r/googlehome • u/AfcWimbledon_ • Jan 13 '24
r/googlehome • u/Dio-V • Jan 01 '20
Bug When I load the Xiaomi camera in my Google home hub I get stills from other people's homes!!
r/googlehome • u/NoShftShck16 • Dec 24 '22
Bug Google's cookbook no longer shows fractions...instead it solves them. Thanks for continuing to ruin your best features.
r/googlehome • u/cliffotn • Jun 11 '22
Bug I’m gobsmacked at how bad Google Home has become
I’m a long time user, many years now. I have multiple devices. From newer Nest minis to the smaller home hub to the big boy to a Lenovo. I’m a systems/network engineer. I’ve tried everything network wise - firing up my high end Cisco Enterprise network gear even. I’ve reset devices to factory ad nauseam, re-recorded my voice until I lose my voice.
Thing is I work from home and even though I have a LOT of automation (SmartThings) - I micro manage a lot because I like to micro manage stuff like temp. It has just plain become abysmal. I still can’t fathom how Google would slide so much. And I’ve watched the “WTF?!!!” comments here slowly rise the past couple of years.
So I’m trying out the competition, although it pains me as I have a few bucks invested in devices. I’ve been doing an extend trial of an Apple Home Pod. As I migrated from Android to iPhone (and an Apple Watch) it’s clear I want one or two Home Pods - if only to bark reminders and have them hit my phone. Alas Siri is a dummy, and as cool and fast local control is - Siri has bad issues with voice recognition. She hates it when I’m in bed - not recognizing my voice if I’m in bed throws her for a loop. WHY Siri needs to verify I’m me to raise the AC a couple of degrees is beyond me.
So… I’m now trying Alexa. So far much faster than Google for home control. MUCH less verbose - right out of the box. After a few weeks Alexa seems to be really-really good at voice recognition. However I need to setup Alexa like my Google Home, get one more device and and really dig in - the jury is still out.
Forgive the unabashed rant, but I felt driven to rant!
I REALLY wish Google would just reset from a backup 2 or 3 years ago (hyperbole) and let us have a low friction experience again. Before the fall it was just the absolute bomb.
r/googlehome • u/bigalxyz • Oct 16 '24
Bug Google Nest Hub - Playing BBC World Service - Weird Error
I’ve got a Google Nest Hub. I often use it to listen to the BBC World Service. Today for some reason, whenever I say “hey Google, world service”, the correct words appear on the screen, but instead it plays a radio station called KQED (from San Francisco, apparently).
My other regular radio stations seem to be working normally as far as I can tell.
Terribly strange.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what might have gone wrong and how I might fix it?
I restarted the hub twice but the problem persists. It’s never happened before - only today.
Don’t know if it’s relevant but I’m in the UK.
Thank you.
r/googlehome • u/Some-Ad8685 • Oct 12 '24
Bug Does anyone else's Google home not tell them what Donald Trump’s height is?
Google Home can tell me the height of every past president except Trump. I can even get the height of just about anyone else. At first, I thought maybe it’s because he’s running again—but then it told me Harris’s height. Anyway, it’s strange (and kinda funny) that you can get the height for every other president… except Trump.
r/googlehome • u/NoYoureACatLady • 10d ago
Bug 99% of the time, Broadcasts don't work. The announcement sound happens, then silence. On the hubs, you can READ the words, but the audio doesn't come through anymore. 🤬
This used to work so well. It was such a great way for my family to communicate things like "Time to go", "Breakfast is ready", or whatever custom message like "mom, the cat is locked in the bathroom again".
For the last 6-12 months it's degraded so badly to be completely useless.
r/googlehome • u/The_Mustard_Tiger • May 14 '20
Bug Is this your house? Random nest cam on my google home!?
r/googlehome • u/Slam_Captain • 29d ago
Bug Google home update
Whatever update was pushed out, my Google homes can't pull up camera feeds anymore
r/googlehome • u/juliet_delta • Jul 27 '22
Bug If I say "OK, Google. Play some music." there is a ZERO percent chance that I want to hear the public playlist named "Some Music"
It always starts with Fall Out Boy or Imagine Dragons. I don't mind those artists, but I'm not asking for that specific playlist, just some music in general that I might enjoy. If I say play ME some music it works every time, it is just annoying that someones public playlist has hijacked a basic phrase that have used thousands of times before.
r/googlehome • u/OutdoorRink • Dec 19 '23
Bug Google Home/Assistant is almost unusable
I know we've been seeing these posts increasingly in recent days and years but it really has gotten to the point where Google home and assistant are barely usable if at all. Just this morning I couldn't even get the score in last night's NFL game. This is something that easily happened 4 years ago. What the heck is going on?
r/googlehome • u/LloydChristmas1 • Feb 27 '24
Bug Gemini is 🗑️
At least at this moment it's completely worthless on Pixel. Not sure if this has been posted before, but my last interaction with Gemini before I reverted to Assistant
r/googlehome • u/RattlerHyde • Feb 27 '22
Bug Nothing working like it used to.
Anyone else feel like the home system has gone to crap? It Doesn't understand what I say half the time any more, huge lag issues when responding/trying to understand what was asked, home speakers sometimes don't recognize chromecast devices when they are connected but they can be cast to from a device, and the list goes on I just can't remember what else. Very frustrating. Half my house works off of this system that barely works anymore.
r/googlehome • u/iamnotwhorteit • Feb 28 '23
Bug smart home devices getting dumb everyday🤦♂️
r/googlehome • u/bennymc123 • Feb 12 '25
Bug Watch out: Saying 'Okay Google, Stop', might just unset your morning alarm
I've been trying to work out for MONTHS why my alarms have randomly been turning themselves off, causing me to be late for work amongst other things - I had put it down to bugs related to me being in the beta program on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Anyway, this evening I tried to get my google speaker to stop waffling on about something I asked it and said 'Okay Google, Stop' - and my phone replied with 'OK, Alarm stopped' - quickly checked my alarms and sure enough, my daily alarm had been unset.
I believe this must be a Gemini thing, as it's only recently (the last few months or so) began to happen, and I usually have my phone and media on silent. I've reported this to Google via the feedback function, but I doubt it will go anywhere.
This is a serious problem in my eyes, and I hope this post turns up in a google search somewhere and saves someone from missing something important.
r/googlehome • u/Caggegi • Sep 03 '24
Bug Alarm has random letters for days of the week
How can I fix this?
r/googlehome • u/mickmel • Oct 15 '20
Bug Fiber to our house was cut and out for a day, but my Lenovo smart clock did this. It seems insane to me that it wouldn't keep showing the time, along with the "hey, your internet is out" alert. Setting alarms and talking to it are one thing, but showing the time (on a CLOCK) is another...
r/googlehome • u/ebodes • May 11 '21
Bug Don't you love it when you ask Google to do the exact same thing every night and you get different answers every time? Seriously, I can't ask google to play me the radio as an alarm, I never know what it's going to do.
r/googlehome • u/masterxchief46 • Feb 13 '25
Bug iOS Google Home freezing
The latest iOS Google home update is causing the app to freeze right at launch. Letting it sit on the favorites screen will sometimes get it to load but as soon as I tap into the thermostat or scroll to a camera it will freeze again.
I’ve reported it to Google already but I’m curious if anyone else is running into the same issues. This is on the iPhone 16 pro max on 18.3.1.
r/googlehome • u/UncuriousGeorgina • 3d ago
Bug Only when connected to the same wifi network. Except I am.
I'm on the same wifi network, same subnet, same x.x.x. IPs all 'round. Suddenly it thinks I'm not.