Play music when I'm away from home

[Phil_Jo]

Hello everyone,

I have two homes setted in my home app. Before the new update of the home app, I was able to start music on my Google nest mini even when I was not at home. There was a button "play music" that started my Spotify and the music was playing and I was able to control my playlist from the Spotify app and cast it on my nest mini in the two home no matter if I was connected on the same wifi network.

But with the new update, this functionality is no longer available... I'm just able to play music if I'm on the same wifi network as my nest mini.

Is there a way to have this functionality back???

Thanks in advance!!!

[Booklet]

I just noticed this too and would really like that functionality back! I assume it would also mean I can't turn off music, which I do occasionally leave on by mistake. 

[Msfusa]

I'm in the hole, I use to play music for my dogs and sometimes just to pretend that I'm home when I was actually away, so people wouldn't think  that nobody was home. Kind safety measures.  Please,  bring back that option. 

[Princesss]

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for visiting the Community.

Could you tell us exactly how did you do that before with your Google Nest speakers? The Google Assistant can get multiple things done automatically with Routines. You can schedule a Routine for when you need it, or start it any time with a command. You can also set up Home & Away Routines, which start when the first person comes home or when everyone is away.

Create a custom Routine

Optional: You can turn on personal results to get personal info like calendar events and commute information.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. Tap Routines Add near the bottom of the screen.
3. Under “How to start,” tap Add starter choose the trigger you want for your Routine.
   • Voice command: Add the voice commands that you want to use for your Routine.
   • (Optional) Time: Have your Routine activate at a specific time.
   • (Optional) Sunrise/Sunset: Choose whether to have your Routine activate at sunrise or sunset.
   • (Optional) Dismiss an alarm: Automatically start your Routine when you dismiss an alarm on your speaker or display.
4. Under “This Routine will,” tap Add action choose a routine category choose an action tap Done.
5. Tap Save.

Hope these steps work.

Best,

Princess

[Princesss]

Hi folks,

Chiming in to see if you still need assistance with this. Hope the previous post helped. Let us know if you have additional questions, otherwise we’ll be locking the thread.
 

Best,

Princess

[Msfusa]

I don't think we were clear before.

No routine,  nothing in special,  just go to the app and play music anytime from anywhere when you are not home.

So you open spotify and you choose where you want to play the music, could be your phone or your google nest at home. Or you could open your home app/google nest and play music from far away, even if you are in another country or planet for that matter,  but the option is very limited nor to say one only option,  play music only when you are home.  Got it?

[Princesss]

Hi Msfusa,

Thanks for clarifying. We hear you and we’d like to encourage you to send a feedback regarding this and for any features that you’re looking forward to using with our Google Nest devices. Let's all hope that these possibilities would be available in the future.

Best,

Princess

[Phil_Jo]

Hi Princesss,

I will send feedback for sure, but just to be even clearer, this feature is not a feature we would like to have, it's something that was available until the last update of the google home app  and that has been removed from the app. I think it was, in my opinion, one of the best feature of the app.

I even called the google support about that in the last summer and they just told me that this feature is not available and that we have to be on the same network to cast. At least they could have said that it has already existed but it had to be removed for some reasons. It's like if they don't want us to know that it was possible... I would really like to have that feature back or at least to have the reason why it has been removed.

Regards

Phil_Jo

[Princesss]

Hi Phil_Jo,

Thanks for your insights, we're looking ways to improve. I'll make sure to let the team know about this.

Best,

Princess