Routines: Personal vs. Household

[sjtryon]

Keyword triggers locked into personal routines preclude the use of those triggers for household routines. 

Why?

This is incredibly frustrating. 

[Juni]

Hi sjtryon,

We hear you — we can understand why you feel that way. Are you referring to the ready-made Personal Routines? If so, you can disable the ready-made Routine that has the same starter as your household routine. 

Check out this link for more information.

Regards,

Juni

[sjtryon]

Juni, thanks for jumping in to help two months after I posted!

Your answer doesn't work in my Google Home application.

When creating either a Household or a Personal routine, it is impossible to use a voice command starter that is already built into the Google pre-defined routines. It does not matter if those Google-created, pre-defined routines are active or inactive, and those pre-defined routines can't be deleted. 

For example, I can not create household or personal routines that use the voice command starters:

• Bedtime
• Good night
• I'm home
• I'm back
• I'm leaving
• Goodbye
• Good morning

Those are just some examples. 

Those starters have been reserved for the Google pre-defined routines.

If there is a way around this, you have not pointed us toward that solution or answered it directly.

[Juni]

Hi there,

Our team is working hard to deliver the best experience for our users — we'll take this as feedback. Keep your eye on the Google Nest Community page for any updates. 

Please let me know if you have other questions or concerns as I will be locking this in 24 hours if I won't hear back from you again. Feel free to start a new thread and we'll be happy to help.

Regards,

Juni

[sjtryon · Accepted solution]

Go ahead and lock the thread, Juni! There are no solutions here and clearly no intentions from anyone at Google to provide any! 

[Juni]

Hi there,

Understood. There is no option to use these starter commands as they are already in the Ready-made Routines. We appreciate people who are keen on sharing their thoughts with us. We're always looking for ways to improve. I'd suggest you submit feedback about it using the link provided in this thread.

Best,

Juni