r/googlehome

Happened right now:

Me: Hey Google, deck light on.

*switches off the kitchen lights*

Me (sighing and rubbing the bridge of my nose): "Hey Google, deck light on and kitchen light on"

*Switches both on and asks to rate the latest interaction from 1 being the worst and 5 the best*

Me: Negative 10!!!

*I've noted that your location is [lists my mailing address] and the current date is [today's date] and time is [current time]. I've also noted the number 10.

Me: What the F? Hey Google, delete the latest note.

*I apologize, but I didn't create any notes. I simply noted you mentioned number 10.

Me (gives up and walks away).....

I have a Google home hub max and as Gemini gets better it seems like my home hub assistant gets dumber.

It never hears the right command. It turns on and off the wrong devices, it plays the wrong apps.

Is there any hope for this once decent product?

Anyone else think it’s about time we just throw all of these in the landfill?

The automation I’ve had set since I got it works reliably, but when I set a new one it often doesn’t work. I’ve unplugged it for 10 seconds multiple times

How do I make my Google home Mini use a different Google account for YouTube music because my main one doesn't have premium but my dad's does

As the title states, I cannot link my mini splits. Had them linked for the last 2 years but they went offline 3 days ago. Could not get them back with any troubleshooting including modem reset and power cycling the circuit breakers. So finally unlinked the comfort app. Now when I go in and try to relink it tells me it can't reach Comfort by Mitsubishi. The comfort app is functioning fine if that helps. Any ideas on how to fix?

I have google nest mini 2. I have turn the mic switch physically off. As per google, my mic is muted and it can't listen to any conversations happening in the room. But who trusts google.

Want to check with people instead. Is there a possibility google still listens even after turning off the mic physically.

If yes, suggest me ways to disconnect it completely from internet.

I just use the device as bluetooth speakers so I don't need if the device is not connected to internet.

For a few weeks lights have been turning on in the middle of the night. Not all the lights but certain lights. Not every night either. Last night it seemed to try to run an automation without prompting.

This system has taken a fantastic nosedive into a pool with no water over the last few months. Is Google just trying to have an exodus of their products and services?

I’m inclined to investigate and troubleshoot just for greater understanding but another part of me says it’s time to jump ship.

Anyone else experiencing random and unprompted actions?

Sorry, English is not my first language. As the title says, I can’t run automations anymore through voice commands. I’m still using the Google Assistent.

When triggering the automations by hand, they run smoothly. But every single one of my automations can’t be used by voice anymore, which is set as trigger.

I believe the plans changed last year and I'd been on a 1 year trial of some sort.
I'd been paying about £80 a year for 2TB Drive space and a good amount of Google Home camera history. Now I discover my camera history has gone to 3 hours max.

I have a Google Drive full of photos etc so I need my 2TB of space - and I of course want more than 3 hours of camera history.

So they've trapped me into needing to buy an upgraded Google AI Plus (5 TB) plan for both of those benefits... it's an extra £110 a year.

I see what people mean now about how they feel trapped by Google. I guess I'll have to start moving away from the Google ecosystem as I have no doubt the prices are only going to slowly increase further from here.

For the past 2 years I've been paying for 2tb ai plus. As of 2pm today my doorbell has stopped saving video footage.

Additionally, as of today my bank transaction has change from "Google storage" to "Google one"

I believe Google has changed its ai plus model tk no longer include Google home aware without telling us, and trying to charge us more for the privilege.

The new subscription is called "ai pro" which says it includes home aware at a much higher price.

A google home update in mid-sept killed the temp display on my alarm clock (lenovo cd-4n341y). When the home app updated recently, I allowed it to do the gemini 'upgrade' in hopes it would restore it. It didn't, and now basic assistant functionally is... quirky, to say the least (i.e. telling me it's currently 86 degrees when it was actually 52, asking if I want to hear Olivia Rodrigo's high-energy pop-punk or wistful piano-driven ballads when I ask it to play music, even though I've never heard this woman in my life). Many of these quirks are the subject of many other's posts.

