I searched this sub before I made this post, I didn't see anything specifically pertaining to this; if I missed it, I'm sorry.

I've had a Nest Hub (gen 1) since about 2018 and it's worked great; I had it in my house for years, and since April I've had it in this apartment I've moved into.

Within my Google Home app, I've got rooms for myself, my roommate, and the living room. I've got various Google Wi-Fis, Lights, Chromecasts and other junk in each room, all labeled with "My Name's Bedroom" and "My Roommate's Bedroom" which is how I've had it for years now. In the past month or so now, I've started having voice control problems.

For years, I would walk in my room and say "Hey Google, turn on my bedroom lights" and specifically *my* bedroom lights would light up, without specifically saying my name in the command. Now, that same command turns on my lights and the lights in my roommate's room as well. I've reorganized and re-created the rooms in the Home App and ensured that all the appropriate lights are grouped correctly, but it is not working right still. However, if I say "Hey Google, turn on my television", it correctly turns on my Chromecast/TV without issue, even though the other Chromecasts are setup for voice controls, too.

Anyone have any recommendations? I was thinking it had something to do with the personalized results function, but I've retrained this in regard to my Nest Hub and Assistant-enabled stuff and it still is borked. I was also thinking I needed to do a full purge of all of the Phillips Hue federation, but that seems like a real pain in the ass especially if it doesn't work. Any input is appreciated.

Hey All! I'm losing my mind trying to figure this out.

I recently purchased a bunch of SmartWings blinds with Matter over Thread, and now I need a Matter Thread hub to control them.

I was planning to get the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) since it’s recommended by SmartWings and supports Matter/Thread. However, I realized it doesn’t set me up well for potentially integrating with Home Assistant in the future.

Next, I considered the Aqara M3 Hub because it works with both Google Home and Home Assistant, plus it supports Zigbee—which is a nice bonus. But now I’m reading that Aqara doesn’t support SmartWings blinds, which complicates things.

So, I’m looking for suggestions on a hub that:

1) Supports Matter over Thread
2) Works with SmartWings blinds
3) Integrates with both Google Home and Home Assistant
4) Ideally will let me use various switches to control blinds, etc. when internet is down
5) Bonus: Supports Zigbee devices

I’d like to future-proof my setup while keeping things as simple as possible. Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I use my nest hub as an alarm clock. But recently, whenever I turn off my alarm, it activates an automation to open all my blinds. Morning routine is set to off in the alarm.

How do I stop my nest hub from running this automation?

I finally got around to setting up my wife and son with separate Spotify accounts and they trained their voices on the GH app.

We have 3 stereo Nest Audio pairs in the house. They all work fine for me (the primary account creator).

My wife has only one of the 3 pairs that will recognize her voice. In the app we specifically have all devices listed as voice matching for her. We tried retraining her voice a few times, uninstalling/reinstalling the GH app, rebooting devices, etc. Nothing seems to make a difference.

Anyone have issues like this, and advice how to solve?

I am buying a house. I'd like to set up automatic lighting/heating/cooling if it's cost effective. I'd need to save for it.

I imagine automatic shut off when I sleep or visit my grandchild would be very beneficial with electric bills going towards 450 a month with pge. Yet spending more money on setup than I'd save is dumb.

I don't know how to estimate the cost, savings, budget, etc. I am resetting my life due to a wake up call.

At home I have a Pixel 9, a Nest Audio, a Nest mini or whatever, a TCL Google TV, and 3 Chromecasts. Plan to add 2 more Nest minis. "Hey Google" is making them all freak out. I want the right "kids" to listen to me when I'm talking to them! As I add the additional Nest minis I will be putting them in my kids' rooms (the have Google accounts) and my bedroom where both my wife and I will have one (she has a Google account too FWIW). Everyone uses the Nest Audio in the kitchen.

So... how do I handle a "Hey Google" from the kitchen triggering the TV? Even my kids' rooms have voice recognition in their rooms the other devices all will need to recognize all 4 of our voices.

Recently switched from Alexa devices and have ZERO intention of going back, but want to get everything straight here! Thanks everyone.

Edit: ... and a Pixel Watch

I'm assuming there is a lot of work going on with home lately because the YT music integration alternates between working perfectly for a few days and then going to shit for a few days. Here are a few things I've noticed in the past few days in case any devs are reading this:

1. Asking speaker to play different music while music is already playing. Command is getting acknowledged but original music keeps playing.
2. Routines that play playlists are playing 1 song and then stopping.
3. Asking speaker to move music from 1 speaker to a group that contains that speaker gets acknowledged, but continues to play on original speaker.
4. Asking google to turn off music turns off music playing on a random speaker elsewhere in the house when speaker you are speaking to is part of a group that is playing music.
5. Asking the speaker (linked to default tv) to play something on YouTube is playing it on YouTube music and vice versa.
6. Routines that play music will announce what they are about to play while playing in same room, instead of just a tone like previously.

