Kintarō Hattori wrote: » Arrrghhh I want to get home and play with it but it'll be at least 20:30 before I can take it out of the box. I would have had a chance to play with it last night but my 17 month old had other ideas about her going to sleep than I did.
jogdish wrote: » If you get a chance to play with it: When playing a radio station what does the screen show?
kaisersose77 wrote: » I got one yesterday, not beside it at the moment but when streaming a radio station it shows a tunein screen with radio station icon and whats playing. There is no web browser so doesnt display web pages.
Mantis Toboggan wrote: » Can you play YouTube videos? Not sure I see the point of it tbh, does it do anything your phone can't?
Kintarō Hattori wrote: » Finally getting a chance to play with this properly and I have to say, I quite like it. As another poster mentioned, it's not exactly a must have item, for me it's just a bit of fun and interesting to see how it integrates with everything else. You can use it to control media on your other Google devices. So at the moment I have music playing through the larger Google Home and I can control it from the Hub which is situated on a sideboard right beside the sofa. I haven't explored the full functionality of using Spotify on it but you have limited control, pause, skip, previous but no button to shuffle or repeat which is a little annoying. So far as I can tell you can't pick specific playlists from your account, rather it suggests some to you. Again that's kind of annoying but something that might get fixed in an update. If you click away from the music screen to do something else you can't quickly get back to it and have to go through the process again. It doesn't take long but there show be some way to slide back to what's happening. The Nest camera and thermostat integration is done really well. There's a dedicated camera button and it shows you a list of what cameras you have. Click and a few seconds later it appears on the display. As on the updated app controlling your bulbs and the thermostat is done really well, it's very slick. The integration with Google photos is quite nice. I was a little concerned as the screen is fairly low res but you'd never really know it looking at it. Your photos are really well presented it with a mixture of some being displayed full screen and others being split 50/50. The adaptive element of the screen is excellent. It's never overpowering and adapts its hue to reflect whatever the lighting conditions in the room are. I haven't used the recipe function nor the YouTube functionality, I'll get to that in due course. There are a lot of small features which require you to speak to the assistant so I haven't explored those fully (I have the mic off for the moment as I use the larger Home unit for music and queries) but essentially it's a visual unit for the queries you'd run through the audio only units. As stated there's absolutely no need for it but it's a bit of fun. I haven't had time to check it out properly as between work and family there's no 'me' time at the moment. If you have specific queries you want answers to just ask away and I'll see if I can do them for you.
PreCocious wrote: » You can select Spotift playlists. Even better it can also play the Daily Mixes which alexa can't do.
Kintarō Hattori wrote: » I don't see an option to select a playlist- where is that?
Kintarō Hattori wrote: » I haven't explored the full functionality of using Spotify on it but you have limited control, pause, skip, previous but no button to shuffle or repeat which is a little annoying. So far as I can tell you can't pick specific playlists from your account, rather it suggests some to you. Again that's kind of annoying but something that might get fixed in an update.
luckyluke87 wrote: » For me personally Google home hub is no buy because lack of camera, but I am highly interested with JBL link view. Unfortunately they are selling it only in USA and UK , official JBL site doesn't send it to parcel motel because address must be same as billing address. Don't want to buy from USA because VAT and custom duty, any tip where I can buy it.
bk wrote: » Get yourself a Revolut card, you can set the billing address on it to the same as the Parcel Motel Address. Might allow you to get around the above restriction.
adox wrote: » Have to say I’m very tempted to get one of these to put in the bedroom to replace a Mini. How’s everyone getting on with them now they’ve had them a couple of weeks?
Cazale wrote: » Went into Currys in Carlow today to buy one but they wanted 1100 euro for it.
D3V!L wrote: For the Home Hub ??
Cazale wrote: » Yeah it was 1,099 on their system. I showed them the real price on the UK Currys website but they weren't interested in helping me. Think someone else on this thread had a similar experience.
luckyluke87 wrote: » I found JBL link view on Littlewoods Ireland for 350 euro. I understand that Ireland is small market but that's over 50 euro more than 250 British pounds. On bhphotovideo it was for 200 dollars plus 31 dollars for shipping and plus 23% vat still cheaper. When will buy it will share my experience.