So there's no temperature on the display anymore, and the assistant sucks. But the thing that really gave me pause is the fact I was constantly seeing the 'listening' indicator illuminated, even though no one said anything phonetically near "hey google"

For the record, I opted out of 'continue conversation'. In fact, this morning the home app updated and it immediately pestered me about enabling 'continue conversation' once again. Again, I declined. Ten minutes later I notice the clock listening to a conversation about bus schedules.

While I'm sure it's probably just collecting data to train it's faulty AI, the fact that they give you the illusion of opting out, then just do it anyway, really irritates me. I'm sure there's something buried in the TOS that states this is perfectly legal, or it's merely a 'bug', regardless...

Personally, I pitched the clock. Gemini will be well trained to the workings of a landfill. But I figured I'd write a quick PSA

My kid loves math. He likes to talk about math with our Google Home Hub (v1) that sits in the kitchen.

He asked "what's the square root of a thousand?"

Answer spoken and written on the screen: the √100 is 10.

He tried again 3 times. Same thing.

I tried 2 times. Again √100.

His mom tried as well. Again √100.

Question: can any of you try on your Google Home Hubs and report back please?

I have a seemingly rare Google Nest speaker (I say rare because from before 2025 I was trying to get another and Google never stocked them online)

I've now reached my limit with how pathetic the Google assistant/Gemini/whatever they want to call it... is.

It can not do a simple task like play a playlist I definitely have called '2026' on Spotify and decides to change the words that came out of my mouth and it plays 'Your Top Songs 2025'. I'll sell this for possibly the same price I bought it for many years ago and I'll get an Alexa or a branded WiFi speaker.

So I think my doorbell has finally given out. It's the 1st Gen one that I got back in 2018 when it first came out. Over the last two years it started randomly cutting off it's camera several times a day. It's always been 11am and 5pm and happens about every 20-30 minutes staying down for only 5 or so before rebooting. I thought maybe it was overheating but it happens when it's not in direct sunlight so that can't be it. I also tried various fixes I found online like disabling the indoor chime, turning the quality of the video way down low etc. But nothing has seemed to fix it so I think it's just dead. I also have several Google outdoor and indoor cameras that I've had up and functioning for at least 5 years now and none of them lose connection or ever powder down. So it can't be something outside doing it. It must be the age of it.

The real problem now is that whenever someone pushes the doorbell it immediately dies. So it's no longer even doing it's job of letting me know someone is at the door! LOL! It doesn't ring or notify me so the person just stands there and I have no idea someone's outside.

Does anyone have any recommendations for what to do?

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I got an email this morning, saying that my Google Play refund has been approved.

I never requested a refund for anything.

Google removed my add-on and refunded me, without any notice.

I contacted support who are now looking into it and I'm waiting a response.

From what I can see on the Google One website, it is no longer possible to include Google Home Premium Advanced as an add-on to the Google AI Plus (2TB) tier.

This tier used to cost me £15.98pm, now, for the same functionality, I am being forced into a £27pm (the attached screenshot is £19 for the Standard version, not Advanced) sub if I want to retain the same features.

Anyone else experienced this?

We upgraded our Nest thermostats last year due to Google ending app connectivity. I just gave away the old thermostats on marketplace without factory resetting. Now I am a little paranoid. Does Nest have our wifi passwords? Do we need to change our wifi password? I couldn’t find the old Nest in Google Home and am not sure how to unlink them. Could someone help me explain whether I need to worry about it? Thank you so very much!

I was a bit taken aback so I took a moment to make sure I had heard correct, I then uttered out loud "wow, that's really creepy." And Google Home replied AGAIN, saying "I'm sorry about that" or something to that effect.

Anyone else had this happen? To be clear, I did NOT say "Okay Google" or anything to activate Google. I literally was just wiping down some furniture and said out loud "I am out of paper towels."

This is kind of creepy, particularly since this was never a setting I enabled specifically. All I did was opt into the Public Preview of Gemini.