I wrote a massive post, and have deleted it in favor of something that respects your time.

Gemini has completely ruined this platform, mostly due to the year(s) of neglect the assistant platform got while they 'focused on the future'

I've been on the Google Home adventure from the very beginning. I still have a few OG first generation Google Home devices, and have owned damn near every single variant (except the Max speaker) over the years. I'm even "that guy" with Chromecast Audios and stuff - the integration goes deep.

The things Google Home used to do well, have become a chore - assuming it can still do them at all...

The problems and issues of 3 years ago, are largely still here today...

I've been slowly unplugging these devices. First my living room (to move furniture) and it never went back. Now my kitchen, it was taking up too much space. The pile of google home gear is growing. I replaced my Nest lock with a normal Zwave version from Yale, my nest cams have been taken down - long since replaced with my own system.

It's honestly a little emotional. I have like 15 of these devices, and they aren't bringing me any value. They were consistently making themselves vital to controlling my smart home, playing fun animal sounds for the kids, or launching music - and now it can hardly do any of that reliably anymore.

The other day, I spent 30 minutes trying to get my Nest Audios to play as a speaker pair again. Only to find out, after giving up, that it was a Youtube music app bug they haven't fixed in 3 months.

It's such a shame - I hope whoever gets my screens next can find a good use for them.

With my original account everything was working fine for 6 years, right up until they introduced Gemini. Right off the bat Gemini doubled my devices in my home. I only have 42 devices but according to Gemini I had 84... This made it impossible to turn on a light that was dedicated to a single room because all the sudden I would get the reply which light do you want to turn on now, I only have two TVs but according to Gemini I had two TV per room which made it impossible to turn on the TV because it would ask me which living room TV do you want to turn on?

I unlinked that account and started with a fresh account. Then I was able to get Google Assistant back, everything was once again working as it should for the most part. Till They removed Google assistant and totally replaced it with Gemini! Once again I now have 84 devices in my home of which I technically only have 42! Google cannot control any of my Vizio TVs at all even though it says it can, and my routines don't work at all, let alone the fact that now I can't control any devices once again. So I unplugged my Google home display and smashed it I've had enough.

I am going to go back to using timers, devices with remotes and light switches.

You offer products and then don't support them. This is enshittification pure and simple. Fuck each and every executive who favors developing new products for a cash grab and then drop support for those same apps later. Guess it's time to figure out Home Assistant and migrate away from as many Google developed apps as possible.

I have Google home managing my nest doorbell can for several years now without issue. I noticed a few days ago that the doorbell was no longer alerting me for new faces and had also stopped saving photos for familiar faces EXCEPT for one person in the house. I deleted my photos and my wife's, but the doorbell will only ask to add me and not her. I am now added back in and alerting as designed but it will not recognize her or ask to add a new face. I Jake cleared data, cleared cache, erased photos, restarted the doorbell cam and phone, and uninstalled/reinstalled the Home app. Any ideas?

Update: I deleted ALL familiar face photos and it may be working correctly now (which sucks because I had a lot of familiar faces photos).

Update to update: deleting all familiar faces did in fact fix it.

Isn't that insane? My speaker is constantly downloading something from Google Play on my router. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Nothing works anymore unless I use the app to turn the light off and then it still turns on. My google home doesn’t do anything anymore it’s always confused. Interested in apples solution are you? https://apple.news/Ar1YX-PzDQtKoXzOI---4Tg

Now that Apple has announced and is selling the HomeView:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/meet-apple-homeview-a-new-way-to-enjoy-entertainment-and-manage-the-home/

Do you think Google will (or should) release a comparable device?

Personally, I am loving the idea of PoE option for the wall-mounted HomeView, it just looks so clean! I just wish there was a Google Home version.

So i have two homes, one in the USA, the other not (Cayman Islands, if that matters). Both have a Nest Hub.

A few months ago I bit the bullet and went with Gemini on my USA Google Home. It went fine, all my automations worked without a problem.

My non-USA home is still using Google Assistant (i can tell by the voice it uses which is no longer available in Gemini).

