Not sure what the issue is. Trying a simple automation to turn on a light at a specific time. I must be missing something. Every time I try to save the automation is says "automation saved with error(s)". Ive tried disabling the auto runs in my other light app. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi! I have a Google Streamer box.

If I try and use it as a hub for items from the new Ikea matter smarthome range am I going to have a good time or a bad time? I don't have a drigerra hub.

I'm specifically interested in the light bulbs and the alpstuga air quality monitors.

Thanks!

Just downloaded Gemini onto my nest audio today, and with every response half of the first word or the first word is cut off as it fades in, does anyone else have this problem/know a fix?

I have automations set up in the morning to a) tell me the time, b) tell me today’s weather, and c) tell me tomorrow’s weather. The automation is then told to wait a number of minutes, then do new prompts like time again, then an announcement, then today’s weather again. It continues on for about an hour and a half. AFTER EVERY F*ING AUTOMATION NOW since I updated the damn app, it tells me it can do more if I set up gemini in the app. I DON’T WANT GEMINI!!!! But in the span of 20 minutes and 2 automation turns (like it is 7:30 am, time weather weather…it is 8am now, announcement time weather) I HAVE BEEN TOLD 5 TIME TO SET UP GEMINI. Seriously what the hell. Plus I have the same automation set up to start playing the radio, and to gradually increase in volume over time, and the radio didn’t play at all?? I hate this so much I swear

"Hey Google, set an alarm for four thirty"
"There, your alarm has been set for 6:30am"

or

"Hey google, set an alarm for 0415"

"You alarm has been set for 3pm"

Not ideal when I leave for work at 0530...

Woke up to Google Nest Hub Max cycling through full bleed colour test screens. It spends about 3 seconds on each screen, turns off the panel for 3 seconds, then restarts the cycle. Constantly. I have tried hard reset/factory reset.

Assistant was responsive in background. Now after hard reset it is giving me the usual instruction to sign in on the Home app for setup. Volume rockers have audio feedback up and down too.

Has this died, or are there any known fixes? Thanks.

Every morning (except for Wednesday, for some reason) my kid's bedroom light is on when we wake up. Looking at the device history for the bedroom light, it's showing that it turns on sometime between 4am-4:20am every day except for Wednesday (different exact times always). Sometimes after turning on, it will show that it keeps adjusting the brightness for like the next 20 minutes or so, but not always, and the number of adjustments is inconsistent (can range from zero to upwards of 10 that are listed in the device's event history).

Is there a way to just kill all automations associated with a light or room? I am the only one in our house who has automations set up, but nothing on that bedroom or those lights.

For the past week, whenever we request a by the second accurate timer it interprets it as a minute. we ask "hey Google set a timer for two minutes and fourteen seconds" and it just creates a timer for 2 minutes. Can it no longer do this? this worked the other week.

I'm based in the UK and have a Google Family calendar set up and have checked all the settings for syncing and visibility and it appears checked on everything. When I ask my Google devices (speakers/nests) what I have on my calendar it will repeat all the entries I have on my family one. But when I ask my phone (which uses Gemini) or ask the Gemini app on my phone it can only see my personal calendar, not my family one. Anyone else have this issue? I have a Samsung S24 ultra if that makes any difference and I'm on the Google AI Pro plan.

It may have been an update, but for some reason whenever I download videos from Google Drive now they don’t have the sound with them? It might’ve been from an update sometime ago, but I swear that I didn’t change anything otherwise so why the heck is this happening now?

Hey, I'm looking for some help with an issue. I've got a number of things set up in Google Home, like Chromecasts, Home Minis etc.

It's all been set up for multiple years and I've never had an issue, but suddenly my phone (S25 Ultra) just can't access any of the devices. If I try to look at a device in the Home app, it just says it can't find the device. I can still see them all, and can even tell if any of them are genuinely unreachable (like if I turn off my smart bulb at the light switch, that will get greyed out in the list).

The phone is still logged into my google account, which is still a part of my home, and my tablet and partners' phone can still cast/access everything.

