Google Home (page 4 of 5)

I received one for my birthday in July, bottom line is that it has a lot of problems. For the majority of questions it does not have the capability to provide an answer. It can answer things like "What sound does a (insert animal name here) make" (only common animals). If you ask when a building was built, when was a town founded, any historical question, any geographical question, any scientific or political question, anything more complex than "What sound does a kookaburra make" you will get an answer saying it does not understand.

If y...

I bought the Sony Google Home for my husband as a Christmas present

I was lucky enough to get a Google Home for Father Day from my Daughter which was great.

Setup was realtivley easy and I finally managed to get it paired with My Goolge Play Music account which is the best feature of it. I can simply say Google Play "Pop ballads" and it immediately connects and plays selected songs from what the classify Pop Ballads. Also great for listening to the news in the morning. Speaker sound is great fopr such a small unit

Voice training is not so good. Easy to complete but it recognises any and every voice that ...

I got a Google Home for my birthday. It is amazing! So amazing that we went halves in buying home minis for each of the kids and bought a mini for the kitchen and lounge room. We signed up for a Google Play Music subscription for the family and we got Youtube Red for free. We can all stream our own music in our rooms and I've helped the kids (aged 4 - 10 yrs) set up playlists which even our 4 year old can control by herself. We already had a Chromecast and Netflix so now we can ask the google home to turn on the tv and play whatever we want on ...

Just another gadget that doesn't really add anything except more technology for the sake of technology. While it works well as a bluetooth speaker, to use it for other things requires you to modernise your home and install wifi controls on everything. I can see this being useful down the track but not now. Unnecessary

I have secretly been obsessing over our Google Home for the last 5 months. Yes it does promise to turn off the lights, play Netflix upside down and cook you dinner (well that is a little way off) but that is all stuff you can find in a Back Mirror episode.
The essence of the Home to me is that it plays a stream of whatever music you feel like and ask for..on a good quality speaker .. effortlessly! Just say "Hey Google play me some relaxing jazz" and it or rather she says "ok then here is relaxing jazz station" and up comes the music. Stop wh...

It seems all Google Home is is a way for get you onto paid google apps. Music is only free on play for a month or so then you have to pay etc.

Good
- Handy to have an easily access verbal search engine to finish family arguments or get a recipe.
- Understands the ladies in my family fine.
- Speaker is of good enough sound quality for listening to music.
- Lets you verbally put YouTube videos etc onto your Chromecast. You have to know the name of it though or it just picks one for you.
- The reviewers here that are Google fan boys. I wish I was so I could say it was great.

Bad ...

I received a Home Mini free when I purchased a Google Pixel 2 phone recently and I love it, except for only being able to only add one account. So the next day I purchased the standard Google Home and love it even more.

The Google Assistant is very good even though it's still learning/evolving. Being able to ask questions without typing on the phone is very convenient. It'll read out recipes for you too. The speaker can output a decent volume even though it's pretty small. Having a wireless speaker to stream music to is awesome. It'll stream...

If you want a bluetooth speaker of decent quality this is good as it is. But it also come with the ability to answer question, remind you of things you need/want to do. Its an alarm, a timer. If you put it in your kitchen ask it for a recipe it will take you through it step by step, only going on to the next phase when you ask it. You can ask it to play music it will, not just any music specific songs, or genre or artist. Ask it to play a radio station it does.

Ask it for a quiz it sets a quiz for you or if your with others it makes it a com...

Very difficult to set up properly. It keeps telling me to do things then doesn't give me any options to actually do them.
I have already paid for and subscribed to YouTube red but this thing keeps asking me to subscribe to it again even though I already have it.
Very ordinary that the only music it will play is through paid for subscriptions anyway!!!! Chromecast will. Go figure.
Won't let me set up Google Assistant on my preferred email address...god knows why???
Answers questions very poorly, incorrectly or just has no clue and it can't u...

My god - all the reviews here must have been written by plants. The google home has been released before anything works. It’s like a Steve Jobs demo of the iPhone before it was real. The zgoigle home is there to feedback to google what you ask it so google can actually develop a product. This is for early adopters only and is not ready for any mainstream use. I asked - what is the cricket score - sorry I can’t help you with that but my team is working on it. What is on today at the MCG. Sorry, I’m still learning about Aussie Rules. Turn...

Like most homes we have had WiFi for years. Since then we have gradually added a smart TV, Google Chromecast, a Google Play Music subscription and a Netflix Subscription. For Christmas this year we were given a Google Home. We were skeptical at first and thought it just another version of the voice assistant on our phones.We couldn't have been more wrong. Our Google Home now links everything and we can operate music and TV with our voice . Ask it to play your favourite album, TV show or a Youtube video and it does it. When u r finished ask it to turn off the TV and it does it, all with just voice commands. We use it all day. Highly recommended to link your home media in one easy to use device.

