Has anyone had a lazy Gemini for Home? It used to work fine but this is getting out of hand now.

In my shop, I have two Google Home minis and we stream a local Toronto radio station to them. Over the past month or two they seem to keep crapping out. They will stream for anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or two and then they just stop. Sometimes after a couple of minutes they will pick up the stream and continue and then after a bit, they do it again or they just finally never come back. When I go onto the app on my phone, it shows that it is streaming to the minis, but the time has changed to all dashes, even though it says it’s playing. By default, it uses iHeartRadio sometimes I will tell the Minis to stream and specify using TuneIn, but it does the exact same thing.

Our throughput seems to run around 400mps. We are also streaming IPTV on one tv and it seems fine. It looks like we have low latency and low jitter from our ISP. When I started streaming with these Minis back in March, they didn’t have any problems and nothing has changed on our end in relationship to the network setup or network useage.

Any ideas? I haven’t tried a different radio station because the boss only wants to listen to this one. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Tanks!

I usually ignore such things, but Gemini has really been irritating lately.

Google speakers sure like their internet connection. Got one old google mini and three of the new google speakers. They are used about 20 minute a month for music.

I asked multiple times for it to spell "zamboni". He just kept repeating the word back.... Lol

I just want to know who was responsible for changing it. How do I find who/how the setting was changed?

I've been using Google speakers for about 7 years now and in the last few i noticed a massive degrade in reliability. Wtf?

The amount of times it replies sorry I don't understand is astonishing. It's simple questions - what time does my local shop close, how far is whatever location, what's 5+5, how long to boil an egg, whatever. I've not had any issues with things like that at first and now it is the norm.

Want to turn off my lights? Need to ask 3 times. Want to turn my TV off in 1 hour? Either it turns off straightaway or doesn't at all. Setting up reminders? It gets the wrong date and time. Want to delete the last reminder that it set wrong? Delete something else. It's ridiculous.

I've had enough of it. Is there any fix that I'm not aware of? I am considering switching to a different environment because it's driving me crazy, any suggestions?

Used to be able to ask the new Google home speaker to play music and my default speaker is the Sonos one. It used to just play and now it says playing music but nothing happens. If I set the default speaker as the Google home devices is works. Seems connection to Sonos is broken. Anyone else having this issue?

Phone reminders kept getting swiped away in our house, so I moved them to the one screen everyone walks past: the Nest Hub in the kitchen.

How it works:

1. Reads our shared family Google Calendar (read-only).
2. 30 minutes before each event, it builds a reminder.
3. Guardrails: only runs 7 AM to 10 PM and skips prayer times.
4. Renders a bold 1280x720 card with Python + Pillow (name band, event, time) so it's readable from across the room.
5. Casts the card to the Nest Hub over the LAN with pychromecast.
6. Speaks the reminder by name, so you hear it even when nobody's looking.

The orchestration runs on my Grok Bot setup, where I keep one bot per job and nothing changes on the calendar without my OK. The animation was made with HyperFrames, and the voiceover is my own voice cloned locally with Voicebox.

The kitchen photo in the video is real; I blurred my kid's name and the venue address.

Happy to answer questions. What would you put on a shared kitchen screen?

Probably should have posted this here from the start

What a crock of shit Google home has become. I can't even get a recipe without giving away my families voice signature. Fuck you Google. I'm moving to Amazon.

I've had a Hub Max for a few years. No issues. One day it stopped functioning, just showing white screen but could change volume and go to settings, but couldn't cast or do any home controls.

I tried resetting it (volume buttons) then when setting it up it states display is already setup on another account. I can see it in local devices on my home but not showing connected to my home.

Found an old thread here saying go to my Google account site on a computer and remove it from there. Signed out, and was able to change the name but still showing the same error saying connected to another account.

Tried using Google support as well they suggested resetting, and unplug for 48 hours. Saying that should full clear everything.

Still no luck

Any other suggestions?

