How to use Home’s built-in ambient audio to get some rest relaxation

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 8 May 2017

Home has picked some cool high-profile features over the past few weeks, including support for multiple accounts access to millions of recipes, but a new feature that has flown in under the radar might be even more useful.

Instead of paying top dollar on a bulky white noise machine for you or your newborn baby, your Home can now fill your room with soothing ambient sounds. There are 15 in all, ranging from a crackling fireplace to a babbling brook. And since they’ll most often be used when you’re already tired stressed out, has made it super easy to operate.

Here’s how it works. If you say, “OK , help me relax,” your Home will play a rom ambient noise for the next hour (or until you tell it to stop). ternatively, you could ask it to play it for a specified amount of time, something we’re not able to do when playing music.

You can also ask it play a different sound if the one you hear doesn’t fit your fancy, or ask for one of the specific tracks in its catalog, including:

  • Relaxing sounds
  • Nature sounds
  • ter sounds
  • Running water sounds
  • Outdoor sounds
  • Babbling brook sounds
  • Country night sounds
  • Oscillating fan sounds
  • Fireplace sounds
  • Forest sounds
  • Ocean sounds
  • Rain sounds
  • River sounds
  • Thunderstorm sounds
  • ite noise

st as it is with the rom sounds, you can set a specific time limit for an individual track by saying, “OK , play thunderstorm sounds for 2 hours,” if heavy rain distant rumbling happens to be your thing.

Sleep aid: Ambient noise is cool all, but we’re most excited about the automatic shut-off timer. Now, we just want to be able to use it for our music, too. etty please?!