Hey all, I was obsessed with Google Home products before the "Nest" rebrand and I have a bucnh of products from when they first launched the Gen 1 Minis or the Gen 1 Hub. I remember seeing a long time ago that they offered the Google Home Max speaker, which was the best/biggest smart speaker among their lines. Very confusing but I think they have a new display that uses the max name now.

My understanding is they don't sell these new anymore (or the audio chromecast which made any speaker "smart").

Does the community have suggestions of the best smart speaker solution available? I wasn't sure how to new Nest Audio compared to the original Google Home Max.

Ok so I just asked my home mini about the weather. It's replied in the smooth tones of Gemini. Confused I asked sit "what's up" and it again replied in a more sophisticated voice to tell me that it was making plans for new years eve.

I asked it a third thing...and it went back to the boring home voice. Is Gemini being rolled out?

Hi all.

So I have a Daikin air con and the Tapo T315 temp sensor. Unfortunately, my Daiking integrated temp sensor is pretty wacky and doesn't measure correctly. So I want to make a routine that checks the room temp from the Tapo 315 sensor and tells the Air conditioner to turn On or Off depending on the reading.. I saw this old thread here (https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/198pp37/tapo\_h100\_hub\_and\_sensors\_now\_work\_with\_google/) and integrated the sensor into Matter. However, I cannot find in the Home app a way to create the routine I want. There are just the usual "Home", "Away" and the other types, but none that says to check sensor and turn on AC.

Can you tell me if what I want is possible?

Thank you.

Trying to configure some home automation between a doorbell and lights, I was disappointed to see things like delay events not available in home routines, and doorbells not available in personal routines. Scouring the web I found numerous google and reddit posts stating the same, years old, with any "fix" mentioned not working for me. After poking around more, I found some public preview features google has made available, created something that works for me, and if this has already been shared I apologize for duplicate posting, but hopefully this helps at least one other home automater.

I believe, google used to have delays available in all routines, then broke home away from personal due to an event (abuse, injury, etc.) for liability sake. It does make sense why some features are available for you personally and not a shared home. However, I am guessing due to complaints by users, and competing vendors, it looks like google is rolling out a more advanced method of building home automation. These pages are littered with warnings and disclosures, and google claiming no responsibility. But, I have built an automation to do what I want and it works flawlessly. Steps taken to achieve this:

Steps to build a script:
From google home app -> settings -> go to bottom -> public preview -> join
Login to google home from a browser, not the app, Google Home Web -> automations -> add
This lets you build a custom script with declarative YAML and configure different starter events, conditions and actions not available in the app. The built in AI is a good starting place to help you get some code started if you word the ask well, or GPT. There are also google links that show you all the starters, conditions and actions available: Google Script Commands.
The only caveats: these scripted routines are only visible in the web portal not the app, the script validate button isn't always helpful regarding errors, they are not guaranteed to work, and I'm not sure if they'll make it past public preview (although going from private to public is a good sign).

TLDR: If you need delay events, or additional events not visible in home routines, you can now join the google public preview for custom automation script building.
Example: home routines only allow my doorbell to detect motion and turn on front porch lights, but not turn them off. I wanted the doorbell to detect people, turn on the lights, start a delay, turn them off, and only execute between sunset and sunrise.
Note: this is a very basic script, and the script commands link above shows the ability to make API calls to all native or 3rd party devices to control a vast array of different smart device functions.

The script I built for my needs that is working:

metadata:
  name: Person detected by doorbell lights
  description: When a person is detected at the front door, turn on the porch light
automations:
  - starters:
      - type: device.event.PersonDetection
        device: Front Yard doorbell - Front Yard
    condition:
      type: time.between
      after: sunset+30min
      before: sunrise
    actions:
      - type: device.command.OnOff
        devices: Front Porch Overhead Light - Front Porch
        on: true
  - starters:
      - type: device.event.PersonDetection
        device: Front Yard doorbell - Front Yard
    condition:
      type: time.between
      after: sunset+30min
      before: sunrise
    actions:
      - type: time.delay
        for: 300sec
      - type: device.command.OnOff
        devices: Front Porch Overhead Light - Front Porch
        on: false

Is there anyway to have Google Home send a push notification to my phone when a cycle is complete? I can see the option for a voice notification through a speaker, but I don't have speaker setup to Google Home and I'd prefer something simple/quiet to my phone or watch. LG's app has this function, but I'd like to uninstall their app after setup if possible.

Is there any way to control this old Honeywell T6 thermostat from my Google Home?

https://i.imgur.com/ovxEo18.png

I had this thermostat about 4 years ago. Since then I've moved home twice!

Now that I'm using Google Home again, I noticed it's on there and can't be removed.

I spoke to Google Home support who told me to contact resideo whose solution is to speak to the new owner (this old property is 200 miles away and I have no idea who they are),

Is there a way to remove this device or am I stuck with it forever? It really is a poor experience from both resideo and Google Home.

