Google Home FAQ

TaurenDruid

copacetic wrote: »

Anyone else’s Spotify stopped displaying songs names, artwork etc? We just get Spotify logo now. Artwork got better about 8 weeks ago, now gone altogether.

Nope - mine's showing playing a Spotify playlist now and the album cover is shown, along with lyrics and 'interesting facts' in instrumental bits.

copacetic

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Nope - mine's showing playing a Spotify playlist now and the album cover is shown, along with lyrics and 'interesting facts' in instrumental bits.

It’s driving me nuts, hub max shows detail in the ‘today’ screen, home app shows details. Full screen shows Spotify logo. Arghh

henke

Does everyone's Nest Home Mini stop working every so often and just respond "Hmm something went wrong, try again in a few minutes" and is only resolved by a power cycle? Happening me at least once a week.

Sheep Shagger

Nest wifi will be controllable only in the home app from July (makes sense).

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/google-getting-rid-of-the-google-wifi-app/?ftag=CAD6b2b181&bhid=&mid=13326968&cid=2104003399

chapterthree

Definitely something going on. It used to be a lot more responsive before. Also some incorrect answers like it misunderstands me more often.

chapterthree

Still waiting for Apple Music support for Ireland like they have in the UK.

TaurenDruid

"Hey Google, turn off the kitchen light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

"Hey Google, turn off the hall light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

But "Hey Google, turn off all the lights."

"OK, I AM TURNING OFF ALL THE LIGHTS AND TELLING YOU THAT I'M DOING IT, TOO, EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN SEE THEY JUST TURNED OFF. NICE DREAM YOUR PARTNER WAS HAVING THERE. BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT!"

A couple more lines of code, Google engineer, that's all it would have taken...

jogdish

TaurenDruid wrote: »

"Hey Google, turn off the kitchen light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

"Hey Google, turn off the hall light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

But "Hey Google, turn off all the lights."

"OK, I AM TURNING OFF ALL THE LIGHTS AND TELLING YOU THAT I'M DOING IT, TOO, EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN SEE THEY JUST TURNED OFF. NICE DREAM YOUR PARTNER WAS HAVING THERE. BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT!"

A couple more lines of code, Google engineer, that's all it would have taken...

It's so annoying at times! Would love:
1) three physical function buttons that would map to a command, im sick of speaking everything when a simple button press is easier
2) If someone could hack it, security implications I know but there are somethings it just can't do, eg stream a radio station from a URL not tunein.

timetogo1

TaurenDruid wrote: »

"Hey Google, turn off the kitchen light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

"Hey Google, turn off the hall light."

/soft bing noise as it does what's asked, quietly, cos y'know, people might be sleeping. Good job, Google engineer who thought of that...

But "Hey Google, turn off all the lights."

"OK, I AM TURNING OFF ALL THE LIGHTS AND TELLING YOU THAT I'M DOING IT, TOO, EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN SEE THEY JUST TURNED OFF. NICE DREAM YOUR PARTNER WAS HAVING THERE. BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT!"

A couple more lines of code, Google engineer, that's all it would have taken...

Plus the
I can't turn connect to some lights because they're already off.

The Black Oil

The issue of BBC stations dropping off for no reason seems to have resolved itself, I think.

Next issue is 'I've sent ______ to your phone', just doesn't work any more. Is there something I've to do?

oranbhoy67

the nest audio speaker group has never worked quite right for me maybe 80% of the time it was ok for a while but still with frequent disconnects

now its only playing thru one outlet in each group

I have a nest hub, nest Hub Max, Chromecast with Google TV, Nest Mini, & Chromecast Audio, the Hubs display the screen but no sound , the mini doesnt seem to be producing sound in groups neither.. it seems to be either only the Chromecast Audio works or the Chromecast with Google TV

in short, a balls, a real disappointment I have tried deleting and remaking the groups, different combination of groups, made sure they are all on the same 2.4g wifi .. im kinda stuck on what to do next. any suggestions

Ive always used android and Chromecast and my nest doorbell works fine so its not all bad but tbh no more nest products for me unless this gets fixed which I cannot see happening

kinda ironic that the discontinued CC Audio is the thing that works the best out of the lot

RunDMC

Have you tried contacting Google? Sounds like a support issue to me.

R

Mickeroo

BBC news stopped working for me the last few weeks.

May have been covered here or elsewhere but has anyone else found that you can no longer view how long is left on a timer on a device using the Home app (iOS)?

TaurenDruid

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

May have been covered here or elsewhere but has anyone else found that you can no longer view how long is left on a timer on a device using the Home app (iOS)?

