topic Re: Sleep timer not working on all Assistant speakers and Nest Hub displays in Speakers and Displays

Google Nest Mini Sleep command

JohnMcGeough — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 12:30:02 GMT

Up until the last couple of days I could instruct my mini nest to “sleep in 20 minutes” and 20 minutes later is would stop. But now it although it acknowledges the command, it keeps on playing after the time period. I have tried saying “stop in 20 minutes” as well as specifying an actual time, but all to no avail. I have two speakers, and they both are doing the same.
Does anyone know what has changed?

Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

Dfed — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:47:02 GMT

The “sleep timers” on all 5 of my Home and Nest Mini’s have quit working suddenly at the same time about a week ago! Everything sets up right and confirms the speaker will stop playing at my set time/duration. They (I tried one at a time) NEVER shut off. Tried everything including resetting them all to factory even though I knew it was not an individual speaker when they all quit. I can’t find anything on the web about having the same problem that started recently. Before this, barely a hiccup in years of owning. Any idea?

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

Dfed — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:20:58 GMT

EDIT……Opened a new Gmail account, reinstalled speakers……ALL IS GOOD!

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

808IUFan — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:37:55 GMT

100s have this same issue and they refuse to fix it.

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

Dan_A — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:01:28 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for posting and apologies for the delayed response.

@Dfed, it's great to hear you've fixed your concern about your timer not working by using a new Gmail account. Thank you for posting it here in the Community.

@808IUFan, are you still having the same concern? Have you tried the step provided above?

Keep me posted.

Best,

Dan

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

808IUFan — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:16:02 GMT

As I have said a million times, there are many work arounds. I have my own adding a manual text action as the last step to "play country nights for 60 minutes on living room speaker." That does NOT fix the issue with a stock routine (in the new version you changed the name to Automations) that still to this day GOOGLE says "Choose which sounds to hear while you're falling asleep. These sounds will stop automatically." GOOGLE says that. THAT is what I want to happen. Anyone who creates a new email account for this must have not had that email long and it's a throway. I want it to work for this automation. I have Google Fi so my phone number is attached to this email. I can't create a new email to fix one routine (automation) and have to move my Pixel Phone, YouTube, GoogleTV, Email, Calendar, Maps, Trips, Notes, Drive, and everything else associated with this email to a new one. You guys HAVE to be on drugs to even suggest that to ME. I have a good mind to file a complaint with the BBB because of some of these solutions. FIX THE ISSUE!

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

Dan_A — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 01:40:25 GMT

Hi 808IUFan,

I'm sorry that you had to go through this and I understand how you feel. The reason for the use of a new account is to see if it works and to narrow things down. Could you tell me what Nest speakers you have? If more than one, let’s go ahead and factory reset just one of your Nest speakers to revert it back to its default and original settings. Here's how. Setting it back up is a must. From there, enable a sleep sound to test it out and tell me how it goes.

Thanks,

Dan

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

808IUFan — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 01:55:48 GMT

I have a google home mini and it has already been factory reset. Everyone in this thread has already done everything we have been asked to do and you still refuse to pay attention to this issue so everyone has found work arounds. STILL we maintain that there is lying going on by the support people that say it no long is supposed to stop playing. It's a lie because the product still says it's supposed to stop automatically. STOP suggesting stupid things that we have ALL already done. We have done everything you have asked. Now you need to fix it. You even see it play for an hour and immediately it starts over. You see the progress bar start all over. SOMEONE there put the repeat in that routine and didn't realize it.

Spotify podcasts stop midnight and change randomly

jmn1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:34:45 GMT

I bought a Google nest mini on 11/23/2022 specifically to use at night for sleep sounds. I really like one specific podcast on Spotify and cast it from my phone to the nest mini. After doing that I ask Google Assistant to set a sleep timer for 8 hours. I have woken up every night in the middle of the night and the speaker has stopped casting the podcast; even when I start it back, it stops again and also changes the podcast. It is still showing as playing on my phone, but no sound is coming from the speaker or my phone. Once I start it back, shortly after, the sleep podcast randomly gets changed by the speaker. I say by the speaker because my phone still shows the podcast I chose to cast prior to going to sleep. Please help me figure out why the speaker will not stay on overnight and is changing the podcast without the podcast timing out. The podcast is 8 hours in length. I am thinking the nest mini is just not able to play sleep sounds but I want to make sure before I decide to return the device. Thank you in advance.

