Google Home is unable to redirect to app

[Rado-3]

Hello,

I am trying to connect my Xiaomi Standing Fan 2 to Google Home so that I can use it with Ok Google, but the Home app seems to be unable to redirect back to the app.

The procedure I used is the following: Google Home -> Settings -> Works with Google -> Search for either Mi Home or Smartmi Family -> Follow instructions

The procedure hangs after I input the credentials, accept to link the apps and it just gives me a white page with a blue hyperlink at the top left saying "Return to app". The page's address is something like "oauth-redirect.googleusercontent .com"

[Buschti · Accepted solution]

Hey,

i fixed it by changing my default browser to chrome. The google home app then opens the authentication website on chrome. To make sure that it opens in chrome you can click on the three dots in the upper right corner, it then shows "Running in Chrome".  If it shows anything else you will have to uninstall that browser.
I had edge as my default browser and even after changing the default browser to chrome it still opened the authentication website in edge, so i had to uninstall edge and after that it worked.
Basti

[Rado-3]

That worked brilliantly, thanks!

[Markjosephp]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ensure that everything was covered here.

Thanks for the help here, Basti.
 

@Rado-3, I appreciate you posting and keeping us in the loop that it was sorted out. It looks like we can consider this one complete, so I will lock the thread within 24 hours unless I can help out with anything else.

Best regards,

Mark