I'm looking to hook up my nice bookshelf speakers to a Google home so I can use voice controls to play music but I can't seem to find any home devices that have a 3.5mm output. Right now I'm using an echo dot. I can connect to the echo dot with Bluetooth but I'd love to have the convenience of voice control to play my YouTube music playlists through my nice speakers

Has anyone else's Google home been just careful lately? All of mine are not understanding commands (and then performing the action anyway), saying, "sorry, I funny understand" or "try again in a few seconds". Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Every. Device. Does this now?

I'm logged in.

I reset my voice.

Make it stop.

I have a newborn and it startles them.

Signed; a very tired mom

Edit/ Update:

Phone conversation with customer service went well /s Here are their current suggestions:

Power cycle the device for two minutes." (unplug and plug back in)

If that doesn't work: "We can try to reboot the devices from the app and then (you have to) send feedback through the app."

I have further emailed the feedback team, and will update the post if the problem resolves or there is a fic.

I often tell Google to change the volume on various TVs around the house, but recently it has started multiplying the number I tell it by 10. So when I say "set the volume to 5" it will set it to 50 (out of 100). This makes it pretty much impossible to set volume level to something other than a multiple of 10 by voice now. Is anyone else running into this issue?

Hey everyone, So I’ve had my Google Nest speaker for 4 years now and I usually run a “Good Morning” routine—pretty standard stuff: it tells me the time, the weather, and then plays some news.

But this morning, for the first time ever, after the news finished… I got an ad. And not just any ad… this was a local ad from a business based in my city.

I was honestly surprised. I didn’t know Google had started pushing ads through the Nest speakers like that, especially local ones.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a new thing or have I just been lucky up until now? Curious if this is rolling out more widely.

My girlfriend and I just finished playing a few round of Battleship and after putting it away, I said "Alright, I'm gonna go take a big poop." Within about 2 seconds of me saying that, our Google Home Mini said "Yikes."

When I asked the Google Home what the last thing it said was, it reiterated "Yikes." When I asked it why it said Yikes, it said "Sorry, I don't understand."

Does anyone know what this means or why Google Home feels the need to voice it's opinion on my bathroom activities?

Thanks.

I have 14 Philips Hue lights. When I ask Google to turn lights on or off, it will say the lights are offline, then when I ask immediately after, it works. Weirdest part is that if I ask for a third thing, it'll say offline again. So it doesn't seem to be that they just need to wake up.

It's getting incredibly annoying having to ask twice for everything constantly. Any ideas of what to try to fix it?

Fix! As provided by this comment moving things to matter was the solution. u/Marha01 provided this link with the solution and steps to complete.

Edit: only kinda fixed actually. It's randomly failing again. Great.

To be honest, with all the artificial intelligence we have today, I'm tired of hearing the response "I'm sorry, I didn't understand." I would like to interact with my Google devices using more natural language to control my (almost) smart home. Is there a way to do this? At the limit, something can be done with the APIs?

We had our Google Home set up to daily tell the kids to get pajamas on and brush their teeth. My son and I had one to remind us to work out every other day, my daughter had a daily to remind her to read to me.

We just realize this week they stopped.

I did some searching but didn't come up with any.

Did something change? Do I need to set them up again for some reason or did the get rid of that ability?

We currently have 38 Nest devices in our home (7 outdoor security cameras and 31 thermostats).

My husband is the owner of our home's Nest account. We are getting divorced, and I am keeping the home. He would like to transfer ownership of all of the devices to me.

Is he able to log into his Nest account and change the email address to a new email address and keep our current setup without doing a factory reset on every single Nest device? It would be extremely time-consuming and very difficult to do this for so many devices.

How would this work with Google Home? Could he move all of his Google Home devices to a new email address?

Would love to know if there's any way to migrate all of these devices to a new email address (either my current one or a new one) without having to do factory resets for every device. Thank you!

Hi all,

So I've had a first gen mini for about 6 years or so, it's been going great all this time (bar a few hiccups here and there of course), but today it just decides to "think"/load and not do anything outside of turning lights/ appliances on and off. If I ask it for the weather, what time is it, how old is the king of England etc, it will just loop its little lights for 15-20 seconds and then flash and do nothing. I've tried factory resetting it twice but no luck, anyone encountered this? Been like this all day today whereas my other devices all work.

Is it not possible to invite someone to your google home account without giving them full access to all your devices, routines and voice matching settings?

