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Google home assistant feature requests

Google home assistant feature requests:routine import/exportEmbedding routines or routine invocationIt's extremely hard to maintain voice controlled routines in a bigger volume even for an average size of individual studio flat around 50m², 3 rooms. ...

zludany by Community Member
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Routines dont give useful feedback

Most of my routines control music on speakers or groups of speakers. If a routine doesn't work, often there is no feedback at all??? Other times, in a multi step routine, I get "Sorry, I cant do that yet" without any hint about which step is at fault...

Play music from routines

Many problems:"Play music" action has no place to specify speaker(s) or groups. Do I need to do "custom actions" for this ?How to shuffle playlists?How to distinguish my playlists from global playlists with same name? Sometimes it plays thing i dont ...

Genie garage door status

I have two new Genie garage door openers and have linked them to the Aladdin app (Android) and to my Google nest mini. I can open and close my garage doors via the nest but all I want is the status of the doors. I've asked "Hey Google what is the sta...

SullyC55 by Community Member
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Google nest doorbell gen 1 unable to connect Google home

Can anyone able to help me out. I have installed nest doorbell wired and work perfect on Nest account under the Google email account, but that not able to add on nest to Google home.I have setting both under the same email account.Can you tell me how...

Steven61 by Community Member
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Feit LED strip color changes don't match

Has anyone else noticed since the latest update to Google Home that the LED smart strip lights that Feit make no longer properly work with Google Home. All the colors are off, like when I select violet it changes to a bluish green, or red is light bl...

Bvz by Community Member
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Orbit B-Hyve Integration Issues

I have linked my Orbit B-Hyve to google home and am trying to use google home to control it. I've successfully connected my account and the device shows up on Google home and my Next Hub Max and Nest Hub. One both devices the Device Tile shows a stat...

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jrobillard by Community Member
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