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I thankfully haven't bought any Nest devices, but your mention of Google Home turns out to have triggered me slightly!

Many years ago, I bought a bunch of Chromecast Audio devices - these are/were little wifi dongles with a 3.5mm jack and USB power. I could set them up as a group and they'd sync perfectly with each other. I had a pretty cheap multi-room sound system.

Then at some point, the Google app I was using for them stopped working and it transpired the functionality had been moved to "Google Home". Over the following few months I spent hours turning the things off and on again, resetting them, re-creating groups, but it never worked for more than a few hours. I gave up, went back to bluetooth.

Google Home needs to die.



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This one's due to a lawsuit from Sonos that Google lost: https://www.androidpolice.com/google-sonos-lawsuit-lost-feat...

Are you sure? It was back in... probably 2017 that it all broke and I gave up.

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