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BoardsMember · 04-12-2018 10:37pm

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Hey Google, sync my devices

Thanks!

BoardsMember · 04-12-2018 11:24pm

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Hey Google, sync my devices

Doesn't seem to work great. Just combined lights in open plan room from being linked to 2 rooms now on one. But after synching it is still working off the old settings.

BoardsMember · 05-12-2018 8:54am

BoardsMember wrote: »

Doesn't seem to work great. Just combined lights in open plan room from being linked to 2 rooms now on one. But after synching it is still working off the old settings.

I ended up deleting the room in Home, it released the lights, added them to kitchen. Synching devices doesn't seem to work too well, maybe because I was messing about a bit, adding room, then deleting it.

Bored Accountant · 05-12-2018 10:29am

BoardsMember wrote: »

I ended up deleting the room in Home, it released the lights, added them to kitchen. Synching devices doesn't seem to work too well, maybe because I was messing about a bit, adding room, then deleting it.

Sync devices doesn't seem to work anymore on Hue for me. Always gives me an error saying, the account holder will need to sync Philips Hue.

For any new bulbs I have to resync the Philips Hue from within the Home App. Then kill the Home App, reopen and new bulbs should have appeared. The Rooms I have set up in Hue differ from on Google so I always have to move the bulbs to the correct rooms and then delete the rooms that were created from Hue.

G&T22 · 10-12-2018 11:17pm

Hi. This has probably been asked loads of times but I have gone through countless pages and cannot find the answer. Does the Google home mini support outgoing calls yet? If no has any indication been given as to when this might happen? Thank you.

micks_address · 10-12-2018 11:19pm

Bored Accountant wrote: »

BoardsMember wrote: »

I ended up deleting the room in Home, it released the lights, added them to kitchen. Synching devices doesn't seem to work too well, maybe because I was messing about a bit, adding room, then deleting it.

Sync devices doesn't seem to work anymore on Hue for me. Always gives me an error saying, the account holder will need to sync Philips Hue.

For any new bulbs I have to resync the Philips Hue from within the Home App. Then kill the Home App, reopen and new bulbs should have appeared. The Rooms I have set up in Hue differ from on Google so I always have to move the bulbs to the correct rooms and then delete the rooms that were created from Hue.

I just say hey Google sync my devices and picks up new bulbs.. tried yesterday

The Black Oil · 11-12-2018 7:34am

My Mini has been fairly patchy this past while, re connectivity and such.

Sorry, something went wrong.
Please sign into your account.
There was a glitch.
etc, etc.

Playing BBC 5 Live isn't working well at all. It'll play about 30 seconds and then dead air. And it's generally slow to verbally respond to those requests too.

My internet was slow last week, but I changed the channel on the router and that fixed the slowness on my PC and Youtube, etc. I'm not sure if the above issues are due to wifi or the device itself.

BoardsMember · 11-12-2018 8:41am

G&T22 wrote: »

Hi. This has probably been asked loads of times but I have gone through countless pages and cannot find the answer. Does the Google home mini support outgoing calls yet? If no has any indication been given as to when this might happen? Thank you.

No

Ha Long Bay · 11-12-2018 10:39am

Is anyone else getting informed about lottery now https://www.lottery.ie/lottery-now every time they stream something on Tune In? Started happening yesterday on my home hubs.

Bored Accountant · 11-12-2018 10:44am

john4321 wrote: »

Is anyone else getting informed about lottery now https://www.lottery.ie/lottery-now every time they stream something on Tune In? Started happening yesterday on my home hubs.

I think there was an add this morning. I just assumed it was an add on the radio.

Ha Long Bay · 11-12-2018 10:45am

Bored Accountant wrote: »

I think there was an add this morning. I just assumed it was an add on the radio.

I never had ad's before the requested station would just play straight away. Now I get 30 seconds of this rubbish every time I stream something.

EagererBeaver · 11-12-2018 10:47am

john4321 wrote: »

Is anyone else getting informed about lottery now https://www.lottery.ie/lottery-now every time they stream something on Tune In? Started happening yesterday on my home hubs.

Those are TuneIn ads. Nothing you can do about them.

whatawaster · 11-12-2018 11:15am

john4321 wrote: »

I never had ad's before the requested station would just play straight away. Now I get 30 seconds of this rubbish every time I stream something.

