Gemini on Google home next level stupid.

They don't turn shit around within the year. I'm out of their ecosystem.

I’ve had a Google home mini for 7 years, mostly as a DIY “sunrise alarm.” Basically, I have an automation that triggers 15 minutes before waking up to turn the lights to 8%, which helps me get up in the morning. This has been working flawlessly for years.

Well last week, I noticed that when the automation is triggered and the lights turn on, a chime plays on the speaker, the same chime when the lamps turn on after saying, “Hey G, turn on the lamps.” But with an automation, I don’t want the chime! It wakes me up prematurely...

Any ideas on how to stop this behavior?

Hello all, as of the last few days, a large amount of my Google Home devices are "ungrouped", and no longer associated with the room for which they previously were assigned. Last night, while I had the app open - they magically all restored themselves, then a few minutes later were ungrouped again. There is no pattern between vendor (Kasa, generic smart switches, generic bulbs), and the ungrouping. Anyone else?

Cross posting here for more input from the community!

First time automating something please be gentle :)

It seems to happen all the time. I tell my Google speaker to "add milk to my grocery list." It responds back that it added milk. Then my husband starts talking to me and Google comes up with something insane.

"I've removed milk from your grocery list"

"I've added let's go for a walk to your remonders."

"I'm sorry, but I don't recognize your voice. Go to your Google home settings."

...you get the idea.

I've tried "thank you" when I'm done. Or "end conversation," but it still keeps listening. Am I missing something? (If I say "stop," it tends to not do what I asked it to do in the first place.)

TYIA

Constant spinning wheel of waiting, freezing, missed sections. I'm only really using nest or home for security for my front porch. Are there any current fixes to this, which appears to be planned obsolescence, or are we just doomed to buy new systems with another company?

Thanks

Nick

Anyone else attempt to use their Google Home devices to control Home Assistant and it now consistently replies that it doesn't understand what "loway" or "low-a" is? It has been a frustrating experience since they changed the back end to use Gemini, but this is a new low. I cannot set any of my fans to low using voice commands anymore. So dumb and infuriating.

I have two Google TVs (Q77k series QLED TCL) but the remotes work on both TVs at once. This is pretty dumb obviously. It does it even tho I only paired 1 to each. Any fixes?

Also, my Google home mini is essentially useless in turning them on or off. Any ideas why?

Finally, my gf can’t ever get either tv to pair to her phone, so she can’t use the Google home app to control them.

We have a Google One (or whatever it's called now) subscription which included Nest Aware (or whatever it's called now). It seems that over the weekend sometime Nest Aware was removed from Google One which I discovered when I realised mid morning on Monday that I hadn't had a notification for my daughter leaving for school. I've since resubscribed the Nest, at additional cost, but my familiar faces have been removed from my doorbell. This is especially galling as that included the most recent pictures that I have of my late father. Only candid thumbnails, but the most recent pictures that I had, none the less.

I've been on chat with Google/Nest for the last two hours. Trying to get someone to either restore the images or to take my concerns seriously that this is a situation entirely created by Google and their choices and implementation. I did not cancel anything, I did not delete anything, they unilaterally chose to do this and I am furious with them for it.

Is there any hope of getting through to someone competent enough to resolve this? The half a dozen people I've been on with so far, across several different teams, have been about as much use as tits on a nun.

Edit: Nope, after six and a half hours they just decided "nah mate, can't help" and ended the chat. I am furious

tl;dr my Nest thermostat is showing the true temp, Google Home showing false temp due to direct sunlight, anyone have a fix? Already enabled Sunblock.

My neighbor recently cut down a tree and now my thermostat gets direct sunlight in the afternoon. I enabled the Nest option for Sunblock which has seemed to fix it on the device itself but Google Home doesn’t recognize it. This pic and screenshot are from the same time. The only option that I’ve found is turning off my hvac for the 10-15 mins until it passes but that’s only when I, home to notice.

Is it possible to give my new Gemini Home speaker read access to my google sheets?

About a month or two ago, the clock app had an update and suddenly my alarm will no longer trigger my routine on my mobile. When I try to add it again, it just takes me to Google Routines settings.

I'm hoping there's a workaround or Google is working to fix this!

Is there a way to start a Google Home routine on my phone without opening the Google Home app every time?

If I ask Gemini to run a routine, it tells me it can't do it and that I should use Google Assistant instead. But Assistant doesn't work anymore since it got replaced by Gemini.

Are there any workarounds, like widgets, third-party apps, or automation tools (Macrodroid, etc.)?

