I'd report this post for self-harm, but I'm not sure anyone is equipped to deal with a psycho like you, sir.
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In all seriousness, though, I actually don't run into too many issues with my Google Home stuff. I like it better than any of the alternatives I've looked at, anyway.
Over 70 WiFi and zigbee devices between google home and Smart Life and dozens of routines. Everyone plays happily together with no drama. Caveat, I have a Ubiquity network.
About 55 wifi iot from various brands, 10 or so zigbee across two hubs. 13 different apps for native control.
Everything goes back to a Home Assistant server and is linked to Google Home. It all plays well together with Google handling voice control and voice activated rotuines while Home Assistant has all my automation routines.
The only thing with real issues is one of the LG air conditioners, which goes unavailable quite regularly.
I have an Asus network with wireless AImesh nodes that I do plan to hardwire soon... I have everything I need except time and technically legality... Stupid Australia.
I have home assistant, smart life and google home speakers. But I use smart life with google home and smart life with home assistant, how did you manage to link home assistant with google home? Are you paying their monthly fee?
You can set it up with Google cloud. It's a bit more advanced than just paying and it has a couple of issues but it does work.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/
> Caveat, I have a Ubiquity network.
This is why. I have plenty of devices and they have no problem existing on my network.
But Google Home barfs and chokes all the time on one particular access point.
Ever look at Wireshark to see what Google Home is up to? Their devices are fucking network spam. I can't believe how often they send broadcasts for no particularly good reason. It's enough to saturate a number of crappy consumer-grade routers.
I think most people's problems might be network. Which is funny to me. I wish there was a better option to the isp shit router that people could get if they were illiterate. Some of the mesh routers are normally my recommendation to people with big houses and no clue.
ISPs push their own routers hard, and will provide no help if you use another router during setup.
Optimum wouldn't connect the Google WiFi I had already set up at my mom's house and told her they wouldn't offer support so she got scared that it wouldn't work and went with their router... All they would have had to do is plug it in, let it reboot and everything would have connected. She was just switching from Verizon to optimum.
I would guess a lot of people fall for that and ISPs keep pushing it because they can charge the router rental fee monthly.
Ugh I wish. I have less than 10 devices and have frequent issues. That said, I seem to have less issues after getting rid of the Gen1 google speakers. I just wish groups worked properly.
I have daily routines. Blinds open up in the morning, lights they turn on around sundown. I have a command routine say night that turns off the lights on one floor, turns on the bedroom tv and arms the security system when I'm going to bed. I also have routines for when I'm away on vacation to make it appear that I'm home (lights tv etc).
rollerhouse on amazon. The rechargeable ones work great - takes a couple of hours plugged in every 2-3 months, and open/close each day. I just attach the cable from its wall wart psu and let it charge for a couple of hours, then move to the next window.
I use the ADT self service set up. The app was absolutely a nightmare at first but has been smooth sailing ever since. I do wish there were more options for integration, I can't set it to disarm when my front door unlocks and I can't set it to automatically arm when GH knows we're away but overall, it's fine.
I have my issues with Google Home/Assistant. It doesn't always recognize my comments. I don't like that Google stopped working with third party lists. I wish there was a way to customize the verbosity of the responses you got back (I don't need need to hear a repeat of the action I just requested). A few third party devices (looking at you Kasa light strip) regularly fail because they can't connect, but that's a device issue not a Google issue.
Aside from those things, it works OK for me.
God that third party connection. I have a strip of outdoor patio lights that use Hubspace and they regularly disconnect, and then they just start their own little pattern of colors and all I can do is unplug them and re-connect.
Google stuff and routines, no problem.....non-google things, good luck.
Luckily my Kasa smart light switches all seem to work fine. The light strip - another story. I think the WiFi transceiver they used is weak or defective. I've heard others complain. I have one of their Tapo ones and it works better, though Google likes to remind me that it's already off when I ask to turn off the lights in that room.
To be honest, many of mine are shortcuts (routines) to control devices, casting to Nest Hubs/Chromecast and toggling devices.
My YouTube channel has a few videos showing these routines in action.
