I don't manage to unlink Philips Hue from Google Home. I used to have 59 devices but I removed them all after moving to a Dirigera Hub from Ikea.

Now I'm trying to remove the connections so the disconnected lights from Hue disappear, but I'm getting constant errors. It says "Could not reach Philips Hue. Please try again."

I tried everything: unlinking, reconnecting, reconnecting another account, resetting the bridge, clearing app cache, force closing,...

My home assistant opens and gives the response: playing music on Spotify. Keeps quiet and a few second later: something went wrong. Please try again after a few moments

Any one else experience this?

Someone in my household has bought and is using a Nest Hub, and the audio playback from Pandora is showing in the Now Playing on my phone. Is there any way for me to disable this? I don't want to see a device's playback just because I'm on the same network.

Maybe I'm just late to find out but this has been on my wishlist for a while.

"Set a 2 min timer on X". Actually sets a timer there if you are talking to another device.

Asking "how much time is left?" When talking to a second device will make GA tell you how much time is left on the timer running on X.

Saying "hey Google, stop" will stop an alarm that's currently going off on another device and tell you what alarm was stopped. Just saying "stop" doesn't do it.

The only thing I haven't been able to do is cancel a running timer from a second device before it goes off.

Pretty cool addition over all.

My bedroom TV was connected to the Home app but recently I could no longer control the volume from my iPhone(running 17.4.1). It works perfectly well in the Google TV app so I removed it from the Home app and when trying to add it back it’s not recognized. I tried clearing the cache on the tv, no change. I really don’t want to factory reset the tv, especially since it works in the TV app. Was there some GH update recently that might have caused this? Any suggestions?

I’m thinking you might say: Well then just use the TV app then. I am, but I can no longer use voice commands to power it on/off which was probably my most used function using GH.

Hi there!

I would like to add this automation:

When I say "hey Google, good morning"

I want the routine to start my tv, turn on Spotify and play a song of my choice. However, I've looked and it says I need a Chromecast. I have a Samsung tv if that helps.

I've come as far as the tv turning on, but the song plays on my phone and not on the Spotify app on my tv.

Anyone knows how I can solve this?

Okay so hopefully this makes sense. I want to share my calendar with my mom. I have my own family, I’m an adult obviously. But I want my mom to be able to glance at my calendar easily without it merging into her calendar and adding it all to hers. I’m just thinking of how when I added my husband to mine, it obviously added all these events to his. Is that because I made him someone who could edit? Is what I’m asking possible?

TIA!

My Google Devices have been using the AI voices whenever I have been broadcasting msgs and it’s getting really frustrating. I have tried looking up fixes for the issue with no luck.

Do yall have any suggestions or tips for me try and get back to normal where it just broadcasts the voice of the sender and not this AI voice?

Since about a month or two ago, GH has consistently not been able to play my Spotify playlists. It plays something random from a search that sounds similar.

This made up like 80% of my usage of voice commands...

So I have a tv stand that has built in light strips that are controlled by a remote. Is there a way to add those light strips to Google home and control the color via the app?

I've been having nothing but issues lately with my Philips hue which are connected to my Google home via matter. Does anyone know of any matter over thread light bulbs. I'm stick to death of a bit of hue

I have 2 TV connected to the same WiFI , one is Sony TV and the other is LG TV connected to it chromecast. I have samsung mobile and use the home App on my mobile Now every time someone cast something on TV or open an app in the Sony or chromecast. It show a notification on my mobile that this person is watching this video I can even adjust the audio

Is there a way in the TV setting where it will not allow any mobile connected to the same WiFi to see what was casted on the TV.

Also I'm always worried that I will cast something from my mobile by mistake. Is there a way that will always ask me for code before casting??

For context, I moved to a shared home. There are two Networks connected to the router. The owner has all of their devices on one, and the renters are connected to the guest network. My phone is connected to the guest network and when I reset my nest and try to connect it to the guest Network, Google home tells me that my devices are not on the same network . I have reset the nest Mini three times but nothing changes. The owner tells me they don't think there is an AP isolation setting on their router but they are not certain. Halp please!

Have a lot of routines? Did you delete some devices that were in those routines?

Congratulations, Google Home will now alert you every time those routines run to tell you the routine "may need help" running.

Run one of those routines using voice? Google Home will tell you there was a problem. It will tell you there was a problem for as many devices as there are in your home, over and over again. In my case it will say, "Sorry, some devices are not available" about 12 times in a row.

Workaround: Go into each routine, edit nothing, and hit save so the shadow database gets updated.

Dear Google,

Your shitty app was obviously programmed by an intern. This is a main product offering of yours. Get thy shit together.

