Voice control allows you to control your Niko Home Control installation using your voice

Voice control makes it child's play to control your home, and it keeps your hands free too

Voice control for Niko Home Control users is possible with Amazon Alexa or Google Voice Assistant.

You can use your voice to control the most important actions in your Niko Home Control installation

In order to use voice control, you must activate a ‘Niko Home Control skill’ and link it to your Niko Home Control installation...

In order to make voice control possible, we use integrations with voice control developers. In the case of Niko Home Control, these are Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. In addition to functional data, such as the names of scenes and actions in the Niko Home Control installation, the data exchanged is the e-mail address used to register your Niko Home Control installation and the devices included in your Niko Home Control installation.

In order to use Google Assistant, you will need a Niko Home Control II installation or Niko Home Control for traditional cabling and at least 1 smart speaker with Google Assistant functionality. You will also need a Google account.

You can easily create your account on the Google website. Click on ‘Log in’ in the top right and then ‘Create account’ on the next screen. Fill in all the details that Google asks of you.

Find out about voice commands.

In order to ensure optimum functionality for Google Assistant, it is best to adapt the names of your rooms, actions and devices in Niko Home Control to the language of the Google Assistant skill you have used.

Google Assistant is available in a range of languages, including English, French, German and Dutch. We recommend that you adapt the names of your devices, rooms and actions in your Niko Home Control installation to the language in which you wish to control your installation.

We provide Google with some data in order to make your voice control work, so you can control your Niko Home Control installation with Google Assistant. For example, the names of the scenes and actions in your Niko Home Control installation.

You can decide to stop using Google Assistant in your Niko Home Control installation at any time. The link can be removed in the Google Home app.

All questions and answers about your Google account and Google Assistant can be found on Google's website.