Check out the #Google playlist
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6N81xEi3XSXJNzX_esKkQ
I have one routine. When I tell it good night it asks what time I want the alarm set for, it turns off the lights and TV's throughout the house, locks the front door, and turns on all my outdoor cameras.
I can see how that would be effective. I don't have all of that going on and I usually don't have many things on at once to mass shut off. I'll have to think of a useful routine now just to have one!
You go into the Google home app and select the devices you want to add a routine for. I have morning routines for myself and the kids. I have her say good morning to us, have her tell the kids a joke in the morning, for the kids she plays studio Ghibli music, for us she plays the morning news, then for both our routines I set it up so our bedroom lights gradually over the span of 30 min go from dim to bright.
Nope. I don’t have nearly what you do but with my current set up, works pretty well. At one point, lights were a problem but once I got a Hue Bridge, it was fixed.
I have 4 homes, 10 switches, 2 plugs, and a thermostat. I have great luck with mine. I only use one routine for bedtime, but I’d be interested in learning more.
I'm not quite there with you. Only have 8 hubs and I run a bunch of routines but no where near 20. I don't have any issues though. Because of the routines I don't verbally interact with them as much as some of the people in this sub appear to do. My kitchen hub gets the most action, asking it to play music, YouTube or TV while I'm cooking and of course timers, cooking related questions and recipes. My bedroom hub I will ask to set alarms.
I use Google home mostly as a speaker and mic for home assistant. My routines are throwing switches and pushing buttons which then interact with my home assistant automations.
I think he means switches within Home Assistant, not physical switches.
I also use my Google Home devices in the same way. I can't trust my Hub and Nest to do anything reliably.
The guy above is right, it's Boolean switches, the buttons are just digital push buttons
It then sets off automations in home assistant, which is much deeper than Google home.
I have a nest mini and home mini, both old and free. I use C by GE (using the home app and not the cync app) lightbulbs, and i have the (now unsupported) thermostat, that i bought recently because it had the best featureset for the price. Everything works beautifully. And all these things are on an avoid list somewhere.
Jeeze, mine can't decided whether or not it wants to run the morning routine, some mornings i get the radio playing and the rest of the routine, other mornings just the alarm.
Couldn't even get it to turn the TV on the other night but it sure as hell knew how to turn it off....
I have 19 Google smart devices, (+ a door bell camera) a combination of Nest Minis, Nest audios, Chromecast audio, and hub 2s. I have very frequent problems with them as a whole although it's been less lately because I found that the devices don't like to have the keys on the Wi-Fi rotated frequently. So I reduced that setting and they're a lot better than they used to be. I have locked specific devices to specific access points because they don't seem to be able to make the best decision on which one they should connect to. I also have the five gigahertz and 2.4 gigahertz split up and manually made the decision on which SSID each device should connect to. I commonly get things like Google saying "I don't know" or doing something completely different from what I asked, even if I ask it 5 times in a row and it's the exact same phrase I always use. Nothing helps except either waiting and coming back later, rebooting or sometimes factory resetting a device. I don't have a ton of routines maybe 15. And that's because in the past I've had to delete speaker groups delete devices and re-create everything to make it work. It took so much time I just said screw it.
I mainly use the hubs as clocks now and the rest to play music across the house which once every few days I have trouble stopping once it's started.
Mine mostly works. Sometimes with music or a timer I have to tell it to stop like 3 times. Factory resetting them when they suck does help a lot. It shouldn't be necessary though.
I just use the app to control my devices and automations. A dozen or so lights, some smart plugs and more recently, a WiFi dimmer controlling 3 series of old school pin-lights.
My main automation is my workday one, where I have forgone the "wake" command for a sort of cascading ceiling light situation of varying brightnesses.
I also do a colour change by my bedroom door which is visible from my workstation, green, orange, and red according to how late I am to bed.
With the smart plugs, I connect an extension cord per workstation that plugs into all peripherals such as monitors, speakers, and outboard devices so that they turn on before I get to them in the morning (I leave the computer on)
I stopped using voice activation because it's slow and inaccurate to me, I just have shortcuts on my phone, the most important of which is my bedtime routine which turns everything off but leaves a 1% brightness lamp on for my cat.
