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barrymilliken · 08-08-2023

For months I've struggled to develop morning wakeup routines to play my music playlists (classical music). Nothing worked. Nobody at the Google help desk had any answers of even a setup similar to mine to try a test themselves. None had ever thought ...

barrymilliken · 06-08-2023

Most of my routines control music on speakers or groups of speakers. If a routine doesn't work, often there is no feedback at all??? Other times, in a multi step routine, I get "Sorry, I cant do that yet" without any hint about which step is at fault...

barrymilliken · 06-08-2023

Many problems:"Play music" action has no place to specify speaker(s) or groups. Do I need to do "custom actions" for this ?How to shuffle playlists?How to distinguish my playlists from global playlists with same name? Sometimes it plays thing i dont ...

barrymilliken · 06-08-2023

I have tried many custom commands but nothing works.

barrymilliken · 04-13-2023

All household routines disappeared

barrymilliken · 06-11-2023

I have over 50 years experience writing software. All of what you say is obvious to me and requires a lot more work like coding 40 years ago. There is no excuse for this except that google staff lack experience.

barrymilliken · 04-24-2023

There are many issues with routines. Diagnosis is difficult because any problem might originate from many sources: Home App, Nest WIfi, Youtube music, individual devices including non Google devices. Here's a short list:1. Disappearing Household rout...

barrymilliken · 04-04-2022

The latest update has reached peak odiocy.There is now no way to control volume of speaker PAIRS from a routine.If you refer to the pair: "sorry i can't control volume on speaker groups. You need to adjust speakers individually".If you refer to the i...

barrymilliken · 03-24-2022

@Alekxs01AMAZON is violating all of the same patents as Google is. SONOS just doesnt have the legal manpower to sue both giants at once.

barrymilliken · 03-23-2022

The first stereo receiver was introduced in 1958 by Harmon Kardon. It had a single volume knob that controlled the volume of both speakers at once. This simple idea can of course be implemented in many ways: by voice command, app software sliders and...

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