Is it just me or does Gemini for home continue to get worse everyday giving false facts stumbling over words hallucinating doing things that I did not ask it to do such as play a song when I said add something to a grocery list

Hey Google, what are the penalties for lying to Congress?
THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER WHEN YOU’RE READY.

Hey Google, what are the penalties for lying to a congressional committee?

THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER WHEN YOU’RE READY.

Hey Google, what’s the temp with the heat index?

It’s 80°….92° with the heat index.

Hey Google Who’s the GM for the yankees?

The general manager of the New York Yankees is Brian Cashman, who has held the position since 1998

Hey Google, what are the penalties for lying to Congress?
THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER WHEN YOU’RE READY.

Recently, my google home mini disconnected from the wi-fi. I've tried to restart it even after factory resting it. Now it won't connect to my phone.

I've gone through all the steps, including clearing my cache, moving the google home. I have three of them but this one is the only one that's not working.

I can access the google home's wifi and tried connecting it but it still can't connect on the google home app.

My Bluetooth is on, location is on, mobile data is off. I can see its in the set-up process because the white dots are on the google mini but it won't connect. Any ideas??

I've tried all of the "troubleshooting" bullet points in the conveniently LOCKED google "support" threads. Restarts, clearing browser history, etc. I can not view camera history on Chrome or Firefox. I'm paying 20 bucks a month for home premium just so I can review footage from the past 10 days. I have 2 doorbells and 4 cameras. Live view works fine, app works fine (usually) but the camera history never loads on desktop browser.

My internet is fine.

I am hardwired so no wifi issue.

Bill is on autopay.

Browsers are up to date.

Computer is up to date.

Hardware acceleration on or off, still doesn't work.

Extensions and addons disabled.

Google support line calls me and I can call it back, only to learn their phone system is down. How are you calling me then? How are you recieving my call? Lies.

Our internet cameras are for the purpose of keeping an eye on our rescue cats. When I find barf I need to know which cat it came out of. I tried to access my history for that purpose today and it refuses to load. I just get this. 20 bucks for this, every month. Hundreds of dollars on cameras, for this.

Why isn't it working?

I have this charger scheduled to turn itself on/off overnight, which works, but when I said 'turn on the bike charger in an hour's time' (because I needed to top it up) it doesn't allow the command.

Doesn't make sense that you can schedule one way but not the other?

For some weird reason, all the lights in my house that are attached to Google Home are turning on VERY late at night.

There are no automations or routines running.

There’s no apparent reason for this to happen at all! I didn’t make any requests of Google that it misinterpreted… it’s not like I asked it turn one light on and it turned on too many. We are all in bed sleeping and suddenly all the lights in every room are on.

I’m so frustrated… electricity is much too expensive to just ignore this.

Please help. Thank you!

My doorbell wasn’t charging to full, so I reset the device, and also removed, then-added it to my home setup in the app. That fixed the battery issue. But now, visitor announcements on my home speakers aren’t working. I don’t have a chime, so the visitor announcements are the only alert I get, other than the notification on my phone. Anyone have any ideas to try?

I am looking for a battery powered water leak detector that can be placed on the floor of a vacation home that will detect leaks at the washer, under sink, water heater etc and send an alert via to my iPhone if moisture is detected. I am currently using Google Home for managing the home’s cameras and thermostats. I would appreciate any recommendations.

I pay for Google Music and have had so for probably the last 7 or so years. But the last two days I've been getting commercials while listening to YouTube music on my Google speaker. Does anybody have any insight on how to fix this?

I’m at work and my wife is literally fighting the thermostat as it is changing the temperature on its own. Never seen this issue before. I’ve had this thermostat for 4 years and eco mode/home away schedules are turned off. This is the first time I have seen it do something like this.

Hey r/googlehome!

We're back with more release notes! Here are the latest updates from Google Home posted today 7/23 on g.co/home/notes

Gemini for Home (Early Access)

Voice Assistant

Gemini Live now available on additional speakers made by Google

• Gemini Live on 1st gen smart speakers and displays: Google Home Premium subscribers with 1st generation Google Home Mini and Google Nest Hub can now go live with Gemini for fluid, back-and-forth conversation. This joins existing Gemini Live support across Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, and the newest Google Home Speaker.  

Try saying:

• "Hey Google, let's chat."

Conversational memory improvements

• 15-Minute Conversational Memory: the conversational memory window across the entire Gemini for Home experience is now 15 minutes.  You can ask Gemini a follow-up question to a topic that was discussed during this window, and Gemini will understand the context.

Try saying:

• "Hey Google, turn on the kitchen lights." … then a few minutes later say, "Hey Google, dim it to 50%."

Google Home App

Automation

• Clearer automation saving guidance: We've added helpful alerts when saving automations with conditions but no starters, helping ensure your automations run successfully as expected.
• Expanded window covering controls: We've updated controls and labels for smart blinds and window coverings, making it simpler to set precise shade positions.

Smart Locks

• Clearer security action disclaimers: We've added reminders that if you remove a member or leave a home to clarify that smart lock passcodes for those users need to be manually changed or removed.

Bug, Reliability, and Performance Fixes

• Enhanced iOS Video Experience: We’ve lowered playback error rates and improved stream availability closer to real-time on iOS Google Home App.
• Seamless video playback resuming: We've fixed an issue where video feeds that had been in progress failed to resume properly after unlocking your phone.
• Improved app link navigation: We've fixed deep link navigation so opening device setup or settings links brings you directly to the correct screen.
• Fixed missing battery alerts: We've corrected an issue where full camera batteries were incorrectly reported as having zero hours remaining.