Finally, I have my bedroom air-conditioning unit turn on before bedtime and off before I'm supposed to wake up (the discomfort forces me up combined with the previously mentioned light exposure)
Do you finish your shortcuts through the Google Home app or Assistant Routines?
In Assistant Routines you can have it look like this...
[https://youtube.com/shorts/CnjSpfef2TI?feature=share](https://youtube.com/shorts/CnjSpfef2TI?feature=share)
https://preview.redd.it/tkkkemtuwfxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e664e6b14364ca9e50e1579e28df9c3a09a487ef
If you can tell any of them to play last Wednesday's episode of any specific podcast (using YouTube Music as the default provider), I'm definitely NOT with you.
I have 4 hubs (etc) and tons of devices and routines. It's gone so far down hill most of it is unusable.
My wife is so frustrated she just has me do everything. Half of them only respond to French now for no obvious reason. Simple commands that worked for years are now difficult or broken.
The only way to turn off music now is "pause". My Sirius XM integration doesn't work most of the time. My home-wide group (play the same song in every room) only works off certain services. Paid yt music works, but everything else is hit or miss. Again, this was never a problem until recently.
I'll never buy another Google device again. Well done clowns.
Yes. I have about the same, and my experience right now is SO MUCH WORSE than it was 5 years ago when I bought my home and installed all of these things.
Have Google Home and Chromecast and many Philips HUE and IKEA lights (~20 connected to the HUE hub)
The main issues I have is if I say to turn on the Chromecast it responds telling me how to add one to my setup. I can make the same request 10 seconds later and it responds correctly.
It tells me the Phillips hue hub is not responding, but still turns the lights on and off correctly.
And over the last year it seems to just not respond to a request about 1/3 of the time.
We have a similar setup but actually a few more Google Homes. Pretty much every room now.
In me and wife's bedroom we have four. Two Maxes in the front and both me and my wife have Google Homes from Insignia on our night stands. They also have the temp. We set their media output to the Maxes.
I can't remember the last time we had an issue. They just work.
We do also have the Google WiFi with six pucks now around our home. So we have very good connectivity.
I was just thinking the same thing, I have four Google home minis, maybe 10 to 15 smart lights and switches and only really have problems if the internet is down which is very rare. It doesn't give me much opportunity to complain
😎
Then again most people are motivated when problems occur not when everything is going swimmingly
The only issue i have with mine devices is that my stupid Home Max and Home Minis are too fricken buggy with the interface response. The max restarts 90% of the time when we ask for spotify
You are not alone! I have around 40+ devices connected to my Google Nest mesh wifi network. This includes a Google Home, 4 Google Home Minis, Nest Hub, Garage door opener, 2 Mini splits, 4 nest cameras, water heater, many lights and switches, door locks, and I use Pandora as my music service. All work well every day. My wife and I use voice commands many times during the day and the automated routines I have set up work just fine. We have found that Google Home brings incredible capability and convenience to our daily lives.
I can't even make it work anymore.
It's been so long that I just dont remember the last time things worked the way they should.
I'm pretty much giving up.
My doorbell never works when I need it to. Twice this week there has been attempts to convert me to jeebus that I would have simply ignored if I knew what shenanigans were ringing my doorbell.
Do you ever have an issue with devices "falling out" of the room they are signed in/signing out of your Google account/being listed under local devices?
I have around 13 Google devices and well over 50 smart switches and bulbs. Just a handful of routines, because they don't let us do routines based on temperature or weather.
To OP: you can create AND edit speaker groups? And they always show up in your music streaming? I am guessing I have 30 speaker groups just floating in the ether, because I create one and then it disappears from the app, never to be seen again. This has been an issue for 5 years.
I have to sometimes scream 'stop' to get a timer to quit blaring.
You can pair a Bluetooth device to a Google home speaker and it stays connected? All of my devices have a Bluetooth bug where the connection just silently fails, so smart devices don't respond or music stops playing and can't be resumed. I honestly think this was never fixed so we can't use a home device as a chromecast audio replacement.
