topic Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders in Speakers and Displays

Nest speaker does not announce tasks / reminders

BitcoinZAR — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:49:15 GMT

Hello,

I want the nest mini speaker to remind me of tasks in Google calendar such as daily medication.
I can use the speaker to create the reminder, I set name, date and time etc. perfectly.
The problem is when the time arrives, I get a notification on my Android phone, and NOT the speaker.
I want the notification to be an audible one on the speakers.

If I go into Google Home on my Android phone and check the settings of the speaker I can verify that the Google Assistant Personal results setting is ON, and Voice Match is ON.
How do I get the speaker to give the notification instead of just receiving it on my phone?

Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

dworsky — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:56:21 GMT

I have three Google home mini smart speakers (two gen 1 and on gen 2, I believe). They have stopped announcing reminders like "remind me at 10am to go to the store." I have rebooted the router and speaker in my office, to no avail. I have removed the office speaker from my home group and added it back. Nothing has worked to restore reminder functionality. Any ideas? Thanks, Edgar

Google nest hub 2 not announcing or displaying reminders

Praveenk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:51:03 GMT

I have bought a new nest hub gen 2 , from the day 1 it wont announce or dispaly the reminders. When i ask to set the reminder it says it will remind me and later nothing happen. I can see it in past reminders. i tried everything i found in google and done factory reset 2 times but nothing helps. Any solution for the same ?

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:03:06 GMT

I am also having this issue on My Nest Mini 2nd Gen.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

dworsky — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:25:17 GMT

Thanks for telling me. Maybe some other folks can test setting a notification reminder to see if it works. On my Android phone with Gemini enabled, I told the phone to remind me at 10:05 am to go to the store. It orally acknowledged the reminder being set, but it said nothing at 10:05. I don't care about the cellphone announcing stuff... I only care about the smart speakers.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:29:06 GMT

My pleasure. I am actually speaking w/ Google as I type this and told them it's a widespread issue here and Reddit as of recently....hoping this can be resolved and not go on for a year like other issues we have dealt with on these devices.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

dworsky — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:37:36 GMT

Wonderful, Craig.... thanks SO much!

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:25:30 GMT

My pleasure...sorry you are also going through this.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:48:08 GMT

Still awaiting a resolution from Google on the phone again as I type all this..lol. I have updated my ticket w/ them and the issue seems to stem from their most recent update from the Google Home App. My issue started again about 4 days ago, exactly when the update pushed through on my phone according to Google Play. It seems the update came out about Nov 6.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

kcruzgonzalez — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:51:35 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for posting in the community. I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing problems with the reminders on Google Speakers. Don't worry, I'm here to help.

Based on the information you shared with us, I would like to recommend that you check all the tasks that you already created and remove all from your account. Once you clear all the history of reminders, you can factory reset devices again and try to set up the reminders again. I will let you know how to check all the reminders below.

You can create, edit, mark complete, or delete reminders on the screen. You can access reminders with either of these options:

Open Google Assistant and say or type “Open reminders.”
Open a web browser > go to assistant.google.com/reminders

Once you clear all the reminders that are not working or that you don't want to use anymore, you can follow the next step to correctly set up reminders: Set and manage alarms on your Google Nest speakers or display.

Let me know how it goes and keep me posted.

Regards,

Kevin

Nest Hub Won't Display Reminders

Pauly_C — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:56:25 GMT

My Nest Hub won't display reminders anymore. I've reset the device and other tried other stuff to fix it, and it still doesn't work. Need help!

Re: Google nest hub 2 not announcing or displaying reminders

kcruzgonzalez — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:17:00 GMT

Hi Praveenk,

Thank you for posting in the community. I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing problems with the reminders on your Google Display. Don't worry, I'm here to help.

Based on the information you shared with us, I would like to recommend that you check all the tasks that you already created and remove all from your account. Once you clear all the history of reminders, you can factory reset device again and try to set up the reminders again. I will let you know how to check all the reminders below.

You can create, edit, mark complete, or delete reminders on the screen. You can access reminders with either of these options:

Open Google Assistant and say or type “Open reminders.”
Open a web browser > go to assistant.google.com/reminders

Let me know how it goes and keep me posted.

Regards,

Kevin

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:22:23 GMT

Sorry but 100% chance it will not work...it's future reminders that are to be created not past ones that were already created. Already reset everything on my end and still have the issue. Plus you gave info on how to set alarms not create tasks/reminders.

I already have a ticket w/ Tech support so I'll let them fumble this. Waited over a year to have the popping sound stop (along w/ 1000's of others), waited over a year for reminders to be fixed the 1st time and seems others have been waiting since Sept to have this particular reminder/task issue fixed.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

kcruzgonzalez — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:50:02 GMT

Hi CraigM313,

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. Let's work together for a solution.

Before I consult the case, I need to ask a few questions for further assistance:

What is the firmware version?
What is your case number created with tech support?
Please list me all the troubleshooting steps that you already tried.

Please keep me posted. I'll look forward to your response.

Regards,

Kevin

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:09:04 GMT

Hi Kevin,

This is not my post so I do not wish to hijack it any further. I have done any and all trouble shooting possible and just heard back from senior support. This is a known issue that the engineers need to solve not anyone here.

Re: Nest Hub Won't Display Reminders

kcruzgonzalez — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:22:19 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for posting in the community. I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing problems with the reminders on Google Displays. Don't worry, I'm here to help.

You can create, edit, mark complete, or delete reminders on the screen. You can access reminders with either of these options:

Open Google Assistant and say or type “Open reminders.”
Open a web browser > go to assistant.google.com/reminders

Once you clear all the reminders that are not working or that you don't want to use anymore, you can follow the next step to correctly set up reminders: Set & manage Google Tasks with Google assistant

Let me know how it goes and keep me posted.

Regards,

Kevin

Re: Google nest hub 2 not announcing or displaying reminders

Praveenk — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:43:24 GMT

I tried removing the existing reminder and did a factory reset and sill its the same issue with reminders. I am talking about reminders and not alarms. My alarms works fine.

Re: Nest Hub Won't Display Reminders

Pauly_C — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:34:32 GMT

Thank you, Kevin! I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Re: Nest Hub Won't Display Reminders

Pauly_C — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:48:50 GMT

Hello again! I reset my Nest Hub again, and reminders still won't display unfortunately. Guess I'll have turn off the reminders.

Re: Google Home Mini Not Announcing Reminders

CraigM313 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:02:47 GMT

Hey Dworsky,

Hope you are doing well. I think Kevin might have been on to something w/ his reply regarding "alarms"...lol. After some fierce searching on Google I found a Reddit post for a workaround from 7 months ago (not perfect but at least something workable).

Use a named alarm instead. Where the "name" is your reminder message.

Example: Say "set an alarm called/named Coffee is done". Then follow prompts. When the alarm rings it will ring while telling you the name of the alarm, which is actually a decent reminder. If you initially miss what is said just ask "what's this called" and it will tell you as well.

Disclaimer: Wont send to phone (not a task/reminder) & It can be pretty noisy..but shouldn't be a deal breaker unless you need to use it at like 6 am. Best of luck