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

TL;DR Google has detailed the latest updates for Google Home. Improvements include better support for mortise locks and a fix for a camera bug that caused streams to get stuck at 360p. All these improvements are available now.

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.