Only know about the onn. speakers but since I'm in the EU we don't have it

So I've noticed there's probably a LOT of nudge Gemini switching happening and the force coming up in a week. I've noticed my incompatible old devices that still run Google Assistant are *much* faster and *much* more responsive, like unbelievably "the good old days" fast, especially my daily summary and first-party home control like my Nest thermostat.

My conspiracy theory is that infrastructure was *fine*, but got way too popular and the software design was hopelessly overburdened and bottlenecked that just throwing hardware at the problem could not solve, so they pivoted to Gemini since that was designed from the ground up for massive scale, and now paradoxically all that load that has been switched has alleviated the GA system, making it actually able to handle the load it was spec'd for. Hopefully get to enjoy this until they turn off the candle on the old devices.

What do you think? Am I off my rocker?

EDIT: I should note asking it to look up *anything* that's not home control now comes back with a "sorry I can't do that dave", even simple recipe searches, making me think they just shut that part off to ease the load even further.

Just instructed Google Home to play a song. Success.

Google Home continues playing other songs.

“Hey Google, stop.”

“There is nothing playing to stop.” Continues playing song.

“Stop playing music. Shut up. Be quiet.”

“There is no music playing right now.” Continues playing song.

Again and again.

::unplugs Google Home::

🤦‍♂️

I have an air conditioner and a radiator in my living room.

When I say "Ok Google, set Living room air conditioner to 21c" it then says "setting two devices to 21c"

Is there a better way to set this?

Trying to set up some decently old devices (mini is 6 years old, nest is 3) because I recently moved. They previously worked fine but are now failing to connect in just about every way. The mini can’t connect at all and fails within 5 seconds the nest got to setting up wifi but couldn’t get past that and said that I need to connect to the wifi from the nest but it requires a password I don’t have. Why are both of these devices just not working for different reasons? It’s driving me kind of crazy. Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Started about two weeks ago. There are 5 lights (exterior) that are part of some automations and have been for a couple years. They all come on and go off some minutes before and after sunrise and sunset daily.

Recently one of the lights comes on 27-38 minutes after they are turned off by an automation or manually. I can't find any reason for it to come on. It's logged in the activity in the Home App. Nothing is triggering it and there are no individual automations for it.

All 5 turned off today at 6:31 It came on by itself at 7:03 I turned it off in the app at 7:25 It turned itself back on at 7:52 It's been on all day.

I unpaired/reset the bulb it's in its native app (Sylvania, got lots of them *shrug) and reconnected it to home. Still comes on. Stupid front porch 2.

Any thoughts?

Woke up this morning to every Google home device saying “There was a glitch please try again” or just a spinning loading screen. I’ve power cycled everything but the error is not going away. Internet is working fine and Google home app is still working controlling everything. Any idea what’s going on or how to fix?

I sure hope Onn gets its missing Gemini features soon!

What is the point anymore?