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I've found the home app will repeat 3 times that it "will start shuffling after this track" when I ask it to shuffle a playlist, one of my Nest Mini's simply won't connect to the wifi since a powercut despite running through the usual fixes (router reboot, bringing the nest mini into the same room as the router etc.), last night the housemate tried using the app to turn off the lights in the house and told me this morning they turned back on a couple of seconds later - I reckon the app is buggy there but the other stuff is a bit strange.

Other than resetting the router and re-adding all items to it, including the thermostats which I'd like to avoid, not sure how else to resolve.

RTE radio 1 gone for me too. About time google let you change radio provider like they recently introduced for podcasts.

Just tested rte radio 1. No issues here

DeadSkin wrote: »

We have the Nest Hub, when playing the radio and asking it to turn the volume up/down it either ignores you or turns the volume down to 1. What's odd is that when you tell it "volume up" it comes up on the screen just that it won't turn it up :rolleyes:

Any one seeing this?

I have that issue with my nest hub. The command turn up the sound or turn down the sound act as you said either nothing or setting the sound to 1.

I haven't tried anything to fix it though and just tell it to set volume to a particular level and it works.

DeadSkin wrote: »

Tried that and it doesn't work.
What the exact words do you say?

Most of the times... it goes like ... "WTF is wrong with you google"

Bought two Nest Audios. 20e off each for Black Friday.

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Google uses %.

Google uses both https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7072489?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en

DeadSkin wrote: »

Tried that and it doesn't work.
What the exact words do you say?

Just tried it there with radio on and
"Set volume to (1 to 10)"
worked for me

Same for me with the volume thing. Always has worked for me but isn’t lately. Obviously a glitch somewhere that will be sorted soon.

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

I have a hue light in the bedroom and a blanket on a smart switch.

When I ask Google to turn on the light it also turns on the blanket? Then if I ask Google to turn off the blanket it goes off but the light stays on. Why does the blanket come on with the light? It's quite dangerous.

Any ideas?

Create a group and reference the group in your commands.

Gooey Looey wrote: »

Do they have distinctive names?

Well one is called light and the other is blanket. Both setup in the bedroom.

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

OK I've changed the names so will see if that helps.

I would have thought light and blanket were distinctive and that Google wouldn't turn on the blanket when I said light. If I cannot trust this 100% then it's useless.

I have a similar set up, with a socket that has a fan in summer and a rad in winter. Saying "turn on the lights" would turn that on as well, presumably as the main use of sockets is for lamps. Go figure.

Solution is to create a separate *room* (like Blanket!) and put the socket *in that* on its own. Then it doesn't come on automatically with the others as "turn on the lights" only turns on the lights for the room that has the same Google Home device. Does that make sense?

EletricMan wrote: »

How do I keep the camera streaming without the display going to sleep.

I have not found a way to do it, on the Home Hub or on Chromecast. It will always revert after a few minutes.

R

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

OK I've changed the names so will see if that helps.

I would have thought light and blanket were distinctive and that Google wouldn't turn on the blanket when I said light. If I cannot trust this 100% then it's useless.

I've been having similar problems lately, turn on sitting room lights - Xbox will turn on too