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Dumb thermostat allows user to waste money!

We went away for a month to visit family in the USA. Before leaving, I turned my thermostat down to 14C to save energy while keeping some house heating. I also realised that the thermostat would sense that nobody was home and switch to "eco" mode. Wh...

Bob221 by Community Member
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Wake up on motion detection

Hi,I have a google nest hub. I think that one major limitation of the device is the absence of waking up functionality of the display on motion detection. Currently it is possible to sleep the device after 5 minutes on inactivity but it cannot wake u...

geolos69 by Community Member
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Help with Google home and Philips, hue

I’ve got a house with Philips, hue and about 20 lightbulbs and mini devices.I’ve got a house with Philips, hue and about 20 lightbulbs and mini devices.I control everything with Google voice and it has been working very well.About two weeks ago, I st...

Twarren by Community Member
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Joinning a Zoom Meeting

My Google nest Hub Max crashes when I try joinning a Zoom meeting, It will not turn on video. Works ok when starting new meeting. I been in 5 or 6 chat with support and can not get result. Tried to get to higher support, but impossible.

Pawkey by Community Member
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Nest Thermostat wireless interference

Hi my nest thermostat is constantly disconnected and reconnecting to the heatlink, Can you tell me what channel the Thermostat/heatlink defaults to so I can adjust my other equipment to a different channel to try and troubleshoot the issue. Thank you

Tingfoley by Community Member
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Sharing Scenes and Household Routines

I have 2 users in the household, and following the introduction of Household Routines, I have deleted all routines for all users, unlinked all works with google accounts and attempted to start from scratch.I have linked my "Home Assistant" login thro...

trumpton by Community Member
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Reconnecting Google Mesh to Router

I have Spectrum Internet and I used to have a Router and Modem that were combined. Spectrum just installed a new model and separate router and now my Google Mesh network won’t work, despite being plugged into the router. I was hoping to learn how to ...

Resolved! changes that make me have a designated Google

Recently had to upgarde my wifi and thus change settings on my Google Home... It requires me to pick a designated speaker which I am HATING! what this does is play the music on that designated speaker regardless of what speaker I ask it to play on.. ...

Google assistant still references old device names

This is an issue I've had for a while now. I have two smart outlets around the house - I once used one of them to control my Christmas tree lights, but have since reconfigured the outlet to be a kettle. However, the outlet STILL is toggled when I ask...

codename88 by Community Member
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