topic Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen in Speakers and Displays

Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

mcgregor3206 — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:06:59 GMT

It's a two part question
1. I'm wanting to setup an alarm playing radio/spotify on my nest hub.

I can do this with my nest mini but not with my nest hub. The strangest thing is i can play the radio/spotify normally through my nest hub. Every time i setup an alarm on my nest hub it does the standard buzzer alarm.

2. I'm wanting to play the alarm music on all speaker throughout my house (i live by myself)?

Yes, I have setup a speaker group and can play radio/spotify through this speaker group normally

Can anyone help?

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

frances — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:28:10 GMT

Hi mcgregor3206,

Thanks for reaching out. I appreciate all of your questions, I would be more than happy to help answer them.

That is an odd issue, your Google Nest Hub should be able to create a media alarm.
- Here is a link explaining how to set up a media alarm.
- If that does not work, you may need to reboot and/or reset your device.
Unfortunately, setting up a media alarm on speaker group is not supported on Google Home/Nest device. We're always looking for ways to improve -- we'll take this as feedback and pass it along to the team. You can also send feedback using your device by saying, "Hey Google, send feedback." Check this out for more steps.

As an alternative, you can set up scheduled custom routines where you can set a time for your speakers to play music. You can add the action manually under "Try adding your own, " then type "Play <title> on <name of speaker group>." Please visit this link to learn more about scheduled routines.

Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. I look forward to your response.

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

Vulpturius — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:04:02 GMT

Dear,

I wanted to ask the same question and saw this topic about it. So i hope i can jump into this discussion with some new questions.

First of all i tried the steps mentioned but when i did a test run, my alarm goes off with the defaults sound and not the media sound.

I tried saying "Hey google, make alarm at xx:xx and play [spotify song]" but it doesnt work for me.

Is there some difference in countries or language so that this not work for me?

Also is it possible to for example make some alarm where the media is from my favorite list on spotify? So that he just takes a song from my library instead of pointing toward 1 song?

I wish i could configute this alarm in the google home app for setting up the media alarm.

This is the main readon i bougth the nest hub because i was tired of changing my alarm sound on my phone every few days just for the randomness songs.

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

frances — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:21:43 GMT

Hello mcgregor3206,

It's been a few days since we have heard from you. I just wanted to check in to see if you have any other questions or concerns. Thanks!

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

frances — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:26:06 GMT

Hello Vulpturius,

Thanks for reaching out. I would be more than happy to help answer your question.

For a media alarm to play on Spotify, your default music choice needs to be set to Spotify on the Google Home App and linked to your device.
- Here are the steps to: Link your music services and set your default service
You can select a song, artist, genre or playlist from your default music service in the Google Home app.
- To have different music, your best option would be to set it to a genre or playlist.
This feature is currently available in English, French (France and Canada), German, Japanese and Spanish on all Google Nest and Home speakers and displays.
To set an alarm, you would say: "Set <song or artist> music alarm for 7 AM Monday." (example)
- Here is more information on how to create a media alarm

Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. Thank you!

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

frances — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:22:43 GMT

Hi All,

It's been a few days since we have heard from you. Just checking to see if you have any other questions or concerns. We're here to help!

Re: Playing radio alarm on nest hub 2nd gen

frances — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:14:23 GMT

Hi All,

We haven't heard any updates from you. I'll go ahead and lock this thread. If you're still experiencing problems, feel free to start a new thread and we'll be happy to help.