https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/google-home-is-getting-a-lot-friendlier-with-nest-products/

A major use case of home assistants is obviously close integration with smart home products, but Home and Echo have both managed to make things a lot more confusing than they should be when it comes to turning on lights or accessing your home security system.

Google is trying to rectify this and is starting by making Nest products a lot more friendly with Home. Now, seamless integration between two products operating under the same parent company in the same vertical should be a given, but in IoT nothing is a given.