I just turned on my bedroom lights and knowing that the overhead lights were off at the switch I expected the usual annoying response of "3 lights aren't connected". Much to my utter shock and suprise, I'm greeted by a little chime sound, my bedside lamps turn on and "2 out of five lights are on" comes out of the speaker.

Seems like such a small thing after 10 years in this eco system but definitely one we have all been complaining about for a very long time.

*recite not remote. Darnit.

This is not a joke. Through several evolutions of smart speaker in my home, I feel like I should be able to hands-free get a robot to read aloud the most famous speech in the English language. I've asked a bunch of ways, and it always says it doesn't understand -- and then brings up links to it on the hub.

It reads out definitions of words. Why can't it do this??? Is there a prompt I'm missing??? Is this a Quarto issue??

I'd like to have a smart doorbell with the capability of talking to the visitor from the phone, but without a camera or constant audio recording. For starters, I can't find any smart doorbell without a camera, it's either that or just a simple wireless one.

Before you ask, this is a requirement for legal reasons: in my country you can't have cameras or mics recording public spaces, and there's no way for me to install it without it pointing at the street. And I don't think covering the camera would work either, I might or might not get in trouble if it peeled away or someone peeled it off.

By that I mean remove every device from Google Home and add them back one by one. I wonder if that will help shock the system into improved performance. I have a lot of devices so I don't want to be the first person to try this so I'm asking here.

Issue started a couple of weeks ago. All permissions granted to the app. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Thanks :)

Reading this sub, most if not essentially all posts are facepalms on how BAD it is right now.

I am acutely aware of the rule "pissed people post on Reddit more than happy customer."

However, honestly, it's clearly not JUST that. On your average fridge-brand sub, you have some complains but NOT this level of frustration and facepalms.

Something went wrong on this at Google at some point. I'm gonna say it's simply badly managed.

As an early adopter on most things, I am usually happy to pay a reliability price. BUT we should be WAY past the early adoption phase, at least on basic functions -- and yet things feel like permanently experimental, with undocumented breaking changes every other day. Heck, I'm being on this stuff for almost ten years now, it should be basically a mature product.

So, can anyone give me good reasons to stick to it? (Other than the obvious "it's money and time to switch")

I don't know what's going on at Google but they keep screwing my stuff up.

When I make a phone call from my Google home like" hey Google, call Mary", it will call Mary but it will display my Google number on Mary's phone rather than my regular phone number. I don't want my Google number displayed. I spoke with someone at Google and the kid said oh I'll send you written instructions by email and of course I never received anything. Does anybody know how I get my Google number off of all of this stuff and just get my regular number back?

Alzheime looking for is that the correct number is displayed when I call someone from my Google home. Not my Google number.

Thank you

-"there is no such list, do you want me to create one?" -"yes"

"Hey Google, add..... To my shoppinglist. " -"there is no such list, do you want me to create one?" -"yes"

50 lists named Shoppinglist later.

"Hey Google, add..... To my shoppinglist. " -"there is no such list, do you want me to create one?" -"Oh f*ck you" Google!

How can they dumb it down this much and think you'll continue to use it?

Hi everyone,

I searched for it, but I haven't found anything useful.

I would like the setup a routine, which reads my tasks from one of the list in Google Tasks. I was able to setup multiple starters, to get the routine run every hour during daytime. However, I am not able to instruct Assistant, to read up one of my list from Google Tasks.

It can read tasks, which has a date set, but that reads up all tasks. I don't think I ask too much. I just want to get my list read aloud every hour.

Is there anyone who was able to set up something similar? Is it really that hard, or I missed out something?

Thank you.

Does any one know of any dog trackers that can work with Google home?

Wondering about the deployment of the Google Home Panel and Generative AI Screen Saver function. I have the generative AI Screensaver. on my Google Television and my old Google TV/Chromecast streamer, but no sign of the Google Home Panel on either yet. I am in Colorado. Anyone having any luck yet?

I recently purchased a 3rd party security camera that was on the list of google home approved cameras, however the live feed was not visible from the app.

That being said, does anyone know of any 3rd party security cameras that are able to be live viewed in the Google Home app?

This fucking thing is one "the weather today in city on the opposite side of the world is purple" from being converted into a doorstop.

Hi all
Have a Googe Lnest Hub gen 2 and lights etc around house all runs fine - got an Aqara Motion and Ligh sensor as typical British weather with winter - want lights to come on if before sunset and gets dark. It says works with Google home.....

It shows up in Google Home - but when it comes to automations - nothing to do with the light sensor. Do i need to roll sleevs up and learn the automation programming language? :)

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I have a Philips android tv with built in chromecast (and google assistant). The model is 43PUS7303/12.

When it was new (2019) I could talk to my nest minis to pause/play/etc. A few weeks after I bought it, 9/10 times it would not pause or play and it would not correctly respond to "play [show] on [service]".
The past few years I've occasionally tried messing with settings and stuff to get things to work consistently but to no avail.
I'm hoping someone here might know a way to get things to work.

