Yandex: Smart home

2026: Understanding Natural Speech

Users smart home Yandex can now access it in a natural language - the way they are comfortable. Alice in devices, she began to understand not only standard commands, but also set in free form. This was Yandex announced on February 5, 2026. For example, if you say "Alice, it's time to clean up," she will start. robot vacuum cleaner This became possible thanks to the tool calling technology, which as of February 2026 operates in test mode.

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Now users do not need to remember the exact commands and device names. The language model will analyze the query and determine what needs to be done. For example, if you say "Alice, I need to get up at seven tomorrow," she will set an alarm, and in response to "Alice, too dark" she will add light. She will also understand that "turn on the light on the table" is the same as "turn on the table lamp," and "living room" is the same as "hall." This also applies to the name of the colors. In particular, Alice will turn on the "turquoise" light, even if it is called blue in the smart home palette.

The smart home began to take into account the context of the conversation during which the team sounded. For example, now you can ask Alice at what temperature you need to brew black tea, and then say "Turn on the kettle at this temperature." Previously, it was necessary to give a clear instruction: "Alice, turn on the kettle at a temperature of 90 degrees." Smart home management thus becomes a natural part of the dialogue with Alice.

With one phrase, you can now give the device several commands at once. So, earlier it was necessary first to say "Alice, turn on the yellow light," and then "brightness - forty percent." Now one phrase suffices: "Alice, turn on the yellow light forty percent." The smart home also learned to understand requests with words like "except." For example, you can say "Alice, turn off the lights everywhere except the kitchen."

The tool calling technology acts as a manager that coordinates the operation of the language model. Thanks to it, the model analyzes the request, breaks down complex requests into simple ones and determines which devices need to be used. As the neural network is trained, the smart home will understand more and more commands set in spoken form.

2025: Aqara Smart Lock Connectivity

Aqara Smart Door Locks now you can connect to the application "Smart home with Alice," the Aqara A100, D100 and D200i models will be available for connection. With them, you can open the door with a fingerprint,, password- NFC mark or using. smartphone Connecting smart home Yandex to gives additional features - controlling the lock by voice and creating scripts with it and other devices. This was RedLine Pro announced on November 7, 2025. More. here

2019

Support for Aqara smart home devices

The manufacturer of devices for smart home Aqara announced on November 7, 2019, the start of official sales in. Russia As noted, Aqara has learned to work with Yandex's smart home and its voice assistant. Alice Alice knows how to control light bulbs, wall switches, a smart outlet and the center of a smart home. Aqara Hub More. here

Smart Home Announcement

On May 23, 2019, Yandex introduced a smart home run by Alice. Now you can ask her to light up the light, lower the temperature on the air conditioner or make the TV louder. Yandex's smart home works with dozens of devices created by Philips, Redmond, Rubetek, Samsung and Xiaomi - smart bulbs, sockets and home electrical appliances.

In 2018, we introduced Yandex.Station, and people had the opportunity to turn on music and films in voice, just communicating with Alice. For June 2019, we propose using the voice to manage the house and solve many household tasks. told Denis Chernilevsky, head of device development with Alice in Yandex

According to the company, to manage a smart home, you will need a device or application with Alice: you can even contact it from the other end of the city. If a person forgot to turn off the TV or wants to turn on the air conditioner in the apartment in advance, then he can entrust it to Alice - for example, in the Yandex application or Navigator.

You can give commands to one device or several at once. The smart home allows you to customize any scenario: select the necessary devices and actions and come up with a phrase for activation. For example, so that in response to the greeting "Alice, good morning," she puts on cheerful music on the Station, extinguishes the night light and turns on the kettle.

In addition to connecting partner devices, Yandex has released its own - a smart light bulb, an outlet and a remote control. The light bulb changes the brightness and color of the lighting, with the help of the outlet you can remotely turn on and off the devices connected to it, and the remote control controls equipment with an infrared port - for example, air conditioners and TVs.

In stores, everything that Alice manages can be found by the marking "Works with Alice."