Roughly 2 out of 3 times I launch Google Home, this is the first thing I see. This control does nothing, despite having 2 Philips Hue lights. It started doing it in the last couple weeks. So annoying.

I just plugged in the 2026 Speaker and upgraded all my old devices into Gemini.

However one thing that bothers me is no matter how I try to direct my voice at the nearest speaker (even whispering to it), somehow the speaker that replies me is the furthest one away from me.

I had adjusted Sensitivity to the lowest for that old speaker and no difference.

It randomly replies me across the devices and sometimes none of the replies me.

I can't seem to adjust Sensitivity for the 2026 speaker (it does not seem to have this function?)

My Sony BRAVIA K-55XR83 can be controlled normally through apps. However, as soon as I add the TV to a Google Home household as a Google TV/Cast device, voice commands to turn it off stop working.

This happens both when using Gemini on my Google Pixel 8 Pro and when using the Google Assistant built into the TV itself.

In both cases, Google correctly acknowledges the command by saying, “Turning off the TV,” but the TV does not actually turn off.

I have already completely uninstalled and reinstalled the Google Home app and created a brand-new home. The issue keeps coming back as soon as I add the TV to Google Home.

Has anyone experienced the same issue or found a solution? Could this be related to a problem with the Google Home/Cast integration or a device association stored on Google's servers?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

A few weeks ago I ordered my new Google hub Max 10-in and a few days later got frustrated with my original Google home display and ended up smashing it because it wasn't working right...

After my new Google hub Max 10-in that just arrived yesterday and already it has vastly out played the previous model I had so this is where Google gets you they've updated to Gemini but it seems as if this new device was more tailored for Gemini compared to the original Google home display! I know it's only been a half a day but it's already working better now the trick is how long can it last so hopefully this is the start of good things but we'll see now if only Google could do something about voice to text!

For me, it’s the massive thermostat card taking up 4 device slots just to display one big number.

Curious how everyone else feels: Are you guys mostly using the app or just walking over to the physical wall dial now? What’s your biggest pet peeve with the app?

For the love of God, please stop delivering "new features"!

Take a 6 month break to just fix the damn stuff broken all over Google Home, Assistant, Gemini, whatever! This sub is a testament to all the issues passionate users face on a daily basis!

So many of us are so close to jumping ship! With Apple's new Home View launched today, the decision is becoming easier than ever before.

Please - we don't want new things. We just want things to work like they used to before.

I received a "how do you really feel about Google Assistant / Gemini" survey. I completed it honestly, which means I gave it a terrible review: like a lot of the people in this subreddit, I have experienced a terrible responsivity rate, some serious contradictions between speakers, and complete misunderstandings about activating routines. Since that survey, though, it seems to have gotten better about answering requests for lights on and for routines to run.

In fact, it now gives a little "dun-dun" sound after complying. I notice it shows up in my Gemini activity too.

That was pleasant. Fingers cross it will continue.

Overall, though, it is still nowhere near as useful as old "hey g00gle" on the non-Gemini speakers - I used to be able to ask "When is this movie coming out?" and "What time does Costco close?" and it would tell me without missing a beat. Ah well.

What would happen if they just threw up their hands, open-sourced the whole project, and let the open-source community in to fix it? Some would say that it would be less "secure" but would definitely function better, and the security would depend on all the contributors checking it for loopholes.

This week I got a prompt from Google to retrain my voice. I wasn't in the home app or anything, just on my pixel device.

I did the simple retrain and it's shown a big improvement in understanding me BUT...

I've also noticed the processing speed of reply is a fraction of what it used to be. I don't think that's down to a voice model, but either way, I'm happy it's responding almost instantly.

I'm looking for a smart inline dimmer that installs directly on a lamp cord and works with Google Home.

Not looking for a smart plug or wall dimmer. Just a simple cord-mounted dimmer with smart controls.

I found the Tradim 6802W, but it seems to be available only in Europe.

Anyone know of a similar product that works with US 120V?