Google Home FAQ

donspeekinglesh

Is Continuing Conversation working for anyone yet? Still not working for me.

digitaldr

RTE Radio 1 seems to be down again Let's hope that they fix it quickly this time now that Google Home has officially launched in Ireland.

stesaurus

Anyone figured out why English(Ireland) is Indian yet?

digitaldr

RTE Radio 1 working again

Veloce

I picked up a google home device during week so I'm a complete newb. I have weather preferences for temperature set to degrees celsius but when I say "hey google tell me about my day" it relays weather temperature in Fahrenheit. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks

McMurphy

Guys asked thks in the spotify thread, but no answers yet.

We just acquired 2 x new Google home mini , am I right in saying that I technically need to assign a Spotify account to each one to avoid any issues?

I already have a full sized Google home in the sitting room, and there's q Spotify acc tied to it, but the minis will be going into kids bedrooms.

RobbieTheRobber

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Guys asked thks in the spotify thread, but no answers yet.

We just acquired 2 x new Google home mini , am I right in saying that I technically need to assign a Spotify account to each one to avoid any issues?

I already have a full sized Google home in the sitting room, and there's q Spotify acc tied to it, but the minis will be going into kids bedrooms.

Yeah if you want them to be able to play different music simultaneously you will need different accounts fro each home or alternately use user profiles(tied to google accounts) on the homes and assign each profile a different spotify account

jones

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

Is Continuing Conversation working for anyone yet? Still not working for me.

Nope still not for me either. Its definitely listening but no response

nephster

Veloce wrote: »

I picked up a google home device during week so I'm a complete newb. I have weather preferences for temperature set to degrees celsius but when I say "hey google tell me about my day" it relays weather temperature in Fahrenheit. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks

Have you set up voice match so it knows to use your preferences? What accent does it reply with, and have you tried to change that?

McMurphy

Is Harvey Norman the only bricks and mortar offering these in Ireland?

Spocker

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Is Harvey Norman the only bricks and mortar offering these in Ireland?

Currys have them too

McMurphy

Thanks lads.

Now, I have the following set up, Google home in the sitting room.

1 x Google mini in sons room.
1 x Google mini in daughters room.

I want them to be able to stream their own music independently of mine, but do I have to set them all up separately?

Ie, I have a Spotify account tied to the Google home in the living room.

I am going to get another 2 x Spotify accounts (from a family plan) and link them to each device.

But do these all have to be linked to my Google home account?

It's kind of confusing tbh.

Sheep Shagger

Spocker wrote: »

Currys have them too

Dixon’s Dublin airport too

McMurphy

I have mine sorted....

Had me ripping my hair out, but it turns out that as it's voice tied, it takes the different voices to be able to select different music in different rooms.

Doh.

eusap

When I have language set to Ireland, and I ask the mini a question it answers in the normal English accent, when I ask it to tell a joke it answers in Indian. Very strange

McMurphy

eusap wrote: »

When I have language set to Ireland, and I ask the mini a question it answers in the normal English accent, when I ask it to tell a joke it answers in Indian. Very strange

Mines doing this too from time to time.

Indian summer perhaps.

wexfordman2

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Mines doing this too from time to time.

Indian summer perhaps.

Mine too, its really funny!! (unlike the actual jokes)

Knightridernut

Veloce wrote: »

I picked up a google home device during week so I'm a complete newb. I have weather preferences for temperature set to degrees celsius but when I say "hey google tell me about my day" it relays weather temperature in Fahrenheit. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks

The same thing happened to me when I first set mine up, but I just told her to use celsius, she confirmed what I told her and she's been doing it no problem since.

Knightridernut

The high horse brigade wrote: »

I no longer have the option for assistant voice, I have weather, getting around and continued conversation. You must lose this option when you select English Ireland

Similar happened to me yesterday evening on my phone (my GH mini is unaffected) - after selecting English (Ireland) it told me GA isn't available in Eng (Ire) yet, but when I went back in to change it to a different voice, it was all greyed out and I couldn't select/change anything on that page. (It still appears to work correctly, though, despite suggesting it might not?)

I sent off a "feedback" on the issue, so hopefully they'll resolve it??

breeno

Guys,
New user here, loving it so far. Got a mini free with my new Nokia phone and was impressed so decided to get the full size and put the mini in the bedroom. 
One query I have is if there is a way to setup sending email, texts and in particular Whatsapp from the GH?

jones

breeno wrote: »

Guys,
New user here, loving it so far. Got a mini free with my new Nokia phone and was impressed so decided to get the full size and put the mini in the bedroom. 
One query I have is if there is a way to setup sending email, texts and in particular Whatsapp from the GH?

Not at the moment but i'm sure it will arrive at some stage. Although not sure about whatsapp

McMurphy

I thought I had an earlier problem solved, but apparently not.

Here goes. Have Google home in the sitting room. 2 x minis in bedrooms.

Obviously all connected to the same wifi.

I have a few devices running the Google home app, all signed in to different Google account.


I have spotify family, and each Google account has spotify linked to them.

However, playing music through one (sitting room for example) results in music stopping in another device.

It's wrecking my brain, and the only thing left to try imo is installing an actual spotify app into each of the android device on the various devices (2 x phones, and a tablet) and signing in under the various spotify accounts I have.

Anyone any prior, or heads up on this?

matrim

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

I thought I had an earlier problem solved, but apparently not.

Here goes. Have Google home in the sitting room. 2 x minis in bedrooms.

Obviously all connected to the same wifi.

I have a few devices running the Google home app, all signed in to different Google account.


I have spotify family, and each Google account has spotify linked to them.

However, playing music through one (sitting room for example) results in music stopping in another device.

It's wrecking my brain, and the only thing left to try imo is installing an actual spotify app into each of the android device on the various devices (2 x phones, and a tablet) and signing in under the various spotify accounts I have.

Anyone any prior, or heads up on this?

You have to have voice match enabled and a spotify account setup for each voice. So, i think you do need spotify on each device with a different account and then setup voice match for each account.

McMurphy

matrim wrote: »

You have to have voice match enabled and a spotify account setup for each voice. So, i think you do need spotify on each device with a different account and then setup voice match for each account.

Can be the only thing left imo.

Will give it a lash when I get in this evening.

e1967

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

Is Continuing Conversation working for anyone yet? Still not working for me.

Have you had any luck getting this working yet.

donspeekinglesh

Nope, doesn't even pretend to work now.

jones

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with my mini's they seem to randomly become less responsive and i cant work out why. Usually a restart sorts this out but its annoying when it happens. I am signed up to the preview firmware so i might return to stock to see if it makes a difference. When they work they are amazing devices and i think they are the future in terms of home automation.

Anyone else experience this?

bk

jones wrote: »

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with my mini's they seem to randomly become less responsive and i cant work out why. Usually a restart sorts this out but its annoying when it happens. I am signed up to the preview firmware so i might return to stock to see if it makes a difference. When they work they are amazing devices and i think they are the future in terms of home automation.

Anyone else experience this?

Issues with your wifi perhaps? I haven't noticed any issues with mine.

jones

bk wrote:

Issues with your wifi perhaps? I haven't noticed any issues with mine.

I don't think so or at least it's not showing on any other devices. Now don't get me wrong most of the time they work as expected I've just noticed lately I've had to repeat myself more than I did.

bk

jones wrote: »

I don't think so or at least it's not showing on any other devices. Now don't get me wrong most of the time they work as expected I've just noticed lately I've had to repeat myself more than I did.

Dust perhaps? Been known to clog up the mic ports, maybe give it a clean.