Google Home FAQ

Yes having the problem with rte, also causes a knock on problem.

If I try to play rte gold, it goes through the motions and eventually does nothing. But if I try to play something else after that, it won't work. Need to tell it to stop after the failed rte attempt.

Lol! That's impressive! Now, if only she could get "Take the ramp onto the M50 labelled 'O Dheas'"...

RTE Radio 1 working again for me.

My method, when cooking, is to shout at the hub from the far side of the kitchen, "Hey Google, keep showing the timers!", but they still only last for a few seconds before reverting to the radio display, so if you find an answer, please let us know!

No but you can change that in the settings!

Anyone else's speakers recently become incapable of playing what's asked?

Just the last couple of weeks. I can go into my Google activity and see that it's understanding me perfectly. I'll say "Play the album XXXX by YYYY" but just get something else altogether

Standard stuff I'm asking for too, nothing obscure. I can find it on YouTube music on my phone and cast it, but obviously that kind of defeats the purpose of the speaker

For example...

There is a google home hub thingy in my house. I don't use it, but because I'm on the same wifi network, I always see the now playing on my phone. I have tried to figure out how to hide this on my phone permanently (I can swipe it away, but that only lasts until the next time somebody plays something on the home hub) - can anyone help here?

I see there's 17 features set to be removed from our smart devices, because they are under used:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034262/google-assistant-removes-17-features-layoffs-pixel-voice-commands

Never used any of those features. No great loss.

* Using your voice to call a device - found this useful to locate my phone in the house when I've misplaced it.

* Users will no longer be able to use the Search bar microphone to complete actions like turning on lights - I hope I can still do this by saying "ok Google" into my phone!

Yes, you're right. I was mixing features up.

QQ gang

I have four Google mini speakers / Google home displays in my house.

I have Google meet app installed on my phone and I'm trying to do two things:

1. Call a specific device from my phone and not all devices.

2. Call 1 device from another device, E.g. my kitchen Google display to my kids bedroom mini speaker. When I ask Google to do this it tells me to configure the apps in my duo app. My understanding is duo and google meet are combined to be the one app now.... and I can't see anywhere in Google meet app to configure such a thing.

Anyone able to throw some light on this? Cheers.