10-05-2021 06:25 PM - edited 10-05-2021 06:29 PM
I know it's a silly question... But I bought a bunch of google assistants. I like the photo frame and being able to see our photos all over the house and they're always changing. Also, I like that I can broadcast to all the displays a message. But, the problem is our kids will constantly talk to it. They don't stop. I'll yell at them to stop messing with it and 5 minutes later they're messing with it again. It never ends. I then caught one of my kids unplugging one and bringing it to their room so they could watch videos all night when I have their phone locked. So, I basically took down all of the hubs in our house except 1 in our main area. Now I have like $300 worth of Google Hubs sitting in my closet not being used.
How can I disable the google assistant on a Google Hub? All I want the display to do is show pictures and broadcast when I broadcast a message.
10-05-2021 06:29 PM
Yep just flip the switch on the back of the device and that will disable the microphone!
10-05-2021 06:30 PM
I know about the switch. It would be no time until the kids know about it too.
10-05-2021 06:34 PM
I suppose what you could do is turn the ok Google sensitivity to least sensitive so that they would have trouble activating it, hopefully making them leave it alone. The only other thing I could think of would be to block the microphone ports so that it can't "hear" the commands.
10-06-2021 08:34 AM
Try a dab of 5-minute epoxy on the microphone switch, once it is turned off.
10-07-2021 08:02 PM
@dmorlow my kids do the same thing 😞 I had to do some pretty complicated timers through my home wifi to shut off internet to these devices at certain times. It’s a mess. I’m following this conversation
10-10-2021 03:21 PM
So I've put many layers of electrical tape over the two holes that are off center at the top. It still responds to ok Google
10-11-2021 06:10 PM
Set them up so it only recognizer your voice only for commands
10-11-2021 06:18 PM
How do you do that? I saw the option where I can personalize it to my voice. But, it's still going to respond to others... just not with my personalization.
10-11-2021 06:23 PM
oh i thought if you personalized it, it would only recognize your voice only, i am new to all this google home setup
10-11-2021 06:24 PM
When you add your voice, what it does it gives you personalized responses, so you can say things like show me my calendar, and it will know which calendar to use. Anyone can still control it by voice, just personalized stuff wont work right.
10-11-2021 07:58 PM
Well, I just bought a toolkit and watched someone take one of these apart. I'll just remove the screen and remove the switch. (I have like 4 of these hubs sitting in my closet not being used... so if I break one, whatever.)
10-27-2021 12:49 PM
Hi All,
Thank you to Ashepherdson and everyone for sharing and discussing your ideas!
I just wanted to jump in and share another suggestion, downtime.
With downtime implemented:
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
11-23-2021 02:25 PM
Hey folks,
It looks like we haven't heard back from the OP so I'm going to go ahead and lock the thread. If you have any further questions or concerns, feel free to create a new thread.
Have a great day,
Garrett DS