Home Automations on Pixel Watch

Anshelmo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:02:13 GMT

Hello there

I am totally new in using smart home tools and recently installed like 20 Shelly Mini Gen3 (power outlet) into my home. I did this to simply turning of our lights on and off via the shelly app and/or "Hey google..." commands.

For different scenarios I created many automations in google home, like for all lights, just the one in a specific room, only some lights in the morning,.. and every automation is started via "hey google,..." and the name I gave it.

On my nest mini it worked without problems. On my Pixel 8 Pro it worked as well, although I had to accept something on my phone... not sure but I think it was to allow gemini to connect to google home... it was only once and as I said, it works.

Now, I wanted to use my Pixel watch to activate the automations and it doesn`t work. In the Watch home app, there are no automations displayed although its my account. A little research showed me, that this is normal. But, if i use the "hey google.." commands on the watch with gemini, it will only turn on one light. This light is on the outside and I didn´t give it a new name so it starts with a number, so I think it will turned on because of the sorting?

Nevertheless, all other lights dont turn on. Now, if the watch isn`t able to fulfill the command and no light/shelly will be activated I could understand it, but why only one light?

And the biggest question and the reason for this post, why is gemini on the Pixel Watch not able to use the automation commands I created? Whats the difference for gemini in comparison to the nest mini and the Pixel 8 Pro?

Re: Home Automations on Pixel Watch

fixmywatch — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:00:00 GMT

Also having this issue. Automations work fine on my pixel 10 pro. They do not work at all on my watch. Usually gemini will guess if I say something like "run happy place" (a name I use to turn on lights in my office) and turn on random lights in the house if it attempts a google home action at all. A lot of times it just describes things. I've tried obscure naming to no success. Works fine on my google home devices and my phone, but not my watch... the thing I most want to use it with.

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