If Google Home is any indication of the near-term threat of AI, we have nothing to worry about.

Any advice of devices that can be triggered to display a countdown timer? I have a nightly routine that shuts off all my tvs, plays calming music, etc and is used as my cue to clean up for 15 minutes before going to bed. The routine triggers a timer on my phone for 15 minutes, but I’d like a visual display that actually shows the 15 minutes counting down. Device suggestions would be appreciated!

Just used the script editor for the first time to add basic light + camera automations. The script editor was surprisingly easy to use, since it had auto-complete. The AI chat bot on the right was decently helpful too.

Looking forward to using this more!

Hey,

If i ask the following question: "hey google, turn the lights in the bedroom off. The Google Nest mini and Google hub ask me. "What is your pincode"

What pincode does it need? All other commands it does without the pincode.

If i ask:"what did i say" it says, "wrong pincode"

I don't understand any of it.

From their Nest community - maybe there is hope after all!:

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Hi everyone, thanks for reporting this in the community. We are currently investigating this issue. 

If you're observing similar behavior on your speaker, follow these steps to file a feedback report with our team. Please make sure that "Send device usage data and crash reports to Google" is turned on before you submit the report. 

We'd also appreciate if you shared the following in info in the comments so that we can pass it onto our team: 

Are lights solid or strobing?

Are lights stuck on before a reboot is completed? Or do they turn on after boot and stay on?

Can you cast music to the speaker from a mobile app?

Does a factory reset fix the issue?

Videos or photos of the behavior are also appreciated!

Please keep an eye on this thread for future updates. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

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From their Nest community - maybe there is hope after all!:

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Hi everyone, thanks for reporting this in the community. We are currently investigating this issue. 

If you're observing similar behavior on your speaker, follow these steps to file a feedback report with our team. Please make sure that "Send device usage data and crash reports to Google" is turned on before you submit the report. 

We'd also appreciate if you shared the following in info in the comments so that we can pass it onto our team: 

Are lights solid or strobing?

Are lights stuck on before a reboot is completed? Or do they turn on after boot and stay on?

Can you cast music to the speaker from a mobile app?

Does a factory reset fix the issue?

Videos or photos of the behavior are also appreciated!

Please keep an eye on this thread for future updates. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

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I keep getting this notification when someone is playing spotify on the hub, anyway to disable? It's getting on my nerves

Absolutely had it with the Google home / nest infrastructure and devices. From the doorbell feed that takes 2 full minutes to load to the assistant disconnecting from WiFi to the constant sunset of features. I'm done. I switched from Amazon maybe 3 years ago.

Since then I've got 2 nest protects 3 home hubs 5 nest minis Nest thermostat Nest doorbell (battery) Nest camera (wired) pixel 7pro I've also got nest aware and Google 1 subscription

And honestly it's shocking how bad the software and support is from a software company, constant problems and missing or lost features.

So, rant out of the way, I'm looking to hopefully trade in my nest/googlr garbage for something a little more reliable and supported. I'm thinking eufy, I work in IT so I'm not shy of doing a little work to get stuff working and I hear they support some decent scripting options.

Has anyone got any ideas or vendors who take trade ins for the gear I've got? Because it's relevant I'm in the UK.

I’ve had a google routine that would upon detecting my switch powering a fan turn on, to send a google assistant command to the Bond Home device/app to set the fan speed to 4 and set it to rotate (the fan does not have ‘memory’ unfortunately).

It was working perfectly for the better part of half a year, but suddenly two weeks back the command doesn’t work consistently. The routine either doesn’t trigger at all, or is delayed for far too long to be useful at all.

Setting up another test routine found a possible cause - turning on a light switch and setting up a routine to then turn on another light switch found that the Google Home app doesn’t recognise the switch as being turned on immediately. For some reason the google home app is picking up a delayed signal.

Does anyone know what could have caused this change in google home? I have a nest hub gen 2 in the google home.

I am interested in a Google Nest Hub. But I fear I would miss having buttons for my routines. Sometimes I forget the routine names or my wife doesn't want to use voice to control devices, it would be so helpful to have some of the routines shortcuts on my home screen.

Is this possible or in the plans? Thank you

Google does a pause while playing youtube music, every 10 minutes, without a routine that allows it, but if i pause manually the song and play, the pause stops, i don't have youtube premium, is this the problem?

As the title suggests, I have a problem with an automation not running using the device.state.OpenPercent nor device.state.ColorSetting, the automation is split into two parts
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The automation pt1 (Working) : Turn the living room light red when the front door is open for more than a minute, and announce on the living room speaker: Front door open, please close it.

