I only have 1 light total though. In all rooms.
Do you have any other device in the living room?
I said it shut off my other lights but also everything in the living room. Harmony included. It as of now does not here light or doesnât like it. It seems to just here living room and everything with the name living room in it shuts off or on. I have a siren in mine and it took twice for that to go off before I renamed it as it turned everything on in the living once at night when I said turn off.
The only other devices in the Room are Harmony Hub activities. One is called âMood Lightsâ so I tried moving that to another room to see if that was the issue, but it still says âTurning two lights onâ
strange have you gone into the google home app and to smart home and see what is in your living room. Maybe something got put in there by mistake.
Ok, you guys were right. I forgot when I tested by moving the mood lights to another room to add âin the living roomâ in my command. Once I did that, it said âTurning off the lightsâ
So if you just say âHey Google, turn on the lightsâ it was looking in all the rooms.
My mistake!
Thanks for the help guys
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Yesterday was the first time I used my chromecast in conjunction with google home⌠Itâs awesome!
A few quick first thoughts.
Streaming plex I can say ok google pause tv, and it pauses, oddly to resume I have had to say unpause tv.
I kind of wish you could set the default service for Each Device. Like for the TV it would be nice if it auto searched Youtube, Instead of Pandora. But on my Google Home I want it to use Pandora, not Youtube.
I stand with many others in that I wish things wouldnât auto group, and instead I could choose what is grouped together more easily similar to that of the echo. ( I havenât set it up yet, but I have High Hopes for @MichaelSâs newly released smartapp.
Hands down Google understands what I want Much better than echo⌠Itâs not even close in my home⌠And I have 3 full echos and 4 Dots =/
I agree with the default players.
I have 2x homes and use spotify. Spotify does not allow 2x instances playing, if I want to play music on both, I have to use Spotify for one while using Google Music for the other. However, I wish I could just allow my master bedroom home default to google music while the dining room home use Spotify.
You try saying âHey Google Play My Playlist on Google Play Musicâ 3x quickly lol
Unfortunately you cannot 
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jumped ship and imported a Google home to the UK, and now selling my ECHO, few things, am i able to easily set Hue scenes in the same way i can change colours?
How do people deal with sharing shopping lists , calendars ect so its useful for everyone?
so far the random questions you might want to ask google wins on, down side its the name ok google or hey goolgle as its more of a mouthfull
I set up a new Google account specifically for Google Home. On the shopping list that it creates, I share it from Keep to others in the house so they can see the same shopping list. On the calendars I share events from my own calendar to the Google Home account then GH knows about them. I am not sure this is ideal for everyone but it works for me.
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You can actually cast music to the Home from the Google Play Music app, but Iâm not sure if that helps this situation of autoplaying music unless you get Tasker involve on the phone somehow.
Are you able to get GH to read from a shared calendar?
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I believe you could get around this by playing spottily music on one GH and then casting it to the second GH. It would be the same music song playing on both speakers though.
I was under the impression you could cast to other GHâs as if they were a Chromecast Audio speaker. Create a group that has both GH devices and name it âall speakersâ, or something that makes sense to you. Then you can either cast spotify to that group from your phone or you can say âOk goolge, play music on all speakersâ
I only have 1 GH but I have 3x Chromecast audios hooked up to speakers around the house. I do this all the time. âHey Google, Play Dr. joshâs playlist on all speakersâ. After I do that I can say âHey Google, skip this songâ or âHey Google, play dance musicâ it will change for all the speakers until I tell it to stop casting.
I also use Google Play Music and not spotify but I think itâs the same.
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I have only just shared select events. Out of curiosity though, I just now tested sharing an entire calendar from a test account, adding new events (all day and timed) and that did not seem to work. Is that what you are seeing as well?
Yes. For example I can see my wifeâs calendar present on my calendar but when I ask GH to read me me my calendar it only reads ones directly on mine. I think you are saying you invite the shared calendar as a participant on a given event right?
Ah yes, I can play spotify over both GHâs at the same time, however, I cannot play different songs on each GH due to Spotifyâs one instance restriction unfortunately.
I heard Google Play Music could with one login, I might consider moving over.
Fyi recently I have been getting music (Google Music) pausing and saying I am playing something on another device. Sometimes its because I am playing on my phone and family using GH but sometimes I think its just the GH or Phone and the cloud hasnât recognized I am not using the other. Either way the short version is they have a 1 device streaming limit per account. I only recently started having this problem even though my family has piggy backed off my account for a long time so am guessing its something about GH or they are just tightening up their controls. I have since switched GH to its own account. . . but if they donât resolve this to allow at least 2 devices to stream Iâll likely bail on the product. I think its perfectly reasonable to think the GH and another device will be in use since GH is meant to be a centrally shared item in a family.
Well, we may be saying the same thing. Iâm actually inviting a âGuestâ to an event that is my calendar. The âguestâ is the email for the GH. So if I have a dinner planned for both of us, I can share it from my calendar and she can hear it from GH.
I contacted Google Support and they confirmed that even though i have a Pixel with the app i need the physical Home device and my OnHub cant replace it either. Very lame, especially since its been proven the Home device isnât actually required.