Hardware event of Google completed yesterday.  Where lots of gadgets announcement were done, in that there is the gadget that make your home a smart home, it named as Google Home.

If you have a smart home (you probably do not have a smart home) you can control it with your voice. Not only Google’s sibling company Nest, but also a few other companies, like Philips.

But the definition of “smart home” has grown: you can also use Google Assistant to control your Chromecast. Apparently it can “completely change how you watch television”. I doubt that, but OK. You can control YouTube, but “soon” you’ll be able to control Netflix, and you can ask the Google Home to show your pics in Google Photos on your Chromecast.

Google Home will cost $129 (with a free six-month trial of YouTube red) and go on sale on Google’s online store from October 4 2016. It will ship on November 4, 2016.

This is one of the few areas we’ve seen today where Apple is beating Google: all this TV stuff is fairly baked in to the Apple TV, and that device launched with support for much more than just voice control of YouTube.

It’s also interesting how much Google is blurring the boundaries between the devices. Google Home’s features are the Chromecast’s are Chromecast Audio are Google Photos.

Current count of distinguishing features: seven.

Google Home can do smart multi-room audio, which the Echo can’t do, and it can do smart multi-room listening, which the Echo can do.

Current count of distinguishing features: eight.

That’s it. Amazon’s got a fight on its hands – but only in the US. The device is launching for $129 there, but nowhere else. In retail stores November 4, and it comes in seven colours.

And finally, Google Home. It’s a little cylinder that brings Google Assistant into your home. It has speakers that lets you play music, and has a lot of mics that offer “best in class voice recognition”. It’s … look, it’s the Amazon Echo.

So like the Echo, Google Home combines a wireless speaker with a set of microphones that listen for your voice commands. There is a mute button on the Home and four LEDs on top of the device so you know when it’s listening to you; otherwise, you won’t find any other physical buttons on it.

What Google Home is really about, though, is the Google Assistant — the next-gen conversational version of what we currently know as Google Now. If the Google Assistant on Google Home is anything like the first text-centric version of the service we’ve seen in Google Allo, then it’ll offer users a mix of delight (when it gets things right) and utter frustration (when it doesn’t). As Google’s new Allo chat app has shown us, the Google Assistant often can’t answer your questions. On the screen, that means Google can show you links, but on Home, it will read out snippets from Google Search.

Google today stressed that the company wants to be able to personalize its services to the point where we all get “our own Google.” Home with the Google Assistant is clearly geared toward that.

As for music, Google Home will feature built-in support for Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora and others. You can set up a default music service, too, so you don’t always have to tell Google that you want to play a song “on Spotify.” Google also noted that Home’s music search is powered by Google, so it can understand relatively complex queries. Music on Google Home will also support podcast listening and because it’s a Cast device, you can stream music to it from any other Cast-enabled device.

Home integrates directly with Google’s Chromecasts and Cast-enabled TVs. For now, that mostly means watching YouTube videos, but Google says it will soon support Netflix, too.

Great product and but only available in few countries for now.  You can get it from United States as it is launched there but will only be available after November 4.  So are you planning to make your home smarter.

With Home, that tide may finally be turning. Google Home finally offers the central living room-based hub for its products and like the Echo, it’s relatively future-proof because its intelligence is in the cloud. With its Cast protocol, Google now also has a way to tie the Home to other devices, including its highly successful Chromecast dongles.

That means its hardware — and especially its microphones — has to work really well, though, and we’ll have to spend some hands-on time with the Home before we can draw any conclusions about it. Google argues that its microphones are “best in class” and that the speakers will deliver a full range with rich bass sounds.