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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Hey Nest Community, We wanted to provide an update on the animal detection starters for scripted automations. When we first launched support for camera events in the script editor, there were separate animal detection starter types for dog and cat de...

REMOVE Family Bells on iOS/Android after being disabled by Google…. June 2024

Help! I like many others have multiple family bells set up for my children’s school year. It is now summer and we no longer need these family bells. I understand google has done away with the family bell feature and suggests using routines as an alte...

Google Home refuses to play my personal playlists as of a couple days ago

I had a routine where at a set time my Google home would receive the text command “Shuffle my Alarms Null Null playlist on ”. It worked perfectly because my device would play songs from my personal forcibly uniquely named playlist without waking me u...

Harmon Kardon speaker involuntarily played music

Hi,Our family has a Harmon Kardon Citation One speaker connected to home wifi and Google Home account.we just had a major scare when the speaker started involuntarily blasting Tamil music out loud in middle of the night. All of us were asleep so none...

Family Bell settings not loading on iPhone apps

When I select Family Bell from settings menu on Google Assistant app and Google Home app, a blank page appears and nothing loads. Any help appreciated.

When does device.state.MediaState support for Nest speakers come?

I really don't get why we don't have support for these states yet, it's a speaker, how come we're not able to access it's playing state. Will this change in the future or with the upcoming Nest speakers?

Chromecast Error During Prometric Exam

Hi Community Friend, I was going to write an online exam but when I launched the Prometric Exam App on my desktop it flagged an error "Casting Device Found" The examiner had to stop the exams. He asked me to cancel or stop the device but I couldn't f...

Controlling other devices in Google Home using GE Cync wireless smart switch

HelloLong story short, I am trying to integrate a GE wireless smart switch into my Google Home system to control two GE Cync smart bulbs and a smart light strip controlled through Tuya, the two being linked in Google Home. I purchased a GE Cync wirel...

Increasing my cool setting on app

I am away for 4 months and have left my thermostats to cool at 90. I want to increase this to 92 and can’t seem to be able to on the app. Suggestions

Resolved! Get the room/device name with home automations with the script editor

Google Home App is very limited to create automations, so I decided to dig into the advanced home automations with the script editor. They don't seem very robust either I am surprised Google is so far behind, simple apps like SmartLife seem to have m...

Nest routines broken

I don't know what happened where this week, but my nest can't do ANY of my old routines properly. My routines with music and wait times fail half way through. When music is supposed to shut off, I get a notification that the routine stopped working b...

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

REMOVE Family Bells on iOS/Android after being disabled by Google…. June 2024

Google Home refuses to play my personal playlists as of a couple days ago

Harmon Kardon speaker involuntarily played music

Family Bell settings not loading on iPhone apps

When does device.state.MediaState support for Nest speakers come?

Chromecast Error During Prometric Exam

Controlling other devices in Google Home using GE Cync wireless smart switch

Increasing my cool setting on app

Resolved! Get the room/device name with home automations with the script editor

Nest routines broken

I could not set up my mini nest

Google Nest Hub Max video calling won’t work

Google Nest Audio problem with playing Radio

Smartthings integration broken?

Nest camera is offline - I

Away from home

Request for System-Wide Loudness Equalization on G...

Nest Thermostat Fan Mode Script

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