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“Sorry I’m not sure what living room you want to turn on” when I ask Google mini to turn on lights

guizzeg — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:13:35 GMT

Google mini was working fine until it began replying “ sorry I’m not sure what living room lights you want to turn on” when requesting 3 living room lights be turned on or off.

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SmartHomeH-TAGS — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:16:26 GMT

What exactly are you ask Google to do?

"Turn off lights in Living Room" and the lights are grouped together within the Living Room Room?

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Tracy63 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 02:32:21 GMT

Iim having the exact same issue. It started 2 days ago. I rebooted google and it still does it. I tried on other googles and it says the same thing. I have 4 lights that are listed as being part of the Livingroom in google home. Now when I say to turn them on, it gives me this exact error. What did they do?

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SmartHomeH-TAGS — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:04:55 GMT

When I'm in the same Google Room as the Nest speaker and Lights I say "Hey Google, Light" because all my lights I control this way are named 'Light'. Also Fans are named 'Fan', etc..

If I'm in another Room I say Turn on the light in the Living Room.

I can do this because of Toggling...

This is my YouTube video. Instructions are in the description.
https://youtube.com/shorts/5z69ruHrU3I?feature=share
Note: "Hey Google" mentioned

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rmoody — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:36:56 GMT

I'm having the same issue, also just started in the last few days. Only have 1 bedroom saved and 1 living room, but when asked to turn on the bedroom lights it says "sorry, I'm not sure which bedroom" and same thing with the living room

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guizzeg — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:18:43 GMT

Still having the same problem. Like you it started a few days ago. It would appear it is a software issue on Google nest end if there are several of users having the same issue about the same time. I’m going to try removing the 3 lights and adding them back if the issues doesn’t self correct in a few days.

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guizzeg — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:19:40 GMT

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guizzeg — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:24:32 GMT

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Ranchito42 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:35:47 GMT

Having the exact same problem and it started just a few days ago as well.

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G2G — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:08:45 GMT

Same issue. “ sorry I don’t know which basement you want to turn on” started 4-5 days ago.

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Alibaba3 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:56:08 GMT

Same issue, started 3 days ago. So frustrating, I have to open the home app and turn them off manually.

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rmoody — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:19:07 GMT

I have found that I can turn them on/off by using the exact device name. If I say "turn off the bedroom floor lamp" it works (I named the lamp "bedroom floor lamp"), but not if I say "turn off the bedroom light". So it seems to be just the room assignments that it no longer understands. But I double-checked and the Google Home app does still list our rooms and have the lights listed under the rooms.

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SmartHomeH-TAGS — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:15:11 GMT

@rmoody is the Bedroom Floor Lamp the only light listed in "Bedroom" Room?

● If you have a number of lights in "Bedroom" then they should all be grouped together under one tile and "Turn on Bedroom Light" should have turned them all on.

● Also if you have a speaker located in "Bedroom" then saying "turn on light" to that speaker should be sufficient enough to achieve that as well.

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Ranchito42 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:36:53 GMT

None of these suggestions are the case. Only two lights in “living room” and it won’t understand the command “turn on lights in living room” when it worked perfectly last week.

something has changed on googles side.

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SmartHomeH-TAGS — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:08:03 GMT

@Ranchito42 if something has changed on Google side there's nothing we can do then. You'll just have to wait for it to be fixed one day.

The thing is, is that it could be a permanent change. You have to roll with the punches when you're in the smart home sphere.

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rmoody — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:37:21 GMT

Yes, it was the only light listed under that room, but the command "turn on bedroom light" or "turn on bedroom lights" would not work.

However, as of just a little bit ago, the problem seems to finally be fixed - it is finally responding to that command again after days of not working. Hopefully this is the case for other people as well!

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Kscar — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:50:27 GMT

This was still happening to me today but I think my problem is due to the fact that I have more than one home set up in the Google Home app, both of which have "living room lights". I changed the name of the room where I live to "Pasadena Living Room" and that seems to have worked. Now when I say, "Hey Google, turn on Pasadena Living Room lights" it worked.

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G2G — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:13:25 GMT

I can confirm. I had two homes in the app. Both homes had a room that shared a name. The second home I had was only to move misbehaving devices to temporarily. I removed the rooms from the other home. I also renamed the room in my primary home to remove the conflict the Google Nest assistant was complaining about which solved the problem, but forced me to add a word to the room name that I didn't want. Google should make a change where rooms in different homes don't need unique names. They are in different homes after all.

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ashbrookmw — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:49:53 GMT

I am also having this same problem when I say turn on living room lights. When I look in the app there is only 1 living room so not sure why ut tells me it doesn't know which living room. Started about a week ago.

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nicknick923 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:10:29 GMT

Same thing is happening to me. 2 homes, 2 living rooms, google isn’t able to detect that I want the living room that resides in the same home as the speaker. Such a hard concept…