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The new Google Home app is excellent with one of its best features being the customizable “Favorites” tab, and, now, you can finally add lighting groups to that tab. The Favorites tab in the Google ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

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Google is rolling out a fix for widespread Google Home voice control issues affecting smart lights. Users experienced problems commanding specific lights or rooms, leading to frustration and even a ...

A future update of Google Home could allow you to create light presets. Users will be able to preset color and brightness for smart lights, making it easier to toggle through different combinations ...

Google Home has been suffering from multiple connectivity issues going back about a week. Users have complained in particular about not being able to control smart lights via voice command. Google is ...

The great thing about smart home technology isn't just that you can turn the lights off without getting out of bed, but that you don't have to turn them off at all. With Google Home, you can harness ...

If you’ve opened the Google Home app in the past few weeks, you’ve probably been greeted with an “offline” status for your lights. Google is finally acknowledging the problem, with a fix coming ...

There is a bug affecting Google Home users. For some reason, Google Assistant won’t allow people to change the colors of their smart lights. Google is working on a fix for the bug as we speak.

Google is working on a fix, but there's no estimate of how long the outage will last. As Android Authority reports, a number of Reddit posts over the past 48 hours complain that a range of smart home ...