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Glenns_and_Roses
Collaborator II
April 23, 2020
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Google Assistant room assignment PROBLEMS

  • April 23, 2020
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I have Google Assistant on all of my Sonos devices.  And for the past year everything has worked great, including my integration with my smart home devices.   I can say things like “Google turn off the light” and it knows what room I’m in and does the right thing.

 

Today I moved a single ONE to a different room.  Re-assigned the room in the Sonos app.  Then re-assigned the room in the Google Home app.  Total chaos followed.  Now NONE of my devices know what room they are in, and turn lights on in the wrong room, or for the entire house.   I unlinked Sonos from Google Home, started over.  Didn’t help.   Then I tried moving things around to different rooms, experimented with a few things.  Didn’t help.  Unlinked a second time.  Didn’t help.    Any ideas?   It seems like when I re-link my Sonos to Google, Google still has a memory of the bad set-up.  Is there a way to totally wipe the Sonos configuration from Google and start over?  Unlinking didn’t help.

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      Best answer by Nevyn72

      Great news, it just magically working again after that it didn't work for 3 weeks! The rooms where you are, are known again.

      At least it now works in our house, hope the glitch stays away now!

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      dropdx
      Trending Lyricist I
      May 21, 2020

      Unfortunately everyone in my house has already learned all the commands.  Everyone has a ceiling fan and light in the bedroom they control with “Hey Google, turn on the fan” or “turn off the light” etc.   It’s going to be a while to train everyone to say “Hey Google, turn on the fan in the mater bedroom” etc. That’s lousy.   Really takes away from the out-of-the-box functionality GA/GH provide.

      What ceiling fans do you have?

      briguybb
      Lyricist I
      May 21, 2020

      Yay, it works for me too! 

        Glenns_and_RosesAuthor
        Collaborator II
        May 21, 2020

        What ceiling fans do you have?

         

        I have regular Hunter brand fans that include a light fixture.  But here’s the good part:

        • In my home there were two wall switches up to the fan junction box (i.e. “2-wire setup”).  One switch for the light, one for the fan.  
        • I did not install the remote that came with the fan. 
        • I “hard-wired” the fan to the existing electrical wires in the junction box.
        • At this point one switch controls the light, the other will turn on/off the fan (but not control the speed)
        • My fan did not have pull-chains, but if it did, the fan pull chain should be in the position for “high”
        • Then I replaced the wall switch for the fan with this:  https://www.amazon.com/GE-Enbrighten-Required-SmartThings-14287/dp/B06XTKQTTV
        • I have a SmartThings hub which will control switch which is the fan speed. 
        • I linked my SmartThing hub to Google Assistant/Home and can control the fan with my voice:
          • “Turn the fan on”
          • “Turn the fan off”
          • Note that Google doesn’t recognize the fan speeds “high/medium/low” so you have to use voice controls like it’s a dimmer.  “Turn the fan to 30%” etc.   0-30% results in low speed, etc.

        Love it!

        If you don’t have that kind of set-up Hunter also makes fans with Smart capabilities built-in that directly integrate with Google Assistant, Alexa, Apple Home Kit, etc.

        I took this approach because I wanted to purchase a particular fan and take advantage of my existing 2-wire / 2-switch set-up.  I still wanted someone to be able to walk into a room and control the light and/or fan with the wall switch and not have to use voice commands.

        Good luck!

          dropdx
          Trending Lyricist I
          May 21, 2020

          What ceiling fans do you have?

           

          I have regular Hunter brand fans that include a light fixture.  But here’s the good part:

          • In my home there were two wall switches up to the fan junction box (i.e. “2-wire setup”).  One switch for the light, one for the fan.  
          • I did not install the remote that came with the fan. 
          • I “hard-wired” the fan to the existing electrical wires in the junction box.
          • At this point one switch controls the light, the other will turn on/off the fan (but not control the speed)
          • My fan did not have pull-chains, but if it did, the fan pull chain should be in the position for “high”
          • Then I replaced the wall switch for the fan with this:  https://www.amazon.com/GE-Enbrighten-Required-SmartThings-14287/dp/B06XTKQTTV
          • I have a SmartThings hub which will control the fan speed. 
          • I linked my SmartThing hub to Google Assistant/Home and can control the fan with my voice:
            • “Turn the fan on”
            • “Turn the fan off”
            • Note that Google doesn’t recognize the fan speeds “high/medium/low” so you have to use voice controls like it’s a dimmer.  “Turn the fan to 30%” etc.   0-30% results in low speed, etc.

          Love it!

          If you don’t have that kind of set-up Hunter also makes fans with Smart capabilities built-in that directly integrate with Google Assistant, Alexa, Apple Home Kit, etc.

          Good luck!

           

          I have the Hunter Romulus, but the smart home integration is terrible. Honestly, I feel like I was lied to through advertising. To talk with the fan you have to say like “Hey Google connect to simple connect app” and then eventually you can tell it to adjust the speed or light, but it's extremely tedious and I never use it.

          Terrible!

           

           

           

           

           

           

           

          Glenns_and_RosesAuthor
          Collaborator II
          May 21, 2020

          I have the Hunter Romulus, but the smart home integration is terrible. Honestly, I feel like I was lied to through advertising. To talk with the fan you have to say like “Hey Google connect to simple connect app” and then eventually you can tell it to adjust the speed or light, but it's extremely tedious and I never use it.

           

          Oh my!  My set-up is direct: “Hey Google, turn on the fan.”   It’s named “ceiling fan” in the apps but it figures it out.  Also the switch remembers the last speed and will stay at that speed every time you turn on the fan, until you change the speed.

          I have fans like this in all the bedroom, and then can setup macro commands in Google Assistant: “Hey Google, turn on all the fans” etc.   Love it.

          phenx
          Lyricist III
          May 22, 2020

          Rooms are working (mostly) for me as well again :-)

          As long as I say “Turn on the lights” it works as intended. When I say “Turn on the lights in this room” in any room it still responds with “ok, I’m turning on 8 lights (=living room)), but does nothing.

          But since I never say “… in this room” I guess it’s fine.

          Glenns_and_RosesAuthor
          Collaborator II
          May 22, 2020

          Try “Turn on the room lights.”

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