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Media alarms not available in the UK

oharak
Community Member

I have just got a Nest Hub Max, and I would like to use it as a radio alarm clock. But it seems that media alarms are not enabled in the UK. Is this right? Does anyone know if Google is going to make this feature available?

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Kadven
Silver Product Expert
Silver Product Expert

Hi @oharak 

It is correct that media alarms are only available in the US. As to whether it is ever made available elsewhere nobody knows, so I doubt it.

There is a kind of workaround though that is not quite as flexible. This is to create a 'Routine' to start playing music such as spotify or a radio station for instance, e.g. any media, and set a starter time that you want it to action, e.g. say 7am for instance every day or particular days of the week. This works but the drawback is that if you want it to action at a different time or not action at all for that matter, you have to remember to amend the routine.

 

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Kadven
Silver Product Expert
Silver Product Expert

Hi @oharak 

It is correct that media alarms are only available in the US. As to whether it is ever made available elsewhere nobody knows, so I doubt it.

There is a kind of workaround though that is not quite as flexible. This is to create a 'Routine' to start playing music such as spotify or a radio station for instance, e.g. any media, and set a starter time that you want it to action, e.g. say 7am for instance every day or particular days of the week. This works but the drawback is that if you want it to action at a different time or not action at all for that matter, you have to remember to amend the routine.

 

Dan_A
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi oharak,

 

Kadven is correct. I understand that this would be a helpful feature in the UK, however this option is not available. In line with this, we want to encourage you to send feedback from your end and we’re hoping for all the possibilities by taking our users feedback and suggestions.

 

Let us know if you have additional questions, otherwise we'll be locking the thread in 24 hours.


Best,

Dan

oharak
Community Member

Thanks, I have had some success in creating an alarm, followed by a routine which plays the radio. A bit clunky, but it works. 

Dan_A
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi oharak,

 

Hats off to you in doing the steps Kadven provided as a workaround. We don’t have any news about the feature Media Alarm will be available in the UK. The workaround you do may work and may not. As you’ve experienced, it’s clunky.

 

I trust you’ve provided us with the feedback? We appreciate people who want to share their thoughts with us. We're always looking for ways to improve. 

 

As we got our resolution here, I'm going to mark this one as resolved and will be closing this thread after 24 hours. Please feel free to open a new thread if you have other questions or concerns.

 

Cheers,

Dan