The biggest upgrade for smart home users is the new Home panel. This smart home control panel is accessed via a tile in the quick settings panel and lets you control devices connected to Google Home. You can do things like turn lights on or off or dim / brighten, trigger a Movie Time automation, and adjust your thermostat, all from the remote.

We’ve entered a new era for Google in the streaming video platform. And smart home platform. And in the battle for the major players — that includes Amazon, Roku, and Apple — to keep customers within a single ecosystem while supporting all the accessories and doodads that we use every day.

Google introduced the Google TV Streamer to replace Chromecast and expand its smart home footprint. One of the features from this new device, the Home Hub, is being made available to existing Google TV devices through an impending software update.

Ahead of the launch of Google TV Streamer, the company’s new set-top streaming box, the tech giant is also bringing new updates to all Google TV devices. This includes a home panel that can control smart home devices,

The new Google Home panel and AI-generated ambient art features are coming to other Google TV devices, and not just Google TV Streamer. Huzzah.

Doubling as a smart home hub, the new streaming device comes with Google TV Freeplay and a Sports Page. You can pre-order it now and buy it tomorrow.

As part of its Google TV Streamer launch today, Google is bringing key feature from that device to Google TVs from Hisense, TCL and others.