I’m looking for a remote to change to volume on a google home nest. Any idea?

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I have a Samsung HW-Q800D soundbar with Cast support. I’ve also added it to Google Home by connecting the SmartThings app with Home.

It shows up as a speaker in the Google Home app. However, when I go to edit or create a speaker group, the soundbar doesn’t show up as an option.

Anyone have any ideas or tips? Google’s docs about speaker groups say that all cast enabled speakers should be supported.

Samsung support still has no idea what I’m even asking after more than a week of back and forth. Google support just says to ask Samsung and that they only provide support for Nest products.

Any input is appreciated!

We have 4 Google Home Max devices. For a few months now they have mainly stopped showing our Google Photos album as the 'screen saver'. When I go into their settings they all show Google Photos is chosen and the correct album. But as soon as I leave settings, it's back to curated art.

Sometimes a random one of the devices will start showing our photos again, but in a few minutes it's back to curated art.

We have tried factory resetting them, and the problem persists.

They worked perfectly fine for years until this. Had anyone else encountered a similar problem?

Hi all,

I have in my ikea Home Smart app some different scenes that change color, light intensity etc. on various bulbs in my home.

But when I create a scene in Google home, it doesn't quite work as it should. It won't change the color/temperature of the bulbs. It can turn them on and off. But only in the colors/temperatures that were last turned on.

Is there anything I can do?

Recently my google home app (Android) no longer organized devices on Device screen. Not speak groups but group of a rooms lights. Another home member has an iPhone and the light grouping still appears on their app.

Any advice here?

google nest mini*

I got my mini a year ago specifically for a small factor smart home assistant and speaker. it does the assistant part great... but its SO laggy with spotify it drives me insane. pausing a song? doesnt register until 30 seconds later. skip a song? same thing. its off and on where sometimes is even worse, or sometimes its perfectly fine. Ive used my ipad pro and iphone with it if that helps. is there any fix to this? is this a normal problem?

Started to install the camera and got this error. I can’t remove the camera from the app, settings don’t show up. I’ve tried a factory reset on the camera itself and reinstalling but won’t work. Is it because I can’t remove it from the app?

Doesn't sound like much, but feels like an eternity when someone is at my door. Tried clearing the cache, which did nothing. Can't find anything online about this.

Sorry if a similar question was already posted. I have reached out to the Google support live chat but they were not really helpful. I installed a wired Nest Video Doorbell 2nd Generation a few days ago. However, after I successfully set it up, when I tried to change the settings in the Google Home app that I'm using on a Pixel Pro 8, I am unable to change any settings, and I get the error message "Couldn't connect". So I tried to factory reset the doorbell. by removing it from the wall and pressing the reset button for a long time. However, I don't think I properly reset it, and I noticed that there was no power going to the doorbell itself. I discovered a day later that there was a wire that was not connected and got cut. So I was able to reinstall the doorbell, but when I go to the Google Home app, it asks me to set up the doorbell like it is a nee. So I do that, and it works perfectly fine. However, I still see the doorbell from the first time, but I am unable to remove it from the Google Home app. I go to try the settings again but I still get the same error message couldn't connect.

FYI I was enrolled in the preview Google home app but I left the preview and I still have the same problem. The Google home website does not show the duplicate. I already did the usual restart, phone reboot, force stop, clear data and cache, uninstall and reinstall the app.

How do I remove this duplicate doorbell from showing up on the Google Home app?

I recently changed my WiFi access points; during this process, I had to reset all my devices by removing them from my google home account. 

When I tried adding them back to my account so I could connect to the new WiFi, my outdoor nest cameras did not show up in my recent devices to reconnect to; they just kept flashing blue.

My Nest Hub Max specifically is telling me to unlink the account it is linked to. But that was me, and I already removed it.

Tried to factory reset again but got the same message again. 🙃

Anyone have any advice? I tried to contact Google, but their hours on the website are incorrect, but I will try again in the morning.

For the last month or so Google Home would occasionally lose connection with my Cync bulbs and outlet. Google Home showed them offline but the Cync app showed them online. Unlinking and relinking the Cync app quickly fixed the issue. This week Google home has decided to show all my third party products as offline (their individual apps show them online) and unlinking and relinking them does nothing.

Anybody have any ideas besides Google being Google?

Just bought the nest cam outdoor indoor bundle for $440 cad and when I opened it - was shocked how they gave only one cable with it ….. thought it was better to buy a bundle. 💀💀 Was gonna buy the weatherproof cable not knowing it had any cables inside the box … and even having one cable inside is more of a disappointment … Google do better. Ffs 🤦‍♂️

Hi everyone,

I have Tuya smart switches for my living room lights. My wife is the Owner of our Tuya Smart home, while I have Admin privileges. We’ve set up a Scene in Tuya to turn off some lights, and both of us can control it through the Tuya app without any issues.

