topic Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells in Speakers and Displays

I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

TheSteveMcNiven — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:24:33 GMT

You (Google) hang disabled the Family Bell UI in the apps. Trying to navigate to the settings gives a blank screen.

HOWEVER! The bloody Family Bells STILL KEEP HAPPENING. I have no ability to turn them off!

Example, kids PA day today, no school, they could sleep in. However stupid Google wakes them up because we can’t stop the alarms!

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

MplsCustomer — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 19:59:06 GMT

@TheSteveMcNiven

Other customers are also reporting that they cannot delete any of their Family Bells:

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Home-Automation/REMOVE-Family-Bells-on-iOS-Android-after-being-disabled-by-Google-June-2024/m-p/624874

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Home-Automation/Delete-family-bell/m-p/622894

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

TheSteveMcNiven — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:41:50 GMT

This is such a peak classic Google thing to do. Even the lack of any responsiveness in fixing it.

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

TheSteveMcNiven — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:33:14 GMT

**EDIT FIX **
I had an old Google Pixel 4, fired it up and the family bell screen was there showing up, so it’s just an iOS issue. So I was able to delete them all.

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

MplsCustomer — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:58:35 GMT

@TheSteveMcNiven

Perhaps your old Google Pixel 4 is on an older version of the Google Home app.

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

TheSteveMcNiven — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:31:44 GMT

The home app is inconsequential. You can get to assistant settings from just about every Google app, it’s a webview ui. In every it doesn’t work.

This is the biggest whiff against customers I’ve seen so far with the home ecosystem.

Re: I feel like I’m in crazy town with Family Bells

wsock32dll — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:07:35 GMT

I found a solution: Install an Android Emulator

I installed BlueStacks.

Then once you have the emulator running and you're logged into with your Google account, you'll need to install the Google Assistant App, which required the Google App to also be installed.

Find the Settings for the Assistant App (It's a little weird and not the same every time.)
Once you're in settings find "Google Assistant" and click that.

Then you can scroll down and find Family Bell.

My Bells showed up and I was able to delete them (or edit if you want).