I have Google Fiber and use the Home app for management. The list of devices on my network is insanely long because the app, for some reason, just has to remember EVERY SINGLE DEVICE that's EVER connected to my network. I can't for the life of me figure out how to prune this list down. Managing the network is just maddeningly difficult because when I go into the device view and start scrolling the screen just jumps up and down because it's loading this stupidly long list of devices, most of which I don't have anymore and/or will never be seen on the network again. How can I get rid of these things?

I have three Google home speakers. One of them has an alarm that goes off every morning at 7:15. I've gone into the settings and made sure all alarms are off, and I disabled all routines. I even asked the speaker if there were any alarms or timers set, she said no. It's at the point where I just unplug that speaker before bed and plug it back in sometime after 7:15. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to make it stop?

EDIT: trying a factory reset, will update you all tomorrow morning.

Hi, I am just starting with expanding my smart home setup. i have a "Goodnight" routine that will turn all music and lights off. When my girlfriend does the request it says that the smartplug (in wich the lamp is) is unavailable and has to be setup. When say the same request no questions asked and it works. this happens everytime. Any sollutions? I am using a Nest mini with a smartsocket. She is within the family and house and we both have voice-match enabled

Hi guys,

New 2nd gen nest owner here.

1.) as far as I see there is no (simple) solution for the google family calendar to see on the screen, just carpet bombing google with some feature request. Amirite?

2.) is it silly idea to ask the nest to change according to which room am i with my phone when playing music? I mean if i go to the first floor i don't have to stop and restart the playing on a different nest but it does automatically?

Thanks

I recently got the Nest indoor cam in my living room and the rest of my home is Google products.

I have the Alert option on and occasionally the App will say Human detected in the room. The first time it happened, I panicked, but it was just my cat who jumps up on the table. Since then I will get warnings about humans but it’s just the silly kitties.

Is there a way for Nest or Google to learn what my cats look like and therefore ignore them, or is it hopeless? Would love to hear from pet owners and everyone

Summer is upon us. Kids can't sit on the Xbox or TV or laptop all damn summer. Not happening (this year). I'm looking for a better system for managing daily access to wifi.

I have a Nest mesh network and use the device grouping function to put all of my son's devices in one group, daughter's in another, and all household TVs in a third. I can put them on schedules but the rigor of that gets in the way - there's always some exception for a rainy day, a friend stays over, homework assignment, always something. Always some kind of manual intervention required, usually while I'm on a meeting call in the next room.

I could change the password, make a new password for the day, but that's also manual on my part and no one wants to go to wifi settings every single day to update it.

Does anyone have a system, technical or otherwise, for making this all less excruciating for everyone involved?

Thanks!

I just purchased smart roller shades that are equipped with a matter enabled smart motor, I am trying to connect the roller to my Google home and when I scan the QR code it was says thread router required. Is there something specific I need to do to set up the thread network from the hub 2.

Recently moved and I’m trying to setup my Nest Hub in my new place but I’m getting this error every time. I have local network access enabled so it’s not that. I’ve factory reset the Nest Hub several times and it’s still not working. Anyone have a fix?

I got into Google Home years back and have bought quite a bit of smart home devices over the years. I used to have a Nest Indoor camera set up when I lived on my own, along with Nest Doorbell, but life happens. I now moved in with roommates who I have added to my Home app after setting up most of my smart home devices, so they may control them at their convenience and have access to the Nest Doorbell. However, I have not set up my Nest Indoor Camera. I want to set it up in my room, but is there a way to make it so it only appears on the Home app for me and not my roommates, without removing them from Home?

Unlike setting an alarm on a hub that keeps going until a user stops them, setting a reminder on a hub has a very quick and subtle audio message like 'There is a reminder for Bob' and then disappears. It's very easy to miss even if you are in the room, never mind in a different one.

How can these be made to repeat or be more easily heard by a user? Any tips on this welcome.

I have tried to reset my JBL link 20 many times and also done with adding it to Google Home and unlinked it many times too, still it does not respond whey I say “Hey Google” did anyone encounter the same issue before and how you resolved it? Thanks!

Hey! I've been wondering lately if I could get my Google (Nest hub I think?) device to tell me each day how many subscribers I have in my YouTube channel. I am guessing I'll need to do something with APIs, but I'm willing to learn about this as a fun little project.

If you happen to know how to do this, or if it is even possible, please tell me!

Objective: Tell me every morning at 5:50 am something along the lines of: "Good morning. Today you have X subscribers and you are Y% into your goal."

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Ps: I also have an Alexa echo dot where I could also do this, if it's any easier in any way.

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I used to be able to start my personal Spotify playlists by voice command on my Nest Mini. But since a couple of months this doesn't work anymore.

When I say: "Shuffle my playlist Relax." And it used to played my own playlist named Relax. Now it plays some random public playlist with Relax in the name.

When I ask "Shuffle my playlist Great and Accessible" it always plays "Sped up songs" for some reason.

Anyone know what might be the issue and how I can fix it?