Do you have TuneIn Premium?

Ha Long Bay · 11-12-2018 11:19am

whatawaster wrote: »

Do you have TuneIn Premium?

Nope just TuneIn Pro.

digitaldr · 11-12-2018 6:01pm

john4321 wrote: »

Is anyone else getting informed about lottery now https://www.lottery.ie/lottery-now every time they stream something on Tune In? Started happening yesterday on my home hubs.

Nope but the tune android app has had audio ads for the past few weeks. High time Google took the stream directly from RTE like the do with BBC (no I don't mean they take the BBC stream from RTE!)

b.gud · 11-12-2018 6:12pm

Does anyone know do I need to do anything special to get Routines functionality to show up in the Google Home app?

Fishy1 · 11-12-2018 6:33pm

NewsTalk Radio hasn’t been available on either my Google Home or Google Mini for the past few days.
Is it just me? At least RTE Radio 1 hasn’t been affected this time. Hope I haven’t jinxed it now!

b.gud · 11-12-2018 7:24pm

Fishy1 wrote: »

NewsTalk Radio hasn’t been available on either my Google Home or Google Mini for the past few days.
Is it just me? At least RTE Radio 1 hasn’t been affected this time. Hope I haven’t jinxed it now!

Newstalk has been working perfectly on my mini the last while. It was in this morning before I left for work

Fishy1 · 11-12-2018 8:00pm

b.gud wrote: »

Newstalk has been working perfectly on my mini the last while. It was in this morning before I left for work

Just tried it again there now & got it to work by saying “Play NewsTalk”. Up to this I used to always have to say “Play Newstalk Radio”

davegilly · 11-12-2018 8:51pm

b.gud wrote: »

Does anyone know do I need to do anything special to get Routines functionality to show up in the Google Home app?

Minnie the same, can't get it to show up at all? Any ideas?

L1011 · 11-12-2018 10:47pm

digitaldr wrote: »

Nope but the tune android app has had audio ads for the past few weeks. High time Google took the stream directly from RTE like the do with BBC (no I don't mean they take the BBC stream from RTE!)

If the station is using something like AdSwizz, the direct stream can still have ad insertion.

Sheep Shagger · 12-12-2018 12:15am

Anyone know how to get audio books downloaded from the Google play books app to be read through Google home?

12-12-2018 8:45am

Think you just go "hey google READ 'bookname'".

Sheep Shagger · 12-12-2018 9:11am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Think you just go "hey google READ 'bookname'".

So simple - thanks, worked.

b.gud · 12-12-2018 11:39am

Fishy1 wrote: »

Just tried it again there now & got it to work by saying “Play NewsTalk”. Up to this I used to always have to say “Play Newstalk Radio”

Interesting “Play Newstalk Radio” worked for me this morning

On an unrelated note my mini decided to set off an alarm at 4am this morning, is there any way to determine what action/command was used to create this alarm? Neither myself or the missus think that we actually set it

OffalyMedic · 12-12-2018 11:48am

Which do people find works the best with their Google home , Google Play Music, Spotify premium or YouTube Music?

The high horse brigade · 12-12-2018 11:52am

OffalyMedic wrote: »

Which do people find works the best with their Google home Spotify premium or YouTube Music?

Google play music

nim1bdeh38l2cw · 12-12-2018 11:53am

Is there anyway to get the Mini to have a weekday alarm that plays the radio?

fletch · 12-12-2018 1:14pm

Jenny Quiet Stepfather wrote: »

Is there anyway to get the Mini to have a weekday alarm that plays the radio?

""Set media/music/radio for 7am every day of the week”"
https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7071598?hl=en-GB

Although there doesn't seem to be any way to set the "On" volume yet

whatawaster · 12-12-2018 2:36pm

OffalyMedic wrote: »

Which do people find works the best with their Google home , Google Play Music, Spotify premium or YouTube Music?

Can't speak to the other two, but Spotify works flawlessly for me.