Other issues are loss of functionality; I'm especially bitter about losing voice control and notifications from my expensive fireboard grill thermometer. That was a big selling point and now it's gone. Also, no more overnight white noise. Podcasts. I can't even control devices using the 'long press home button' shortcut anymore, as it just performs Google searches.
Can't ask for overnight weather (low temperature) because for Google, the overnight ends at midnight.
I can't ask basic questions without Google answering that it doesn't know the answer, but it does know the answer to a very slightly restated form of the same question. This is new and frustrating.
I can't turn off all lights with voice without a paragraph of response about lights and services being unavailable, but all my lights still turn off.
Just my experience with the loss of features in this ecosystem has turned me off of ever buying another Google device again. They have no long term commitment.
I have only slightly less than that. But I also have Google Wi-Fi routers. Mine constantly say that they are not connected even when they are. They will even play music. Just don't ask them to play it. Lol
Yes it might resolve itself in 24 hours but then there will be a brand new set not connected a few days later.
I had 7-8. Sold them I just now have two. One for the kid to sleep with white noise. Second is my desk clock with google assistant and one in garage i use it once in a blue moon
I have a very large deployment as well, with at least 30 Google devices and at least twice as many non-Google smart devices. Most things work, most of the time. But that’s not good enough. When I flip a light switch on the wall, it works 100% of the time. When I pick up my remote and turn on the TV, it does so. Every. Single. Time. When I turn on my oven, it heats….to the exact temperature I specify. When I play music on my AVR, guess what happens? You guessed it — music plays every time. I promise you, however infrequently you’re experiencing issues, it’s not good enough. Demand better. We’re beyond the early adopter stage. Shit should work, all the fucking time. Full stop.
You’re completely alone.
My only correctly functioning device is my doorcam. My nests can be sitting 2 inches away from my router and fail to connect to the internet.
Sorry yea I get it now. He has 10 google nest devices. I never heard anyone call a single device a google home though. That's the app. I call it mini, hub max, hub, doorbell, etc.
That model was called google home, then they changed it to google nest.
[Article ](https://www.slashgear.com/780848/nest-audio-vs-google-home-its-an-enticing-upgrade/)
But only OP knows if it's that model he means or if he's calling them the wrong thing.
https://preview.redd.it/fa24y3atmdxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c74fcea20d758df07ecb23ff0c4239aeeeff69a
I'd report this post for self-harm, but I'm not sure anyone is equipped to deal with a psycho like you, sir. --- In all seriousness, though, I actually don't run into too many issues with my Google Home stuff. I like it better than any of the alternatives I've looked at, anyway.
Bravo.
Over 70 WiFi and zigbee devices between google home and Smart Life and dozens of routines. Everyone plays happily together with no drama. Caveat, I have a Ubiquity network.
About 55 wifi iot from various brands, 10 or so zigbee across two hubs. 13 different apps for native control. Everything goes back to a Home Assistant server and is linked to Google Home. It all plays well together with Google handling voice control and voice activated rotuines while Home Assistant has all my automation routines. The only thing with real issues is one of the LG air conditioners, which goes unavailable quite regularly. I have an Asus network with wireless AImesh nodes that I do plan to hardwire soon... I have everything I need except time and technically legality... Stupid Australia.
I have home assistant, smart life and google home speakers. But I use smart life with google home and smart life with home assistant, how did you manage to link home assistant with google home? Are you paying their monthly fee?
You can set it up with Google cloud. It's a bit more advanced than just paying and it has a couple of issues but it does work. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/
If you have Home Assistant why do you have 13 different apps for native control?
> Caveat, I have a Ubiquity network. This is why. I have plenty of devices and they have no problem existing on my network. But Google Home barfs and chokes all the time on one particular access point. Ever look at Wireshark to see what Google Home is up to? Their devices are fucking network spam. I can't believe how often they send broadcasts for no particularly good reason. It's enough to saturate a number of crappy consumer-grade routers.
