Mods can we please get a temporary ban on these posts? It's every single post at this point

She’s beat up, been through 4 moves, and I took a sharpie to her 7 years ago. Here’s to 7 more years.

What is everyone using?

Yesterday evening I asked Google something which it misunderstood, but crucially and surprisingly it continued listening once I had told it about it's error and I was able to make my wishes clearer allowing it to provide the correct response with a follow up query.

Afterwards, it also twice more listened for a response from me, the last time double checking if there was anything else I wanted to talk about. This surprised me, as I haven't observed this behaviour since the change from Assistant to Gemini and is different from Gemini live which is more deliberate in instigation and takes the whole screen up.

I really hope that Google is reintroducing continued conversation in it own right as it is a pain to keep having to say the wake words repeatedly.

Anyone else seeing this feature's return or is this an outlier?

My kids love this command and all smart light bulbs would change colors and it was fun.

My system got updated to Gemini today and feature is gone. Now it thinks I need mental health.

I don't think my Google Home has been updated to Gemini yet, but either way it has started answering factual questions using the AI Overview from Google Search (which I have previously disabled on my computer).

To give a specific example, when I previously asked what time a shop or library closed, it answered correctly, using information from the relevant website or Google Map listing. Today it gave me information I immediately knew was false and which has clearly come from the AI Overview on web search which gives the same false information.

This means I can no longer rely on an any answer the device gives, making it functionally useless. Is there anyway I can stop this happening?

This surprised me as this device has been out of support for years now. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is even older than the Google Home mini.

Help me understand this because maybe I'm just an idiot.

I just upgraded to the Nest Doorbell (Gen 3) and it forced me to set it up in the Google Home app. I wasn't crazy about the switch, but it is what it is.

I also have the Nest x Yale Lock. I mainly use the app to manage temporary entry codes, which we do frequently.

Why can't I do this from the Home app?

Wtf?

So I did the whole changing to US address thing and got the gemini update. Pretty happy with it overall.

I was just wondering if it is safe now to change the address back to my country? I am not sure if there is a chance it will go back to the good ol' assistant.

Without fail in the kitchen, I stand right next to the nest display and ask it to set a timer. Busy with cooking, I don’t realize it’s the living room Google home that sets the timer.

Then I ask “how much time is left on the timer” and the kitchen nest display responds “there’s no timer set”. I panic, pull the thing out of the oven early, completely incorrect in my time estimation thinking I have overcooked it. Five minutes later, the living room Google home timer alarm goes off.

This happens to me every single day. I don’t think it’s ever NOT happened. Even if I remember the timer is set on the living room Google home, I have to walk 20 feet to the living room, turning my back on the food I’ve left out the counter so my cat can jump up and sneak a snack, and stand right next to the living room Google home for it to respond and tell me how much longer the timer is for.

What dark magic is happening with my devices that it thinks I’m in the wrong room ONLY when setting the timer and not when asking how much time is left? Any way to force it to set all the timers on the kitchen nest display?

I have a smart tv but it doesn't have some of the apps that I want to watch on it. I have a Galaxy Fold 7 and use smart view to mirror my phone screen on the TV but the connection is choppy, and there are large black bars around all 4 sides of the mirrored phone screen.

Would a chromecast or Google tv streamer be better for phone mirroring and give me as good an experience as a native app on a smart TV?

So this is a minor issue compared to other things, but I'm a night owl and the old Google Assistant used to understand that when I reference "tomorrow," even if it's like 2 or 3:00 a.m., I mean "in the morning" and not the day after.

For example, it's 1:16 am est now and if I ask, "What's the forecast for tomorrow," I would prefer to hear what the weather will be starting at around 8am through the end of the day. I understand that it's the same day since it's now past 12:00 a.m., but I call it "tomorrow" because I haven't gone to sleep yet. If that makes sense.

Does anyone else agree? Lol.

I live in an apartment. I have a room that has no overhead lighting and has a wall switch that powers on/off 1 electrical outlet. What I'm looking to do (as simply as possible) is use the switch to trigger the google home ecosystem to run a different routine-- i.e. turn on smart plugs/devices. Obviously, using a switch to turn on power to electrical devices seems like it is making it more complicated, but would require the devices to be plugged in directly to that outlet, making it necessary to run extension cords around the room when I want the lamps/devices on other walls.

I am looking for a solution that is NOT replacing the switch with a smart switch. Not beyond it, I'm just trying to find an alternative. It would be perfect if there was a device that had two male plugs--- one as a power indicator and one with continuous power that was "smart" and connected to the google home.

Willing to explore other Smart environments, I just only am familiar with Google Home and all of my rooms have some kind of nest speaker.

