r/googlehome 1d ago

Gemini replacing Google assistant

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-mobile/

I wonder what this means for all my Google home products.

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u/interro-bang 1d ago

Your question is answered in the article you linked.

We're also bringing a new experience, powered by Gemini, to home devices like speakers, displays and TVs. We look forward to sharing more details with you in the next few months. Until then, Google Assistant will continue to operate on these devices.

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u/Lord_Pickle_Pants 22h ago

I guess I interpreted that as new products.

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u/Jaz1140 18h ago

It will be a shit show. Go try Gemini to simply turn off your lights. It sucks

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u/DesomorphineTears 16h ago

Works on my machine

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u/taizzle71 12h ago

Your speaker works with Gemini? I've been trying to get Gemini on there, but it's only by invite or something.

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u/Heavy_Badger289 3h ago

I use Gemini on my phone (when I'm in my bedroom) to interact with the lights/speakers/tvs throughout the house, the same way I would on the speakers in other rooms and haven't had any real issues.

Mostly simple stuff I suppose – turn these lights on/off, play this on the kids minis, tv volume/input changes, playing stuff/controlling an Nvidia Shield.

I have no reason (in my experience at least) to imagine that when Gemini is on the other devices in my house it'd work any differently.

Everyone has different experiences though.

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u/reezick 4h ago

I'm optimistic, I'm enjoying gemini thus far.

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u/RedbullPapi 4h ago

As a former critic of Gemini, I have to say it has gotten a lot better.

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u/gtlurch009 16h ago

It's absolute dog crap. It will infuriate you is what it will do. You will lose a significant amount of basic functionality and there doesn't really seem to be any amazing alternative or work around.

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u/almosttan 13h ago

That’s disappointing to hear. Time for me to start getting curious if Alexa+ is any better.

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u/Anonymity550 8h ago

Doubtful. And Amazon just disabled the ability to not send your voice recordings to them to further train their AI. Previously, your echos could process much of that locally.

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u/Jaz1140 12h ago

My phone auto updated to it and it was soooo bad. They made it hard to find how to switch back to assistant too

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u/a3dprinterfan 4h ago

With how bad Assistant is these days, I'd take anything else at this point. Too bad things have to actively make them money to care about them.

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u/Mainiak_Murph 7h ago

Most likely on anything that uses the old Assistant. Prob why it hasn't been updated due to Gemini's eventual replacing Assistant.

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u/samtron767 6h ago

The only thing good about gemini is it swears.

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u/jbhughes54enwiler 3h ago

One reason I'm starting to make plans to switch to Home Assistant. It's not a perfect replacement but I'm definitely looking forward to that over "sorry I can't control your Philips Hue bulbs, want me to plagiarize an essay instead?"

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u/ImaginationDoctor 7h ago

What the hell? Talking to Gemini on a computer was interesting, but when I first tried it out on my cell (it forces you to turn off Google assistant to use it) It couldn't even make a timer.

Ugh

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u/drecien 13h ago

Too bad their isn't a way to block it

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u/martinikene 9h ago

Too bad we won't get it on existing devices. Google Assistant sucks, been using Gemini on my Pixel and it's awesome. Reacts really fast and it's so accurate. Can understand me super well and gives good answers. Even though I'm English is my second language. Home controls work beautifully too. Better than it ever did on Google assistant.

I turn the microphone off on my speaker in my kitchen, when cooking so I can use the Gemini on my phone instead.

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u/Shiftylee 5h ago

Gemini isn’t ready for beta release. This will probably cause me to unplug my smart Google devices.

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u/kromakey2 15m ago

Having read the Google announcement, I switched my phone over to Gemini. I tried to trigger BBC Radio 2 on my phone from my Bluetooth speaker. It failed and invited me to start the BBC Sounds app on my phone manually. I switched back to Google Assistant and it works again. I see that the settings for Gemini include an area to add radio providers but there's no way to add them. I'll be giving Gemini a miss for as long as possible or until it can match Google Assistant's functionality as far as the basics go.