
Like when you're listening to music, say, and you want to fling your tunes from the kitchen to the living room.įor the solution to this particular enigma, I turned to the always delightful repository of Google Home admiration and knowledge over at the r/googlehome subreddit. People on Reddit have reported success with this method.ĭo this when Google Home doesn't know its own speaker namesĪlthough you'd think the one thing Google Home would consistently get right would be its own name, it's actually a fairly common problem for Google Home to misunderstand when asked to move something to - or do something with - a speaker in another room. If Google Home has trouble moving music from one room to another, try using only lower-case letters when naming your devices.
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That's a problem when, for example, the command is to "turn on the lights." Don't get left in the dark, just open the Google Home app and modify a setting called "sensitivity." Here's how:ġ.

It used to baffle me, but for the longest time it wasn't unusual for the Google Home speaker I was in front of to ignore me while another one somewhere else in the house tried to do my bidding. If you've got Google Home speakers in close proximity to each other, you may have to adjust the "Hey Google" sensitivity setting to make sure the correct one responds to you.Ī fix for the Wrong Room, Wrong Speaker problem Next time you're frustrated with your smart speaker not understanding you and you're ready to break things off, try one of these five Google Home fixes that usually works for me.

So is the worst smart speaker communication issue of all - when Google Home says, "Sorry, I don't understand." I just happen to know of some tools to help fix the problem.įor example, if you have more than one Google Home speaker in your house, I'm sure it's happened where the speaker you're talking to ignores you while a different one in another room entirely tries to respond, right? That's fixable. But that doesn't mean I don't occasionally experience a breakdown in communication. At first, my relationship with Google Home got off to a rocky start, but it did eventually get better (after many, many feature updates, like scheduled commands, home and away awareness and adding Apple Music). Yes, I'm talking about your smart speaker. They occur more often than you might think.