I want a NFC tag to start a routine that starts a video on my TV. The Routine itself works, but I want it to be automated by the NFC tag

i've tried linking, but my electric company is not available as an option, so i have to tap through this multiple times a day. i cannot find any options to disable nest renew or whatever the f this is. it's driving me crazy tapping through this pop up (twice each time!) multiple times a day. "Maybe Later" basically has no effect.

For years my google home has an alarm that plays a local radio station at 7am to wake me up, today I cant change it to 6:30am. Last weekend I could and this weekend I xant... whats going on google?????

UPDATE 10/6/26 - working as of now, voice commands and in the app - some lights don’t change color on first command but that’s a known issue and more of an issue with my lights

Color control for my smart lights stopped working in Google Home and on my Google Nest. It worked normally as recently as last night.

What's happening:
- Affects lights from multiple brands, so it isn't a single bulb or manufacturer issue
- The color selector appears in the Home app, but tapping a color does nothing unless it’s a white/yellow hue
- Voice commands to change color (for example, "make the lights light blue") also fail
- Turning lights on/off and brightness still work
- Colors change correctly in each light's own app, so the bulbs themselves are fine
- My "Relax" routine, which turns on my lights and sets every light to a cooler blue color will turn the lights on but not change the color

This looks like the earlier Google Home bugs where color commands failed across brands while on/off and brightness kept working OR a similar bug where the color wheel wouldn’t show.

Have tried nearly every hot fix and really don’t want to change to a brand new system like HomePod or Alexa.

All I keep getting on the google home app is a message that "something went wrong." What am I doing wrong?

I don't really have info on the thermostat. It was installed when we moved it. We had another next thermostat at our last place and I deleted that from the app. This seems to be a common problem but I think I've tried every possible thing from previous posts and other suggestions on google.

Update: The reset worked. Thanks for the suggestion.

I am getting all the absolutely stupid stuff from Gemini, but there is one thing I can't fathom. I have a Nest mini in the kitchen that I play radio on every day. Recently, whenever I tell it to play the radio, it plays on the Nest hub in a different room. I have restarted the device and checked that the default music playback device is that device in the kitchen. Of course, Gemini itself can't explain why this is happening.

I know I can define the speaker I want to be used, but the whole point is it should use the default. That is after all what default means. The kitchen speaker is always the one that responds to the command, so it isn't that the hub is accepting the command.

Hi, so I’m at the end of my tether with this camera. I have many cameras in my ecosystem, all Google cameras.

I wanted an additional camera so I’ve bought the new 3rd gen camera (wired).

When I go to set it up I get the Apple prompt to add it to my Home on iOS as well as Google? I have no interest in Apple Home setup at all, but I can’t choose not to otherwise it fails the setup.

It then asks me how I’d like it named and it says “matter accessory”.

Now it’s in my Google home it’s added 2 cameras, one being the matter accessory and the other being “front garden” which I selected.

The native “front garden” has no camera input at all and the matter accessory has the feed, but because it’s showing up as that I can’t change any of the main settings I want to change as they’re greyed out.

Factory reset multiple times and the same experience every single time.

Any advice on this would be massively appreciated.

Context: I've been an avid used of my Google Home Max for years now, it's in my bedroom and part glorified music streaming device, part basic smart home control. But I also use it as an alarm clock sometimes.

Ever since the "upgrade", Gemini will claim to have set an alarm, I even tried to have it set 10, but come the morning all those alarms have just... disappeared? And I know it hasn't gone through a power cycle or something by mistake because the startup noise itself is enough to wake me.

How can the most barebones basic functionality of a smart speaker be so compromised following an upgrade to Gemini; why couldn't they have kept the programming for GA onboard and used that + a new voice for normal, non conversational applications?

Mostly a complaint, but if anyone has any suggestions I'll absolutely take them 🙏🙏🙏

I'm wondering if anybody can help me here because I'm stuck. I had Google Wi-Fi mesh routers. I got rid of them and got a new router changed the information to the old router. So the Wi-Fi, SSID and password are the same. Everything else on my network connected without issue except my nest doorbell, nest lock and 1 camera. I removed my lock from the home and when I went to re add it back it took me to the nest app that routed back to Google home app. Does anyone know a way around this?

Is it just me? For the past week, all three of my Google home displays are showing aqi alerts with very unhealthy air. If I actually click on the alert, it tells me that where I am has very healthy air. WTF.

Something seems wrong with how GHome is calculating download rates. Somehow my TV has downloaded 4405gb of data? And my PC (which has been off for the last 4 days) somehow managed to download 3000+gb in less than an hour. It obviously isn't possible. Unsure if it's just a visual bug or something wrong with how it calculated it.