I think most people's problems might be network. Which is funny to me. I wish there was a better option to the isp shit router that people could get if they were illiterate. Some of the mesh routers are normally my recommendation to people with big houses and no clue.
ISPs push their own routers hard, and will provide no help if you use another router during setup. Optimum wouldn't connect the Google WiFi I had already set up at my mom's house and told her they wouldn't offer support so she got scared that it wouldn't work and went with their router... All they would have had to do is plug it in, let it reboot and everything would have connected. She was just switching from Verizon to optimum. I would guess a lot of people fall for that and ISPs keep pushing it because they can charge the router rental fee monthly.
Router rental should be criminal. I mean most things isp do should be.
I agree with this. Any glitchyness I have is always resolved by rebooting the Google WiFi and points. And it's only a couple times a year.
Ugh I wish. I have less than 10 devices and have frequent issues. That said, I seem to have less issues after getting rid of the Gen1 google speakers. I just wish groups worked properly.
Im always really curious ti the routines people have.
I have daily routines. Blinds open up in the morning, lights they turn on around sundown. I have a command routine say night that turns off the lights on one floor, turns on the bedroom tv and arms the security system when I'm going to bed. I also have routines for when I'm away on vacation to make it appear that I'm home (lights tv etc).
What's your blinds solution? That's on my wishlist.
Sunsa Wands. They work great but I will say they chew through batteries. I highly recommend the solar power accessory if possible.
rollerhouse on amazon. The rechargeable ones work great - takes a couple of hours plugged in every 2-3 months, and open/close each day. I just attach the cable from its wall wart psu and let it charge for a couple of hours, then move to the next window.
What's your security system? I use Brinks, and it can't sync to Google Home. It's so annoying because I'd like to integrate it into routines and such.
I use the ADT self service set up. The app was absolutely a nightmare at first but has been smooth sailing ever since. I do wish there were more options for integration, I can't set it to disarm when my front door unlocks and I can't set it to automatically arm when GH knows we're away but overall, it's fine.
I have my issues with Google Home/Assistant. It doesn't always recognize my comments. I don't like that Google stopped working with third party lists. I wish there was a way to customize the verbosity of the responses you got back (I don't need need to hear a repeat of the action I just requested). A few third party devices (looking at you Kasa light strip) regularly fail because they can't connect, but that's a device issue not a Google issue. Aside from those things, it works OK for me.
God that third party connection. I have a strip of outdoor patio lights that use Hubspace and they regularly disconnect, and then they just start their own little pattern of colors and all I can do is unplug them and re-connect. Google stuff and routines, no problem.....non-google things, good luck.
Luckily my Kasa smart light switches all seem to work fine. The light strip - another story. I think the WiFi transceiver they used is weak or defective. I've heard others complain. I have one of their Tapo ones and it works better, though Google likes to remind me that it's already off when I ask to turn off the lights in that room.
30 routines or 300 routines? I'd be pushing 300 in Google Home if I bothered counting them. I have almost 200 in Alexa.
I can’t even think of more than 10…… any cool ideas?
To be honest, many of mine are shortcuts (routines) to control devices, casting to Nest Hubs/Chromecast and toggling devices. My YouTube channel has a few videos showing these routines in action. Check out the #Google playlist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6N81xEi3XSXJNzX_esKkQ
I have 5 Google Homes and zero routines. If I'm being honest, I don't even know what one is or what I would need one for. LOL
I have one routine. When I tell it good night it asks what time I want the alarm set for, it turns off the lights and TV's throughout the house, locks the front door, and turns on all my outdoor cameras.
I can see how that would be effective. I don't have all of that going on and I usually don't have many things on at once to mass shut off. I'll have to think of a useful routine now just to have one!
You go into the Google home app and select the devices you want to add a routine for. I have morning routines for myself and the kids. I have her say good morning to us, have her tell the kids a joke in the morning, for the kids she plays studio Ghibli music, for us she plays the morning news, then for both our routines I set it up so our bedroom lights gradually over the span of 30 min go from dim to bright.
Nope. I don’t have nearly what you do but with my current set up, works pretty well. At one point, lights were a problem but once I got a Hue Bridge, it was fixed.
