How to use the Google Home app on Mac and PC
If you’ve just purchased a Google-compatible smart device like Google Home Mini or have a Google Chromecast device, you’ll need to use the Google Home app to set it up.
The Google Home app is a handy way to view and control your gadgets. The app is designed to only work with iOS and Android devices, which means you’ll need to use another workaround to use the Google Home app on a computer.
The most common workarounds include using Google Chrome for Google Home or installing an emulator to use the Google Home app on your computer. In this guide, we’ll show you how to use both methods to use the Google Home app on your Mac or PC.
You can emulate the Android operating system on your Mac and PC for free using BlueStacks. However, there are many other Android emulators that you can use such as VirtualBox, Genmony O Android Studio which can help you run android apps on your computer.
For this guide, we will walk you through the steps to install and configure BlueStacks to use the Google Home app or other Android apps on your Mac and PC.
To get the Google Home app for Mac, you need to download, install and run BlueStacks per macOS on your Mac.
For this guide, we’re using a Mac with Big Sur, which requires a different version of BlueStacks than the macOS versions.
Note: For the best experience, make sure your macOS is running the latest update and that you have downloaded the correct BlueStacks version for your Mac.
Once you’ve set up BlueStacks and the Google Home app on your Mac, it’s just a matter of setting up your connected devices.
If you’re setting up Google Home for Mac on a Google Chromecast device, follow our guide on how Chromecast works come on how to use Chromecast to cast entire desktop to TV.
If you have a Windows PC, you will still need to install and run a Android emulator for Windows 10 to use the Google Home app.
Open the Google Play Store, sign in using your Google account, search for the Google Home app and select Install now.
You can now use Google Home for PC to set up, manage and use your connected or even devices play android games on your PC.
You can use some features of the Google Home app through Google Chrome but you can’t set up Google Home devices from the browser. The browser is limited to media casting only, but if you want to do more, you’ll need an Android emulator.
To get started, you’ll need to update Chrome to the latest version and make sure your computer and Google Home devices are connected to the same WiFi network.
Note: If you choose to use the Google Home app via the Chrome browser, you won’t be able to set up new devices.
We hope this guide has helped you use the Google Home app on your computer. We recommend using the Android emulator method as it allows you to use the Google Home app and access all the features of Google Home.
Let us know in a comment if you were able to set up and use the Google Home app on your Mac or PC.
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