Save and use routines across your devices

Create or edit a routine on web or phone

Use the web app or the iPhone or Android app to create a routine or change an existing one for your home. The routine you save belongs to the selected home and is shared across your devices.

1. Open Routines for your home on the web app or on your iPhone or Android app.
2. Create a new routine or open an existing routine to edit it.
3. Set the routine name, then review the three parts of the routine: When, Only if, and Do.
4. In When, add any triggers you want. If you leave When empty, the routine runs only when you start it yourself.
5. In Only if, add any conditions you want. If you leave Only if empty, the routine can run anytime its trigger happens or anytime you run it yourself.
6. In Do, add the steps you want in the order you want them to happen. A routine must have at least one step.
7. Save the routine.

Use the same routine on your devices

After you save a routine, you use that same saved routine across your devices for the same home. There is no separate TV copy or widget copy of the routine.

• On web, you can open and run the saved routine for the selected home.
• On iPhone and Android, you can open and run the same saved routine for the selected home.
• On TV, you can use eligible saved routines from your home.
• Supported widgets can use the saved routine from your home.
• Voice can start a saved routine when its phrase matches, or when you run it another supported way.

TV and widgets expose eligible use, not a separate routine copy.

What you should see after saving

• The routine appears as one saved routine in your home, not as different versions for different devices.
• Its saved definition includes When, Only if, and Do.
• The same routine can be opened or used from supported surfaces for that home.
• If the routine has no triggers in When, it is still available to run manually.
• If the routine includes waits, those waits stay part of the saved routine order.

The hub stores and executes the routine. Local actions can work without internet while cloud-dependent steps still need their provider.

If you edit a routine later

When you edit a saved routine on web or phone, you are changing the same routine used across your devices for that home.

• Preserve existing settings when editing.
• A change made elsewhere refreshes an untouched editor; if you have unsaved edits, review the conflict instead of overwriting the newer definition.
• Run-history updates alone do not mean the definition changed.
• Saving or editing a routine does not require reflashing the hub.

Understand routine timing and results

Saved routines keep their step order. Explicit waits and dependencies remain meaningful; protocol scheduling must not reorder those boundaries.

If your routine includes a spoken message, the message uses its selected room and message volume, restoring prior speaker state afterward.

If your routine turns on a coffee machine and is set to wait for the ready announcement, following actions can stay paused until the machine is ready. A coffee-ready announcement can hold following actions until ready; distinguish that deliberate wait from a failed run.

When you run a routine, review pending versus confirmed results and the actual failed step rather than assuming a Run now acknowledgement means completion.

Troubleshooting