I tried splitting the automation into two (See code below), making it in one automation, same issue. It works when I test it using the play icon on the app, but doesn't actually work when the door is closed after the warning.

metadata:
  name: Front Door Left Open
  description:
    When the front door is open for more than 1 minute, turn the living
    room main light to red at 69% and announce on Family room display, the front
    door is open, please close it immediately. Lights are off when the door is closed.

automations:
# ---- STARTERS ---- #
# DOOR IS LEFT OPEN FOR 1 MINUTE
  - starters:
      - type: device.state.OpenClose 
        state: openPercent
        is: 100
        device: Front Door - Front door
        for: 1min

# ---- CONDITIONS ---- #
    condition:
      type: and
      conditions:
        - type: home.state.HomePresence
          state: homePresenceMode
          # [available operators: is, isNot]
          is: HOME
        - type: device.state.Online
          state: online
          is: true
          device: Alien - Family Room

#THIS IS FOR HOME PRESENCE YELLOW WARNING, I ADDED MY VACUUM AS A SECOND CONDITION.

    # ---- ACTIONS ---- #
    actions:
      - type: device.command.ColorAbsolute
        color:
          spectrumRGB: E32636
        devices: Main Light - Family Room
      - type: device.command.BrightnessAbsolute 
        brightness: 69
        devices: Main Light - Family Room
      - type: assistant.command.Broadcast
        message: Front door is open, please close it
        devices: Living Room Buddy - Family Room
      - type: home.command.Notification
        title: Your front door is open.

#THE PART THAT'S NOT WORKING NOW :

 - starters:
    - type: device.state.OpenClose
      state: openPercent
      is: 0
      device: Front Door - Front door

  # ---- CONDITIONS ---- #
  condition:
    type: device.state.ColorSetting
    state: color.spectrumRgb
    is: E32636
    device: Main Light - Family Room

  # ---- ACTIONS ---- # #I CHANGED THIS TO OKGOOGLE COMMAND TO TEST, I ALSO TRIED WITH COLOR.SPECTRUMRGB
  actions:
    - type: assistant.command.OkGoogle
      okGoogle: Set main light to daylight
      devices: Living Room Buddy - Family Room
    - type: device.command.BrightnessAbsolute
      brightness: 75
      devices: Main Light - Family Room

u/mocelet I know you can help with this, whenever you've got the chance. I appreciate it in advance.

UPDATE: The issue was resolved by substituting color.spectrumRgb with color name. Surprisingly, Google responded more effectively to color names than simple Hex codes (duh).

Following u/mocelet's recommendation, a virtual switch to activate the red light and check its status to trigger the second automation after door closure. Instead of relying on the on or off state, I adjusted the condition to be online, addressing Google's consistent warning about HomePresence inadequacy for certain conditions. Subsequently, I removed the condition for the red light and replaced it with the bulb brightness and virtual switch condition.

The automation goes as follows :

metadata:
  name: Front Door Alarm 
  description:
    When the front door is open for more than 1 minutes, turn the living
    room main light to red at 69% and announce on Family room display, the front
    door is open, please close it immediately. Lights are off when the door is closed. 

automations:

# ---- STARTERS ---- #
  # DOOR IS LEFT OPEN FOR 1 MINUTE #
  - starters:
      - type: device.state.OpenClose
        state: openPercent
        is: 100
        device: Front Door - Front door
        for: 1min

    # ---- CONDITIONS ---- #
    
    condition:
      type: and
      conditions:
        - type: home.state.HomePresence
          state: homePresenceMode
          is: HOME
        - type: device.state.Online
          state: online
          is: true
          device: SWITCH - Playground

    # ---- ACTIONS ---- #
    actions:
      - type: device.command.ColorAbsolute 
        color:
          name: Dark Red
        devices: Main Light - Family Room
      - type: device.command.BrightnessAbsolute 
        brightness: 69
        devices: Main Light - Family Room
      - type: assistant.command.Broadcast
        message: Front door is open, please close it
        devices: Living Room Buddy - Family Room

  - starters:
      - type: device.state.OpenClose 
        state: openPercent
        is: 0
        device: Front Door - Front door
    condition:
      type: and
      conditions:
        - type: device.state.Brightness
          state: brightness
          is: 69
          device: Main Light - Family Room
        - type: device.state.Online
          state: online
          is: true
          device: SWITCH - Playground
    actions:
      - type: device.command.ColorAbsolute
        color:
          name: Daylight
        devices: Main Light - Family Room

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This is the 2nd time it happens in a few years. This night my wife and I where woken up by what we thought was the wind outside, only to find out this morning that our Google Home compatible device (Lenovo) was happily playing thunderstorm ambient noises in the living room.

What could be the reason for this? We never ever asked it to play ambient sounds before. Also there is no parasite sound I can think of in the living room that the smart display could have mistaken with "Hey Google, play thunderstorm ambient sound".

I saw the information about GA stopped updating on many 3rd party products, but I wonder is it completely dead, or there are still some basic stuff possible to do (e.g. just to turn on/off room light/aircon, calling other rooms)?

Hi, I am tweaking my bedtime routine, and there is one thing I can't get to work.

I want it to announce something to the effect of: “In five minutes, it will be time for bed” or “In five minutes, the TV will turn off”. I have tried many variations, and I always get one of the two below responses.

I currently have the action set as:

Say "In five minutes, the TV will turn off."

