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Help pls - Google Battery Doorbell and Google Nest Speaker Chime Visitor Announcements

Matt01061983
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Hi all,  in my house we have 4 Google Nest speakers.  However, 3 of them are registered to different Google accounts than my own (my wife, and 2 kids accounts each have a nest registered to their own google account).  This is because we have a family subscription to Spotify and for each of us to play our own music simultaneously we have to register each Google nest device to each individual Google account in order to connect our individual Spotify accounts and be able to play our own music choices when we want.

The issue is our Google doorbell.  it is installed on our main home Google account (mine) but only the Nest speaker that is connected to my Google Account chimes for the doorbell.  The 3 other speakers registered to my wife and 2 kids accounts do not chime.  They are on the same wifi seen as a local device on the home app but not registered to the same Google account.  Question, do all Google Nest speakers need to be registered to the same Google account to receive visitor announcements?  does anyone know a way of connecting nest speakers on the same wifi but different Google accounts to sync with a Battery Google Doorbell and receive visitor announcements?

As an aside, it seems very odd that I have 4 Google Nest speakers and can't find a way to have them all connected to one Google account, yet able to sync each individual speaker to a Spotify account to enable me, my wife, and kids not to be forced listening to one Spotify account, once at time.  One for Google software development!

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MplsCustomer
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@Matt01061983 

"Visitor announcements" from a Google Nest doorbell are designed to be sent to all Google Nest Hubs and Nest Minis in the same Google Nest "home/structure" on the same Google Account (unless they are set to "Do not disturb"). That's just Google Nest's design.

We don't even try to access streaming services from different accounts; Google Nest just doesn't seem to do this well. Maybe other customers in this forum have suggestions for being able to access multiple Spotify accounts from different Nest Hubs in the same Google Nest "home/structure"; not being able to do so seems to be a chronic complaint in this forum.