Google Home now works better with a wider range of smart locks

Google Home is fixing some niche smart home annoyances. Google’s shared update notes for the latest additions to its smart home platform, and changes include a fix for video streaming resolution issues, as well as improved support for what Google calls European-style smart locks.

Google posted the release notes for the latest changes on the Google Home and Nest Help forum today. As of this month, the Home platform better supports European-style smart locks, also known as mortise locks. A bug that’s been causing live camera feeds to stream at a locked resolution of 360p has also been addressed.

Mortise locks feature both a locking bolt and a latch, and some smart models offer independent control of both mechanisms. Now, Google Home can tap into that independent control, and the platform can also better spell out what state the lock is in (e.g., it can tell you that your lock is “Unlocked and latched”).

There’s also a new alert that’ll show up in the Google Home app when there’s a problem with the payment method for a paid Google Home subscription.

Those are the highlights, but this month also brought a handful of even more minor fixes and improvements. Google says the platform will now more consistently use your preferred temperature unit (with my preference set to Fahrenheit, I’ve never experienced Home incorrectly using Celsius, but maybe I’ve been lucky).

iOS users have received a handful of exclusive fixes, too. Fahrenheit temperature rounding has improved on iOS, and that the Home app should experience fewer camera-related crashes. Camera playback controls will also remain visible when a camera feed you’re viewing goes offline, “making it easy to troubleshoot or navigate away.”

All of these changes should be live in Google Home right now.