It doesn't say that, though. Instead, it says “Sure, in five minutes I'll turn off the TV.”

And if I set the action as:

Say "In five minutes, it will be time for bed."

It says “Sure, setting a bedtime alarm for five minutes,” and at the end of the timer it starts playing a lullaby until I tell the timer to stop.

How do I get it to JUST repeat the words I want it to say? Normally I'd be thrilled that it can interpret custom actions like that, but in this instance I ONLY want it to read the statement that I put in quotes.

I have the rest of the actions programmed to follow as part of this routine. I just want it to let me know that I have five minutes left before the remainder of the routine plays out. What am I doing wrong?

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This happened after a Google or Nest update rolled out about six months ago. It looks like it was a widespread, common issue, and Google said they fixed it. I either get "Camera feed is not available", but I can still hear audio, or it's a black screen that says "Live Video" with a green circle in the corner. Or it's just an incredibly intermittent connection that sometimes figures itself out after I've given up and ignored it for an hour. The hub also randomly goes to the screen saver after I select a camera to view. These problems occur on all four cameras that I have (wired doorbell, wireless cam, and two wired cams). I have Google Nest WiFi routers that I bought late 2020, a Google Pixel, and two TCL Google TVs...WHY WON'T THIS SHIT JUST WORK ON THE HUB??? All of the cameras work great on my phone. I don't want to have to have the live stream open on my phone (actually open...if my phone screen goes black, bye bye hub feed moments later) to monitor a camera on the hub while I'm at my computer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Yes I tried resetting the Hub.

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This is really annoying. Both of my google home refuses to connect to WiFi unless I unplug them and replug them in, once I do that it works. If I say hey google it responds: “I can’t find your wifi network.” It says offline even though it’s plugged in. If I go to wifi information on one of my offline device nothing shows, but once it’s online it shows. Any ideas??

Hi there, I have a few records that have gone unused and I wanna get a small record player just for the vibes to listen to them. I have my apartment set up with Google speakers. Looking for any possible way to mix them.

Theory 1: Bluetooth enabled record player- single google speaker? Is there a way to then take that Bluetooth speaker and sync that audio to the whole place with a group?

Theory 2: I find an old Google Speaker Max and connect via aux cable, and hopefully connect that to a group?

Has anyone solved this question?

I have my kitchen setup as a room named “kitchen” with a speaker and 5 lights that all have the word “kitchen” in their names.

I have my dining room setup as a room named “dining room” with a speaker and a single light. Both have the words “dining room” in their names.

If I’m in the kitchen and say “hey Google, turn the lights on”, the speaker in the kitchen will respond “turning the dining room light on” and then the light in the other room will turn on.

I am getting really angry about it.

So to preface I've searched through threads here and saw some solutions but they don't fully apply.

I'm getting that 404 error on a personal routine. Basically if it detects I'm away from the house for X amount of time it puts the lights throughout the house into a mode where they turn off and on sporadically over extended periods of time to seem like someone is home. Anyways the routine semi runs and will pop up saying I need to adjust it because I changed some of the lights out. When I go to edit the routine it gives me the 404, when I go through settings for what another thread suggested as a backdoor that routine isn't even there.

I've rebooted, put the old lights in, updated, tried the beta program etc. A work around that worked for a few other routines was add a second profile to the home and then I could edit it but not this one. Any help?

Does anyone know what functionality, if any, of the Google Next Hub sleep sensing will still be available next year once they merge it into Google Fit and start charging for it in 2024?

Will I still be able to view basic sleep statistics on the device?

Hey all,

For a year or so, I have had a routine set to start the latest episode of a podcast at a certain time. It has worked flawlessly. Recently, however, instead of starting at the beginning of the latest episode, it says it is continuing where we last left off. I have not changed any settings, so I am not sure why it is doing this.

I've heard it's not all but hope to use smart life and an IR-blaster to control my home cinema screen.

Already deleted Google assistant from my phone. Cleared my tvs cache. This is clearly something on Google server end right?

I have a home sinema screen I'd like to be able to control with my google home. There is a bunch of IR-blasters out there, many are quite cheap, the support seems to differ. I ofc don't want to pay more than necessary, but also want them to work with google home and be reliable.

What I hope to accomplish is being able to say somthing like "roll down projector" or similair and the IR blaster should send this command to the projector screen. Ideally this happens by any device added to the IR-blaster automatically getting paired with google home. Similair to how other gateways work

There are a lot of different products around, some are powered by an app called smart-life, broadlink keeps showing up. Are there any ones with a really good reputation? I'm fairly techy, but don't have that much time to spend on fiddling with it.

Hate that I cannot change the "hey Google " prompt and saying hey Google has my phone responded instead of my smart speakers. I cannot do that until you unlock your phone. Aaargh

Any suggestions other than meditation, or other relaxation techniques/substances.

I accidentally discovered when “turn the coffee station on for 10 minutes started working” and I was so excited.

This last few days it appeared to stop working. This happen for anyone else? What gives?? I’ll go nuts without it!