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Google’s latest Home updates just fixed my biggest annoyances with its speakers and cameras
Google details 42 fixes to its Home app and the devices compatible with it.
Google’s latest release notes detail early access updates to Gemini for Home and software updates to the Google Home app, focused on bug fixes and general improvements to cameras, doorbells, Nest Wi-Fi, Google TV Streamers, and in-app controls and interfaces.
There are 42 fixes Google addresses in its release notes, ranging from stability improvements to more pressing issues such as Gemini misunderstanding commands and devices connecting more quickly after a network timeout.
Google fixed a few issues that, if they had continued, would have made me consider using another manufacturer for my home’s cameras and doorbell.
Google’s release notes promise improvements in Gemini’s ability to transfer music between rooms. If you have several Google Home speakers around your house, you might want to use your voice to command one to transfer audio.
According to Google, Gemini’s understanding of these commands is now deeper and more aware of the rooms in your home. (It’s something that Sonos does really well.) Now, you can tell Gemini to “move the music here,” and it should work.
Also: I changed these Android Auto settings to limit what Gemini learns about me
In the same vein, Google says it fixed a volume issue where users would command Gemini to adjust the volume on a speaker in another room, but the speaker in closer proximity would respond instead.
Google’s release notes also cite fixes to timer and alarm volume issues, unprompted responses from speakers and displays, and more reliable YouTube TV commands on smart displays.
Google’s release addresses major bugs in the Google Home app when users are trying to access a camera’s live view. For iOS users, the issue with scrolling to the end of an event and receiving a “Video Not Available” error should be fixed. On foldable Androids, watching a live event while folding or unfolding the phone would prompt an error. Google says this issue is also fixed.