topic Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding in Speakers and Displays

Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

cfoxusmc — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:33:34 GMT

This began very recently; within the past couple of days. All of my devices within earshot are responding to my commands. I'll stand in the living room and say something to the Hub located in there, and I will hear responses from the Mini in the office, the Hub max in the kitchen, and the Hub in the living room.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

Jbwight — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:35:28 GMT

This has started happening to me as well. I just googled it and noticed you had only posted a minute ago. Very peculiar.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

idcandy — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:38:13 GMT

It looks like a lot of people are having this issue (myself included). There are some other threads where factory reset on all of the devices in your home should do the trick (I haven't tried myself yet).

See: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Speakers-and-Displays/Multiple-devices-responding-at-the-same-time/m-p/79159#M14634

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

cfoxusmc — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:49:55 GMT

Oh geez. I have like eight devices, not including all the Chromecasts.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

retroCombs — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:41:52 GMT

Factory resetting all devices should not be the fix. I also lost speaker groups during the last couple of days. Ouch.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

idcandy — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 03:37:57 GMT

Yeah, I feel your pain. I need to block off an afternoon just to go through them all and make sure everything is working as expected again.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

Biboswel — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:40:09 GMT

Same here. Even trying to speak very quietly it's like the Google Home Speaker in my bathroom suddenly has super sonic hearing. I'm literally trying to whisper, "Okay Google. Goodnight." to start my nighttime routine in the bedroom, and the bathroom starts blabbering on.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

Kambo — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:16:58 GMT

Same problem here. All seemed to start when Google updated the Home app after losing a court battle with Sonos. Multiple devices respond to voice commands causing failure of commands or out of sync audio. Also, one of my speaker groups no longer works, even after resetting it several times. Have even changed broadband provider, but sadly no improvement. C'mon Google - fix the issues and inform your customers. They'd prefer it if you owned up and fixed the problem, rather than being aloof and proud

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

LeeCotton — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:31:43 GMT

I'm also having the same problem. Two Google home mini devices are answering at the same time if they both hear the command. Something has definitely changed, as this never used to happen.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

retroCombs — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:11:31 GMT

Same! To the point where I feel the other one didn't hear but caught the request via another device.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

zeroXten — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:23:39 GMT

Same issue here. Very frustrating when you throw lots of money at Google by buying a bunch of devices then they can't manage to keep basic functionality working properly.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

Mark102 — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:23:59 GMT

I started having this problem recently as well. I have several devices, and often when I speak to one that's 3-4 feet away, one in another room will respond. Sometimes even after the one I was near already replied. I set the sensitivity to the lowest level on all devices, but it didn't seem to help. This never used to be an issue.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

JillG — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:39:33 GMT

Hey all,

I will escalated this over to the Community Specialists to let them know. You shouldn't need to factory reset but you could try a reboot.

Thanks for reporting!

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

retroCombs — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:41:13 GMT

Thanks for moving this up the chain. I might give a reboot of all devices a shot. That's pretty painless.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

JillG — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:47:48 GMT

Something is definitely up with this so we will make sure the team is aware and hopefully they can fix quickly.

Appreciate your help with reporting this in the Community!!

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

Gumby — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:04:09 GMT

I'm having the exact same issue. It's so annoying that I stopped using my devices.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

bistone — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:39:33 GMT

I'm another user joining the club for the same problem!

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

LaurenD — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:14:02 GMT

I’ve been having the same issue for the past 2 days. It’s extremely irritating!

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

JSFEcho — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:53:50 GMT

Absolutely having this problem that did not exist in the past. My phone responds as well as too minis all at once. In my basement my display responds as well as my phone. Sometimes doing different things. Which is even worse. This did not happen in the past. Please fix this.

Re: Multiple Google Home Devices Responding

JSFEcho — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:54:54 GMT

By the way I found this on another thread and the joker at Google just said hey guys start another thread on this instead of actually addressing the problem. How to punt Google! Or should I say Apple