However, when we try to trigger this Scene via Google Home, my wife can activate it successfully (both using voice commands and the Google Home app), but when I try, I always get:

"Sorry, this mode isn't available for 4 things."

Has anyone encountered this issue before? I'm losing my mind trying to figure it out. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Hey all! Recently got a second home and have been setting up some smart plugs and switches (all Kasa)

My wife at home #1 tells Google to turn off the lights when she heads to bed, but it turns off all the lights in house #2. Any easy way to get around this?

Thanks!

A few days ago my lenovo smart display (works the same as a nest hub for the most part) was saying it couldnt' connect to my network so I removed the device and re-added it to my home in the app.

Ever since then, every morning at seemingly random times (I haven't quite figured out if its the same time since I don't always notice it right away) it will perk up, say "Playing Mother Mother" and then proceed to blast music (from mother mother) at FULL volume. I have no clue what's going on here. My home app is showing nothing as far as activity so I'm not even sure if its an automation/routine or what at this point. Today it came on at 10:45 am .

Nobody in my house knows why it would be doing this. My 15-yr-old used to listen to Mother Mother, but doesn't seem to have ever set a routine like this .

Any idea how I can figure out what's happening or how to stop it??

Just dreamin'...

Hey all,

Recently all Google Assistant enabled products in my house (2nd gen Nest Mini, Sonos Roam, Sonos One) have stopped taking some basic commands...

For example:

Ask: "Hey Google, what's the temperature" Response: "Sorry, I don't understand"

Ask: "Hey Google, what's the weather?" Response: "According to Weather.com definition of Weather"

At one point I asked her what my home address is, and she said responded that I needed to provide it to her. She said "Would you like to provide me your address?" in which I said "Yes", and then she responded "OK - lets do this!.... sorry, I don't understand"...

Assuming these commands are no longer working due to it possibly not knowing my location, I have tried removing Google Assistant and adding back, but for some reason when I get to the "add home address" part, it will search for an address but will not let me add it. I've gone into Google Home itself and removed my address and re-added it, and still nada.

It does still do things like read my calendar, and it knows who I am when I ask... but it would be nice to have the location-based services working again.

EDIT: Interestingly enough, if I ask her something like "how long does it take to drive to work" - it appears she can accurately answer this.

I wanted to see if anybody knew a way to add your desktop with the Spotify app to your Google Home speaker group?

I have two nest home mini hubs, a first gen and a second. I need help deciphering which hub is which and the only thing appearing different is the pad on the bottom of the device, one is grey and the other is orange. They are running different system firmware and cast versions but I don't know if that's just because of updates or limitations to the devices themselves. None of my home devices have worked flawlessly since updating to Gemini but I knew I'd eventually move so dealt with it. Now the time has come to move and I'd just like to be able to tell which device is which when I set up my new home location.

Extra credit: I switched from pixel to Galaxy S last generation and am considering a move to Smartthings as well. I already have a hub for that but is it a seamless transition? All of my home devices are Google and my lights and plugs are Cync. Also, will my girlfriend be able to use Smart things easily on her iPhone or are there proprietary roadblocks in place?

Added a second light to a room that already had one light and a Google home mini. Whenever I ask it to do anything with the lights it only does the original light and says "one out of two lights, on" etc.

I've tried a bunch of things to troubleshoot to no avail. What's up with that? How can I fix it?

I’m getting random high amount of data download and upload from my google Wifi mesh. It says my computer is downloading over 400 GB and uploading over 40 GB within an hour. I started noticing it yesterday and it seems to happen on two devices so far. The WiFi has been going down a little frequently recently and both devices I have seen this on are connected to the same node. My internet isn’t even fast enough to really download that much data so is this just a glitch in the system caused by some internet outage? Is the node messed up? I haven’t been able to find much on this.

Hello, I find that I like to set reminders if I think of something while I’m walking around the house. The problem with this is that Google will announce that they have a reminder at that time I set. I would prefer that it just shows up on my phone and doesn’t bother the entire house. Is there a way to ask Google to set a reminder without it having a verbal announcement?

I have 1 bulb that keeps randomly turning on. Should I just unlink it and set it up again?

So I recall pre-fire that you couldn’t add non google devices to speaker groups in home. Is that accurate? Reason I ask is that I randomly asked copilot what soundbars can be added to speaker groups and it returned multiple options. Is this new or has this always been the case? Maybe I’m thinking you can’t with Sonos. Not sure. Tx to those who comment