Set a media alarm for 2:57 PM. Alright and what would you like me to play? Foo
Fighters. You got it I'll play Foo Fighters music for 2:57 PM. Okay now
that what I just did there as I said a media alarm for another minute from now
and what happens is if your volume is higher than 40% here and you can see
mine is higher it won't actually set it down but if I set it below the 40% mark
what it does is it raises the volume to 40% so this is a bug that Google has
right now and they haven't been able to clean up so let's go ahead and
watch that alarm trigger and then I'm going to show you today how to fix this
up.
Stop so what you just saw right there it did set that volume up to the fourth
level and that for a lot of people is a little bit too much and there's been a
lot of complaints on the Google forums and so that's what I want to do I want
to show you how to get around this issue until Google can fix this.
You can see that I'm inside the Google home application and is this is going to
be a very quick demonstration now the routines section here you can now tap on
that new button and you can scroll all the way down to the bottom basically and
you'll see a manager routine so I actually I think people are gonna
struggle with that it's a little clunky so I'm going to show you how to go there
another way here's settings and you scroll all the
way to the bottom and you go to more settings and when you get to more
settings you go to assistant and again you scroll down to the bottom and here's
routines now once you're inside routines this is where we're going to set up the
process that is essentially going to play the same music or media alarm that
you would have asked for anyways and I think most people are going to be okay
playing the same thing every day or playing a radio station every day to
wake up to so that's why I say this routines thing works for most people so
the plus is where you're going to start at the bottom right corner and you're
not going to add a command you're going to set a time and day now what's nice
about this is you can set which device you'd like this to go on so I have
what's called my kitchen display here and we're just going to pick that today
because it's the biggest screen I have in the room you're going to be able to
see it the best and then I'm going to choose which days this alarm is going to
basically trigger so now I'm going to choose all the different days of the
week here and now I have to choose a time so let's say that I'm a horribly
horribly early person you can tell I'm a bit of a late night person but 7:00 a.m.
is when I need to get up on these work days so now there you go at 7 a.m. on
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday we're going to do something and what the
big bug is here that Google has with their routines is or with their media
alarms and music alarms is it always goes to 40% so no matter what you do
here it will go to 40% every time you trigger a muse
instead of triggering at 40% you're going to be able to figure out whatever
percent you'd like basically for your device to bait to be set at so let's say
we're going to set the volume here and this is the only command you really need
to 20% and you hit add now oh I've hit 29 sorry about that now that
it's in there what you can do is you can go ahead and add that second action now
what I'll tell you is that you could do it through the add media capability
that's just fine you can go ahead and you can choose add media you can choose
music radio podcasts whatever you'd like so let's go ahead choose radio and we'll
choose 102.9 here actually I have to type in Sonic 102.9 here that's a local
radio station that I like listening to and again I hit add after i've chosen
that so you can see i'm just setting the volume to 20% and then i'm playing that
radio station i could do the same with music you can say a playlist an artist
and it's going to use your default music service so you can go ahead and you can
do that now what if you wanted to get a little more complicated or you wanted to
play something from say your that something that wasn't your default music
service you can actually add an action and actually type in that action right
here so you could go ahead and you could choose instead of playing that radio
station I could say play The Beatles on Spotify and that would start the Beatles
on that specific service so I wouldn't I'm able to dictate a little more
because this is essentially the same thing that you can speak to your device
so if you can say it to your device and have it trigger that way it will work
here now we're a set actually done the routine but what I'll
say to you is that you always need a command line or what is essentially used
as the name so I'm going to call this my weekday alarm routine and if I was ever
to say that to my Google home or Lenovo smart display or any of these devices
then it would trigger that set volume to 20% and trigger on the radio so you know
you always have to keep that in mind but now that you've put in a name here you
can hit the Save button and that is now going to start this at 7:00 a.m. with
that 20% volume all the time so now a couple of things you can see down here
here's my weekday alarm routine and what's nice about managing it this way
is if you want a weekend alarm routine we'll just go ahead create another and
put some different music in it if you want different music every day have a
Monday alarm routine a Tuesday at Wednesday a Thursday you can create as
many routines essentially as you'd like here they're custom routines so you can
go ahead and you can schedule in different times on different days and
you can go ahead and schedule different music to play on different days as well
so now that I have that routine I could wait till 7 a.m. but instead what I'm
going to do is I'm going to trigger that alarm routine right now to show you that
it does hold the volume essentially at 20%
so weekday alarm routine
okay so there you go now it did actually set the volume down to that twenty
percent you're not being blown away like most people are right now as it jumps to
forty percent obviously this is going to be a help for a lot of people so I hope
this helps you guys I hope this gets you set up with your media alarms now you
can use them as much as you want you just got to go through routines and wait
for the patch here from Google so thanks again everyone for watching make sure
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