I recently dumped a hideous amount of money into transitioning my home into a smart home and after a bit of reading and brand loyalty really thought google was the way to go. However, I find this ecosystem absolutely unwieldly, clunky, riddled with errors, horrible UI and no easy way to do any simple task.
Take for example pairing my two minis under my kitchen cabinets as stereo devices, people had this issue A YEAR ago and there's still no resolution other than "hope it works and you get lucky"
SEE: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/119lql7/speaker_stereo_pair_wont_work/
Has anyone found a suitable resolution to this? I also hope to add this pair to my master speaker group that includes my family room Hub Max.
The Hub Max is a crime against humanity on its own. Why is it when I play media on all speakers in a group, I can't change their volume in the Hub Max. Sure it'll show me all the available devices, but would it kill you to add a volume slider under them? Then I have to find my phone and do it manually in the app because the voice command to change volume for the entire group never wants to work.
Has this always been unwieldly and horrible to navigate or is this just an issue with a recent patch. I can't help but feel like Google assigned their B team to this development and for the price of devices it's absolutely shameless that Google is still trying to keep their hat in the ring.
The old nest protects that are half a decade old still are not usable in Google home and the only options they offer aren't even applicable (while charging? They're hardwired!)
What gives? Does anyone know if a reliable knowledge bank for solving these issues since nothing ever seems to get resolved vis Google devs or the forums. It's just "repeat steps A to E until you get lucky and it works. Repeat this when it fails every few days"
I still can't figure out why one day my automation to turn on my Halloween decor at sunset would work, and the next day it just dropped unless I replaced sunset with an actual time. Though the exact same program copies, works using sunset for my porch lights.
I have never in my life experiences such frustration, lack of customer support, lack of responsiveness in changes and lack of support for just basic functions. Sure my light strip boasts 32000 colours, however google.onky recognizes 42 of them and for some reason when I ask for white it's mustard yellow. Surely you can't seriously be charging people money for this?