I got tired of receiving unsolicited Google Home marketing emails so I unsubscribed.  I just got another one, and unsubscribed a second time.  Response: “You’re already unsubscribed.”

 Google, you lying, incompetent idiots.

About 75% of the time I ask Google to turn off everything or use a routine to do that, it gives me an error that 20/30 devices are non responsive. But when I do the same command in Google home it works fine every time. Is there anything I can do to improve this?

All my kids want is to be able to play their apple music playlists on the mini speakers. "Play my playlist called <whatever>" just plays a song called <whatever>. "Play my apple music playlist" plays a random playlist, so the damn thing knows what they're saying. What incantation of words is required for this?

Seriously considering a different ecosystem because this one seems utterly incapable of doing anything by voice except for checking the weather, but then are the others better? Siri is dumb as rocks based on my iPhone.

*cries*

I don't have many issues with Google Home but this one has me stumped. Installation with one Nest Hub Max, one Nest Hub, two Google TVs and a couple of Nest speakers. Wife and me use the Photo Frame feature of all display devices to show pics of our various trips when the device isn't active. This has worked great for 2+ years, until now.

I finally added her and stepson to the list of Home members and this broke the display function on all devices. All they will display is the default Google artwork. Settings show they are to display from a shared Google Photos folder but it doesn't matter what we set it on, still only shows the default.

Suggestions? I have already done the usual reboot, reset, recreate but I get the same result. Has something to do with the users but I don't know what.

its genuinely driving me insane, asking this thing to play music is basically completely useless because it always insists on playing the most godawful version of any song you ask it to play.for I asked it to play like a prayer by madonna and it plays the churchapella version, which literally nobody has ever listened to intentionally ever, i cannot specify to not play this version because the regular version has no other prefixes so when i ask to play like a prayer, its always the churchapella version. if u ask for luke a prayer not the churchapella version it says " i couldn't find a song called like a prayer but not the churchapella version" it like they programmed the damn thing to do it intentionally

I just got some TP KL125 color changing bulbs and want to use Google assistant script editor to make a scene that will fade from red to green repeatedly for Christmas. Has anyone done anything like this? I see the light effect color loop command but don't think you can specify colors?

I searched this sub before I made this post, I didn't see anything specifically pertaining to this; if I missed it, I'm sorry.

I've had a Nest Hub (gen 1) since about 2018 and it's worked great; I had it in my house for years, and since April I've had it in this apartment I've moved into.

Within my Google Home app, I've got rooms for myself, my roommate, and the living room. I've got various Google Wi-Fis, Lights, Chromecasts and other junk in each room, all labeled with "My Name's Bedroom" and "My Roommate's Bedroom" which is how I've had it for years now. In the past month or so now, I've started having voice control problems.

For years, I would walk in my room and say "Hey Google, turn on my bedroom lights" and specifically *my* bedroom lights would light up, without specifically saying my name in the command. Now, that same command turns on my lights and the lights in my roommate's room as well. I've reorganized and re-created the rooms in the Home App and ensured that all the appropriate lights are grouped correctly, but it is not working right still. However, if I say "Hey Google, turn on my television", it correctly turns on my Chromecast/TV without issue, even though the other Chromecasts are setup for voice controls, too.

Anyone have any recommendations? I was thinking it had something to do with the personalized results function, but I've retrained this in regard to my Nest Hub and Assistant-enabled stuff and it still is borked. I was also thinking I needed to do a full purge of all of the Phillips Hue federation, but that seems like a real pain in the ass especially if it doesn't work. Any input is appreciated.

Hey All! I'm losing my mind trying to figure this out.

I recently purchased a bunch of SmartWings blinds with Matter over Thread, and now I need a Matter Thread hub to control them.

I was planning to get the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) since it’s recommended by SmartWings and supports Matter/Thread. However, I realized it doesn’t set me up well for potentially integrating with Home Assistant in the future.

Next, I considered the Aqara M3 Hub because it works with both Google Home and Home Assistant, plus it supports Zigbee—which is a nice bonus. But now I’m reading that Aqara doesn’t support SmartWings blinds, which complicates things.

So, I’m looking for suggestions on a hub that:

1) Supports Matter over Thread
2) Works with SmartWings blinds
3) Integrates with both Google Home and Home Assistant
4) Ideally will let me use various switches to control blinds, etc. when internet is down
5) Bonus: Supports Zigbee devices

I’d like to future-proof my setup while keeping things as simple as possible. Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I use my nest hub as an alarm clock. But recently, whenever I turn off my alarm, it activates an automation to open all my blinds. Morning routine is set to off in the alarm.

How do I stop my nest hub from running this automation?

I finally got around to setting up my wife and son with separate Spotify accounts and they trained their voices on the GH app.

We have 3 stereo Nest Audio pairs in the house. They all work fine for me (the primary account creator).

