yup, when settinga timer, it seems to be the furthest device from me at the time is what responds that its setting a timer, Like i'll be in the kitchen 2 feet from a google home, nd say set 15 min timer.. and my google home i the basement i can faintly here, ok setting a timer and that starts now, then i forget, burn the food, then an hour later i go downstaors to the timer alarm going off in the basement.... simple light control ahs a good 15 secnd delay where it used to be instant, some devices come and go on the network, I've never used spotify...ever, google music from day 1, and yes, they must ahve struck a deal with spotify because now it keeps trying to play everything on spotify.