05-08-2023 01:00 PM - edited 05-08-2023 01:07 PM
When I try to invite a person to my Google home with email address AB-CD... I get an error message "Invalid recipient Please enter the email or name of a contact"
Looks like Google Home Invite does not accept an email address containing a '-' char.
05-08-2023 01:07 PM
Hi @fubar777
Is the invite send to a Google email address?
Only Google email addresses are allowed. 🙂
05-08-2023 01:12 PM - edited 05-08-2023 01:45 PM
Not true. I can invite an email address which is not a gmail address like gmx.
About my 2 test email addresses, 1 without '-' and 1 containing a '-' char:
Booth addresses do not exist. But the one without '-' is accepted in the 1st step. Only that email address containing a '-' char is triggering that error message.
05-08-2023 01:16 PM
Hi @fubar777
Ok but to login from this invite you need a working Google account.
Working Google accounts should be able to get the invite.
Not sure what you are trying the achieve by sending invites to unknown email addresses? 🙄
05-08-2023 03:22 PM
@RXShorty is right. There are numerous posts in this forum indicating you have to have a Google (gmail) account to be a member of a Google Nest "household".
And gmail does not allow hyphens (dashes) in email addresses:
05-08-2023 09:09 PM - edited 05-08-2023 09:18 PM
Yes, you have to have a Google (gmail) account to be a member of a Google Nest "household".
But this was not my problem. My problem was sending invitations.
Google Home generally allows sending invitations to ANY email address, even non gmail addresses.
At the INVITE PERSON screen Google Home acts strange:
aaabbb @ gmx.de is accepted
aaa-bbb @ gmx.de is refused
bibabu @ gmx.de is accepted
bib-abu @ gmx.de is refused
refused= "Invalid Recipient"
Not accepting email addresses containing a '-' char at the INVITE PERSON screen looks like a bug in Google Home.
05-09-2023 05:22 AM - edited 05-09-2023 06:52 AM
Since gmail does not allow dashes (hyphens), it would make sense to reject this on the invite screen, rather than allowing the customer to enter an email address known in advance to be invalid. And it's an edit that does not require accessing the server.
If there's a bug, it's in the fact that Google Nest accepts non-gmail addresses, only to reject them later with a confusing message like "the invitation cannot be sent right now".