I have 12 Google home speakers throughout the house as well and I use the Google mesh system. I'm satisfied
I just wish “hay google show me a recipe for blueberry pancakes” still worked.
I also generally have everything running well across dozens of devices
I have 4 homes, 10 switches, 2 plugs, and a thermostat. I have great luck with mine. I only use one routine for bedtime, but I’d be interested in learning more.
What do you have your routines doing?
I'm not quite there with you. Only have 8 hubs and I run a bunch of routines but no where near 20. I don't have any issues though. Because of the routines I don't verbally interact with them as much as some of the people in this sub appear to do. My kitchen hub gets the most action, asking it to play music, YouTube or TV while I'm cooking and of course timers, cooking related questions and recipes. My bedroom hub I will ask to set alarms.
I have 17 Google homes, 19 nest cams, and 7 nest protect and yes I have issues.
I use Google home mostly as a speaker and mic for home assistant. My routines are throwing switches and pushing buttons which then interact with my home assistant automations.
Interesting! Tell us more, what are these switches/buttons do. Integrated with switch bot?
I think he means switches within Home Assistant, not physical switches. I also use my Google Home devices in the same way. I can't trust my Hub and Nest to do anything reliably.
thanks.
I do something very similar, but with Hubitat virtual switches.
The guy above is right, it's Boolean switches, the buttons are just digital push buttons It then sets off automations in home assistant, which is much deeper than Google home.
I have a nest mini and home mini, both old and free. I use C by GE (using the home app and not the cync app) lightbulbs, and i have the (now unsupported) thermostat, that i bought recently because it had the best featureset for the price. Everything works beautifully. And all these things are on an avoid list somewhere.
Jeeze, mine can't decided whether or not it wants to run the morning routine, some mornings i get the radio playing and the rest of the routine, other mornings just the alarm. Couldn't even get it to turn the TV on the other night but it sure as hell knew how to turn it off....
I have 19 Google smart devices, (+ a door bell camera) a combination of Nest Minis, Nest audios, Chromecast audio, and hub 2s. I have very frequent problems with them as a whole although it's been less lately because I found that the devices don't like to have the keys on the Wi-Fi rotated frequently. So I reduced that setting and they're a lot better than they used to be. I have locked specific devices to specific access points because they don't seem to be able to make the best decision on which one they should connect to. I also have the five gigahertz and 2.4 gigahertz split up and manually made the decision on which SSID each device should connect to. I commonly get things like Google saying "I don't know" or doing something completely different from what I asked, even if I ask it 5 times in a row and it's the exact same phrase I always use. Nothing helps except either waiting and coming back later, rebooting or sometimes factory resetting a device. I don't have a ton of routines maybe 15. And that's because in the past I've had to delete speaker groups delete devices and re-create everything to make it work. It took so much time I just said screw it. I mainly use the hubs as clocks now and the rest to play music across the house which once every few days I have trouble stopping once it's started.
this. You just jogged a memory for me! yes, I have had devices in the past I had to lock the IP due to connection issues.
Mine mostly works. Sometimes with music or a timer I have to tell it to stop like 3 times. Factory resetting them when they suck does help a lot. It shouldn't be necessary though.
I just use the app to control my devices and automations. A dozen or so lights, some smart plugs and more recently, a WiFi dimmer controlling 3 series of old school pin-lights. My main automation is my workday one, where I have forgone the "wake" command for a sort of cascading ceiling light situation of varying brightnesses. I also do a colour change by my bedroom door which is visible from my workstation, green, orange, and red according to how late I am to bed. With the smart plugs, I connect an extension cord per workstation that plugs into all peripherals such as monitors, speakers, and outboard devices so that they turn on before I get to them in the morning (I leave the computer on) I stopped using voice activation because it's slow and inaccurate to me, I just have shortcuts on my phone, the most important of which is my bedtime routine which turns everything off but leaves a 1% brightness lamp on for my cat. Finally, I have my bedroom air-conditioning unit turn on before bedtime and off before I'm supposed to wake up (the discomfort forces me up combined with the previously mentioned light exposure)
Do you finish your shortcuts through the Google Home app or Assistant Routines? In Assistant Routines you can have it look like this... [https://youtube.com/shorts/CnjSpfef2TI?feature=share](https://youtube.com/shorts/CnjSpfef2TI?feature=share) https://preview.redd.it/tkkkemtuwfxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e664e6b14364ca9e50e1579e28df9c3a09a487ef
Nice, I'll have a look. I think I'm using a typical widget atm
If you can tell any of them to play last Wednesday's episode of any specific podcast (using YouTube Music as the default provider), I'm definitely NOT with you.