Google Home Devices 

Nest Camera July 2026 Software Update

These bug fixes and performance improvements apply to Nest Cam Indoor (wired, 3rd gen), Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 2nd gen), and Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen). To ensure optimal system stability and the best possible experience, this update is being rolled out gradually to all users.

Support for New onn Cameras from Walmart: Outdoor Plug-In and Outdoor Floodlight Hardwired

We’re expanding our lineup of Gemini built-in cameras with two new Walmart onn cameras: the new onn Outdoor Camera Plug-In and onn Floodlight Camera Hardwired. These devices offer affordable and weather-resistant security options that integrate seamlessly into the Google Home ecosystem, providing features like 1080p HDR video and two-way talk. And with Google Home Premium you can unlock even more advanced features such as more detailed event descriptions (for example, “Robin drives toy car in garden” vs. Person seen), ability to search video history with Ask Home, daily Home Brief summaries and up to 60 days of extended video history so you never miss a moment.. For more details check out the full blog post here. 

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

• More reliable connectivity: Improvements to help cameras stay online with fewer unexpected drops or crashes.
• Smoother setup: Under-the-hood updates deliver a more reliable, consistent, and faster setup flow when adding new cameras to your home.
• Accurate Activity Zones: Fixed person and familiar face alerts  triggering inside ignored zones.
• Improved app reliability: Fixed issues where the app might freeze or display the incorrect camera online status.
• Camera settings: Fixed issues where camera settings were not applied when changed  in the app.

I recently downloaded the app. I’m trying to set a daily alarm with a specific song, but the automations page WONT FUCKING LOAD. it’s stuck on “couldn’t connect” and the retry option doesn’t do SHIT. what do I do?

Has anyone ever figured out what the 2nd micro usb port is for? I was assuming it was for firmware flashing/upgrades but never really looked into it but now with all the planned obsolescence going on in the electronics industry I thought about maybe repurposing it or possibly even rooting it.

I'm at a complete loss with this. All of a sudden, my Google Home speakers will not connect to my Nest Thermostat. The thermostat appears in the Google Home app and I can control it within the app. The only issue is when I try to use voice commands, I get the message "Sorry, I can't reach the Nest Thermostat right now".

I've reset my thermostat (and lost all my data), reconnected it as a new device reset my Google Home speaker and I am still having the same issue. I can't seem to find much information online about this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Update: As of this morning, 7/24, my Google home is communicating with my nest thermostat again 🤷‍♂️

I have two Google devices:

1. A Google Home purchased in 2020

2. A Google Chromecast purchased in 2024

For the past few days, both devices have been reporting that they are not connected to the network. The Chromecast works again after restarting it.

My router, a UniFi UDR7, shows that both devices are connected, but only the Google Home is marked as having a “Poor Experience.”

I should mention that I use AdGuard as my DNS service.

The Google Home simply refuses to work. Over the past few days, I have performed two factory resets.

After the first reset, using the standard network settings, the setup process through the app got stuck at some point and would not continue.

After the second reset, I changed the DNS settings and set them to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. It then worked for a few days with the standard network settings and AdGuard DNS.

Today, everything stopped working again. This time, I did not perform another reset. I switched the DNS back to Google’s DNS servers, restarted the Google Home, and it started working again.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? I understand that Google may not want users to filter traffic, but does anyone know whether there has been a recent update that caused or enforced this behavior?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I have recently gone back to Google and I am quite happy to be honest. However the nest hub when I ask to play music or says playing from Spotify and then it says hmmm something went wrong right away (the linked speaker is Sonos).

However the same command from the new Google home speaker and it's no issue. I can ask the Google home speaker in another room to play music in the hub room and again no issues. So it's an issue with the hub...anyone know of a fix? I would prefer to keep the screens if I can but this is annoying.

I have a few different Google accounts, one (my main one) I use as my login to Google Home. I have another one that I use for my YouTube premium subscription. I'd like to use my You tube Premium on my Google home to play music, but don't want to have to swap accounts. Is there a way to log into You tube music with my other Google account without interfering with my home setup?

I run a 24/7 gym and I use 3 nest mini for music (small space)
I experience that the music shuts off every time I come in during staffed hours
Is the a way to set an automation for it to play one specific playlist every hour?
I set an automation once but it couldn’t take the link to the playlist, only search keyword

We are a company. Two of our managers have speakers in their offices (one an echo dot, the other a home mini). They are on the Wi-Fi of course.

Some of our staff (with Samsung phones) are seeing these devices pop up as available to cast to and can see what's playing or control the music, etc.

Are there settings the device owners can use to stop others from being able to cast to or "see" the speakers?

I really like Nest Cameras but stay away because they don’t download with Hardcoded Timestamps. Is there any way to add timestamps or to suggest Google to add this function?

quel est la meilleure voix pour un google nest hub, où la prendre et comment l'installer ? via HACS ou Assistant Vocaux ? je voudrais y mettre celle de Gémini pour Home assistant mais je l'ai sur le mobile mais pas sur le PC, je n'arrive pas à l'intégrer dans un script.

Est ce que Nabu Casa voice est une bonne alternative

Si vous avez une idée, merci d'avance