SSeanSS · 12-12-2018 2:42pm

have ye managed to set up your phone with google home? i thought i did this but it doesn't work when i say "OK Google call xxx" or "ring my phone"

whatawaster · 12-12-2018 2:50pm

SSeanSS wrote: »

have ye managed to set up your phone with google home? i thought i did this but it doesn't work when i say "OK Google call xxx" or "ring my phone"

As far as I know that functionality doesn't work in Ireland

AstraMonti · 12-12-2018 2:52pm

whatawaster wrote: »

As far as I know that functionality doesn't work in Ireland

It doesn't seem to work alright. You can only make video calls through Duo (but who the hell even uses duo).

SSeanSS · 12-12-2018 2:58pm

AstraMonti wrote: »

It doesn't seem to work alright. You can only make video calls through Duo (but who the hell evens uses duo).

Thanks AstraMonti. Hopefully it will be supported soon

nim1bdeh38l2cw · 12-12-2018 2:59pm

fletch wrote: »

""Set media/music/radio for 7am every day of the week”"
https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7071598?hl=en-GB

Although there doesn't seem to be any way to set the "On" volume yet

"This function is not currently supported" or words to that effect.

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-12-2018 6:15pm

AstraMonti wrote: »

It doesn't seem to work alright. You can only make video calls through Duo (but who the hell even uses duo).

I've pushed a good few people to use it now. I find the audio calls on it much better quality than WhatsApp too.

Fishy1 · 12-12-2018 6:19pm

Jenny Quiet Stepfather wrote: »

"This function is not currently supported" or words to that effect.

“Wake me every weekday at 7am with RTE Radio 1” (or whatever) works on my Mini.

Fishy1 · 12-12-2018 7:01pm

b.gud wrote: »

Interesting “Play Newstalk Radio” worked for me this morning

Tried that again just now & got “Sorry I didn’t find any updates on Talk Radio”.
At least it’s working when I say “Play NewsTalk” :rolleyes:

The high horse brigade · 15-12-2018 2:12pm

Google, what an a$$hole!

Hey Google play we are the champions....
Playing we are the champions by Crazy Frog....
Ring, Ring, a Ding, Ding......
Noooooooooo!!!!

Cockford Ollie · 15-12-2018 8:04pm

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Google, what an a$$hole!

Hey Google play we are the champions....
Playing we are the champions by Crazy Frog....
Ring, Ring, a Ding, Ding......
Noooooooooo!!!!

I find if I ask to play a specific song, it will invariably play a live version or a cover by some degenerate. Just play the original song by the original artist.

unklerosco · 16-12-2018 3:14am

Hey Google, Call Santa... Will keep your kids entertained for a while.

howamidifferent · 16-12-2018 3:10pm

unklerosco wrote: »

Hey Google, Call Santa... Will keep your kids entertained for a while.

Not setup for your country...Why have others setup the device to another country? wouldn't that give all wrong data about weather conditions, time etc?

wirelessdude01 · 16-12-2018 3:15pm

unklerosco wrote:

Hey Google, Call Santa... Will keep your kids entertained for a while.

Don't even have kids and think that is cool.

SleetAndSnow · 16-12-2018 3:20pm

just tried, that was cool lol

unklerosco · 16-12-2018 4:17pm

howamidifferent wrote: »

Not setup for your country...Why have others setup the device to another country? wouldn't that give all wrong data about weather conditions, time etc?

I switch between UK & US. Think it's on UK at the moment, makes no difference for weather etc. as that's based on my address.

OffalyMedic · 16-12-2018 4:36pm

unklerosco wrote:

I switch between UK & US. Think it's on UK at the moment, makes no difference for weather etc. as that's based on my address.

So is it just language you need to change to UK/US to avail of these features? And can leave address alone for weather, drive to work etc?

unklerosco · 16-12-2018 4:55pm

OffalyMedic wrote: »

So is it just language you need to change to UK/US to avail of these features? And can leave address alone for weather, drive to work etc?

Yep, that's what I do

ixoy · 16-12-2018 5:24pm

Their policy of not releasing certain features for other English-speaking countries, such as Ireland or Australia, but only to the UK and, even more so, the US is utterly idiotic. Why we can't have continuous conversation like the US makes no sense.

howamidifferent · 17-12-2018 12:24pm

unklerosco wrote: »

Yep, that's what I do

Can you advise how to do this?

The high horse brigade · 17-12-2018 12:27pm

howamidifferent wrote: »

Can you advise how to do this?

Just set the language to USA English

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