topic Re: What’s the string in Speakers and Displays

What’s the string

Gbneal — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:13:48 GMT

Help!!

when I try to broadcast from any of my Google home displays or speakers google asks me “what’s the string”.
my command is “hey google broadcast to Kitchen (name of one of my devices)” and it immediately responds with “what’s the string”

I’ve rebooted everything and no change. It started the day after daylight savings if that matters. I don’t know what a string is or why it’s asking for one.
Any help appreciated

Re: What’s the string

MplsCustomer — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:36:24 GMT

@Gbneal

Is it asking for your message?

This is the format for broadcasts:

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7531913

Re: What’s the string

Gbneal — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:53:55 GMT

No. I can say “broadcast” and it will broadcast to all devices but if I say “broadcast to (device name) it asks “what is the string”

previously I would say “broadcast to (device name) and it would say “what is the message”

Re: What’s the string

MplsCustomer — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:30:50 GMT

@Gbneal

There's a post on Reddit about this same thing. In their case, it went away by itself after a few days:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/11n1kly/broadcasting/

Re: What’s the string

Gbneal — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:14:20 GMT

I did see that, thank you!!

Guess I’ll just wait longer.

Re: What’s the string

JillG — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:51:08 GMT

Hi @Gbneal

We can get this escalated to the Community Specialists. They may know more and be able to add to this discussion.

Jill

Re: What’s the string

Gbneal — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:57 GMT

Much appreciated!!

Re: What’s the string

Juni — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:30:59 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for reaching out — let’s see what’s going on. What Nest speakers and displays do you own? Could you try broadcasting using your phone’s Google assistant to isolate this?

Appreciate the help here, MplsCustomer and JillG.

Regards,

Juni

Re: What’s the string

Gbneal — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:05:48 GMT

Thank you!!

I have 2 Google homes model H1A

4 Google speakers

Different IP’s for ea, but the software versions are the same for the 2 homes and the software is the same for the 4 speakers.
below is the results from Google Assistant from my phone

Re: What’s the string

RJons43 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 01:07:51 GMT

We are having the same problem. When we try to broadcast from our display to the rest of the speakers in the house it keeps repeating, "what's the string?". Tried to reboot the display multiple times but nothing has worked yet.

Re: What’s the string

Markv303 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:31:46 GMT

We are experiencing the same issue. It started yesterday. It is also happening when I try it on my phone's Google assistant app. We have 10 Google home devices, a variety of models.

Re: What’s the string

Gbneal — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 14:27:32 GMT

Well, something changed because it’s now working correctly.
I’ve made no changes on my end 🤷🏻‍♂️

Re: What’s the string

Juni — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:31:01 GMT

Hi folks,

Gbneal, I'm glad that it’s working now. Thanks for the update.

How about the others? Could you try broadcasting and let us know if it's working by updating this thread?

Thanks,

Juni

Re: What’s the string

RJons43 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:38:37 GMT

Hi Juni, our started working again. We didn't do anything to fix it.

Thanks.

Re: What’s the string

Juni — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:34:27 GMT

Hi RJons43,

That’s great to hear! I’ll keep this thread open and wait for the others to respond.

Cheers,

Juni

Re: What’s the string

Princesss — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:49:35 GMT

Hey folks,

We'd like to follow up and check if others are still experiencing the same thing. Let us know by responding to this post, otherwise, we'll lock this thread shortly.

Best,

Princess

Re: What’s the string

Juni — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 03:39:57 GMT

Hi there,

We haven’t heard back from you, so I'll be locking this thread in 24 hours. Feel free to create a new one if you have other concerns in the future.

Thanks,

Juni

Re: What’s the string

Markv303 — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:25:13 GMT

My Google Home devices are now working correctly. I can broadcast to a specific room without any issues. Thanks for fixing it!

Re: What’s the string

Juni — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:39:41 GMT

Hi Markv303,

I’m glad your issue is resolved now. I’ll keep this thread open for one more day. If you need further help, let me know.

Cheers,

Juni