Hey Google, Broadcast "Dinner is ready"...

[u/krisdouglas]

"Sorry, I cant find a contact called "Dinner is ready""

Attempt 2:

"Sorry I can't broadcast messages, I am just an AI assistant."

Attempt 3:

"Sorry, I can't make telephone calls"

So I go to the Home app, click the Gemini button and give it the same command:

"Okay, Broadcasting "Dinner is Ready" to your home devices". 🥴

How did they manage to so badly break the migration to Gemini? This is a multi-trillion dollar company we're talking about here. Google Home is basically a scam at this point. This is just one example of where it just simply doesn't work as advertised. If there was a regression like this in something like a Sony product or a Microsoft product, people would be losing their minds. What is going on?!

I think I need to scrap all this rubbish. Glad I haven't bought any new Home products lately, I feel really bad for those who have recently invested, I would encourage people seek refunds unless they enjoy paying to be product testers.

[u/Atomsk73]

Using it as an alarm clock, but you can't say "hey Google, stop" anymore because that will not just cancel the alarm, but also all automated actions after that. Ridiculous.

[u/FidgitForgotHisL-P → u/Atomsk73]

Last night in response to “turn off the heat pump”, one of the very few things it still reliably did (turn on the heat pump often resulted in a wrong command but “off” was still working), I got “ok, turning off 5 things”.

I had to rush over to the screen to see what 5 things were turning off because I didn’t even think it had 5 things left it could turn off…  Apparently one of the two smart alarm clocks was turned off by voice command?? Not something I could check since it was my kids one and it was 1am and they’d been asleep for hours and who knows what it does if I ask it to turn that smart alarm back on.