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A new chapter for Google Home & Nest

Hey folks,Anish here, I lead the product teams for Google Home & Nest.I want to start by saying thank you for being on this journey with us, especially as we kick off a new era for the smart home! We have our biggest update in years and I wanted to s...

How to: Share devices with others in the Nest app or Google Home app

Once you have successfully setup your device in the Nest app or Google Home app (depending on the devices you have), you may want to add it to the Nest app or Google Home app on someone else's phone or tablet. A common misconception is that you do th...

David_K by Diamond Product Expert
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Speaker doesn't link on Google Home

I have a Croma universal wifi IR blaster to control device which works with Smart Life AppNow this app is linked with both Google Home and Alexa which helps me control it using Google and Amazon device. So I linked 4 device using it, which are 2 Ac o...

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Nikhil by Community Member
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Can no longer select audio device in google home routines

In the past 24 hours something has changed within the google home app and now none of my routines work as there is no audio device selected and the app will not allow me to select one as all speakers are greyed out. The speakers are working fine as I...

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Chook71 by Community Member
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Custom Activation word and more voices

"Hey Google" and "Ok Google" are great and all, but the company that has pushed innovation for years wont allow me to customize my activation word?Come on man! We need some more options when it comes to voices as well. I have 127 devices in my home t...

Brakiss by Community Member
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Unlink Lutron from Google Home App

I have followed all suggestions and Lutron is still linked to my account and Google Home app. I have unlinked in the Home app, Google account under third party linked apps, and from my Lutron account. I have also deleted my home from the Google Home ...

cbeacom by Community Member
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Can't remove "water the plant" daily reminder

some time ago I received a marketing email suggesting setting a reminder to water the plants.now, every single evening I get all the nest devices trumpeting loud the reminder. I want to disable the reminder but I can't find it anywhere, it's not to b...

MazMaz by Community Member
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Google Home routine stopped working correctly

A few months ago I made a Google Home Routine to sequence turning power on and off to certain equipment in my music studio. I need to turn power off to my powered speakers and guitar amp first, wait a few seconds then turn off the rest of the equipme...

Speaker group no longer works

My speaker group with two minis no longer plays to both speakers. I tried deleting the speaker group and re-adding it, resetting both speakers (google minis) countless times. I set them up again, make sure they are on the same network and that they a...

karrun by Community Member
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