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 subject on my audio system yesterday, however thought it was a random bug.
- It appears extra widespread, and the Google Nest account has acknowledged the problem.
Yesterday night, as I went to mattress, I advised my Google Nest Audio, “Hey Google, flip off all of the lights.” Usually, this is among the best instructions, and my success fee with it’s higher than many different instructions that repeatedly fail and irritate me. However this time, I simply received 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.
Right this moment, although, my Android Authority colleague Luka identified to me dozens of Reddit threads from customers who’re additionally having bother controlling their lights. Seems this wasn’t a easy glitch however a widespread subject affecting many Google House and Assistant/Gemini customers.
Are you able to management all of your lights and grouped lights with an ‘Okay Google’ command?
132 votes
Google has already acknowledged this subject 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 attainable, thanks to your endurance.
The timing, although, couldn’t be any worse, with your complete Google House and Assistant platform beneath hearth from a number of pissed off customers on account of incessant glitches. Chief Product Officer for Google House and Nest, Anish Kattukaran, acknowledged the worsening expertise and promised “a long run resolution that gives higher reliability and functionality.” Anish additionally stated Google has been “actively engaged on main enhancements for someday [sic] and may have extra to share within the fall.”
When you can’t wait till fall to show off your lights, understandably, Reddit has a listing of strategies that embody telling your speaker, “Hey Google, sync all gadgets,” 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 utterly 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.
