Google Assistant sleep timers for stopping music on Nest Hub and other devices are broken

There are loads of helpful instructions to make use of on Google Assistant devices, with every little thing from setting timers to launching music. But for many currently, Google Assistant sleep timers for stopping music have been broken on devices such because the Nest Hub.

For the final month or so, sleep timers on Google Assistant have been largely broken. This performance permits customers to begin enjoying music however have it flip off after a set time frame. It’s helpful for those that get pleasure from falling asleep to their favourite music, or maybe to particular noises.

Generally, instructions resembling “set a sleep timer for one hour” or “stop playing music in 45 minutes” will set a sleep timer on Google Assistant on devices resembling Nest Hub, Nest Mini, and others. It’s a characteristic that’s been round for years, and labored fairly reliably at that.

But over the previous month, many have discovered the characteristic to be inoperable, and with out clear notification of such. As a Google assist thread reveals, the widespread challenge leads to sleep timers on Google Assistant supposedly being set upon command, however merely not working on the set time and leaving music or sounds enjoying indefinitely. I first encountered this drawback on my Nest Hub, which is about to play music for one hour every evening through a bedtime routine, in mid-December.

Despite this drawback having been round for over a month now, Google appears to have but to repair the issue or acknowledge it correctly.

There’s just one actual acknowledgment on Twitter, and it’s not precisely promising. If that reply is to be believed, Google eliminated the flexibility to set a sleep timer deliberately, and simply because the characteristic wasn’t working for timers longer than one hour. It’s exhausting to consider Google would merely take away a completely working characteristic like that, however stranger issues have occurred. We’d speculate that this could possibly be a slight misunderstanding and that Google is definitely referring to sleep sounds, a characteristic that performs quite a lot of sounds fairly than music. Because Assistant can nonetheless react to a sleep timer command, we’d assume that is most likely the case, nevertheless it’s exhausting to know for sure.

One manner I’ve personally been getting round that is with a routine from the Google Home app. Adding a delayed command an hour into the routine to cease my music has labored splendidly as a stopgap measure.

Hopefully, Google will carry this again to customers within the close to future. If you’re nonetheless experiencing this drawback, tell us within the feedback beneath!

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