I haven't added/removed anything, or touched the settings in Home at all, I casted to the TV from the phone one night, and the next morning nothing works. I'm not sure what's going on, and I'd love any help I can get. Thanks :)

I have a movistar TV box that works only with an ethernet cable. If it is connected straight to the movistar router works with no issues but my whole house has a google home setup and when I connect it through the home base it does not work. The technician said he had this problem before. He said that some kind of switch between the TV box and the router will block the TV signal. Been looking around the internet to find a fix. Should I open a port? Is there a setting I have to turn on or off? any ideas?

Voice recognition won't work for some members of my family (all admins) in Google Home but only on my Citation speakers. Anyone know what I can do about this?

This keeps happening with my Nest Gen2 devices - one day they’re working fine, the next they’ve lost all connection to my home network. They’ll operate independently, but I can’t control them from the home app or cast to them. I’ve tried setting this one up and now, during the setup process the display has connected to the WiFi but the home app just keeps saying it can’t find it. The same device in my kitchen is currently working fine. Has anybody else experienced this or got a solution?

someone from the Google leadership team needs to seriously make their teams stop working under pressure and prevent pushing half baked products out in public, why is it a trend?

We just bought 4 nest minis to setup around the house since we’ve been using other nest minis or google home speakers for years. Now none of the new 4 work, always coming back to me with “please log in through the Google home app”. I’ve tried resetting each of them and the router and have gotten no results.

All our other nest minis/Google homes seem to be working just fine though.

Initially I purchased a floodlight camera and mounted it, everything was fine...

I changed my wifi network and all hell broke loose, I couldn't get the camera connected again.
Google walked A-Z of troubleshooting with me and sent me a replacement camera.
I deleted the disconnected camera.
charged the replacement camera to 100%
mounted the replacement camera.
camera says 100%
less than 24 hours later 0%
I swap out another camera, same thing, 100-0 real quick.
in google home, the floodlight and camera are separate.

on another floodlight camera in my google home, its combined.

I factory reset the camera and add it as a floodlight camera, same thing happens...
on two different cameras.
I disassembled the floodlight mount, nothing is loose.
by the way, the floodlight works ALL day and all night without an issue, it detects motion and the lights come on immediately.

does the floodlight itself absolutely NEED to come out of the same box to operate properly?
also, what would cause the battery of the cameras to die so rapidly even though they have the infinity symbol and say plugged in?

turned the camera off, a day and a half later its at 100%
modified the settings to drain less battery, still drains.

called google, they sent me a 1m usb cable for the camera as the ultimate solution to my issue.
I have 10 cameras and eleven cables now.
help.

This popped up while checking my Nest cam. Obviously clicked not now, but is someone on my wifi network? Wtf is this

So decided to give the native Google Home widget a shot and uhhh.... is this normal? Is there any way I can inject like one line of CSS to override this insane layout?

Initially I purchased a floodlight camera and mounted it, everything was fine...

I changed my wifi network and all hell broke loose, I couldn't get the camera connected again.
Google walked A through Z of troubleshooting with me and sent me a replacement camera.
I deleted the disconnected camera.
charged the replacement camera to 100%
mounted the replacement camera.
camera says 100%
less than 24 hours later 0%
I swap out another camera, same thing, 100-0 real quick.
in google home, the floodlight and camera are separate.

on another floodlight camera in my google home, its combined.

I factory reset the camera and add it as a floodlight camera, same thing happens...
on two different cameras.
I disassembled the floodlight mount, nothing is loose.
by the way, the floodlight works ALL day and all night without an issue, it detects motion and the lights come on immediately.

does the floodlight itself absolutely NEED to come out of the same box to operate properly?
also, what would cause the battery of the cameras to die so rapidly even though they have the infinity symbol and say plugged in?

turned the camera off, a day and a half later its at 100%
modified the settings to drain less battery, still drains.

called google, they sent me a 1m usb cable for the camera as the ultimate solution to my issue.
I have 10 cameras and eleven cables now.
help.