Google Home

The nest app was much better

The app is fine, but why is there no widget that I can add to my home screen? I'd like to be able to customise which devices appear in this widget, and then quickly turn devices on or off without having to open the full app.

Unable to switch between all lighting modes. Basically you can control the dimming function and change colour but if you change to a colour you can’t change back to the white mode. I mean the bright white mode. I don’t mean make the light desaturated from a colour which is technically white but it’s not bright. A lot of lights have a separate white mode and that is what I am talking about. Can’t change to any of your scene modes like music, changing colours, etc. navigating the app to separate lights is really annoying because the hold function to go into the light is too slow. Lastly I can’t add family members because their Google account is from another country. My partner visits me from another country and I want her to be able to change the light without having to get another Google account. Works better than the Apple home app so it’s not a complete waste of time. Just needs some quality of life improvements and also I don’t know if this is Google or Apple but you can’t add a widget for this app to your Home Screen on iPhone. I feel like a widget would be nice.

Ridiculous. My WiFi gets upgraded and I can no longer connect to the google nest. Why do people not test for backward and forward compatibility. Being forced to upgrade is very annoying and frustrating.

This is the most useless application be had to deal with😡 very very complicating to set up. if you ve got no patience, I advise you don't get devices you have to set up with google home.

Today I’m unable to view any history on my Nest Cams in the Google Home app. All I see is spinning circles on every clip and the preview screen. This from the same cameras that I used to be able to scrobble through a full 24hrs on back when it was on the Nest app. The software experience since moving to the Google Home app can only be described as SHOCKING! The camera sits just feet away from my Google WiFi routers. It’s got to the point now when I feel I need to ditch all my Google owned items. I have ZERO faith in them delivering a solid working product. It’s impossible to take them seriously anymore. I seriously advise anyone thinking of investing into a Google EcoSystem to stay clear!

It’s ok and it does what it needs to however it is very slow and can be difficult to use at times

We in the UK had the same Assistant voices for years. You recently just decided to randomly change them, without even the most fleeting consideration of the fact that we *get attached to these voices*. Even though we know they’re not real people. You replaced the charming and upbeat UK Male voice with this angry and depressed-sounding London “geezer” voice that absolutely everyone hates. You didn’t even bother to give us the OPTION of keeping the former voice. WHY?! I then found out via Reddit that you did the EXACT SAME THING to a dozen other languages. This is Microsoft-level behaviour, where the attitude is “To hell with the customer; we know better”. WE. PAY. FOR. THIS. STUFF. We have rights. I’ll be ditching my Google Nest device shortly as your business model is clearly not customer-focused.

When setting up Chromecast keeps going to language

I’m thinking of moving to the Google ecosystem for all my devices but a few things holding me back - one is when going to bed I like to listen to music to drift of to sleep so I tried to set a sleep timer when I asked Google assistant to stop playing music in one hour it just stops the music dead - I’m looking to stop music in one hour but it can’t seem to do this it might sound small but it a big thing for me at present I’m gonna have to stay with my HomePod and stay in the iOS ecosystem.