One positive, the hue and smart life integration is working great now that I've readded my lights using matter integration. Responses are faster and lights aren't dropping from recognition anymore.

Im trying to turn an old tablet into a smart home hub. Ive downloaded the app fully kiosk and to Connect it to Google home I need the url to my Google home dashboard.

Ive watched all YouTube video’s about fully kiosk but there are 0(!) which explain how you get the url??

Im starting to think im the problem since everybody seems to know how it works except for me?

Hope any of you can help!!

I know that we used to be able to cast to a speaker group and that functionality was removed a while back but I have never had a problem casting to a single speaker until very recently. This is what I do and the result.

1. Local music file is playing on my phone.
2. Select device from Home app and click "Cast my audio"
3. Warning pops up about how mirroring works; choose "Cast audio"
4. Dropdown choice "Entire screen" and tap "Start casting"
5. Speaker makes connection sound, Home app says "Now playing" and has "Stop casting" button option below the volume
6. Audio continues to come from phone

No change in behavior if "single app" is chosen in step four, regardless of which app is selected. Anybody have any ideas on a fix or is this how it "works" now? Even if I link my Spotify app to Home, this is a local file and not able to be streamed to the system.

I've paired my Google-TV with my external Google Audio Speaker (Nest) using Bluetooth and the sound quality from the speaker is ok, but it is lagging approx 200ms behind the speakers integrated in the TV. Obviously this makes it useless. I can make it sync by setting a 200ms delay in the TV-sound, but then lipsync is awful, so that's not a solution.

How can this be solved?

I recently acquired a second hand Nest Hub Max that a family member had bought years ago, but never used. I set it up and it works great, however periodically the screen will just freeze and will remain frozen until I reboot it. The rest of it works fine, it will still respond and do everything but the screen will remain frozen. I can even have it play videos, but I just get the audio while the screen does nothing. The clock doesn't even advance.

I've tried different clock types, such as Full Screen & Art gallery, still freezes. I then decided to join the preview program in hopes that newer firmware would fix it. It was on version 20, now its on version 22 and the issue is still occurring.

Any thoughts on what I can try next or is this a lost cause?

My kids figured out how to ask for music on the Google home speakers which I think is great. Except it is now turned by Spotify recommendations into complete trash children's jamboree extravaganza.

I tried changing the default music service to iHeartRadio which I personally will never use.

Not when I ask for music it defaults to iHeartRadio. When anyone else in my family who does not have a registered voice print asks for music it defaults to Spotify and continues the problem.

Does anyone know how to change the default public music service? I am the master account in the home group.

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Over the past week or so it can no longer handle changing light color anymore. I don't get it.

"Okay Google, set the den light color to blue" "Sorry, I don't understand"

I then type out the exact same phrase in Assistant app on my phone and it works fine.

What is happening over there?

Essentially I removed my old email address from the google home app (idk why) I forgot that email is my youtube account, so it switched to another member of my house hold's youtube and removed the cool widget I loved (this is a problem because me and that person have very different taste in videos) I'll try to re add my old email. Any other suggestions?

Can anyone tell me why I am unable to link music services to my google home?

I am from Denmark

So, maybe 2 weeks ago, my Hue lightbulbs stopped connecting properly with Google home.

When I tried to add some new hue lights today, the app insisted that I need a hue hub.

Is this true or am I just doing something wrong? (I've used just the bulbs with Google home and never needed the hub before)

I installed a nest (2nd Gen wired) today and it works perfectly but my doorbell chime is not working.

I have it wired transformer red > nest red. Second red wire transformer red > chime "trans"

White wire nest > chime "front"

The nest chime round thing has 1 wire on each of the chime lugs (1 on trans and 1 on front)

So the doorbell worked when I took it off the wall like a year ago and had just sat on the shelf untouched in the garage. It's just a basic song dong chime.

Clearly the transformer works because the nest has power and works exactly as it should.

When I push the doorbell button it dings my app but nothing comes from the chime.

Any idea why the hell it's not working or how to fix it?

Some handy hints for people to try.

As you know, Google Home can get confused easily, so keep phrases as short as possible and don't use unnecessary words. Also try the phrase differently.

Let's say you have 4 groups of lights - Bedroom Lights - Kitchen Lights - Patio Lights - Lounge Lights.

Google Home knows that Smart Lights are lights, but if you're using smart switches to control lights, you have to name the switches as Lights. If the switch is controlling a table lamp for instance, and you've got the switch labelled as LAMP, Google will probably not see it as a Light, so naming is important.

