Save and use routines across your devices

Create or edit a routine on web or phone

Use web or phone to change a routine. The same saved routine applies to the selected home on all supported devices. If another device changes the routine while you are editing, review the conflict instead of overwriting the newer version. Existing settings stay in place unless you change them.

1. Open the routine you want to change, or start a new routine.
2. Set the routine name and icon.
3. Under When, add one or more triggers. A routine can also run with no trigger when you press Run.
4. Under Only if, add any conditions you want. All conditions must be true together. Leave this section empty if you want the routine to run every time it is triggered.
5. Under Do, add the steps in the order you want them to happen. A routine needs at least one step.
6. If you add a coffee machine step that turns power on, you can choose where the ready announcement plays and whether later steps wait for that ready announcement before continuing.
7. Select Save on an existing routine or Create routine for a new one.

Use a routine on every supported device

After you save the routine, the same definition is available on web, phone, TV, and widgets for that home. TV and widgets expose eligible use. They do not create a separate copy.

1. On any supported device, open the saved routine for that home.
2. Run it when the device shows the Run action.
3. If you run it manually, check the actual step results instead of relying only on the Run acknowledgement.

What you should see afterwards

• The routine appears once for the home, not as separate device copies.
• Web and phone show the saved triggers, conditions, and steps you entered.
• TV and widgets can use the saved routine if it is eligible for that device.
• If the routine includes a coffee machine ready announcement, later steps wait only when you turned on the wait option.

Troubleshooting

• If a sunrise or sunset option is unavailable, check whether the home has an address on Home.
• If another device changed the routine while you were editing, reopen the routine and review the newer definition before saving again.
• If a run history entry appears, that does not always mean the routine definition changed.
• If local steps work but cloud-dependent steps do not, check the provider connection for the cloud step.
• If a voice step sounds wrong, review the selected room and message volume. The routine restores the previous speaker state afterward.
• If a coffee routine seems to pause, confirm whether the step is waiting for the ready announcement rather than failing.
• If you expected one step to happen after another but it did not, check the saved order in Do and the actual failed step.