Re: Spotify podcasts stop midnight and change randomly

Juni — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:53:48 GMT

Hi jmn1,

Thanks for posting here in the Google Nest Community.

That certainly hasn’t been easy for you. Let’s check what’s going on. A few things: Do you have other members added in your home app? If so, is there any chance that they changed it? You can also check the Google assistant activity and check if there were actions that happened during those times that it stopped. Check the steps below.

Check Google Assistant activity history

Open the Google Home app.
At the top-right, tap the account.
Tap My Activity.

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,

Juni

Re: Spotify podcasts stop midnight and change randomly

jmn1 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:05:47 GMT

Hi Juni,

I am the only person who lives in my home, so no one else is connected but me. I checked my activity and it's only showing what I have done, and it doesn't appear I've talked in my sleep to tell it to stop. Being that I start the podcast from my phone and cast it to the nest mini, there is no activity showing when I start it, except when I tell the assistant to set a sleep timer for 8 hours.

I did, however, stop doing this because it wasn't working and appears it needs to be sent to a technical team to configure better. I found that using the white noise sleep sound for X number of hours works just fine, so I am doing that instead. I would appreciate your assistance in escalating the main issue though so people can listen to what they want to while they sleep.

Thank you in advance!

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

Dan_A — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:40:46 GMT

Hi folks,

Apologies for the delayed response.

We appreciate all your efforts. We'd be happy to take a look into this further for you. Please fill out this form with all the needed information then let me know once done.

Best,

Dan

Re: Google Home Sleep Timers NOT turning off streaming media at set time or duration

808IUFan — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:26:04 GMT

We have all already filled out this form. Some of us many times.

Re: Spotify podcasts stop midnight and change randomly

Juni — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:25:59 GMT

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about your experience with your Nest Mini. I'm glad ambient sound is working. A few things I'd like to verify:

Do you have other Nest speakers? If so, are they experiencing the same issue?
What is the exact command and response of the speaker every time you ask it to set a timer?

Let's go ahead and check this link and try the commands to see if it works.

Keep me posted.

Regards,

Juni

Re: Spotify podcasts stop midnight and change randomly

jmn1 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:25:52 GMT

I have a Google Home Mini in my kitchen, but I use it to play music for maybe a couple of hours max, so I wouldn't know if it's having that issue. I did tell that speaker last week to set a timer and the one in the bedroom set instead. I was in the kitchen, so I'm not sure how that happened.

The command I use is, "Ok Google, set a sleep timer for 8 hours." The response is, "Bedroom speaker will stop playing in eight hours." But it never actually plays for 8 hours when I have cast a song from my phone to the nest mini.

Nest Audio stop playing after x minutes not working

Kadven — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:07:32 GMT

In the last few days using the command 'stop playing in 'X' minutes has stopped working. I get the response back that the music will stop as per the command , but it never does. Have used this command for over a year and never has a problem, but now it does not work. This is on 2 Google Nest Audio (2nd gen) set up as a stereo pair. I have also noticed that the firmware has very recently updated to version 324896 that may have been coincidental but can't be sure.

Any advice would be helpful.

Combined commands

easeyourmind — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:24:42 GMT

I ask my Best Mini to play media and turn off speaker in 20 mins. It confirms it will play media and speaker will stop playing in 20 mins. It plays the media but the speaker continues to play nonstop. It used to stop as requested but has suddenly changed. Any advice?

Re: Combined commands

Mark102 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:19:01 GMT

This started happening to me as well yesterday. I have routines to play music or ambient sounds for a set time then stop, but after the set time it keeps on playing. Also, if I tell the device to play music for X minutes, it starts but won't stop until I tell it to. I tried rebooting the device, but it didn't help. Hope this gets resolved soon.

Re: Nest Audio stop playing after x minutes not working

Mark102 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:22:22 GMT

This started happening to me recently as well. I have several different devices(orig Home, minis, and Hub), and it doesn't work on any of them. Rebooting the device didn't help.

Re: Combined commands

easeyourmind — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:32:26 GMT

The strange thing is the speaker accepts the command by saying " speaker will stop playing in xx mins " but doesn't carry it out. I even tried setting a sleep timer but that didn't activate. So frustrating.