How To Remove Gemini from Home

[DannyCK]

I've been very underwhelmed by the Gemini integration with Google Home. How do I remove Gemini integration from Google Home?

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

What's wrong with it?

Do you live in the US?

[DannyCK]

The Gemini integration gets stuff wrong a lot. Particularly the summaries of what it's seeing on the camera.

Yes, I live in the US.

[KS_shine]

It's absolutely awful. Takes ten sentences to tell me that it can't tell me the weather. Before Gemini, I could easily ask the weather or wind speed (this is just one example). And don't get me started on The fact that it has never provided an accurate ETA to a specific destination. I cannot trust anything that Gemini tells me. It's absolutely a waste, and so frustrating that I already bought these speakers, not knowing the trash that Google was going to dish out.

[PaulUttermohlen]

I am in the US and Gemini for Google Home tells me that today is Friday, December 14. While today is the 14th, it is most certainly NOT Friday. I can not have a device that cannot do something as simple as read a calendar accurately!  It's credibility is at ZERO with me. Basically, it sucks!

[Alan06]

This is terrible! Gemini cannot tell me the name of the song that it's playing right now from youtube!

 I want the old assistant to come back.

[David_K · Accepted solution]

Hi @DannyCK 

See the "How to turn off Gemini for Home camera features" section of the following help article.

Learn about Gemini for Home camera features - Google Nest Help

[jsm1963]

This doesn't relate to the problem.

[mountainbikerak]

I don't have a camera. I want to revert to the old assistant. 

[DannyCK]

Well that wasn't hard at all to find. 🙄

Thanks, David_K, I appreciate your time and help.

[David_K]

You're most welcome!

[pkp55]

How can I revert back to the original Google assistant experience on Google Home. It is a complete mess right now.

[danturner]

Agreed. How do I revert to the original Google assistant on Google Nest Hub?

[David_K]

There is no way to do that unfortunately. Once you switch your home to Gemini for Home voice assistant, it can't switch back to Google Assistant.

Learn about Gemini for Home voice assistant - Google Nest Help

[Geminiistrash]

Why isn't there a way to switch back to Google Assistant on my nest mini? Gemini is trash. I don't want it on my device anymore. I've factory reset my device multiple times. Why isn't there a way to revert to the original settings?

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

@Geminiistrash 

The old Google Assistant will eventually be replaced by Gemini everywhere. No one will have the option not to have the new AI.

I've resisted the urge to change too, but when I found out we won't have the option I signed up to Google Home Early Access.

So it's either now or never.

[metroknowm]

"Never" will be the option for me most likely. I've been a Google Home for about 12 years, and Google ecosystem user since Gmail beta. I will likely intentionally be removing all of my Google products and services from my various homes, and switching all of my cloud data services to a competitor. The increasingly scummy business practices with regard to not warrantying hardware that is sold with specific features Is leading me to look into class action lawsuit likelihood. G has violated their warranty of merchantability in egregious ways over the past 5 years and such violations are objectively increasing in frequency and egregiousness.

[Sjuser]

Why. It sucks

[MikeD70]

So my nest is bricked because google put out a **bleep** ass AI assistant that cant get even the most simple tasks right? What ever I ask it to do it starts playing some random YouTube music station or laughing into a Ted Talk about some random topic. GEMINI SUCKS

[Ahr69123]

Are you guys prepared for the class action lawsuits that are to come??

[Ahr69123]

Personally I would just open up and make a new Google account that way I can reset the speakers thoughts?

[StevenG]

There is a way actually.  You have to create a new home structure, then move all of your devices over to it.  You will also have to recreate your rooms and speaker groups.  It's a lot of work especially if you have a lot of devices.

[Sjuser]

Agree. I did it. It took a long time and I had to factory reset my devices several times because there were all these glitches getting them connected to the new home. 

But all said and done so happy to not have Gemini anymore

[Ahr69123]

Didn't I already say that?? Of course it is once you make a new account that's fine you may and I capitalize May go back to the original Google assistant, but Google is fading that software out so it's only a matter of time before you're forced into Gemini. I wouldn't waste my time I would just try to learn to deal with the new software. And make my comments to Google telling them what to improve.

