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Heads up: Philips Hue Change Impacting Scripted Automations!

Hey everyone,We wanted to keep you in the loop about some recent changes related to Philips Hue sensors that might impact your scripted automations. Philips Hue has updated their sensor device configuration to use the TemperatureSetting trait (previo...

Haunting no longer change light colors

When I ask my Google Nest "get spooky" or "make the house haunted", it usually plays a spooky music and flickers the smart lights into different colors. Since last week it stopped doing it. It only plays the music. But no longer change light colors a...

laurent79 by Community Member
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Resolved! Chromecast question

Does Chromecast need to be plugged into a power outlet or will the tv's USB work?

hwinston by Community Member
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Speaker group weird behaviour

I've multiple two google nest mini at home and one LG XBOOM XK7 and I'm not be able to cast audio to all at same time. Only WK7 with only one more. For example, having a speakers group with nest 1, nest 2 and lg1, I share music to the group but only ...

madepabloc by Community Member
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Google Chromecast is not working

The Chromecast has been working perfectly fine but it stopped allowing me to stream movies and series on both my iPhone and iPad. It works perfectly fine on someone else’s devices but not my own. I’ve done everything I can from resetting the wifi, th...

Resolved! Smart life devices appearing as offline in google home but working fine in smart life app. Help?

I cant connect my smart life lights to google home. They all worked perfectly fine until I created a new "home" in google home and now it won't work anymore. I am able to sync my Smart Life account to google home and the devices all show in the app. ...

daithi2022 by Community Member
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Thermostar app

Since you own the world, why are your programs so difficult to figure out? Why did it take 15 minutes to get here?Thermostat app. Icons too tiny for cellphone. Need simpler way to change schedule temps.

Google nest hot water won't turn off

Hi there detail is in the title, iv connected the thermostat and heatlink up, the heating works fine but the hw is on constant.. is there a setting during setup that causes this?Thanks in advance

Leepri by Community Member
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Chromecaster 1st gen

Hi all,my first gen Chromecaster has a red light on it and I’ve tried pushing the button in to factory reset but doesn’t seem to be working, nothing is coming up on the tv but a black screen, can anyone help?

3Jamie by Community Member
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Brother QL-110NWB Label Printer on Google Home Network

Hi evereyone, so i've set up the Google Home WiFi across my house and working fine, however my label printer only has a WPS function to connect to the newtwork. For the life of me i cant see it appear on my Mackbook pro printer settings. I just can't...

KBabakian by Community Member
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