Relevant facts;

• When watching Netflix and telling google to "pause television" it responds with "okay pausing", but nothing happens

• Voice controls like "set volume of tv to 30" work fine, all the time

• When watching something on the HBO max or Prime video app, the "pause" and "resume" voice commands do work

• When playing something on Netflix or Prime, the TV device in the google home app shows "Now playing" but it won't show what is playing, it appears as if something is being cast to the TV because there's a button "stop casting". When playing something on HBO max, it will show what is playing

• The remote control that came with the TV has a mic and google assistant button, using those, all voice commands work

• When Netflix is playing on the TV and I talk to my nest mini and use the voice command "stop playing Netflix" it responds with "Nothing is playing Netflix right now"

• When I tell my nest mini "Play [show] on Netflix on tv" it responds "I cannot play Netflix on android tv yet"

• Netflix is linked in my google home app

• When I tell my nest mini "Play [show] on HBO or Prime" it will respond with "[show] is not available"

• When using the "remote" function in the google home app for the television, pause and play both work correctly all the time

Things I've tried;

• Factory resetting my tv and google home devices
• Removing and re-adding my tv and google home devices to the google home app
• Reinstalling google home app on my phone
• Reinstalling netflix/prime/hbo on my tv
• Contacting google support

I find it very odd that the "remote" function in the google home app is able to pause/play, so obviously there's a signal that can be correctly sent from the google home system to my tv, but a voice command to pause/play suddenly doesn't work all the time.

Part of my "ok Google, good morning" routine is "what is the price of bitcoin?"

That has stopped working, and instead starts explaining bitcoin.

There is a work around but the answer to the reworded question i find now starts with "according to xxxxx online the price of bitcoin is $xxxxx.xx.

Is there a way that integrate Starlink information with Google Home Assistant? Something that I can ask Google about the status and speeds? Maybe something that integrates with Google Home Max to show status details

Anyone who's struggled adding a Sonos TV soundbar (I have the Sonos Beam Gen 2) to a Google Home speaker group will know my pain. I was just about to pull the trigger on a new 'Chromecast built-in' soundbar from another brand but had an idea that the Chromecast TV Streamer 4K might resolve the issue, albeit imperfectly.

I have a Philips Android TV playing through the soundbar, so if I add a Chromecast TV Streamer 4K to the TV and use that as the interface, could I then add the TV as a 'speaker' to my 'Downstairs Speakers' speaker group and have it sync with Youtube Music across all devices?

And would stopping the track/music be able to put my TV back to sleep without a lot of menu-diving?

It seems weird to run a chromecast TV streamer dongle through a TV already running a chromecast enabled Android UI, but if it saves the cost of a new soundbar it would be a win, right?

Any advice/suggestions would be hugely appreciated!

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Most of my machines have sensible names, "Grumpy", "Sleepy", "Bashful" and the like. These are Win/Mac/Linux machines that I named when I set them up. Unfortunately, the names that came with other hardware (like a Canon printer, a video security system, and a NAS) came out-of-the-box with irritating names that Google WiFi won't catch in a DNS request and resolve. For example, the printer is "Canon MX530", and the security system is "[manufacturer] [model number]". I have a "Nintendo Swtch - Nintendo" that I'd just like to make "Switch." I need to be able to set a name for these blasted things and the Home app is driving me insane in the attempt.

You can change the name for a device, but it only seems to "take" in the Home app. For example, when I go to Wifi->Devices->[device name], I can change the name there, but the change never propagates to the DNS operations. I've rebooted the devices to no avail. Short of setting up a DNS server on one of my Linux boxes and having everything route there, I'm not seeing an option here. It's hard to believe that they'd make it possible to do internal DNS resolution but leave you stuck with names that don't conform to the protocol requirements.

Looking for small lights I can put inside of jack o lanterns instead of candles that I can control in Google home, but I’m coming up empty. Anyone got any ideas?

I'll ask it to play music from a certain artist, and it'll occasionally start playing from Spotify (I don't have Spotify, and my settings show YouTube Music as default... which I have premium for).

I'll ask it to shuffle a playlist, and it will always play the same first song. It will only shuffle after the first one plays.

Staying with YouTube music... I'll ask it to play a playlist, and it will randomly end after like 3 tracks. WHY?!

I used my Pixel Buds earlier and it told me the long press command was discontinued. So I asked it manually to play my last message, which I received a few minutes earlier, and it told me none existed. Thanks for removing a feature I guess?

I asked it to cancel a timer alarm, and it told me I could do that in the app after canceling it... no shit, I'm asking you with my Voice.

What is going on? Google Home and voice commands have become absolute garbage. It's so frustrating that everything has turned to shit. And this is only the shit that's happened in the last few hours, I'm sure I'm missing a lot more frustrations.

And it's not like my hardware isn't compatible. Everything I have is either Pixel or Google Home branded.

I hate that ding sound whenever a device connects to it. Such a annoyance during night.

We have a Google Nest network.

All we want is to place some temperature sensors around the house and to be able to view the temperatures in the Home app.

No hub wanted. No automation wanted. Literally just want to see the temperature from the Home app and that's all.

For some reason when I ask my nest audio to “turn off the TV”, it does turn off the tv, but then says “alright” and other confirmation messages for turning off the tv continuously until I stay stop.

Is this a known problem with a known fix?

Where can I go to diagnose why it is doing this? Is there a log somewhere?

I have a really old Home Mini. I bought a Nest Audio thinking I can pair them together to keep on both sides of my bed for stereo sound with TV. I’m not seeing the pair option in either of them. Is it possible to pair them at all?

I’m using AppleTV, so I can’t send audio to both of them simultaneously. I don’t mind if it’s mono sound but I can’t figure to a way to send audio to both of them. I can play from YouTube in the phone to the speaker group though but not from TV.

When my mom asks to turn off a certain set of lights it does so, however when I do it it only responds with “Here are some results from the web” and it shows me photos of lights…

I formulate the command the exact same way and it recognizes my voice, it just refuses to listen to me