Not on iOS, but my timers on the hub stop displaying after a minute or so, until I tell google to 'display timer'. Odd why they think I'd rather see the logo of the radio station I'm listening to than the timer I set up for cooking, but hey, google... /shrug

TaurenDruid

So is there a trick to getting Google to recognise a comma, or a second clause in a sentence, or is it just not possible?

What I mean is, can I get Google to understand "Hey Google, play blah on Spotify and set the volume to 4"

instead of

"Hey Google, play blah on Spotify... Hey Google set the volume to 4"

Bluefoam

TaurenDruid wrote: »

So is there a trick to getting Google to recognise a comma, or a second clause in a sentence, or is it just not possible?

What I mean is, can I get Google to understand "Hey Google, play blah on Spotify and set the volume to 4"

instead of

"Hey Google, play blah on Spotify... Hey Google set the volume to 4"

Google does have contextual continuation of commands...

fletch

TaurenDruid wrote: »

...
What I mean is, can I get Google to understand "Hey Google, play blah on Spotify and set the volume to 4"

This should work already

Clareman

TaurenDruid wrote: »

So is there a trick to getting Google to recognise a comma, or a second clause in a sentence, or is it just not possible?

What I mean is, can I get Google to understand "Hey Google, play blah on Spotify and set the volume to 4"

instead of

"Hey Google, play blah on Spotify... Hey Google set the volume to 4"

You have to say AND clearly and slowly in my expierence, once you get the hang of it its handy enough just feels weird at the start

https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/you-can-now-string-two-google-home-commands-together/#:~:text=The%20Google%20Home%20can%20now,and%20turn%20off%20the%20TV.%22

TaurenDruid

Today FM seems to have disappeared for me today from TuneIn when I ask Google Assistant to stream it from the hub. The assistant says "I looked for Today FM on TuneIn but it either isn't available or can't be played right now." Tried Spin and Newstalk - no Spin, but Newstalk was there. Oddly, Today FM is available on my phone's TuneIn. Thought it might be to do with their recent takeover, but then you'd expect all three stations to be gone. Just a temp glitch, maybe?

ilovesmybrick

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Today FM seems to have disappeared for me today from TuneIn when I ask Google Assistant to stream it from the hub. The assistant says "I looked for Today FM on TuneIn but it either isn't available or can't be played right now." Tried Spin and Newstalk - no Spin, but Newstalk was there. Oddly, Today FM is available on my phone's TuneIn. Thought it might be to do with their recent takeover, but then you'd expect all three stations to be gone. Just a temp glitch, maybe?

Just came here with the same issue! All my other stations seem fine, but no Today FM. Was working grand yesterday afternoon. It must be the annual Google Home "Lets lose a radio station" event.

TaurenDruid

ilovesmybrick wrote: »

Just came here with the same issue! All my other stations seem fine, but no Today FM. Was working grand yesterday afternoon. It must be the annual Google Home "Lets lose a radio station" event.

And it's back (and so is Spin). Possibly someone in Marconi House sat on the wrong button!

Rattlehead_ie

One annoyance I have after swapping from Alexa to Nest is re grouping and setting up of lights.
Lights cant be part of 2 different groups or rooms.....
So for e.g
6 lights in the downstairs lights group, I can turn them on/off all at once or individually.
However, if I want another group called Night lights that only contains 3 of the 6 downstairs lights, it cant be done.
Anyone with a suggested work around?

Raoul

I was having issues with news talk last week.

Also, just Google home in general. Saying stuff like it's experiencing a glitch. Almost as soon as I say "hey Google"

dinneenp

Am i the only one who can't get Today FM playing today?

jtown

dinneenp wrote: »

Am i the only one who can't get Today FM playing today?

Its gone for me too - GH

TaurenDruid

It went for some of us yesterday during the day but was back later on. It was still available on TuneIn, just not when GH tried to access it. Am out today so can't check.

They just got rid of Paul McLoone and Claire Beck and cut back Ed Smith's hours so my own desire to tune in via GH has been greatly reduced, in any case :-(

mollser

Today FM still not working grrr. It's our main use for the speaker (sadly!)

jtown

mollser wrote: »

Today FM still not working grrr. It's our main use for the speaker (sadly!)

Not good

Ryath

Wasn't working for me this morning either. I normally just say Hey Dougal play Today FM! Usually works but does play Today by the Smashing Pumpkins sometimes. But wouldn't work this morning after trying a few times.

Ok Google Stream today FM on Tunin worked for me then.