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Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

JLC- — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:24:45 GMT

Google Home repeatedly removes Smart Life devices from rooms and moves them to “Linked to you”, despite devices remaining online and unchanged. This breaks room-based voice commands and appears to be triggered by Smart Life metadata refreshes.

Environment
Platform: Google Home
Integration: Smart Life (Tuya)
Devices: ~25
Home configuration stable for ~6 months prior to issue
Single Google Home household

Observed Behaviour
• Devices remain online and responsive
• Device names continue syncing from Smart Life
• Rooms remain defined in Google Home
• However devices repeatedly lose their room assignments
• Devices reappear under “Linked to you”

The behaviour repeats periodically (roughly every 30 minutes).

Impact
Room-based voice commands stop functioning correctly. For example:

“Hey Google, Utility off”

no longer targets devices in the Utility room because the devices have been detached from that room.

This creates a significant reliability issue for households relying on voice control for accessibility.

Suspected Cause
Google Home appears to treat Smart Life device metadata refreshes as new device entities rather than updates to existing entities. When the device object is recreated, the existing room association is discarded.

Suggested Improvement
Google Home should attempt reconciliation before discarding user configuration. For example:

• If provider + device name match, retain prior room assignment
• If device ID changes but capabilities match, remap the device
• If multiple matches exist, prompt the user once to confirm mapping

User configuration (rooms, names, routines) should be treated as persistent data and preserved wherever possible during third-party device resyncs.

Current behaviour causes large smart-home setups to require repeated manual reconstruction of room layouts whenever integration metadata changes.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

Nineofive — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:06:25 GMT

This is happening to me as well. It just started today, and it has happened twice, with a gap of around 2 to 3 hours in between the 2 incidents.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

Nyse — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:39:21 GMT

Same thing happening to me for the past 2-3 days. Any solutions?

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

dabizweb — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:20:35 GMT

Same issue happening to me for the past 2 days. In my case, only affects SmartLife smart plugs. Lights are not affected.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

Dino2026 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:21:33 GMT

Same issue. Please fix.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

JLC- — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:18:34 GMT

I also use Homeassisant and it's logs report that no device IDs have changed on the Tuya/Smartlife side.

This is all on Google.

GeminiAI advised dumping the useless Google garbage and going Amazon.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

arm_dpe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:06:03 GMT

Thanks for reaching out. The team has received the issue and is currently investigating it. Please provide any relevant details in this issue tracker as it will help with debugging.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

Tacopimp — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:06:08 GMT

I'm having the same exact issue. What changed to cause this, Smart Life update or Google Home update?

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

faique1991 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:43:58 GMT

I am having same issue from past 1 week. I add devices back to groups and next day they again loose their groups

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

Nineofive — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:29:40 GMT

Update with mine. It fixed itself. But perhaps it was Google fixing it.

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

faique1991 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:51:06 GMT

Did you readded devices to rooms or they auto got back in rooms?

Yesterday i manually added back devices in rooms and today they again got removed from rooms

Re: Google Home loses room assignments when Smart Life refreshes device metadata

VikasGowdaKS — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:39:25 GMT

Having the same issue, they got removed even after I assigned them again