routine to reduce volume set volume to max

[coyote2]

I understand that until Google pays Sonos (which I'm very impatient for them to do), I can't issue a verbal command to increase the volume on multiple speakers.

I'm less clear why I can't automate the latter in a routine containing separate commands.  

(Which I did both before bed and after waking.  Incidentally, I have approximated this functionality in the settings of each speaker|Digital Wellbeing|Night Mode|Maximum volume at night.)

But I do not understand why, until I disabled the routine to reduce the volume on all my speakers at bedtime, it was instead setting their volume to Max.  Surely Sonos didn't need Google to do that to me.

(I have already submitted this as Feedback.)

[archstar1982]

I too have the same issue on my paired Google home in Bedroom.  My routing volume is set to 7% but last night my Google home increased the volume at 70% instead. It's very annoying and totally not acceptable.

It sounds like the volume increments scale is 10 instead of 100. When I ask the volume to set 7 it will change it to 70%.  So I decided to change my routing volume set to 1 but it did not change the volume at all.

Hope they can fix the problem ASAP.

[Jamesch]

Support chat told me they know about it after 30 minutes of not understanding me and asking dumb questions

I found something though:

One of my problematic commands: set volume of Grand system to 8%

This would be recognized by Google nowadays as 8 and it will set 80%, not great in the morning routine. If you try percentage above 10 out will just complain.

However if you use ON instead of OF when specifying speaker IT WORKS properly!

[archstar1982]

@Jamesch 

Thanks for the info. I will try it when I get back to home.

[coyote2]

"if you use ON instead of OF"

I did already use ON and it didn't work, but my commands have always been ordered differently, like

"Set Volume to 10% on bathroom."

I switched that to

"Set Volume on bathroom to 10%."

And it worked!! Thank you very much, Jamesch!  Now I can disable the inferior "Maximum volume at night" approach (inferior in that after the 'night' period it would go back to whatever it had been before instead of the settings in my Daytime Volume routine).

"routine volume is set to 7% but last night my Google home increased the volume at 70% instead"

It sounds like the 'fix' incorrectly weaponized the functionality. Perhaps the programmer was thinking about that with verbal commands "7" means 70%.

(Incidentally, I thought that 10% was as low as it would go. And in the past Support told me it might help, and it did, to not capitalize speakernames [lol].)

"Support chat told me they know about it after 30 minutes of not understanding me and asking dumb questions"

How typical, lol.

[Jamesch]

It's ridiculous that a change between ON and OF (and also word order) makes such difference. If you type the command into a routine it is trivial to understand for "Google", but if you issue a voice command it will have a lower probability of understanding correctly

[coyote2]

Yes it is ridiculous.  And given the timing of the breaking of the functionality, it's also ridiculous that it occurred as part of the response to the Sonos decision.  (IMO Google should pay up soon.)

[archstar1982]

I setup the routing command and it worked!

Thanks for the advice ☺️.

[coyote2]

It turns out that even with the new syntax, it is not working for me.

When the time came for my Nightime Volume routine to run, nothing happened. I thought this might be because the phone was turned off.

But this morning I've tested the Daytime Volume routine both by voice command invoking it (the only line of commands that worked was the one adjusting the volume on the speaker I was speaking to) and by adjusting the start time (I tried this several times, once setting a time twenty minutes away) and it did nothing.

I am so pissed at Google for this Volume mess. It's back to the inferior "Maximum volume at night" approach for me I guess.

[Azarco]

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