Thank you *so* much for providing this terrific video! What a wonderful thing you do by providing us this well-done lesson, and for free. I'm impressed. Thanks again.
It is now December 2019 - I am using a iphone 10. I can't follow the screens on your video. Do you have a more current video on how to setup multiple users?
First off, as I've said before, I live your videos. Unfortunately I have to express my major frustration and disappointments with the Google Home setups in my household. I have 2 regular sized Homes, and 2 Minis. We went with Google over Echos because of sound quality with music (of the dots) and the inclusion of RU-vid Red with the Play music subscription. However, the frustrations come in with the multiple users having issues getting playlists to work properly. For example my poor son has his playlist called *trumpets* 'Brett's'. So when he says "play Brett's playlist" 90% of the time she says "okay, playing Brett Aldrich on Google Play music". After about the 10th time (no joke) she will finally get it. And yes, all of our (4) voices have been set up independently and if we ask "who am I?" she will get it right. Which leads to the next, FAR TOO FREQUENT issue of losing wifi connection. Despite having just been playing music and working totally fine, the next thing we know she's telling us "Unable to find your wifi connection. Please try again a little later". The frustrations are numerous. The wifi signals are perfectly strong, static and stable, yet they will just drop at random. Ooh and most recently has been the disappearance of the units from my list of devices. The other day only one of 5 (4 Homes and a Chromecast) was listed. Despite all being on the same wifi network and having been listed there earlier, and listed again later in the afternoon of that same day. Any tips?
Thank you for the info but I have a question now how would children turn on the light if they do not have an account or visitors. I have hallway lights with light switches but if the lights which is always on because of the Google home how would they turn the light on
Is there anyway to get a current version of this? I'm trying to get a mini to recognize my Mom's voice so if she falls and needs help it will call one of us. This is exactly what I need but the menu's are so different I can't find what you saying to do
u deserve more subs :D I was thinking about getting google home for my birthday and after watching ur google home,e videos it's settled. I'm getting it :D thx
When I add my kids to my home, will they be able to delete stuff? Also, Harmony will only listen to me and my wife to turn the TV on. But it won't listen to my kids. Do I need to link my kids to my Google account for Harmony to work for my kids?
Great video. Just want to ask if google home mini is useful for me as I am tired of answering all queries of my 6 year old kid...😂. So basically I need an assistant who can answer his queries. Is it the right device?
Is there away to setup one shopping list and all family members can add with their voice? At the moment it is personalising to each one’s one shopping list
My parents got a google home and I’m seriously thinking of getting one, and one that’s a clock radio as well, does it have a sleep timer feature so it will turn off.
So basically each member most have a Google account and each device (phone) most have a separate account app for the mini to recognized each person's name?
Hi I’m new to all of these and getting confused. When linking family members are they able to sign into their personal music apps or is it running off yours from the initial user set up. I’m torn because I just got an echo and more for Christmas presents and seems like with echo all family members will have to listen to my music accounts. My daughter is liking all the skills Alexa can do though
Good video, but we could use one showing what needs to be done when you add a second or third speaker. It seemed me that only linking of accounts to each added device is needed.
+P Schmied Yep! After you have already trained your voice you just need to go into the devices tab and link your Google account. Great idea for a video!
First of all Awesome video; and THANK YOU very much for lowering the volume on the trigger words. Hope you're not offended if I say that wifey is GORGEOUS.
I love this feature although is there a way to have one shopping list on one account? See my mom goes shopping and she doesn't want to always switch between accounts to view what the rest of the family has added to the list.
Yes you can make a shared list but it is a bit tricky to get it setup. See this video for full details: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-32ZF_I1NhQM.html
I'm debating whether to get my 9 year old daughter an Amazon Echo dot or Google home mini for her room. One of my concerns is we live in different households (I live in a care home due to my disability you see). With the Amazon Echo dot id like to know if she's be able to use the device but linked to my Amazon prime account with a child profile? (So shed be able to use Amazon prime music etc but not be able to make voice purchases) The same applies with the Google home mini. I don't think she has a Google account so could she be linked to mine? I'd have to set her up a free Spotify account which would be fine.
Brett, my wife (second user linked to Google Home) can't control the smart plug with her voice. It says something like "It looks like these devices are not set up, go to Home Control to configure them". Btw, the assistant is recognizing her voice when asking other things. Have you experienced this issue? Or anyone?
I did all of the above and Google set up is a complete mess, I have 3 devices, 2x nest minis (kids) & 1 nest hub (mine) & all had the voice match installed and have their own google account installed on their own device with their own google home app linked to my owner account. When my kids ask a question, all devices respond, if they ask to play music, all devices resond and start playing music in each room at the same time etc they will not work independently I cannot seperate them, I have done a factory reset and started from scratch 3 times, they all interact at the same time, so frustrating...I really hoped this would work, but seems it only works if you want a synchronised experience throughout your home (which I don't) aarrggh I have now purchased Echo dots to see if this system would work better for us.
Can you do a videos with the new setting in google assistant. That wjen you create a new home you can invite home members. Also what will be the difference between this way on your video or adding member to you home setting. Cause is confusing me
thank you for this video. I do have a question though and thought you might be able to answer it. I have a guest coming to visit and want to know if for example they enter the guest room and they say hey google turn on guest room light ...will it work without them being set up to my home system?
