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Seamlessly. You can set it up as the default receiver in the app so none of that specifying where to cast stuff to.

So you don't have to specify where it plays each time? Some posts I've read when searching suggests this, but they were quite old.
 
Hmm can't seem to do this with the bigger Home. But she now has a Canadian accent :)
When I first got my google home mini it had an american accent - and I could make it male sounding too. But I realised after using it for a while that it would also only read me out american news and would only give me temperatures in fahrenheit despite me having set it as celcius in the settings. There is a setting buried somewhere on the home app to tell it to be UK English, mine functioned much better once I'd done that.
 
Does anyone else find that casting music to multiple devices is a shambles if you have a wifi repeater in the house?
And - has anyone tried the google wifi device? Seems expensive. But does it work well?
 
No experience of using a repeater I'm afraid.

I've got the mini casting to other speakers. Confused the heck out of me earlier when I told it stop playing music and it told me wasn't, despite music coming out the speakers. Turns out it was started on a phone. Little things like that could definitely be slicker.
 
No experience of using a repeater I'm afraid.

I've got the mini casting to other speakers. Confused the heck out of me earlier when I told it stop playing music and it told me wasn't, despite music coming out the speakers. Turns out it was started on a phone. Little things like that could definitely be slicker.
you can tell it to stop playing music on specific devices.
eg - hey google pause kitchen speakers.
it should work whatever device started it.
 
Remote control of music casting from multiple devices is poor, too.
Mine was terrible when I had a wifi booster to extend in to the other end of the house.
And it was a bit rubbish when I had 5ghz and 2.4ghz networks switched on in the router.

I now have no booster and only run a router with one frequency and it is excellent.

But I struggle to get wifi in the far end of my house.
 
Better ok Google than some anthropomorphic sexy woman's name

I won't be happy with any of this nonsense until Windows 10's Cortana pops up as an actual holograph as per it's namesake from the Halo games. Until then this is not the future, it's so barely even the present that it might as well just be the past.
 
Mine was terrible when I had a wifi booster to extend in to the other end of the house.
And it was a bit rubbish when I had 5ghz and 2.4ghz networks switched on in the router.

I now have no booster and only run a router with one frequency and it is excellent.

But I struggle to get wifi in the far end of my house.

Sorry, I meant e.g. you cast from one instance of Google Music (OK, it's a complete google cast/music issue) and then when you pick up another device and open the google music app it doesn't automatically show you the track that is being played and give you all the other options, Just limited functionality for pause and volume.
 
Sorry, I meant e.g. you cast from one instance of Google Music (OK, it's a complete google cast/music issue) and then when you pick up another device and open the google music app it doesn't automatically show you the track that is being played and give you all the other options, Just limited functionality for pause and volume.
Ah. yeah... that can be annoying.
 
You can go into the home app on any device and see what is playing but not much more. Odd they haven't implemented it like Spotify did.
 
Had a good day. Visited John Lewis in Oxford St. They had a pop up doughnut stand run by google. You had to ask their google home mini a question. Any question. Then they gave you a box. Some of the boxes had doughnuts in. And a few had google home mini's. Guess what I won.. :D:D

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My home mini sits forlornly unplugged most of the time because her power lead tends to be more useful for charging my phone and the novelty has worn off.

''Sorry I don't understand, but I'm still learning!" - I just say that to my partner when he asks for something, cuts out the need for the mini.
 
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