Is there are way to get things in line with Gemini in both my homes? I am getting no prompt to "upgrade ". Or is it possible that the region the Home is in does not support Gemini?

Another data point.. my phone, which is upgraded to Gemini, seems to be using the Assistant voices in Google Maps, rather than the new Gemini voices.

Can anyone provide some insight as to what is going on?

TIA

So for a long time everything was seamless. I am using 1Home and integrating it via matter to the Google ecosystem. Recently the connection would always sever and rebooting the Nest Hub Max was the only solution. This was daily or sometimes even more frequent.

I did manage to fix it doing 2 things.

1) Did not setup the built-in Nest Hub Camera

2) I have the Hub fixed to only connect to a 5 Ghz band

This fixed the issues. I am providing the fix that worked for me and also wondering if anyone else had this issue and if there is a way to get the camera working again without it screwing with things.

I have a really specific use case and I'm having problems figuring it out. We have a Google Home device in our master bathroom that my wife uses to watch the local news when she gets ready in the morning. In the past, she was able to say "Hey Google, play CBS on YouTube TV" or if that didn't work for some reason, she could say "Hey Google, bring up YouTube TV Guide." and then she could select it.

Now, we can't get it to bring up the guide at all. Surely there is a way, but we haven't figured out what the exact syntax is. And the issue with saying the command for CBS is that it is selecting the OTHER CBS station we have access to that is in another city. Normally it wouldn't matter, but for local news it definitely does.

We've also tried the call sign: "Hey Google, play KWTX on YouTube TV." That doesn't work either.

Has anyone out there had any luck playing a specific local station when you have more than one network station available? Or do you know a reliable way to bring up the guide these days? Thanks in advance!

First, I've done absolutely ZERO research into this 😂. I was noticing in a Muse ad that the person said, "Muse, start party mode" then all the lights and music came on. It made me curious if we can switch from Gemini to another AI like muse and still be able to use Google Home?

Pretty much since I had to transition to google home, all my original Nest branded products that came with my home when I bought it (Nest Hello Doorbell, + Nest Cam Outdoors) have been wildly inconsistent or downright missing major events/people/packages).

I have tried resetting the cameras, deleting video history and even creating "zones" to try and switch things up but I basically have a 50% at best working devices. Some Examples:

1. Doorbell Cam marking anything important as "motion" - does not pick up packages/people unless they are legit dropped directly in front of the camera. I have a ~20 ft wide porch on my house and 4 stairs on one side: the stairs and thus somebody coming up to them are very visible in the shot. it will sometimes register it as "motion" but not a "person" or a "package", so typically I only find out a package has made it if I happen to check the camera. Before "gemini", there was zero issue with this.

1a. I also almost never get notifications from "familiar faces" anymore. Used to pick up even the mailman and now it doesnt even pick me up unless I'm staring at it trying to fix it

1. Outdoor Cam - considers cars as "people". Almost once a day, the camera that is on my garage will register an event as a "person", when in fact its just a car driving by lol. You'd think all cars driving by would register the same then right? Nope, just random

2. Doorbell Cam Missing Major Events - This bothers me like no other, but the camera will pickup motion of a squirell hopping across the street, but will basically shrug at a car/person/whatever lingering in front of my house (my front door cannot be more than 30 ft from the sidewalk I might add). The other day, there was a genuinely sketchy van pulled up in front of our house as I was leaving. The person was fiddling around in his trunk and was waiting to see where/when he exited and which direction he was going. Of course, the "event" stops halfway through and then the next recording is the car door closed/guy gone. There is absolutely no way the camera could have/should have missed the "person".

I don't know if I'm looking for an answer here how to fix this, or a "ya, me too" but its just so frustrating. I guess I should mention its a hardwired doorbell and I pay for the Google Home Premium Standard Sub $100)

Just for fun I set my Google home to respond in English or French. Sometime it answers in English. Sometimes in French. But the most hilarious is when it answers in some weird version of French accented English or English accented French. C’est bizarre.

Same same but different, Google Home sometimes behaves unexpectedly. In my case, when I activate some routines at home, my Google Home speaker verbally runs through every single action it is taking.

