Move music to different speaker, not working reliably

[ej235]

I've just setup a second Nest Mini (Gen 2).

The issue I'm having is getting Google to move currently playing music from one speaker to another in a different room.

For example, if the music is playing in the kitchen, I'll say something like...

"Hey Google, move the music to livingroom speaker."

Google responds with something like...

"OK, playing music on kitchen speaker."

I've tried this numerous times including with slight variations "speaker in livingroom" etc. and it just doesn't work. It wants to keep playing the music wherever it's currently playing.

The only reliable way seems to be asking it just play the music again on the speaker, not move it.

For example, this always seems to work correctly.

"Hey Google, play BeeGees on livingroom speaker".

There seems to be something wrong with the "move music" feature. It doesn't correctly identify the device it's supposd to move it to.

Update: It's forcing me to "Choose a platform". I've picked "Android", just because that's the phone I'm use, but this issue has nothing to do with Android, or any other platform. I'm moving music from one Nest Mini speaker to another.

[rtruxler]

Ha! I'm having exactly this problem and it seems to have just cropped up since November. The funny thing is that I have exactly the same setup and configuration issue as well. I regularly tell google to move the music to the living room speaker, and it happily says, "OK, playing music on the kitchen speaker."

One thing I noticed in my set up is that there seemed to be intermittently some issues with the connectivity of other speakers in our network. For example, when my living room speaker was disconnected from the wifi (unclear on why this happened...), Google was responding this way, instead of saying something helpful like "Sorry, we couldn't connect to that speaker right now, check its connection." At other times, it just seems finicky, and like you said, I either have to just stop it and restart it in the other room.

[Jake]

Hey there,

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