Google Home

[jbtibor]

@dytkd

has anyone experiencing google home having trouble turning on/off all lights in a group? I have 3 bulbs and 1 lightstrip called kitchen, and every now and then if I tell GH to turn Kitchen Lights On, it says ok, but only 2 bulbs get turned on. It isn’t always the same bulb either, and it sometimes happens when turning off as well… This only happens with that one fixture. I have some Hues in my living room and that does not happen there…

Anyone else, experiencing anything like that?

It happens to me consistently:

Google Home thinks my Hue bulbs are switches and doesn't turn them off

Well, sorry, I really thought that would solve your problem. I don’t have any Hue devices so perhaps there is an issue related to that specifically that I’m not aware of. I have a mixture of pocket sockets, Cree bulbs, and GE on/off switches. My experience with these devices and Google Home so far indicates to me that Google Home doesn’t really care if the device is a in wall switch, pocket socket, or smart bulb. When I ask for all the lights to be turned on, they are, even though some are connected to pocket sockets and some are smart bulbs, and not all of my devices have bulb icons next to them either. When I ask for all the fans to be turned on they are although they are all connected to GE on/off switches. Google Home as far as I can tell isn’t really aware of the nature of the d…

This didn’t work for me but might for you:

Switch/Light Classification in Google Home?

I have a Google Home, Hue Hub and lights and Smartthings hub, and just purchased a GE Z-Wave Dimmer. I have two sets of lights in my kitchen, an overhead sink light, which has a Hue bulb, and then the four recessed lights that are controlled by the Z-Wave dimmer. Smartthings can control all of them just fine, but I’m having issues with the voice commands. The phrase “OK Google, turn on my kitchen lights” only turns on the sink light. I found out that the GE Dimmer is classified as a switch, so I have to say “OK Google, turn on/off my kitchen switches”. I can also use “OK Google, turn on my Kitchen Floods”. Is there a way to classify this GE dimmer as a light, rather than a switch, so I can say “Turn off my kitchen lights” to get both the Hue and GE Dimmer on the same command? ** So…