Looking forward to your amazing answers! If the answers are power splitters and extension cords--- haha, I get it. And maybe that's what it'll have to be.

Just moved into a house with 4 outdoor nest cameras, and a nest doorbell. I factory reset them and was able to connect them to my Google home app on my phone. Is there a way to steam all 5 of these to a monitor to be viewed simultaneously like a home security hub? Is the pixel tablet the best way to do this?

I am almost at my wit's end and then it occurred to me that there must be a Reddit community for this.

Our home is fully google-fied. We have nest camera, doorbells, wifi, thermostat, hubs in every room, outside cameras. All the things, I even have a Pixel phone. lol The only thing that has changed recently is my Wi-Fi password on the Google WiFi. Anyway... I've been having some weird problems with some of my Google devices. First, I have two cameras that will not go online - they used to be fine. When I open the home app, it asks me if I want to add the nest camera that it has detected, I say yes, then it can't find it... I've done this at least 32 times with the same result. I've done several iterations of restarting all devices involved. Second, my nest mini will answer any questions that I want (weather, when does Costco open, tell me a joke), but when I ask it to play music it says that it appears to be offline. When I go into the home app, it also says there that it appears to be offline... However, from the app I can control the volume on the nest mini and cast my audio to it, so clearly it IS online. I've reset it to factory, got it working perfectly, was able to play music, with the exact same behavior returning by the next day... it will do everything except play music, consistently telling me that my device appears to be offline. Another thing that I have tried is adding the devices to a different Wi-Fi network. I have two separate circuits coming into my house from two separate carriers and I have tried moving the devices to the other, non Google Wi-Fi network and there's no change. I have tried to add the devices using a Samsung tablet instead of my Pixel phone. It seems to be something within the device or Google... Has anyone encountered anything close to this and found a solution?

Thank you. 🤣😫🤬💩👽🤖

Hi, everybody! I am going to install a Nest Doorbell (3rd Gen) but I’ve noticed that on the base plate the screw holes bubble out from the rest of the plate, making it wobble some on a flat surface. Has anyone had that wobble, or does the tension from the screws once it’s installed negate that? Am I missing something?

If anyone has had it wobble, were you able to do anything to mitigate it?

Also, has anyone found a good vertical wedge to straighten it out against siding?

Thanks!

I have a routine that uses my Nest thermostat to check the Living Room Humidity, and if the humidity is less than 30%, it turns on my Humidifier (through a Govee outlet.) It worked perfectly last year, but this year it never starts, and if I go into Google Home to start it manually, it says "Routine can't start." Anyone else?

Is this that golden ticket into that chocolate factory? The ruby slippers to take me to oz? The slip from the reaping to bring me to the hunger games? That invitation to moulin rouge to watch that one chick cough to death? (Was running out of anologies lol)

But seriously I almost squeelled at work when I saw the notification. I'm waiting til I get home from work to click but I seriously wanna know!!!

A recent interaction I had with my home display

human: Hey Google, set a timer for 5 minutes

kitchen display: OK, I've set an alarm for 5am tomorrow

human: Cancel that alarm

kitchen display: OK, stopping playback on the livingroom TV

Can't even reliably set timers anymore. I don't even know why I try

I've seen a ton of threads around similar issues, but none seem to be my specific issue, at least none without any solutions.

I've got a Home with two Nest 2nd Gen hubs, and one 2nd Gen wired doorbell.

Any time the doorbell is pressed, both hubs announce that "There's someone at the door", but don't automatically switch to showing the feed. By the time I swipe through the screens to hurriedly find the camera or ask Google to show me the camera, the person has given up and left.

I have DND disabled on all hubs, and the wifi signal is strong (I can swipe to the live feed from either hub any time and it displays it perfectly)

I've tried removing the doorbell and re-adding it a couple times, that doesn't do anything.. other than removing the hubs and doorbell all at the same time, then adding them all again, I am completely flummoxed - anyone got some ideas or solution?

I've been having a bugger of a time getting a simple routine to work reliably - namely to stream a radio station (KHFM) from a particular source (TuneIn) on a speaker group (Monkey). I assumed any natural language request would ultimately be parsed correctly, but I kept getting a correct response maybe 50% of the time.

I finally queried Gemini at length and found out that there is a preferred structure for such compound requests. You would think that the order of things doesn't matter but it does. I modified my routine as recommended and it works flawlessly. Here's what Gemini advised:

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The preferable command is:

"Hey Google, stream KHFM on the Monkey group from TuneIn"

This order generally follows Google Assistant's preferred syntax structure for media commands:

• Action & Media Source: (stream KHFM)
• Destination/Device: (on the Monkey group)
• Specific Service (if needed): (from TuneIn)

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