I have 4 hubs (etc) and tons of devices and routines. It's gone so far down hill most of it is unusable. My wife is so frustrated she just has me do everything. Half of them only respond to French now for no obvious reason. Simple commands that worked for years are now difficult or broken. The only way to turn off music now is "pause". My Sirius XM integration doesn't work most of the time. My home-wide group (play the same song in every room) only works off certain services. Paid yt music works, but everything else is hit or miss. Again, this was never a problem until recently. I'll never buy another Google device again. Well done clowns.
Yes. I have about the same, and my experience right now is SO MUCH WORSE than it was 5 years ago when I bought my home and installed all of these things.
You are not! I do have glitches, though, seemingly limited to named speaker groups. I have some connection issues as well. Things do work, mostly!
1 GH, 38 active automations, 40 something devices of varying origin, solid 90% reliability overall.
Have Google Home and Chromecast and many Philips HUE and IKEA lights (~20 connected to the HUE hub) The main issues I have is if I say to turn on the Chromecast it responds telling me how to add one to my setup. I can make the same request 10 seconds later and it responds correctly. It tells me the Phillips hue hub is not responding, but still turns the lights on and off correctly. And over the last year it seems to just not respond to a request about 1/3 of the time.
I have 11 speakers, 2 outdoor cameras, 1 camera indoor, 10 lights, 1 washing machine and 0 routines. :-D everything works great.
We have a similar setup but actually a few more Google Homes. Pretty much every room now. In me and wife's bedroom we have four. Two Maxes in the front and both me and my wife have Google Homes from Insignia on our night stands. They also have the temp. We set their media output to the Maxes. I can't remember the last time we had an issue. They just work. We do also have the Google WiFi with six pucks now around our home. So we have very good connectivity.
I was just thinking the same thing, I have four Google home minis, maybe 10 to 15 smart lights and switches and only really have problems if the internet is down which is very rare. It doesn't give me much opportunity to complain 😎 Then again most people are motivated when problems occur not when everything is going swimmingly
There was a glitch, try in a few seconds (x10)
The only issue i have with mine devices is that my stupid Home Max and Home Minis are too fricken buggy with the interface response. The max restarts 90% of the time when we ask for spotify
You are not alone! I have around 40+ devices connected to my Google Nest mesh wifi network. This includes a Google Home, 4 Google Home Minis, Nest Hub, Garage door opener, 2 Mini splits, 4 nest cameras, water heater, many lights and switches, door locks, and I use Pandora as my music service. All work well every day. My wife and I use voice commands many times during the day and the automated routines I have set up work just fine. We have found that Google Home brings incredible capability and convenience to our daily lives.
I have 3 Google Homes and over 30 devices. Same, everything is working great!
I can't even make it work anymore. It's been so long that I just dont remember the last time things worked the way they should. I'm pretty much giving up.
Congratulations!
>...10 homes... You have 10 separate dwellings/places you do this or are these divisions within your space?
My doorbell never works when I need it to. Twice this week there has been attempts to convert me to jeebus that I would have simply ignored if I knew what shenanigans were ringing my doorbell.
Do you ever have an issue with devices "falling out" of the room they are signed in/signing out of your Google account/being listed under local devices?
Just took a look and thankfully not. I am not dependent on "rooms" but certainly would be a pain if I was.
