topic Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working in Speakers and Displays

Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Steffodino — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:10:27 GMT

My issue is that the live radio stations in Romania stopped working since Wednesday (April 9, 2025) on Google Nest Hub 2.

I did the following steps to troubleshoot:

1. upon checking the radio service in the Google Home app (on iOS 18.4), I noticed that the Radio category under Settings/Services is not present as it is described in this support link. I was using TuneIn for radio streaming.

2. I tried opening the same live radio streams from another iOS app (Simple Radio, which has Chromecast support) in Google Nest, but the result was the same as when using TuneIn: the app is opened, but the stream is not played.

3. The live radio stations can be played on the phone (iPhone 15 Pro Max) in either TuneIn or Simple Radio.

4. As advised in another post, I sent the feedback.

5. The firmware update for Google Nest is on auto-update.

6. I tried from Google Assistant app, via routines (set up a routine for 7 AM or associated a phrase). Both of these involve the action "play radio", and as indicated in point #1, radio services are missing in Google Home app.

This is extremely frustrating. Please investigate and advise.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Stonedove — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:03:27 GMT

This is still broken for some stations, for instance, BBC works fine, but stations that use global player, don't work, they appear to stream, and then just display the global player skin and eventually time out.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

momomo — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:38:11 GMT

I have the same issue. I can’t play my local NPR station. I have to ask for it in 17 different ways and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. If I ask for it by call sign sometimes it plays a different radio station entirely. When I go into the Google Home app, I see that there is no longer an option to choose my preferred radio service. I used to have several services set as my preference. They are all gone now . The only option that is there now is SiriusXM, which requires a paid subscription and I don’t have that. Something is wrong. Where did you submit feedback or report the bug?

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

goodtimeclub — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:47:36 GMT

Experiencing a similar issue here - streaming US radio station KEXP on Nest Hub Max does not work. Hangs at the TuneIn welcome screen, then eventually times out and closes.

KEXP radio plays fine on other assistants, via TuneIn or otherwise. I've tried a number of reboots/updates, including restarting modem/router to get a new public IP (I'm in Canada and this issue started for me almost 2 weeks ago).

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Steffodino — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:18:12 GMT

Thanks everyone responding so far.

Here's the today's update: playing local stations on TuneIn radio was restored after the last update of Google Home app on iOS only via a routine set it as an alarm.

But it still doesn't work if I stop the radio playing and then ask normally "play Rock FM Romania" on TuneIn. Also, it doesn't work to Chromecast streaming from TuneIn or SimpleRadio to Google Nest.

Also, the radio service still doesn't appear under Settings > Services menu of Google Home app.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Gabr2 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:19:32 GMT

Facing the same issue in UK.

Started yesterday.

Very frustrating

Unable to play most radio station from Singapore in TuneIn. Help!

Zailan — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:14:59 GMT

Been listening to radio station from Singapore but recently unable to hear any. Even my routine does not work. Able to hear the radio station on my phone but once cast, unable to stream it and the display kept flickering until I stop cast.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

NickG11 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:45:45 GMT

Also have exact same issue in the UK. Global

player and Rayo have just stopped working, and there is no “Radio” option in the services menu on the app settings.

tunein stop working for google nest display, google nest speaker works fine

mwong458 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:07:42 GMT

Tunein stops playing on my google nest hub for the past few weeks, but other devices including Nest speaker works fine. on the google nest hub display, it shows its on, but no sound no nothing. tested different radtio station and none works,

any fix ??

Re: tunein stop working for google nest display, google nest speaker works fine

chris2468 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:00:49 GMT

same problem here, TuneIn stopped working on Friday Apr 18 for me and is still not working as of Monday Apr 21 on my Google Nest Hub

would like a fix, as this is my daily workday listening device 😞

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

JuanCH — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:48:33 GMT

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out to the community! I understand the live radio stations stopped working on your Google Nest Hub device. I appreciate all the troubleshooting steps you've performed to get your live radio stations working again. I know how frustrating it might be when a feature doesn't work as expected. I'm here to help! To isolate the cause of the inconvenience, I'd like to ask the following questions:

Does the inconvenience occur only when playing live radio stations?
What happens during other activities, like playing music?
Is your Google Home app updated? Please check out the following link to update it: Update the Google Home app
Is there an error message when trying to play a radio station?
Is the Google Nest Hub part of a speaker group that includes a display or 3P (third-party) speaker?
Can you manually cast the radio station from the app to the display?
Have you tried using a different mobile device to unlink and relink the radio service app?

For now, I'd like to recommend checking the following steps:

Check the TuneIn App is up to date.
Ensure your mobile device or tablet is:
- Connected to the same Wi-Fi.
- Linked to the same account as your Chromecast, speaker, or display.
Say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google", then:
- “Send feedback”
-Include the keyword: “GHT3 unable to stream <RTE radio station> from TuneIn”
Please provide a video clip capturing the inconvenience.

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

Best regards,
Juan

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

momomo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:44:14 GMT

how exactly would you include a video clip to an audio message?

Re: Unable to play most radio station from Singapore in TuneIn. Help!

momomo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:46:44 GMT

there's obviously an issue. ask you spkear to "send feedback" and then describe the problem. very briefly. i'm going to do it every day and i hope everyone else will, too.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

goodtimeclub — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:04:59 GMT

Hi Juan,
This forum isn't allowing me to upload videos but I've attached an mp4 example here. It ends with the TuneIn welcome screen (after retrieving the feed from https://feed.tunein.com and displaying the correct current show, DJ name, etc.) but then times out and closes after about 30 secs.

Thank you for following up!

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

NickG11 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:07:33 GMT

This is exactly what is happening to me in the UK, with both Rayo and Global Player

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

agentmilktea — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:31:32 GMT

Same issue here, didn’t play tunein as part of the routine nor when I asked google to play FM radio. The tunein just flickered on the screen and nothing was playing after the Tunein introductory. Any fix on this?

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Ixnay_Hombre — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:32:52 GMT

I have 2 Google Nest Hub displays, and neither of them can play radio stations in Singapore. I have tried playing songs from Australian and American radio stations using TuneIn, and they play perfectly fine.

I also have a pair of the Google Nest Audio too, and weirdly, I can play radio stations from Singapore on them!

This seems to be a problem with the Google Nest Hubs with TuneIn and it's not something that we can fix over at the user's end.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

murch — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:24:21 GMT

I have had the same issue here in Canada as everyone else. Funny thing is I tried again this morning and still wouldent work. Then I went to a Lenovo speaker connected to my home and ask that it play a speaker group that included the Hub Max and it is working that way.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

Aussiekoos — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:21:03 GMT

Same issue in Australia with RadioApp since about 23rd April. Reset device and re-added to my home but to no avail. Also noticed some YouTube music now not playing and screen going black after ads have played successfully.

Re: Live Radio stations on Google Nest Hub stopped working

malcolmd — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:13:40 GMT

TuneIn gone here as well, also in Canada Sirius XM listed under radio apps, iHeart streaming works fine but not listed as an option.

Found another thread saying to do a factory reset.. nada.