Browsing: Google Home

A good smart home demands openness: With as many different devices as you’ll need to really get every last corner of your home automated, it’s critical that they all play nicely with each other. For Google Home, part of that means not arbitrarily setting up platform boundaries, and Google’s smart home solution is open for…

Gemini for Home is supposed to get to know you better over time, but giving you an unwanted pet name might be going a bit too far. After a conversation about cooking fish, one user’s Google Home apparently decided they should henceforth be known as “Fish Lemon.” Funny as it was,  the joke has worn…

If you’re the sort of organized person who likes keeping all your to-dos neatly entered into lists, Google Home may have been causing you some headaches these past few days. Users have been complaining about their Home devices losing the ability to add items to Google Keep lists those glitches should now all be finally…

You try so hard to be an organized adult: planning ahead, making lists, and keeping track that you get done what you need to. While we have plenty of great tools at our disposal for helping out with that kind of thing, they don’t always work how they’re meant to, and earlier this week we…

However well you’re getting along with your Google smart speaker, the least you’d expect it to do right is play the correct music when you ask for it. Apparently, that hasn’t always been the case lately. After a YouTube Music playback bug affecting Nest Hubs a couple of months ago, Google now says it has…

If you’re looking to configure a really impressive smart home, Google Home automations are your best friend. While routines are great for pulling off complicated multi-device workflows, automations take that to the next level by, well, automating them — instead of manually activating a routine, automations begin all by themselves when their starter event occurs.…

Google Home has had a busy August, with Google rolling out several updates that make Gemini for Home smarter and add new capabilities to its smart home platform. But amid all those improvements, something as basic as setting an alarm suddenly stopped working for some users. Thankfully, Google has now confirmed that the issue affecting…