alexa, it's almost the holidays...

December 02, 2022

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đź‘‹ Good morning and Happy Friday! As we head into the first weekend of December, many of you might be pulling lights out of the attic, throwing cookies in the oven, and heading to grab a Christmas Tree tomorrow. We figured we'd share some holiday hacks that will help you ring in the season. Let us know what you think, you can reply directly to this email. 

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Enable This Simple Holiday Routine To Lighten Things Up

When you say “Alexa, it’s almost the holidays”…

While you're hanging the wreath on the door and decorating the tree, be sure to try the following tasks with Alexa:

  • Have her turn on the smart plug your Christmas tree or holiday lights are plugged into. If you don’t already have your lights connected to a smart plug, we highly recommend it. These bad boys are 32% off right now.

  • Ask her to do her best Santa impression. This is great if you have little ones in the house. Have them ask Alexa and maybe she can even help you make a gift list.

  • Turn on classic holiday tunes. Amazon Music’s holiday playlist is fantastic, this will definitely set the mood.

To set this up and enable it as a routine... 

Just tap this link. It’s easiest if you tap the link from your smartphone.

Update it for your Alexa setup. For this routine, you’ll need to update the smart plug and pick which Echo you want to play music from. (Tap/click here if you don’t remember how to do it)

Say, “Alexa, it’s almost the holidays” to run it!

Bonus: Add Holiday Pictures To Your Nest Display

We've already shared how you can set up your Nest display to show off the pictures in your Google photo feed. 

But the best part is that you can then pick certain photos to display. Like, for instance, if you want to just show Christmas tree photos during the holiday season.

The best way to really curate your photo display is to create a new album. 

  1. Open the Google Photos app

  2. Tap Library

  3. Tap New Album

  4. Choose the photos you want to include (you can search for photos by different things—like “Christmas tree” or “December” or “snow”, and Google will find those things in your images)

  5. Give the album a title

Then, select your album in the Google Home app

  1. Open the Google Home App, and select your Nest display

  2. Tap on the picture that shows what’s on your display picture frame

  3. Tap Google photos

  4. Tap on your album

Voila! You’ll get only images that’ll help you set a holiday mood!

Pro Tip

You can also set it up that you’ll only show images of certain people—so when you have house guests, you can set it to only show pictures of those friends. Pretty fun!

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