Good morning. Is it possible to ser a routine that when I say "today is my wife's birthday" that Google along with Philips Hue can adjust the lights to change colours to create a party atmosphere and then Google plays Happy Birthday? If you could let me know, I would appreciate it. Thank you
Did you skip a step? I have my Google account associated with my home app, but that doesn't seem to be in any way related to opening up multiple users.
+Darius Spearman If you are the first to set it up it is all apart of that process. Here are the full instructions: support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7323910?hl=en
I have a question. If I subscribe to youtube premium under my google account and add my google account to the Google home to use RU-vid music.... then my wife adds her google account to our Google home but doesn't have RU-vid premium.... the google home will recognize her voice as opposed to mine. If she asks to play music from RU-vid music will she play songs from my RU-vid music because my premium account is connected or will it prevent her because it recognizes her voice and she doesn't have RU-vid premium? I hope that isn't confusing. And when I say Google home I mean the google nest mini. Please help.
So if a guest were to ask to play music, who's default account would it use? I ask this because my Spotify account is the default music service and since Spotify limits you to only listen on one device at a time, I was wondering what would happen if a guest asked while I was not home myself, but listening to Sportify in my car?
So are you saying that you don't have to be a user to activate the Google home to turn lights on and off and play music well maybe not the music but would they be able to turn lights on and off with out having an account with the Google home
Kind of. You need to share your Shopping List with her and then she would be able to see both of the lists from here account. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-32ZF_I1NhQM.html
Hey Brett i wanted to ask if i have 2 google accounts and events created from both accounts that show up in my (one) calander, why wont my google assistant read all events when asked ??? Please help
I just got my first google mini. My family is composed of 4 people. My wife and I and 2 girls. I linked everyones accounts but when we ask who I am it works for my wife and I but non for my kids. It answers always either my wifes name or mine. What did I do wrong? Should I do voice recognition on their devices again?
I am trying to setup voice match on my home mini, but because I setup my sons accounts with their real age, when i try to bring up google home on their ipad it says "Your account can't go here". We have all IOS devices so cannot use google family link, which i think would solve. Hoping you can help! I must be over complicating something!
I am having a few issues setting this up. I no longer have the blue ribbon saying multi user is available, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to set this up. Any suggestions?
Could you use a retired phone (no sim, just wifi) for streaming reasons and how would you do that so anyone could tell google home to play Netflix without having to have their own phone tied up?
+kevin beitler So once you tie your Netflix to the account everyone in the house will be able to use it. They won't need to each have an account it will just default to yours.
Question. About to get another for mom and dad. Mom has a smartphone but dad doesn't not as he can't see. She will like the find my phone feature as she's forgetful. But since Dad's about blind he will want things like Spotify to hear music and adjust volume. So how do we set up their accounts since one of them is without a phone?
You most likely will be able to have her just set up an account with it and link Spofitu and default music service. He will be able to use it and change the volume and play music without adding an account. If he starts asking for it to remember things or set reminders he would need to add an account. You could do this on her phone by changing the email address in the Google Home app. Set up his voice and then that should work for them.
I have multiple tablets set up around my house with the Google home app with my voice match if I link my girlfriend account to the Google home speaker will she be able to use the Google home app on the tablets or just the Google home speaker?
I've tried training my voice several times and I keep getting the message " problem with the mic, try again in a few min " I've tried it on my S7E and a an old droid turbo. Found a lot about this on Reddit with many people having the same issue. Any suggestions? Some are saying it's a problem with the GH app?
Question: Do you know if it is possible to disable some home functions for non-registered users? For example, I do not want strangers to unlock my door if I have a smart lock connected to my google home.
I currently set up a Google home and even set voice match,but I don't know why my father and mother can ask Google home my alarm and schedule ,how can I set it to only response to my voice,please help.
Brett, Google won't let my wife add items to the shopping list connected to my account. I've added her to the home and shared the ShoppingList with her but no luck, any thoughts?
In the Assistant settings have your set Google Keep as your default notes app on both of your accounts? Also try naming the Keep list something else instead of Shopping List, maybe Grocery List or the name of the store.
+Rich Francabandera Not with the Google Home, you will need to know what you want to watch. Or you can open the app, browse and then cast to the Chromecast from the phone.
Hi Brett. Mine does not say multi user. I am in the US. I want my husband to use this with custom responses to him. He downloaded google home to his phone and can find our google mini but no option there either to add him. I have no option to invite though I reset my voice. I am using a tablet and he would be using his phone. Any idea what is wrong? This is very annoying. Thanks for your help.
+Thagirion9 Make sure you are on the same WiFi, then he should go to the settings in the top left and make sure he is sign in with his Google account. Then under devices tab in the top left under the Google Home Mini it should say Link Account. If not try resetting all devices and try again.
Thank you again for your help. Nothing was working but finally found that if I pull out the menu from the left, the one with the three bars that shows my gmail with the rainbow behind it there's an option there to add another account. I added his and then the option finally came up. I think this is a way that no one has mentioned before. I did this on my tablet. He had to confirm on his phone he'd logged onto a new device. Once that was done and all the legal questions were answered it worked. Very hard round about way and some other stuff happened too that I'm not sure what I did but now it works. When he asks "What's my name" Google knows it's him and knows him from me. Happy Thanksgiving.
Tech With Brett I really want my daughter to use mine, but she's only 3 and I'm not setting up an email account for her. Can she be added as a "guest"?
+Kris Margett She can use it just the same without an email linked. It just won't know her name. Check the description here for fun things she can try: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i9ZPJFkP6mg.html
