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Contributor I
December 3, 2019

How to remove old Speaker from Account and Google Assistant

  • December 3, 2019
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Hello,

 

Have some old speakers on my account still, as a result they come up in Google Assistant when linking my account. Any ideas how to remove them (other than the answer I have been able to see online which is they have to be registered with another account). 

Or anyone have any ideas how to remove them at least from Google Assistant as a device (they get pulled from the Integration with Sonos, which I assume if from my Sonos account online).

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19 replies

Lyricist I
December 15, 2019

I have the same issue.  I updated my amps but still see the old ones in Google Home.

Contributor I
December 31, 2019

I’m in the exact same situation. I’ve moved the old ones to a room name I don’t use so there’s less confusion. 

Contributor I
February 3, 2020

Also having the same issue; surprised there's no way to remove the device and meanwhile voice commands don't work in the room with the old device ghosted in there...

Lyricist I
February 16, 2020

I also have the same problem, old Play:5 still showing up in Google Home. Seemingly no way to remove it.

Ken_Griffiths
February 16, 2020

+1 from me. It would be nice to be able to (automatically, or manually)  remove, archive, or hide, devices held in a users online account profile after say a period three months of continuous connection-inactivity, as some devices are not always sold on, but maybe recycled, or faulty/discarded etc.

I have an old Sonos Dock for example still showing in my profile that has long-since bitten the dust and was recycled when it was obsoleted. No chance that will ever be registered again. 

A factory reset and re-registration of a Product could perhaps restore a device to a users account, in any event, so that all is then still not lost, even after the three month period has passed.

Contributor I
February 16, 2020

What I ended up doing was creating a new "home" in Google home called a" unused" and moved the device to that location. Now it's just my smart device graveyard. Similar, actually, to what I ended up doing for devices I temporarily don't need (for some holiday smart plugs I have an "unused" room, but that didn't cut it for the Sonos device to not be found).

Lyricist I
July 25, 2020

I had heaps of similarly frustrating issues.  I needed to set up and reorganise a whole google nest network with 9 wifi points and heaps of rooms.  Trying to keep everything organized was important, but made difficult by the old Sonos speakers that I could not remove.  The old devices were also stopping me from setting up new Sonos speakers with Google Assiatnt.  In the end I was able to remove the Sonos service from the Google Assistant App.  This in turn removed all Sonos devices from the Google Home App (HOORAH!!!!).  I then added the Google Assistant back to my new Sonos setup, which caused Google Home to do a whole new search for Sonos devices and only added the ones that it found.

Lyricist II
September 10, 2020

Same Problem here. 

Ken_Griffiths
September 10, 2020

Is it not easier to just select the Sonos Skill/Action in the Google App and long-press it and choose the pop-up option to ‘check for new devices’. See screenshot from my iPad Google Home App.
 

I always thought that action refreshed and updated all Sonos devices in the Google Home, removing old products and updating the Home with any new devices.

 

I haven’t tested it, but I thought that was the idea behind that context menu link?

Lyricist II
September 11, 2020

Thanks for this idea, was hoping it will work. I tested it. Unfortunately it didn’t work in my case. I have all my Sonos speakers twice in the Google Home app. There is always one that I can delete, the other not (marked yellow and renamed to be able to differentiate them.)