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google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

rapattack — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:26:35 GMT

so about a week or so ago for some reason my google home devices won't tell me the time. i have 2 minis and a nest I think. I do have crap cheap internet and there can be times I can't use voice at all .have WiFi devices galore but when I can use them they refuse to tell me the time or weather only. I have tried hey or ok but same . so what happens on the nest device the lights go round and round but then go out after maybe a minute. the minis the lights go across backwards and forwards then also stop after a minute. I tried rebooting everything but problem persists. I read maybe a reset is in order but would that mean I would have to re pair everything?

Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questions

usman81 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:21:46 GMT

For the past couple of days I've been having this issue with all my Nest hub devices in the house. None of them are responding almost all the time to common questions or commands like asking for weather, playing white noise or turning off smart lights etc. Anyone aware if this is a know issue and whether there is any ETA on a fix for this. It's been pretty frustrating to use these and my whole house is wired with them so any help with this would be truly appreciated.

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

tomgar2000 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:14:25 GMT

same here, assistance said it's a bug,they are working on it but non date of resolution. It'a big trouble, fear i'll need to switch to Alexa Echo

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

tomgar2000 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:15:23 GMT

same here, assistance said it's a bug,they are working on it but non date of resolution. It'a big trouble, fear i'll need to switch to Alexa Echo

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

Crusey — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:25:54 GMT

Same issue here. Been like it for a few days now.

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

rapattack — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:30:06 GMT

oh **bleep** what a pain. thanks for telling me . gee google home nest and minis have so many issues. do u also get several of them answer u sometimes? mine does answer some things. just not the time and weather

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

mrblk378 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:32:12 GMT

Same here, all Google devices, even my phone, have this problem. That is, ONLY when I start my request with "Hey Google". When I start Assistant with a press of the microphone button or even in my car with the button on the steering wheel, the exact same assistant light comes on and I get an immediate answer, no delay or anything.

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

bcx — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:09:00 GMT

Same here but a bit more confusing. In addition to time and weather GH also will not play music or start tunein nor will it run automations. The same applies to my phone (S23+) so I don't think the problem is limited to speakers. GH will control most of my smart devices through smartthings but not all. In addition, when using android auto with google maps I cannot get navigation instructions but it works when using Waze. Also reported this to Google Support but have received no response.

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

maryklein — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:28:07 GMT

Same here. Stopped working on 12/30. Rebooting does not fix. Factory reset does not fix.

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

tomgar2000 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:32:37 GMT

waste of time to try to fix, we can only wait and pray...

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

bcx — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:15:05 GMT

This seems like the same problem as in Rapattack's thread. As I posted over there:

Same here but a bit more confusing. In addition to time and weather GH also will not play music or start tunein nor will it run automations. The same applies to my phone (S23+) so I don't think the problem is limited to speakers. GH will control most of my smart devices through smartthings but not all (even when using "Hey Google" to start). In addition, when using android auto with google maps I cannot get navigation instructions but it works when using Waze. Also reported this to Google Support but have received no response.

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

daddydoodah — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:26:06 GMT

Same here. Yesterday all of my minis hubs and audios stopped responding to basic queries. Sometimes they will do basic home control, but if I ask for the weather for a search or the time of day, or music, it will just spin endlessly without responding. I even went so far as to delete my home. And recreate a new one. I factory reset all the devices and added them back one by one. But they all still suffer from the same problem.

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ERK — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:42:27 GMT

Same issue for me.

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

LARLAR — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 04:12:58 GMT

So it's not just my devices. S22+ phone responds but 3 assistant devices do not other than turn a light on or off. Related to last google home update?

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

Vna77 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:41:22 GMT

Be nice if someone official would at least acknowledge this issue in one of these threads. All my speakers are basically bricks at this point.

Re: Google assiatant not responding to voice commands for weather white noise or other common questi

davroscowley — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:26:11 GMT

Same issue with Nest audio and Google Home minis. Local commands work fine, such as turn on lights. Anything that requires external networking fails to respond, such as what is the weather like today. The dots light up to show it's listening but nobody's home.

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

Tobi0983 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:49:38 GMT

Thanks god it's a bug! 😅 i struggle with my devices exactly since turn of the year. I'll stop trying and will wait

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

rapattack — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:15:39 GMT

wow thats worse than whats happening to me. my phone seems to be ok but about a week ago the phone did start to respond to me saying ok google but also asking me to unlock to complete the command. so it overrode what i wanted the nest to do. now also sometimes the other google home minis respond to a command i did in the loungeroom and not the glosest one. also i noticed when i set alarms they are all getting confused. i will set the alarm in the loungeroom but it goes off via another mini down the other end of my place. so frustrating, the problems seem to be mounting. i have a samsung too and smart things installed so i wonder if there is a conflict. i only have a samsung washer connected to it though. i havent tried to navigate since all this crap started happening but thanks for the tip if google maps starts to misbehave. i dont use the auto app as i am on a bicycle. unsure its useful in that circumstance

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

rapattack — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:16:30 GMT

oh bummer. yeah i rebooted and read factory setting might be a solution but i doubted it so thanks for the confirmation

Re: google home 1st gen and minis not telling me the time or weather

rapattack — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:16:50 GMT

seems so errrggggg