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OldMrBrennan83

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digitaldr

Casting doesn't work either.

OldMrBrennan83

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digitaldr

There's always Bluetooth but kind of defeats the purpose. Wonder if Irish radio is available for Google Homes in the UK?

Setanter

Newstalk streaming went and came back later with me.
Oddly Rte radio one is still gone.

Very annoying

jogdish

2fm, lyric, work for me, also glaway bay all via TuneIn.

Still Ill

Hey.. Wondering if anyone can help... Have two minis that I usually use to play spotify. Got a new modem/router, so obviously had to set them up on the new Wi-Fi. Everything working fine except spotify.
Used to be able to either just ask it to play something with no problems or control the songs it's playing via spotify on my phone or computer. Now when I do either it just seems to shuffle through a couple of tracks without playing and then eventually settle like it's playing something, but nothing actually happens. Anyone got any ideas? Tried rebooting and deleting and adding them again. Still nothing

digitaldr

Emailed TuneIn support:

Hello xxxx,

Thank you for contacting us.

I've escalated this issue to the technical team and will respond as soon as I hear back from them. Thanks for your patience as we work to resolve your issue.

Sincerely,
Emelin Pleites
TuneIn
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:23 PM <xxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm in Ireland - Google home has not launched here yet but I was able to stream Irish radio stations until yesterday. Now when I ask my Google home to stream for instance RTE radio 1 she says "streaming RTE Radio 1 on tunein" but nothing happens. Casting doesn't work either. Tunein app on my android phone works fine.
Thsnks
Kind regards,

Mantis Toboggan

No problems with the radio for me.

digitaldr

So you can get RTE Radio 1?

Mantis Toboggan

digitaldr wrote: »

So you can get RTE Radio 1?

No don't listen to that was just radio one uae and newstalk.

Is it just rte radio one that's causing the problem?

OldMrBrennan83

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Gulliver

Today FM worked for me eventually this morning. First go it said "Today FM cannot be played or is unavailable right now" so I just thought it was my internet until I saw the posts above.

jh79

Rte 1 won't work for me
2fm, today fm and newstalk all worked eventually.

yrrag1974

digitaldr wrote: »

My Google homes have stopped streaming rte stations on tunein Says "OK streaming RTE Radio 1 on tunein" but nothing happens. Steams fine on the tunein app on my phone.

Same for me - can't stream any Radio 1, Newstalk, Today FM

georgewickstaff

Same with me..had LMFM playing no problem on mini in front room. Installed a new GH in kitchen and took me about 15 goes to get it to play. Brit channels worked first time.

Annoying.

whomitconcerns

I was able to stream East coast radio in london till a few weeks ago on my google home. Now it says not available in your country. Buttttttttt I can make free phone calls now to Uk landlines and mobiles!

jh79

georgewickstaff wrote: »

Same with me..had LMFM playing no problem on mini in front room. Installed a new GH in kitchen and took me about 15 goes to get it to play. Brit channels worked first time.

Annoying.

Yeah BBC worked first time for me too.

yrrag1974

digitaldr wrote: »

Emailed TuneIn support:

Have tried a few different stations and only ones I can get working are the BBC stations. Tried some English, Australian and Irish but no joy. Says streaming but no sound at all

randombar

Strange updates happening.

"Hey google play "one two three four sesame street" from youtube on the living room tv" worked up until yesterday and then didnt.

jh79

Given that GH isn't officially in Ireland yet how come i was able to buy mine in Maplin Galway?

wexfordman2

jh79 wrote: »

Given that GH isn't officially in Ireland yet how come i was able to buy mine in Maplin Galway?

Mapkin had them for sale a while ago in cork too, but they were taken off the shelves. Staff member told me that google had insisted they halt selling them in Ireland

RockDesk

I was able to play 4FM on home about 2 hours ago. It's not working now. No Irish stations are working for me but BBC is.

Shlippery

RockDesk wrote: »

I was able to play 4FM on home about 2 hours ago. It's not working now. No Irish stations are working for me but BBC is.

I've 2fm set to play as my alarm every morning! New favourite feature!

RockDesk

I changed my language to US, rebooted so it held the language and it worked. Just changed it back to UK and it's working again.

I was on chat with a guy from Google and he said that changing the language is the workaround they do.

bk

jh79 wrote: »

Yeah BBC worked first time for me too.

If I'm not mistaken, they now stream BBC radio direct from the BBC.

For the Irish stations and most others they use Tunein.

Tunein sucks, it has always been very variable, even on Alexa. It changes constantly, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Hopefully if GH is officially launched in Ireland, they will start streaming RTE direct as well. I suspect they switched BBC due to how unreliable Tunein was.

opus

RockDesk wrote: »

I was able to play 4FM on home about 2 hours ago. It's not working now. No Irish stations are working for me but BBC is.

Noticed that RTE Radio 1 wasn't working for me last night as well, didn't do much digging to see why though.

OldMrBrennan83

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jogdish

RockDesk wrote: »

I changed my language to US, rebooted so it held the language and it worked. Just changed it back to UK and it's working again.

I was on chat with a guy from Google and he said that changing the language is the workaround they do.

Just changed mine to US then back to UK and rebooted, still no rte radio 1.

digitaldr

wexfordman2 wrote: »

Mapkin had them for sale a while ago in cork too, but they were taken off the shelves. Staff member told me that google had insisted they halt selling them in Ireland

I see Mapin website has a sale at the moment - will probably be a [URL="Maplin staff made redundant as hopes of finding buyer fade

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/08/maplin-63-head-office-workers-made-redundant-administration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard"]closing down[/URL] one Not sure I would risk ordering anything although credit card purchase might be ok?