Ryan Haines / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Many customers are reporting not with the ability to management lights or teams of lights with an ‘Okay Google’ command.
- I observed this problem on my audio system yesterday, however thought it was a random bug.
- It appears extra widespread, and the Google Nest account has acknowledged the difficulty.
Yesterday night, as I went to mattress, I informed my Google Nest Audio, “Hey Google, flip off all of the lights.” Usually, this is among the best instructions, and my success price with it’s higher than many different instructions that repeatedly fail and irritate me. However this time, I simply bought again silence. So I shrugged, considering it’s a glitch, reached out to the Hue button on my bedside desk, and long-pressed it to show off all my lights.
In the present day, although, my Android Authority colleague Luka identified to me dozens of Reddit threads from customers who’re additionally having hassle controlling their lights. Seems this wasn’t a easy glitch however a widespread problem affecting many Google Dwelling and Assistant/Gemini customers.
Are you able to management all of your lights and grouped lights with an ‘Okay Google’ command?
122 votes
Google has already acknowledged this problem and replied to all of those threads with:
Hey all,
We’re conscious of a difficulty with utilizing voice instructions to regulate some lights. We’ll share an replace as quickly as potential, thanks in your persistence.
The timing, although, couldn’t be any worse, with your entire Google Dwelling and Assistant platform below fireplace from numerous pissed off customers as a result of incessant glitches. Chief Product Officer for Google Dwelling and Nest, Anish Kattukaran, acknowledged the worsening expertise and promised “a long run resolution that gives higher reliability and functionality.” Anish additionally mentioned Google has been “actively engaged on main enhancements for someday [sic] and may have extra to share within the fall.”
For those who can’t wait till fall to show off your lights, understandably, Reddit has an inventory of solutions that embrace telling your speaker, “Hey Google, sync all units,” which forces Google to re-check all the companies you’ve linked to it (like Hue, LifX, Govee, Lutron, Ikea, and many others…). If that doesn’t work, you would possibly wish to go a bit extra nuclear and fully disconnect the service offering your lights, reconnect it, and add again all of the lights to their respective rooms. That appears to do it for most individuals affected by the bug.
In any other case, you may simply wait. The bug has resolved for me with none tips, and I’m in a position to management my lights once more with my voice.