[metroknowm]

Revert to Assistant, do not give in to Gemini for home.

Simultaneously, I will look into an online petition and encourage the users in this forum and elsewhere to align on a few specific asks. We will go this route and see what results we can force. If this is not successful, a class action lawsuit is a smart next step to research in feasibility.

Reversion to Assistant and refusal to accept Gemini are mutually exclusive from taking steps against Google to ensure they understand their customers perspective. One does not have to accept the usage of Gemini just because Google desires us to when there are other options still, and we do not live in China or North Korea, up to and including leaving Google.

[Ahr69123]

Sign me up.

[Skipcastro99]

I would join that suit. Google should not be shoving Gemini down our throats 

[kristyann1979]

So we can NOT revert back to Google Assistant on our home devices?  I hate the Gemini crap. 

[Skipcastro99]

Gemini sucks and I don't want it on my devices or my life

[PaulUttermohlen]

I am in the US and Gemini for Google Home tells me that today is Friday, December 14. While today is the 14th, it is most certainly NOT Friday. I can not have a device that cannot do something as simple as read a calendar accurately!  It's credibility is at ZERO with me. it sucks!

[pjmarkert]

I told Gemini that it reported the day of the week wrong. It then apologized and corrected it, now it works

[PaulUttermohlen]

Yeah, yeah. It works until next week. Last week on Saturday, it told me it was Friday. I corrected it. It apologized and for the rest of Saturday it got the day right. Then on Sunday and on Monday it insisted it was Friday, the 13th. Worked fine through the rest of the week. It's Saturday again and Gemini says it is Friday again...
Ask what the distance is between Fiji and Tahiti. It will tell you that it cannot find driving directions for your destination. Insist that you simply want the distance in miles. It will play music.... "Telling Pandora to play music on the living room speaker..."
So, it's not fixed. And I can't remove it.

[KS_shine]

That's interesting. When I tell Google that it reported the weather incorrectly or traveling ETA incorrectly, it doesn't even respond or improve.

[Skipcastro99]

You need to tell it u want to give feedback...

[Bikeandsail]

David_K Gemini on home cannot provide simple directions and times to destinations. That was one of the features I used the most. Do I need to trash my Google Home?

[KS_shine]

Unfortunately, I've been seriously considering it. I can never trust that it's actually telling me the correct temperature or wind speed and it has NEVER given me the correct ETA to a specific destination.

[ggwp]

Anyone figure out how to revert or remove Gemini assistant from all devices? It's really terrible.

1. "Good Morning" automations aren't followed from the app settings:
- It will display what Google is saying on screen i.e. "Today's weather in ..." and not continue on to the news sometimes
- It will start talking to me from 1 device and then mid-automation start playing from another device in the house which is pissing off the family
- It will not follow the news sources selected in the iOS Google Home app
2. Gemini constantly mishears words
- Constantly gets confused with words or mishears what we're saying. It's way worse than the old assistant
3. Google Home Max speakers now have lipsync issues
- I have 2 Google Home Max speakers which are plugged in via 3.5mm audio cable to remove latency, however, now there's a distinct 1-2 second latency and lipsync with video is completely off
- This didn't happen prior to upgrading to Gemini
- It also doesn't make any sense that Gemini should effect it since audio source is via cable and not wi-fi

This latest upgrade to Gemini assistant is terrible and has completely borked our whole home setup. 

Google shouldn't be rolling out mass updates like this without actually testing their systems.

[Sjuser]

It's making Google home useless. And when I simply ask a question, like how to spell something, I get an automated answer telling me it's not included in my subscription. What the f*** no wonder they won't let us go back to Google Assistant cuz they're planning to make us pay for it

[Jcwmax777]

GEMINI IS TRASH!! I lost "Continued Conversations," which was the Main Reason I chose Google over Alexa. 

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

@Jcwmax777 

Alexa has continued conversation too. It's called Follow-up Mode.

But it's even better than Google's feature as you can select which individual speakers you want to use it with.