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Google nest hub turning on at night

Wearytraveller — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:45:42 GMT

I have my Google nest hub in my bedroom set to turn the screen off during low light, and low light activation to start when the room is dim. Minimum brightness is set to dark.

When I go to sleep the display is off. In the middle of the night, if I move or turn over, the screen turns on and wakes me up with its brightness, which is a bit dumb as a device supposed to aid sleep. I can't find any way to turn this off. How do I fix it?

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

MrGoogle — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:21:25 GMT

Do you have "gestures" enabled on the Google Nest Hub in the bedroom?

Just a suggestion here. Thinking the screen is "aware" of your movement and wakes up...

Open Google Home App, Select the Google Nest Hub, Click on Gear, Choose Gestures, and click the slider to disable it.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Wearytraveller — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:46:12 GMT

I do, and I can try turning it off. I thought gestures are to turn off alarms and the like, which you would think would be okay to leave on overnight if that's the case. I can give it a go though!

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

MrGoogle — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:50:08 GMT

100% agree. Just trying to eliminate a possible bug. Try it one night and see if it makes a difference.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Wearytraveller — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:31:36 GMT

Thank you! It seems to have fixed the problem.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

MrGoogle — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:37:43 GMT

Glad it fixed the problem. That seems to be a bug in the design.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Wearytraveller — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:09:12 GMT

Hey Mr Google. Unfortunately problem has returned. I actually returned one unit for this reason but the replacement is doing the same thing. Not sure why. I did notice when it turned on it said "Good Evening" up the top and displayed a summary of my day, weather etc. What could be causing this?

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Yam — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:57:32 GMT

I’m encountering the same problem as of January 2022. Any solution to this?

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Jeff510 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:46:13 GMT

Our Nest Hub turns on in the middle of the night quite often. Maybe every night, I don't know, I don't wake up every time, but enough. Often around 4 am the screen goes to a blank bright white and lights up the room. I'm not sure if it's restarting or something, but even if it is, there is no way it should go full bright by default as many people use these as alarm clocks in bedrooms.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

PeteClark — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:26:42 GMT

Been woken up the last 4 nights at around 4:10am by my Google Nest Hub deciding to light the entire room up! Something strange is definitely going on

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

TimNest — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:45:24 GMT

I have just moved mine to then bedroom and at 4:10 ish it changes from clock and cycles through a few menu items and then goes back to clock. Gestures are not on.

Any thoughts?

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

AJL — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:12:27 GMT

Same problem here. I can't be woken up at 4 AM every night. Is this someone's idea of a joke?

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Babyluv1114 — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:36:48 GMT

I'm having the same issue. Unplugging it. Every night I am up. Its like a nightmare and interrupts my sleep. Let me know if there is a fix but in the meantime this baby about to be packed away!

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

PeteClark — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:39:17 GMT

Two settings Google's really need to fix, that I have turned off to resolves my problems.

First the Recognition & Sharing > Ultrasound sensing (stops it lighting up randomly when I turn over in bed)

Second is Notifications & Digital Well-being > Nightmode, which was set to end at 6am and decides to make a loud noise when it ends. I have made it much later now

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Babyluv1114 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:34:53 GMT

Thank you for replying! I will try to locate those settings and hopefully I have good luck!

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Jeff510 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:01:07 GMT

Our night mode is on until 9 am, so it's not that, but I don't know about the other setting. Thing is, it doesn't seem to correlate with movement. I mean, you can get out of bed and go to the bathroom, and it won't register, but the random light-ups happen for seemingly no reason.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

Yam — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:48:44 GMT

I followed PeteClark’s instructions and changed the settings. The screen went on in the middle of the night again while my kid made some noise. I voice commanded Google to turn off the screen, and Google replied “I can’t do that right now because your down time is on.” How frustrating! I had to go go Google Home app to turn off the night mode in order for the screen to be turned off.

Is there anyone from Google reading this forum? Please save us! This is a very frustrating experience!!

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

MarcusCorvus — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:12:35 GMT

Same issue here. I have everything turned off now, hardly using the screen for anything because of this. It only has my alarm now. Which is an expensive clock, without smart options in this set up.

Last night it turned on twice, first time I wasn't even asleep, but turned on my side, back to the Hub, and not moving at all.

So it has nothing to do with gestures, movement or sound. It's a major issue which needs to be fixed soon, because with all the issues I'm experiencing with Google in the last year or so, I'm effing done with them.

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

EricS — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:51:13 GMT

Having similar issues. I have a west facing window in the bedrooom and was wondering if the light from the moon setting (particularly when bounced off snow) was lighting up the room enough though my blinds that it was triggering the ambient light sensor?

This Nest Hub replaced a Lenovo Smart Clock, which was never a problem with lighting up at night.

Ideally I would like to have an option as part of "Night Mode" that would keep the screen dark unless touched or triggered with "Ok, Google . . ."

Re: Google nest hub turning on at night

jls1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:30:30 GMT

I am having the same problem, but don't see a GESTURES tab to turn off

thank you