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Setting precedence by perceived volume?

mathghamhna
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I've had quite a few things set up in Home for a while now, but only recently added a Nest Mini (gen 2). For reasons I cannot possibly fathom, I can give a voice command to my phone, two feet from my face, and see that it hears me correctly as the text scrolls across the bottom. The Nest Mini, almost without fail, mishears this from two rooms away, overrides the phone, and then proceeds to turn on the wrong lights. It seems like there should be a way to set precedence based on the devices' perceived relative volume of the voice command, but thus far the only solution is to turn the speaker off when I'm not in the kitchen. It's wildly obnoxious and has made a $50 Christmas gift functionally useless, so any help is much appreciated. 

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MplsCustomer
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@mathghamhna 

We don't use Google Assistant on our iPhones, and so haven't encountered your issue.

I don't know whether this Help topic will be of any assistance; it's the closest topic I could find to your issue:

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7257763

Others have reported your same issue:

https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/134203907/google-assistant-responding-on-wrong-device?hl...

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Speakers-and-Displays/Google-Assistant-answers-on-the-wrong-d...

You can reduce the "Hey Google" sensitivity on speakers.

mathghamhna
Community Member

Appreciate the responses! Haven't found anything helpful yet, though. I don't want to turn down sensitivity, because I do actually want it to be able to hear me if I'm not in a room with my phone. I'm really only concerned with determining which device takes precedence when there's a discrepancy - ie, if my phone hears "bathroom lights" and the speaker hears "bedroom lights," the one that's physically closer to the voice source should override the other. 

Maybe you should consider getting an Amazon Echo speaker which has multiple wake words available to it. "Hey Google" isn't one of them.