Change personal routines to household routines

[PBusardo]

I believe this topic has been brought up, but it needs to be brought up again. 

When Google home changed, ALL of my routines became "Personal" routines.  I need to be able to change these to "Household" routines, for TWO reasons...

1) So that others can use the routines

2) So that the routines can be added to the Pixel Home Favorites list which will only see "Household" routines. 

And no, I will not take all the time required to recreate all of my perfectly working routines when a simple toggle switch or drag and drop can be implemented to change the routines to the "Household" category.  

Just one of the problems I'm having with the new Pixel tablet and dock.  Don't get me started that some of my routines will not work when the tablet is locked.

What a PITFA.  FIX IT!!!!!  (please). 

[PBusardo]

Zero **bleep**s given by Google. 

[jdawg11]

Still has not been fixed YET!!!!!!

You are GOOGLE correct... you have top rated coders on staff correct? I would think that this would be a no brainer for even a simple coder!!!! this should have been on the planning board when you changed this to simply drag and drop, already time-consuming automations to the new separated sections your coders created. 

and there is no "please" fix it.... just FIX IT!!! i believe you have the knowledge to do it!!!!

[PBusardo]

Isn't it amazing?

I posted this over a year ago.  It has many people following it, giving kudos, and leaving comments. Clearly it's a feature others are looking for.  I'm guessing it's a pretty simple checkbox and coding that could get this fixed, but Google has given a big middle finger to those looking for a fix.  So what DOES it take for Google to make a change like this?  How many people? Who actually makes the decision?

Google is really floundering in so many ways.

I've had Google hubs in my house for years now.  There is STILL no way to modify or customize the screen in any meaningful way.  Like how about the ability to display your most used automations on the screen as icons so you can simply press them rather than hunting for them.  Or the ability to add widgets for something like the thermostat.  

Or even "Hey or OK Google"  How silly that we have to yell this out and have others in the room be quiet as you talk to Google and hope to God it recognizes you?  How about a ring on your finger with a little button you can put up to your mouth press the button and talk to Google 1) preventing noise interference, 2) increasing recognition accuracy, and 3) preventing Google from hearing things you may not want Google to hear?  Very similar to the mic button on a Amazon Fire TV or Google TV Streamer remote.

Really sad Google.  Really sad. 

[Super_paulie]

the "home screen" on the hubs is tragic. Just a load of tiles that i will never use EVER, and even ones that ask me to set up things that i dont want. Pathetic for a hub.

[Pinkel]

I'll add my name to the list of folks looking for a fix for this for many of the reasons that others have noted. I, too, am a developer working on several open-source projects. I can not imagine this being more than a few weeks' work at most, even factoring in development, QE, and packaging time.  My management would be asking for explanations as to why a request like this hasn't been fixed in my company yet.  I'm surprised that's not happening at Google yet.

[Yggdrasil5]

I got an solution. I got rid of Google automations. I changed everything to home assistant. Works perfectly. You can install it anywhere and it connects with anything. Automations made with ease. I think Google isn't really interested in solving those problems. Not sure why.  I recommend to switch. It's worth it. 

[Whynormal]

Can you clarify how this interacts with Google Smart speakers?  Do they work as normal with the key words being driven by home assistant for a relatively seamless experience?  What kind of device do you recommend hoasting home assistant from (best for beginners / low maintenance).  

[Yggdrasil5]

Best for beginners, definitely HomeAssistant Green. It's a plug and play mini computer. Like a Raspberry pi but without a SD slot for the OS. It has a onboard disk space. It's more then enough for starting and you get it for round about 100 bucks. If you have zigbee devices then you should get a zigbee hub/router/antenna (usb or ethernet) too. I don't have a Google smart speaker. But you can look here

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant_sdk/

It's a Google assistant integration. I think you should have no problem with your speaker.

[Rikhendriks]

I to would ad my support to this request, can't be that difficult to do so saves a lot of hassle, time, discontent, and make life that much easier 

[jimchou]

Wow, this functionality is still not available? Makes me worried Google Home is going on the list of canceled products....

[Whynormal]

They should really pull the home hub and other products if that's the case... hopefully they are just temporarily distracted by AI FOMO and get back to it eventually.  That said I've heard reports that the industry expected to be able to sell things over home assistant systems but instead people just ask for basic info like the weather so it hasn't come to be as profitable as expected and there is back end infrastructure required to keep it running that needs to bring in revenues to justify.  Fingers crossed they find it in their best interest to keep it going.  

[TheGRLs]

I wrote a long entry but it disappeared while I was typing. If you have given up on Google solving this in the phone App then to to Google Home for web, sign up for Public Preview and write scripts. Welcome back to 1981!

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13460475?hl=en#zippy= 

[ERROR_404]

Wow... 2025 still same issues. **bleep** this. I thought google would be easier but i guess im switching to alexa, sad my nest audio lasted less than a week until i realized household wont work with the keywords from personal and i cant remove them and me and my wife cant share routines. Whats the use... It would be bad enough just existing but for 2 years to go by with no movement? obviously they dont care, i see no reason why this shouldnt be drag and drop or copy and paste.

Scripting is cool, but not as easy as it should be. Heres my sample script in case anyone needs help, obviously change to fit your devices...

metadata:
  name: I'm Here Routine
  description: Turn on all lights when saying "I'm here"
automations:
  - starters:
      - type: assistant.event.OkGoogle
        eventData: query
        is: "I'm here"
    actions:
      - type: device.command.OnOff
        devices:
          - Corner Light - Bedroom
          - Light - Bedroom
          - Star Light Projector - Bedroom
          - Top Light - Living Room
          - Bottom Light - Living Room
          - Fan Light 1 - Kitchen
          - Fan Light 2 - Kitchen
        on: true
      - type: assistant.command.Broadcast
        message: Welcome Home! I Hope your day was awesome!
        devices: Nest Audio - Living Room
      - type: device.command.SetVolume # Set the volume of a given device.
        # The target volume level.
        volumeLevel: 65
        devices: Nest Audio - Living Room
      - type: assistant.command.OkGoogle
        okGoogle: play the news
        devices: Nest Audio - Living Room