My wife has only one of the 3 pairs that will recognize her voice. In the app we specifically have all devices listed as voice matching for her. We tried retraining her voice a few times, uninstalling/reinstalling the GH app, rebooting devices, etc. Nothing seems to make a difference.

Anyone have issues like this, and advice how to solve?

I am buying a house. I'd like to set up automatic lighting/heating/cooling if it's cost effective. I'd need to save for it.

I imagine automatic shut off when I sleep or visit my grandchild would be very beneficial with electric bills going towards 450 a month with pge. Yet spending more money on setup than I'd save is dumb.

I don't know how to estimate the cost, savings, budget, etc. I am resetting my life due to a wake up call.

At home I have a Pixel 9, a Nest Audio, a Nest mini or whatever, a TCL Google TV, and 3 Chromecasts. Plan to add 2 more Nest minis. "Hey Google" is making them all freak out. I want the right "kids" to listen to me when I'm talking to them! As I add the additional Nest minis I will be putting them in my kids' rooms (the have Google accounts) and my bedroom where both my wife and I will have one (she has a Google account too FWIW). Everyone uses the Nest Audio in the kitchen.

So... how do I handle a "Hey Google" from the kitchen triggering the TV? Even my kids' rooms have voice recognition in their rooms the other devices all will need to recognize all 4 of our voices.

Recently switched from Alexa devices and have ZERO intention of going back, but want to get everything straight here! Thanks everyone.

Edit: ... and a Pixel Watch

I'm assuming there is a lot of work going on with home lately because the YT music integration alternates between working perfectly for a few days and then going to shit for a few days. Here are a few things I've noticed in the past few days in case any devs are reading this:

1. Asking speaker to play different music while music is already playing. Command is getting acknowledged but original music keeps playing.
2. Routines that play playlists are playing 1 song and then stopping.
3. Asking speaker to move music from 1 speaker to a group that contains that speaker gets acknowledged, but continues to play on original speaker.
4. Asking google to turn off music turns off music playing on a random speaker elsewhere in the house when speaker you are speaking to is part of a group that is playing music.
5. Asking the speaker (linked to default tv) to play something on YouTube is playing it on YouTube music and vice versa.
6. Routines that play music will announce what they are about to play while playing in same room, instead of just a tone like previously.

One positive, the hue and smart life integration is working great now that I've readded my lights using matter integration. Responses are faster and lights aren't dropping from recognition anymore.

Im trying to turn an old tablet into a smart home hub. Ive downloaded the app fully kiosk and to Connect it to Google home I need the url to my Google home dashboard.

Ive watched all YouTube video’s about fully kiosk but there are 0(!) which explain how you get the url??

Im starting to think im the problem since everybody seems to know how it works except for me?

Hope any of you can help!!

I know that we used to be able to cast to a speaker group and that functionality was removed a while back but I have never had a problem casting to a single speaker until very recently. This is what I do and the result.

1. Local music file is playing on my phone.
2. Select device from Home app and click "Cast my audio"
3. Warning pops up about how mirroring works; choose "Cast audio"
4. Dropdown choice "Entire screen" and tap "Start casting"
5. Speaker makes connection sound, Home app says "Now playing" and has "Stop casting" button option below the volume
6. Audio continues to come from phone

No change in behavior if "single app" is chosen in step four, regardless of which app is selected. Anybody have any ideas on a fix or is this how it "works" now? Even if I link my Spotify app to Home, this is a local file and not able to be streamed to the system.

I've paired my Google-TV with my external Google Audio Speaker (Nest) using Bluetooth and the sound quality from the speaker is ok, but it is lagging approx 200ms behind the speakers integrated in the TV. Obviously this makes it useless. I can make it sync by setting a 200ms delay in the TV-sound, but then lipsync is awful, so that's not a solution.

How can this be solved?

I recently acquired a second hand Nest Hub Max that a family member had bought years ago, but never used. I set it up and it works great, however periodically the screen will just freeze and will remain frozen until I reboot it. The rest of it works fine, it will still respond and do everything but the screen will remain frozen. I can even have it play videos, but I just get the audio while the screen does nothing. The clock doesn't even advance.

I've tried different clock types, such as Full Screen & Art gallery, still freezes. I then decided to join the preview program in hopes that newer firmware would fix it. It was on version 20, now its on version 22 and the issue is still occurring.

Any thoughts on what I can try next or is this a lost cause?

My kids figured out how to ask for music on the Google home speakers which I think is great. Except it is now turned by Spotify recommendations into complete trash children's jamboree extravaganza.

I tried changing the default music service to iHeartRadio which I personally will never use.

Not when I ask for music it defaults to iHeartRadio. When anyone else in my family who does not have a registered voice print asks for music it defaults to Spotify and continues the problem.

Does anyone know how to change the default public music service? I am the master account in the home group.

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