We have a Android Tv at home. I used some google app to set it up. Now you can hust press the cast button on YouTube to instantly send the video from your YouTube app to the tv. Nothing special. But this notification is always there, even when they started the video. I don't use the Tv. I thought it was the google home app, but i blocked the notifications. Nothing happened. I uninstalled the app but it was still there. How i can I turn it off?

I think I've tried everything to have my activity log show EST and not the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Any advice welcomed

My nest protects have been going off randomly over the last couple of days, saying “emergency smoke detected”. When i go into the app there says there isn’t anything wrong with them?

Any ideas what could going on?

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How is it that Google have released their Black Friday offers and the Pixel 9 phones that came out 2.5 months ago have up to £300 off however a Nest Audio released 4 years ago has NOTHING.

Full price in all stores it seems!

Hello, i have a problem with automation I would like to Turn on my light only if my phone connects to a wifi name at a specific hour. For the moment i don't find the soluce, i can only ad one trigger and no time Even in IFTTT app i don't find the soluce

So the exemple would be If phone connects to "Wifi-123" at "7pm" Then Turn On Kitchen Light

Can you please help me :) ?

I want to set up my entire home group to play holiday music off of Sirius XM, channel 71 holiday traditions. My Google home is already linked to my Sirius account, and I can get a individual speaker to play it. I have several speakers as well as a hub, and I would like it to play holiday music either when I get home or at a certain time every weekday. I can't seem to get more than one speaker to play even though I set up a home group. Is this possible? Or can you only play Sirius XM on one speaker at a time?

I've been reading Gemini is making it's way to Google Home. However, I'm confused by what exactly that means. Will Goggle Assistant on Google Home devices be replaced with Gemini's more realistic voice? Will it have capabilities to have full conversations like Gemini Live?

The information out there seems to be pretty vague. I'm only seeing Gemini can control GH routines. I'd appreciate if anyone can share any information on this intergration.

I fixed it! I live in the Netherlands and I bought a google home. When it arrived it spoke Spanish for some reason. I couldnt set it up without the error (kGSKErrorDomain error-83902.)

But changing my iphone settings to Spanish as the only language and then rebooting my phone fixed it.

Be sure to set your phone to the language/region that your device is defaulting too.

Hopefully this helps people in the future!

I would like to group my plugs (lamps) like I group my speakers (upstairs, downstairs, whole house). I have them in rooms and I want that to remain there but is there a way to group them like this, as well? I would like to say “Hey Google, turn on downstairs lamps” and have them all turn on from each individual room. Is this possible?

Hey everyone, this year I have to make a very big school project about Smart Homes. We are going to make our own Smart Home based on important features that are missing in other famous Smart Homes like the ones from Apple, Samsung and many others. So when you guys know features that are missing in Smart Homes, it will maybe even a feature in our self made Smart Home. Can you please fill in my google form about Smart Homes? It helps us a lot.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4RUEXeqs98Qoz-mWcFb5hnxwT6EAwlKc5DGJo5VbTNoGVOA/viewform

Hi, This is a certified Chromecast clone that is sold with Yaber K2s projector.

Has anyone been able to connect a Yaber to google home via the hako minu? The screen prompt say it exists, but I can't find it?

Hello

I have seen a few posts about this and still no solid fix. Using either Google Assistant or Gemini, when the phone is locked, asking for lights to be turned on/off results in assistant asking for me to unlock the phone. So far this does not work even when assistant on lock screen is on, the recommended approach.

I have looked an never seen a way to fix this, BUT I can confirm asking the assistant another question first (like what's the square root of 4) and then asking for a control does work. Any thoughts on what might fix this? I hope the workaround helps a few folks as I was losing my marbles for a bit.

So I am trying to play audiobooks with Spotify or Apple Music, but I can't get my Google Nest to play a certain episode or just the latest. I can see from the prompt that it understands the command perfectly fine, but it just keeps on playing random episodes from the audiobook. The audiobooks itself are divided into short pieces, like songs in album, and many times it will not even start with the first chunk but randomly start anywhere inside the audiobook. This works absolutely flawless with Alexa so I am surprised that this does not work at all with Google home. Is there anything I can do to make this work?

I'm trying to use a wifi connected smart bulb as a sunrise lamp, and am having some issues, especially with the Google home automation.

Firstly the bulb is a smart life (Tuya) bulb, linked to Google home. My routine is on weekdays at 6am, Set brightness to 0%, turn the lamp on, set the colour, trigger the wake effect for 30min.

The first issue is the order seems to always be ignored,I have brightness set before turning the bulb on to avoid flash bangs, but it always triggers the brightness after the bulb turns on. I don't know if this is a glitch,or perhaps the bulb doesn't support changing brightness while it's off,but it's really annoying.

The 2nd issue is this past week the wake effect has just stopped working. It'll turn on,set the starting brightness and then nothing else will happen. If I trigger the routine manually the lamp will gradually increase in brightness,but it won't automatically.