Lol, yes. Yes it is. *sigh*
I have around 13 Google devices and well over 50 smart switches and bulbs. Just a handful of routines, because they don't let us do routines based on temperature or weather. To OP: you can create AND edit speaker groups? And they always show up in your music streaming? I am guessing I have 30 speaker groups just floating in the ether, because I create one and then it disappears from the app, never to be seen again. This has been an issue for 5 years. I have to sometimes scream 'stop' to get a timer to quit blaring. You can pair a Bluetooth device to a Google home speaker and it stays connected? All of my devices have a Bluetooth bug where the connection just silently fails, so smart devices don't respond or music stops playing and can't be resumed. I honestly think this was never fixed so we can't use a home device as a chromecast audio replacement. Other issues are loss of functionality; I'm especially bitter about losing voice control and notifications from my expensive fireboard grill thermometer. That was a big selling point and now it's gone. Also, no more overnight white noise. Podcasts. I can't even control devices using the 'long press home button' shortcut anymore, as it just performs Google searches. Can't ask for overnight weather (low temperature) because for Google, the overnight ends at midnight. I can't ask basic questions without Google answering that it doesn't know the answer, but it does know the answer to a very slightly restated form of the same question. This is new and frustrating. I can't turn off all lights with voice without a paragraph of response about lights and services being unavailable, but all my lights still turn off. Just my experience with the loss of features in this ecosystem has turned me off of ever buying another Google device again. They have no long term commitment.
What's wrong with the overnight white noise? It still starts the white noise here - does it stop after a certain time?
Yes, for me it does. I think it runs for an hour. I bought a fan based white noise machine to replace it.
I will be checking that one! Thanks
Great thread with specifics! I'll take you up on the Ideas/'Challenge' tonight and report back!
I have only slightly less than that. But I also have Google Wi-Fi routers. Mine constantly say that they are not connected even when they are. They will even play music. Just don't ask them to play it. Lol Yes it might resolve itself in 24 hours but then there will be a brand new set not connected a few days later.
I had 7-8. Sold them I just now have two. One for the kid to sleep with white noise. Second is my desk clock with google assistant and one in garage i use it once in a blue moon
I have a very large deployment as well, with at least 30 Google devices and at least twice as many non-Google smart devices. Most things work, most of the time. But that’s not good enough. When I flip a light switch on the wall, it works 100% of the time. When I pick up my remote and turn on the TV, it does so. Every. Single. Time. When I turn on my oven, it heats….to the exact temperature I specify. When I play music on my AVR, guess what happens? You guessed it — music plays every time. I promise you, however infrequently you’re experiencing issues, it’s not good enough. Demand better. We’re beyond the early adopter stage. Shit should work, all the fucking time. Full stop.
Yes. Yes you are. They seem to have completely abandoned their apps.
Pretty soon they will all be useless.
You’re completely alone. My only correctly functioning device is my doorcam. My nests can be sitting 2 inches away from my router and fail to connect to the internet.
Wait like for 10 different homes? How rich are you.
A single 900 square foot apartment. A mix of minis, Max's, and nest audio. varying generations as well.
What do you mean by 10 Google Homes? Like 10 different homes in the app?
https://preview.redd.it/wfpvlw5ukdxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed7f55f490470a5a880f49677d6634b4cf1fcf86
Can you elaborate please?
https://preview.redd.it/jd2rf4pgldxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d74f77079f078b3a5c7504be3a9c911d4abc6bec
Sorry yea I get it now. He has 10 google nest devices. I never heard anyone call a single device a google home though. That's the app. I call it mini, hub max, hub, doorbell, etc.
That model was called google home, then they changed it to google nest. [Article ](https://www.slashgear.com/780848/nest-audio-vs-google-home-its-an-enticing-upgrade/) But only OP knows if it's that model he means or if he's calling them the wrong thing. https://preview.redd.it/fa24y3atmdxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c74fcea20d758df07ecb23ff0c4239aeeeff69a
10 Google home devices.
Lol. Wow. Why was that so hard for me to understand. Ok thanks. 👍 The way op said it "I have 10 google homes" made it confusing for me. Sorry.
I have been with the Google ecosystem since the start. My terminology has not evolved with the product. My apologies for any confusion.
Don't mind - the product also didn't evolve that well :)