You can also control Lights by using the ROOM you've set them up in. You might have 3 smart globes all labelled differently in your FAMILY room - Table Light - Lounge Light - TV Light etc. You can control them individually "Hey Google turn off Table Light" or issue a blanket command "Hey Google turn of family room LIGHTS" and it'll turn off ALL the lights in the family room. Sometimes you don't even have to use the word ROOM, Google usually know if you say FAMILY, you mean the FAMILY room - "Hey Google turn off FAMILY".

Words like ALL and THE are mostly useless. You don't need to say "Hey Google turn off all the FAMILY lights", you should just be able to say "Hey Google turn off FAMILY lights" - Google knows you want to turn off ALL the lights if you don't specify a particular light. If you issue a blanket command "Hey Google turn off LIGHTS" it'll turn off all the lights in the house (If you've got them all labelled as LIGHTS).

Also try rephrasing a command if you're having problems. "Hey Google turn off kitchen lights" instead try "Hey Google turn kitchen lights off".

I also found setting an alarm/reminder for a future event a pain, until I started experimenting "Hey Google create a reminder (or SET a reminder) for next Thursday at 10am - Google would say "Sure, what's the title" I'd say "Dentist Appointment", and Google would come back "Sure I'll remind you tomorrow at 10am". Plainly this is not what I want, so I rephrased it as "Hey Google create a reminder for Thursday 19th at 10am", Google responds with "Sure what's the title", I'd say "Dentist Appointment" and Google responds back "OK, I'll remind you next Thursday at 10am" YAY

Just keep remembering that Google Home is a computer and computers are methodical. Google software engineers try to make Google Home and Hub more humanlike, but they are still computers, so keeping your phrasing computerlike helps. Forget useless words like ALL and THE, they're not needed, or at least, I found I haven't needed them.

For those old enough, remember the old search engines from the 90's. If you were looking for a flight from London to New York, you'd put the keywords of LONDON, NEW YORK, FLIGHT in a search engine and you'd get your results. The 'techy' people knew this system well. The 'untechy' people started using search engines and it got a lot harder because they used human phrases rather than sticking to keywords "Give me cheapest flights from New York to London". The search engine people had to change algorithms to strip out the connective words "give" "me" "from" as they don't help the search. What you're left with is the keywords (and the order of the keywords) London TO New York vs New York TO London. My point is that Google Home and Hub work pretty much the same way. Don't use useless words that will just end up confusing the computer/Hub and keep phrases short and concise. I have lots of smart devices set up in my house. I've taken the time to set them up properly, name them as best I can and avoid similar names. An example, albeit, way out example is if you were to have a Vergola Pergola (an electrically opening slatted pergola), don't name one smart switch "Vergola" and another smart switch "Pergola" because the hub is bound to mix them up, so make sure your naming is as different as you can.

99% of the time, my Hub(s) operate perfectly and do it's job and I see so many posts where hubs don't work as they should and think "If they just rephrased that command" or didn't use pointless words in the command, it'd probably work. Hope this helps you all out.

A few days ago when I said stop to turn off my alarm as usual it (my google home mini) suddenly decided to start telling me about the time and weather before playing something from the radio to which I have to immediately say stop to because I never wanted to listen to the news the moment I wake up and am still half asleep. I have no routines related to this - I just have one the night before for when I go to sleep that asks when I want to set an alarm for the next day, and before this started happening in the morning I just turned off the alarm and that was it. I've also checked the automations in the Google Home app and none of them have anything to do with the radio turning on after turning off an alarm. Does anyone know how to stop the radio from playing?

I’m curious what you would pay for lightly used google home speakers, the pucks and the larger ones, as well some older generation displays and one larger display? They sound fantastic but I’d like to transfer to HomePods as the family is all apple.

Hi all,

I am on the market for a smart bell for our new house.

I would like something that is wired (connects to 16V bell transformer), doesn’t have subscription, and integrates well with google home and Nest hub max (Ideally shows the camera feed on the nest hub when someone rings the bell).

The google doorbell is a great option, but the 3 hours of recorded videos on the free plan are way too short to be useful.

Thank you!

I finally got the prompt to upgrade the last class of Nest cameras to Google a home (IQ/Home Hub Max). It worked without a hitch for about 6 cameras and my other Home Hub Max, but it seems to have failed on my kitchen Max, and isn't prompting anymore. It's evidently running firmware 20.20240530.3.18100 while the successful one is running 22.20240805.103.161, so clearly a bit further back... might factory reset and see, but figured I'd see if anyone else had a failed upgrade.

I saw that this was a bug a few times in the past, my app all of a sudden has started this today. 3/4 phones are home, I rebooted everything, double checked settings and it continues to happen.

I turned it off for now, just wanted to see if I was the only one

Hi, i was wondering is theres a way to replace the default google assistant on a google nest hub with an openAI voice AI or a other voice AI assistant?