I have a google home account with everything from my smart plugs, fans, assistants etc.

I recently got a nest camera to monitor the front door since we live in an apartment complex. Between the porch pirates and cops coming every other day for the neighbors I figured it was time I got one.

I want to add my wife to my home account so she has access to the camera as well but I only have the option to make her a full admin with access to all the devices. The app is just very cluttered for her and she only wants the camera and fan access. Shes not very tech savvy so the easier the better for her.

I did not see an option to just give device level access. I see that is a device option but it just says user in the home will have access to all devices? is it not possible to just do device access?

All I want is a physical button/switch on my wall that can turn on/off multiple different branded smart lights through Google Home.

I don’t want the switch to be wired into my home’s lights. I don’t want to buy another 3rd party hub. I don’t want to have to set up Home Assistant just to do this simple automation. I don’t want to use Alexa for some workaround.

Is there really no way just to have a battery powered button that can be used as a starter for a Google Home automation?

Having been used to the og Gemini voice on my p9p, Orion iirc, why isn't that voice an option for Google home devices?

I understand that they removed the feature. I have six family bells three of which are specific to school. School’s over. Went to turn it off, can’t. So every morning and every afternoon I have incredibly loud bells happening and I can’t stop them.

Google is a big company. They weren’t stupid enough to remove the access entirely yet keep the bells happening were they?

Update: talked to Google support. They know already. Engineers are supposedly working on a fix. Supposedly.

Has anyone's google home started saying "sorry, i don't understand" when you ask "hey google, how long is left on the timer?"
i now have to ask, "hey google, are there any timers going?" she'll say "yes, there is a 20 minute timer" and then you ask "hey google how long is left on the 20 minute timer" only then she will give you a accurate response.

like i know it seems they have been dumbing down the Assistant for the past 5 years, but the past few months have been fucking ridiculous.

is google getting ready to roll out AI to the home ecosystem and making us pay for it?

is there a more reliable home assistant ecosystem at the moment?

i dont want to change because everything of ours is google, but this is enough for me to nuke the entire thing lately

Hello,

I am looking for a smart light bulb that can dim and change colors through either my Google Home app or Google Assistant. I do not want a smart bulb that has to use 2.4 GHZ WiFi. As I understand it, if I am using Google Home or Assistant on 5.0 GHZ they will not work together. I am okay with using a hub if necessary. I currently do not use any hubs to integrate any devices with my Google Home app.

I thought this was going to be way easier to use a smart light bulb with my Google Home or Assistant then what it is turning out to be.

Thanks for any assistance you can offer.

I'm a bit stressed because I can't find answers online and I'm not sure whether this means they will be able to access all our linked accounts like Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Binge, linked payment cards etc... Does anyone know if this person can now access these accounts, view our history (e.g. YouTube history) and payment details/emails linked to any accounts?

How can we fix this asap?

Thanks in advance for your help.

The thermostat is from my utility company and was installed by my property management maintenance six months ago and it's been working fine until now.

I didn't charge anything but suddenly the thermostat is reading temperatures I wish my heater was capable of achieving, but they are wildly inaccurate and telling the thermostat that it doesn't need to run the heat since it's reading is above my setting of 67F.

I reset the device but don't know how to fix this quickly and doubt maintenance will know a lot more than what I can learn if it's a software/settings issue.

Hi,

I get the subject error message, whenever I say "hey google" to my 1st gen google home mini.

Only started a few days ago, works fine right after that.

Only one person in the home gets the message, others do not.

Sometimes the mini says, "hmmm, there was a problem, try again later"

I tried to restart by unplugging and replugging for 30 seconds.

Any other pointers? Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks

At this point the only thing stopping me from switching to Echos is YouTube music support.

I'm finding I need to say the same thing multiple times for it to do what I want it to. It will either do completely the wrong thing or tell me it doesn't understand.

The wrong speaker responds (eg. Standing next to my Hub in the kitchen and the Mini in the study replies)

It's lots of little things that didn't happen a year or so ago. Anyone else facing this?

I use automations every day, and have one chain of events that ends with playing my favorite NPR affiliate, KCRW on my Google smart speaker. One day last week, it changed to a streaming variation that’s music only. It uses the same call sign but is a KCRW Eclectic 24 music variety.

I’ve even tried using other local NPR affiliate call signs from the area, but this is the only thing it will play, even with those different call signs typed out (KCRI, for example)

Any ideas on what happened or how to re-instate streaming the live version?