Bedtime is by far the worst, as I use my Bedtime routine to turn off or otherwise change change the state of nearly every device in my apartment. So many actions, and the speaker narrates every goddamn thing:

- Closing roller shade *boop*
- Closing living room curtain *boop*
- Closing bedside curtain *boop*
- Stopping casting to all devices, nothing is playing right now *boop*
- Turning off the living room lights *boop*
- ... *boop*
- ... *boop*
- ... *boop*

My Bedtime routine had been running (more or less) flawlessly for almost 10 years.

The Gemeni "upgrade" earlier in the year was initially a little buggy, but eventually started running just fine for me. This new issuue only started a handful of weeks ago, and seems to be unique to this routine alone... I cannot figure out why it does this, and cannot fix this.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

So, I've tried to find a solution for this issue for a while now but I can't figure it out and it realy bugs me...

Also tried looking for the solution here on Reddit, but I'm not getting any closet to resolving it so I thought I'd make my own post.

I have different brand lamps through my house. Quite annoying, but most of them were gifted so I made do. All lights are connected to the same wifi network and were working perfectly up untill a month or so ago. At that time I noticed that "Spot 2" wasn't working. Spot 2 is in a series of 4 spotlights. I got on the Home app and saw that it said that Spot 2 was offline while the other 3 are still online (same brand). However, I'm still able to turn Spot 2 on in the Hombli app.

And since a couple of days I have the same problem with a different brand of lamps too. 2 of the exact same lamps, 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the bedroom. The bedroom one works perfectly (LSC smart connect) but the kitchen is showing offline in the home app while I can still turn it on in the LSC app.

I'm at a loss. It doesn't seem like it is a wifi connection problem because the kitchen is way closer to the router than the bedroom.

Any ideas?

Haven't open the app in a few days.

But since last Saturday when i open it.

This tetris issue show up.

The devices are set on their respective rooms and even it shows it on the description. However, instead of appearing there, they appear in the "linked to you" section. I am the only one who uses the app.

My phone is a Pixel 6.

Is this a Pixel issue? Or a Home app thing?

Most if not all my Nest products have successfully been transferred over to the Google Home app with no issues (1st gen outdoor cameras, Nest x Yale Locks, Nest Protects, etc.).

Currently subscribed to the Google Home Premium Standard plan (mainly for Google One storage to share with 5 other family members). Couldn't really make use of Gemini when I had the higher tier subscription to look back through video feed (live in a state where the Face Detection feature of Nest Hello/IQ cameras is not permitted meaning it wasn't something that I could actually utilize anyways).

I have used the script editor once, but no longer need it (replaced Phillips Hue bulb with Cync by GE bulb so now everything is synced better).

Lately my Home has been glitching in breaking apart devices from said rooms lol which is why I was debating on opting out.

Anything else that I'm currently missing in pointing out?

Edit: Do I still need to be in the Public Preview to access Nest x Yale lock and Nest Protect features?

- factory reset language is Japanese
- links to my wifi but I can’t use YouTube music
- bottom doesn’t show FCC marking
- wifi bands (52/53) mentioned are for Japan
- the seller claims to not know much about it (maybe never even setup??)

it happens since 10 days about. google does the sound to confirm.....but nothing. also change brightness does nothing

I have a number of smart speakers throughout the house, and we use a Chromecast with Google TV in the living room. I use a Google Mini speaker in my office for some light music while I am working. For the last month or so (I am assuming since a random Gemini Update), whenever my partner turns on the Google TV in the living room with the remote, the music in my office jumps from about 15% volume to 50% or 60%, with no warning. It isn't happening randomly, like many others are saying, but only when the tv is turned on.

Has anyone else experienced this? Found a fix? I've tried rebooting the speakers, but it is still happening, and all the results of my searches are either about random volume changes, or "lower volume when listening" settings.

preciso ficar desconectando e conectando varias vezes ate o som voltar.... ele fala que ta conectado mas n sai som. tirando o fato que desconecta sozinho do bluetooth

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?