The Google Home was a risk purchase for me on the Boxing Day sales, although out of everything I’ve purchased, it’s come out the most joyable item. The Home can help you with everyday needs, and can even engage in a conversation with you. The best thing, it keeps on updating every day, with New learnt actions and sayings. I can’t wait to see the future of this product!

This device whilst good, could certainly be better and I think it will get there in time. It is great for answering questions about the weather and for streaming music, but I think it needs some refinements. It gets confused when the Google Home ad comes on the TV, yet is is only supposed to recognise our voices. It also occasionally babbles away to itself, unasked and gets told to shut up. Relatively easy to set up but does sometimes drop off the network for no reason. I'm sure most of these issues can be dealt with via software updates.

A great addition to the home Network . The sound quality and volume was a pleasant surprise . Have found it to be much more consistent in understanding requests than Siri although their are still a few things that it needs to be able to do . You don't necessarily have to be a diehard google user to find uses for it but it helps . The iOS app is good generally with plenty of options and additions . Will only get better with time and I'm sure the kids will leave it alone eventually !

Google home is the best gadget to date. I say good morning and it gives me the latest weather and news then plays the music of my choice. She entertains the kids of all ages as well. When I come home I say "I'm Home" and she welcomes me. Brilliant.

It isn't the far better US product, don't get the two mixed up. At the end we have family yelling at it because it struggles to hear from about 2m away, and it has very poor understanding. it's far easier to type in requests using the phone, which means the voice activation mechanism is useless.

I was a bit unsure of this product as i wanted to set up a smart home but worried it might be a gimmick.

It is not! Controls my entertainment system and smart lights by voice. My split system a/c by voice and gives the weather info and entertains the kids for ages with them asking ' hey google what does a tiger....etc sound like'

I'm hoping google will be adding new features soon to be able to get it to work with the ring video doorbell and smart locks and cameras.
When you consider home automation used to cost tens of thousands of do...

Seriously this device is absolutely amazing, I can control my lights with LIFX Globes, appliances with Wifi Smart Plugs, I can set an alarm to wake up to, I can select TV Shows and Movies on Stan and Netflix to play on my TV through my Chromecast that's hooked up to my TV, I can play Music through my Chromecast-Audio that's hooked up to my "Receiver" through it's speakers or the GH itself, I can add to my Shopping List (and more to come as extras are purchased) all with voice activation.

Google Home is very easy to setup, truly, I'm a Linux ...

So I bought the Google Home this week and have been using it for 6 days. This is the Australian model.

You can checkout its features on their website or by reading other reviews, but I want to focus on its user-friendliness in this review in terms of what it does well and what still needs improvement.

To run the device you will need wireless internet, a device running Android, and the most recent Google and Google Home app.

One thing (of a few) to note is that unless you have a paid subscription to Youtube Red, Google Play or Spotif...

Update Mar 8th 2018
Just got some nice WIFI globes x2 - "SMART BULB Wireless RGB LED WiFi Lamp Light" $21ea.
On my Android phone used the SMART LIFE app to connect to the bulbs via my WIFI. Then added Google Home as an authrorised user on the app. Not hard to do. Two lamps are now voice controlled.
So now I can say "Hey Google .... lights (or name each light) .... on / off / blue / pink / 'sunset' / 'romantic' / dim 50% etc" :)
Not essential but a bit of fun and I always wanted to test it out.
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Update Jan 2018
Device is still going strong, no issues or concerns.
Just got some Google Mini's on sale. ...

This is not a gimmick as many of us had assumed. I was also skeptical at first but after using it I couldn't live without it. By its own it won't do much other than playing music and telling weather reports and some jokes, but you'll start to see the potential after you buy other smart devices.

I would recommend devices that supports IFTTT (look it up at google, it allows different hardware and services to work together if they support this standard) for a start. To turn dumb devices (such as lights or anything that works with just power on ...

I was skeptical and apprehensive as it is expensive,but having recently discovered wifi speakers( +$150 for just one) this is an intelligent and helpful home companion that does so much more.
I have been waiting since the 80's for home automation and a voice controlled presence. Google Home finally does this.
It will play any music you can think of from youtube music,radio stations (from tunein or iheart radio).
Tell you the weather/news and even read poems/quotes or Shakespeare .

With add ons (a few smart plugs and light globes)- It wil...

Bought this product today, As a non techy person I was incredibly happy with how easy it was it was to set up. So far I have played music and been impressed by the sound quality given the size of the unit. I have also listened to local radio, asked about weather forecasts, listened to the news and played the trivia game. good fun.

The promise of Google Home is quite simple - it is the voice activated hub of all your smart devices ..... one caveat - if you are in the United States.

If you are in Australia, it's just a big version of your Google Assistant on your smartphone with some pretty lights.

What is the use of releasing a device in Australia that doesn't support the already supported third-party Assistant Apps?

Google's answer: Third party apps are synced with "Assistant Apps" on the Google Home app section. Now this "Assistant Apps" is launched in the US and today (August 3) it is launched in the UK.

A waste of $169. At least I bought it from a reputable store and not some grey market crap like from Kogan.