Finally, I've also found the bulb gives off a high pitched whine, which changes depending on its state and colour,which is very annoying,I don't know if anyone else has had an experience with this, or if I have a bad bulb? The bulb is rated for the power rating of the lamp so it has enough power. It's a time guard WFLE14GB bulb

TL;DR: I failed triggering the built-in screen saver on previous versions of the streamer. Is it possible with the new streamer?

Longer version:

I enjoy using my old Google HD Chromecast dongle as a photo display.

When I arrive home, automations start my TV, which is set to show my favourite Google Photos using the screen saver that is on the dongle. It works brilliantly, except the HD quality and added compression during transfer is terrible.

So last year I bought the (now previous gen) 4K version, which looks much, much better. However, now the screen saver takes minimum 15mins to kick in, and it cannot be reduced further.

So I started looking into scripted google home automations at home.google.com, to see if I could trigger the screen-saver to start. But it seems that 4k dongle supports very few commands.

Now the new 4K Google streamer is out, and it says it comes with Google Assistant. Could this mean it now is possible to trigger the screen saver? Has any of you successfully done so?

Can you help?

Has anyone used a nest cam as a baby monitor? I want to find a camera for my toddler’s room that is compatible with the Google Home app, but I can’t find anything. Would love to find something battery powered to avoid cables that might tempt him to pull the camera down.

I’m considering switching to primarily using Google home from Alexa because I like the clean look of Google home displays much more, should I invest now because I’ve heard things about Google potentially killing the nest hub or Google assistant for Gemini.

Hi everyone, can someone help me here? I’m trying to create an automation for a daily alarm on my google mini but I can’t find the configuration. Thanks

Anyone accomplish anything like this? Ideally I find some smart plug/hardware that shows up in the Home app, and then shows "On" or "Off" based on whether there is a cycle running.

I tried this out with a TP-Link KP115, but because the plugs are always "on" I can't see the status at a glance in the Home app.

So I've got a newborn, And one of my friends suggested that I get a white noise generator to help them sleep.

So in the interest of saving money and knowing that I have a Google home mini in my bedroom, I decided to get Google to start playing White noise for me.

Now the only thing I've noticed is that every 20 or 30 minutes the Google home will stop making white noise and will pause for you to 10 seconds, then start up again.

Also, I've noticed that sometimes it will play a slightly different sounding white noise, It's never consistent with what white noise it plays. It'll be slightly louder, slightly softer, or have a slightly different kind of tone.

It doesn't really affect us overall, I'm just curious why it's doing it.

Because talking to my friends who have bought dedicated white noise machines they don't stop, they'll just run 24/7 if they ask them to.

IT Vivo in una casa che non ha niente di smart ( lampadine, finestre, ecc..). Vorrei iniziare ad usare Google home per rendere più smart la mia vita. In vista del black Friday pensavo di fare un po' di acquisti. Da cosa mi consigliate di iniziare? Pensavo a delle lampadine e un termostato da collegare alla caldaia

ENG I live in a house that has nothing smart (light , windows, etc.). I would like to start using Google home to make my life smarter. In view of Black Friday I was thinking of doing some shopping. What do you recommend I start with? I was thinking of some light bulbs and a thermostat to connect to the boiler

This has been an on/off issue but has suddenly started happening with greater frequency over the past week. Every time we stream anything on the minis they will pop like crazy - it's driving the kids mad because they can't reset them. Resetting them does seem to fix th issue but it doesn't last - within 24-48 hrs it's back.

What do we do?

How do I see hub max history within the Google home app? Right now it takes me to the nest app instead of behaving like my other cameras which have all the features within the home app. I already transfered the camera to Google home.

I’m trying to unlink Aqara devices ifrom Google Home, but it’s disabled. I was thinking maybe the problem is because my current region in Aqara app is not the same as what was linked in Google Home.

So i tried to change it but unfortunately, Oceania is not available in the options anymore. I tried selecting the countries in the Oceanian Region but still no luck.

Please help!

r/Aqara r/GoogleHome

They worked for years just fine but my bedroom lights are weird now. Well they work. But when I tell Google to them off (or change the color, dim, etc.) they say that they are offline. And then the lights have a 75% chance of doing what I told them to anyway. It's infuriating.

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I have one wipro and one bajaj smart bulb added to my home app (linked using 3rd party apps), and i also have a fan linked like this. but none of these devices show up in widget of google home app. Only thing showing up is my smart speaker (with its broadcast tile), and none of the devices linked show up. Does google not support adding 3rd party devices to widget?

Have setup a blinds motor to open & close blinds. Using Smarthome app with the "Motor direction" option left to normal.

Using the app, the "Up" button raises the blinds. The "Down" button lowers them.

Go to Google Home, and it gets the blind position the wrong way round. It says they are closed when they are open and vice versa. The only solution is to swap the cord around on the motor.

(I have tried reversing the motor direction in the app, but that seemed to stop the motor working with Google Home completely).

If this is the way it has to be, then it's liveable. But it is annoying.