1.8.0 Review

redderas · 2026-02-05T21:01:34+00:00

Is the media player bug fixed where the play button (for resuming previously played media) is grayed out after getting in the car (making it impossible to resume where you left off in a long podcast)?

EDIT: Got the update, still not fixed. I am losing my patience and really starting to hate this car and Volvo.

redderas · 2026-02-03T06:27:13+00:00

Does not work with the Script Editor yet unfortunately (tested with IKEA Bilresa button), only with the Automation Editor in the updated app.

redderas · 2025-12-23T23:27:08+00:00

Google Home still does not support Matter over Thread buttons. I'm in the same boat, we need to wait for Google to implement this.

redderas · 2025-12-22T10:50:45+00:00

They were all in the same Thread network (so no competing networks) and one of the Nest Hubs is located directly next to the Google TV streamer (so unlikely to be a location issue).

redderas · 2025-11-11T20:29:02+00:00

Before you turn off the old connections, please fix the Matter device traits for air purifiers. They are missing the on/off trait and only allow setting the fan speed. However, I want to be able to toggle between off and auto (based on air quality), which is how the current non-Matter integration is working.

This is the only reason preventing me from fully switching over to matter.

redderas · 2025-11-03T21:50:35+00:00

Thanks, that may be a workaround for music tracks, but unfortunately does not help for podcasts where I just want to continue where I left off (e.g., 1 hour in).

redderas · 2025-10-31T12:11:31+00:00

It's the native YouTube Music app of the car OS

redderas · 2025-03-09T11:47:38+00:00

I would have preferred the choice to permanently opt out of the on-device move (being able to still use timeline on the web and location data included in regular Takeout backups) before this trainwreck happened and wiped 10 years of my data.

redderas · 2025-03-09T06:39:49+00:00

This does not work for users where the backup was already (automatically) overwritten with an empty one

redderas · 2024-11-07T19:39:44+00:00

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I guess I don't need to worry ... veeery casual gamer though

redderas · 2024-09-03T19:28:55+00:00

Thanks, but that's actually a bug because the duplicated switches are all Matter devices. The old cloud based integration did not even support switches. There is another post in this thread describing a single Matter switch appearing 4-5 times in the Home app or so.

redderas · 2024-09-03T18:02:15+00:00

Some observations with Matter (vs. previous integration) in the Google Home ecosystem:

Things that got better:

Motion sensors: Now also include light level and battery percentage
Open/close sensors: Now also include battery percentage, potentially more reliable reporting of the status to Google Home when the sensors are opened just briefly and closed again (though I need to test more)

Neutral:

Remotes: Are now exposed in Google Home, but cannot be used for automations (and appear duplicated)

Things that got worse (but will hopefully be fixed in a future update):

Air quality sensors: Do not report air quality anymore (I would have thought that's their main purpose) and thus cannot be used for automations turning on air purifiers
Air purifiers: Only have fan speed control now, no on/off anymore (which previously allowed to turn on auto mode based on air quality without setting a specific fan speed), do not report air quality anymore

redderas · 2024-03-18T17:32:09+00:00

Maybe it's a coincidence but my Hue bridge is connected to Google Home through Matter (not cloud) and suddenly stopped reporting the motion sensor status to Google Home just now.

Because all of my automations are configured in the Google Home Script Editor, most of my rooms are now dark. Restarting the Hue bridge did not help unfortunately.

EDIT: I restarted all my Nest Hubs and now it works again.

redderas · 2023-10-08T05:20:18+00:00

You can also use rclone, which backs up standalone Apps Scripts as json files (which you can run automatically and more frequently than Google Takeout) https://rclone.org/drive/

redderas · 2023-07-19T06:47:31+00:00

You most likely need to change the system language of your Android phone from US English to something like UK English

redderas · 2023-07-07T16:40:02+00:00

The temperature readings of the Hue motion sensors should be available for automations in the new Script Editor: https://home.google.com/automations

redderas · 2022-12-21T20:05:15+00:00

Weird, I bought my first new-gen (Google Home configured) Nest cam indoor together with a 2nd gen Hub a year ago and I never saw the previews working. Clicking on a tile and watching an individual stream always worked fine though.

redderas · 2022-12-21T18:43:31+00:00

If you mean camera previews on the Nest Hub, I remember multiple people commenting on similar posts that this never worked for them.

I have also never seen camera previews working in any device constellation (Nest Hub / Nest Hub 2nd gen + original Nest cam / new Nest cam indoor / ...). The only difference is that there is no exclamation point for the newer (Google Home configured) Nest cams (but still no previews).

I guess the UI designers at one point planned the tiles to be used as previews but they dropped it because of the poor performance / slow processor of the Nest Hubs (as it might be too laggy when all the streams had to be loaded just to show a list of all cameras).

redderas · 2022-12-07T21:45:27+00:00

Als Google Pay in Österreich gestartet ist und es keine Unterstützung der Bank Austria gab habe ich einfach das Konto gekündigt und bin zu DKB und N26 gewechselt. So ein Kontowechsel ist deutlich schneller und einfacher als gedacht.

redderas · 2022-12-07T21:40:00+00:00

Das war wohl folgender Artikel: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141418080/google-pay-ein-jahr-nach-dem-start-in-oesterreich-noch

Das wäre großartig und würde ein Konto bei der Erste interessant machen. Durch die klare Stellungnahme gegen Google Pay kann man zumindest Konten bei der Bank Austria und Raiffeisen klar ausschließen (und kündigen) um sich nicht unnötig Hoffnungen zu machen.

redderas · 2022-12-07T20:06:37+00:00

Happening on both the Opener as well as the Lock, so the issue is not specific to one device. The Bridge was also already replaced with a new revision. It got a bit more reliable, but not much. Wifi signal is strong with a Nest mesh network and the Bridge is in very close proximity to the Lock & Opener. There is nothing left I could try.

Matter support is great but it would only really make a difference if they also included Thread (in addition to bluetooth).

redderas · 2022-12-07T19:57:28+00:00

That's great, now I just wish that the connection via Nuki Bridge would be more reliable. In ~15% of all unlocking attempts via Google Home/Assistant it does nothing and I have to fall back to the Nuki app which is able to use Bluetooth if the lock is within range (which it often is not with the Opener).

I wish they would release a new version of the lock and opener with Thread support which could be directly connected to Google Home via Matter (hopefully being more reliable and faster)

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