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Ryan365
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May 15, 2019
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Only one Mic works on a stereo pair of ones with Google assistant?

  • May 15, 2019
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Is this normal? If so this is awful. It's exactly why I've never been able to use them for surround sound with the beam and alexa.

My room is very long, now I have to shout all the way across when I'm at the other end of the room.
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      Best answer by Ryan S
      Thanks for the feedback everyone. Yes, it is defaulted to the left side (as the left side is the "main" in a stereo pair, and for surrounds it also has a higher profile).

      This was in part due to performance during the beta test, but I'll make sure the team knows you're looking for stereo mics, or the ability to select which of the two has Google Assistant installed.

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      kishlette
      Trending Lyricist I
      December 12, 2019

      Same problem as everyone  else.  Bought the beam and 4 ones. First find out you cant pair 4 ones with the beam, only 2. So so set 2 up the ones as surround and found out the mic's are disabled when used as surrounds. So had to disable surround and use them as stereo pair and then find out the right mic is disabled in stereo pair.

       

      Why did I pay so much for smart speakers that cant be used as smart speakers. And what kind of speaker system is this if they can only be setup individually to take advantage of smart features. Lastly 5.1 configuration have been around for decades and even that has issues?

       

      If you set yours up in a 5.1 config using a Beam, Sub and two Ones as surrounds, is it the Beam that has the mic active?

      Just asking because I have a Playbar, which doesn’t have a mic, so my left One surround ends up being ‘it’ in a 5.1 set up.

      I would actually be pretty happy if the central sound bar could be the one with the active mic - it’s in the middle, after all… To be honest, having too many speakers with active mics in a small area gets a little annoying for me with Google Assistant since you can’t control which one is going to answer. I end up trying to talk to my One in the bedroom and the One in my ensuite bathroom answers and plays the news!

      nik9669a
      Senior Virtuoso
      December 12, 2019

      Yes, the Beam’s mic would be active in the 5.1 configuration. 

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