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Google might’ve only been shipping its smart speaker Google Home for a few weeks now, but early adopters are already finding inventive ways to put the device to use. Redditor Hovee has devised a nifty setup for his apartment that conveniently lets him use his Home speaker to remotely turn on his fireplace – and it looks neat as hell. Unfortunately, integrating your fireplace with your Home device isn’t exactly an easy task. For starters, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi processor, a Global Cache iTach TCP/IP relay as well as a Google Assistant-connected IFTTT account. In addition to this, you’ll have…

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