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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...

Assistant refuses to set a reminder, make a note, or send feedback if you say certain words

I said to a Nest Hub 2nd Gen:"Hey google, set a reminder for tomorrow at 12 p.m. to ask Frank about when he's bringing Jane and Tom to the doctor"(that's just an example of what I said) It replied:"Sorry, I don't know how to help with that.Here are o...

Issue moving a YouTube video between Nest Hubs: plays it on wrong device

I was casting a YouTube video from a smartphone to a Nest Hub Gen 2 in a room I'll call Black Room.I moved to Purple Room and say to Nest Hub Gen 2 in that room:"Hey Google, move from Black Room display to Purple Room display." Nest Hub Gen 2 in Purp...

Issue moving a YouTube videos between Nest Hubs: got confused with Nest Mini

I was casting a YouTube video to a Next Hub 2nd gen in Room A. I say to it, "Hey Google, move to ." A nearby Nest Mini heard me, and gave search results. Google Home seemed to think that since I was playing a video on the display I was directly in fr...

Feature request: ability to create, pause, and resume, more than one stopwatch

I had a stopwatch paused on a Nest Hub 2nd gen. "hey google, start a new stopwatch" "Ok, resuming," and resumes the paused stopwatch. "hey google, start a new stopwatch" "Ok, resuming," and resumes the paused stopwatch.We can create multiple timers. ...

Google Assistant should infer intent better with stopwatches/timers

I say to a Nest Hub 2nd Gen, "Hey google, resume timer" Assistant replies there are no timers running at the moment.True, but I had a stopwatch paused. That's what it meant: resume stopwatch.It should know that, and ask if I want to resume the stopwa...

Nest Hub (2nd gen) changes volume when re-casting

1. I cast a YouTube video from a smartphone to a Nest Hub 2nd Gen, and lower the volume to 1 on the Hub 2. then the casting gets interrupted 3. when I re-cast, the volume on the hub goes back to whatever the cast volume on the smartphone is. It shoul...

How do we categorize our feedback in this forum?

In a thread, Google community manager asked people to categorize their feedback:Click Start a conversation to make a new postChoose the Issue Category Voice Command FeedbackI see no option to choose a category when making a new thread.Did you remove ...

Delay response by Google Home Hum

Recently I reset the Google Home Hub . Unfortunately, it does not respond instantly. It takes some time about 30 sec or one minute. Then it says there seems to be a problem. or there is a glitch. Then suddenly it recovers and continues the conversati...

Can we control our home appliances using our Android smart phone away from home?

Can we control our home appliances using an Android smart phone, when we are away from home? Also we have to monitor the current status of our appliances through that phone. Is it possible?

Google nest connection issues

Hopefully there is someone out there that can help me. I have 3 Google Nests. One is where the router and NBN box is located. It has a solid white light. The second is some 21 meters away, connected ethernet cable. The third is some 38 meters away, o...

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Heads up: Changes to Animal Detection Starter for Scripted Automations

Assistant refuses to set a reminder, make a note, or send feedback if you say certain words

Issue moving a YouTube video between Nest Hubs: plays it on wrong device

Issue moving a YouTube videos between Nest Hubs: got confused with Nest Mini

Feature request: ability to create, pause, and resume, more than one stopwatch

Google Assistant should infer intent better with stopwatches/timers

Nest Hub (2nd gen) changes volume when re-casting

How do we categorize our feedback in this forum?

Delay response by Google Home Hum

Can we control our home appliances using our Android smart phone away from home?

Google nest connection issues

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