What's wrong with you right now? Sorry something went wrong try again in a few
seconds. Very typical right now if your Google
Home or your Google Assistant enabled device is struggling right now and
you're wondering what's going on I have some opinions with some good research to
give you here on what's going on and when we might see some of this led up
now what I'm telling you is there's a bit of a difference right now I have
never had the amount of issues that I'm having in my own home at this time and
there's really nothing that has changed here for me the most of the people that
I'm getting reports from and I've been you know soliciting some of these
reports for the last couple of weeks most of the reports are are very similar
people haven't changed anything in their homes they haven't changed anything on
their Google Home or their Google Assistant and suddenly functionality has
stopped working so what is going on what are these issues you know for myself
I've had my devices waking without any wake word or any sound in the home not
just not just you know ambient noise going on there is literally no sound I'm
sitting and my devices are waking up I've sent those reports to Google and
they've started to look into them and I'll let you guys know when I get
something back from them but you know they were very helpful at that point I
should always mention how helpful they've been with lots of these issues
with me I've also had multiple of my Google Home and my Google Assistant
devices disconnecting and then needing a full reset or a full factory reset and a
set up again in some cases where they're just stuck in an odd place and you can't
get them set up I've also had Google Chromecasts and I have had some Google
Chromecasts in my home working flawlessly for three years suddenly dying and I
have multiple people who've contacted me for support with that same very same
issue with Google Chromecast that they've had
for years showing up or disappearing sorry rather in their homes just
disappearing and being unable to be contacted and and having to factory
reset the devices as well on top of that what we're also seeing and if you look
at reddit right now you can see a lot of issues in the Google Home communities
and you can see this in Google's own communities lots of people are
struggling with devices they've had connected for years again or at least
for a year you know with a Google Home device but Google Assistant home control
those devices have been struggling in some cases you're just not able to get
exactly the device you want or it can't find the devices anymore or you know we
had the needs more information issue show up here very recently and just lots
of home control and then simple query issues where Google just does not seem
to be able to answer our answer what it was capable of months ago so let's talk
about what's going on or what I think is going on so through lots of research
through again you know different forums different communities and people who are
relatively regarded as product experts within the Google Home suite of products
or Google Assistant here are saying that the latest firmware push does have a
number of issues in them and what's being worked on in the background and as
part of this firmware push is things like Google Duplex so Google Duplex is
what I think is our main issue and actually one of our subscribers here
Dorothy is her name and she's been here for a long time and she always tells me
how things are going with her Google Home products and one of the things she
said is that my Google Home is much better conversationally the Google
Assistant is so much better at reading things back and just in general in terms
of conversation and what I'm telling you is Google Duplex has been deployed and
not just on our devices but also on the server
Google side now why do I say that well if you're thinking about deployment it's
really hard to deploy Duplex on a few phones in a few select cities in one
country and have it really be limited and have everyone else in the world
using a different set of servers and a different set it's just not gonna work
out so what I'm telling you is the code for Duplex is out there and that is
messing with everything right now not only that but I believe behind
everything that Google is doing part of Duplex and part of the coding going on
and part of the AI implementation is to fix their routines on top of that we
know the whole lists capability is being adjusted on the fly because we've seen a
partial release of the ability to create different lists but when you go and you
do that your Assistant can no longer add things to your shopping list for example
so that's another capability or function that we know is in the midst of
deployment he saw all the latest features from CES the auto-translation
feature we know that was capable on Pixel Buds a while ago but now deploying
it to all of these or attempting that development is going to take a lot of
resources on top of that if you think about Google Assistant's deployment on
Google Maps in both Android and iOS the ability to actually utilize that in some
new functions that are being placed into that are also going to be not only
stretching development resources but having to be tested at this point with
your Google Assistant the relatively new iOS and Android application layout and
we know that there's issues with that but that's also taking away development
resources and we're seeing consistent upgrades and changes to that application
to catch up right now with what's being asked for for people we know the drop in
capability or what Amazon calls their drop in capability is being worked at on
as well and so you know you're seeing this massive massive change in
capabilities in functionality that really what I'll tell you is
unprecedented in terms of any sort of software I've ever seen you know you
think back to Microsoft's deployments of things like service packs on their OS
and I liken this to that because we're talking about implementation of an AI on
millions of devices out in the field and in terms of the Google Assistant
billions of devices now not everyone is getting all of that functionality but
what I'm telling you is all of that is coming to some people at some time and
it's relatively soon I think we are months now away from a full deployment
of Duplex in the US and I would say we're under a month away from that
deployment of Duplex if not you know latest I think we're two months away
from that full deployment in the US and most of those capabilities that I've
talked about here and most of these changes that I've talked about three to
four months away and so right now all of that testing is going on because lots of
that code has had to go live and it has had to be tested by Google employees in
a live system in a live environment so with all this said with this massive
massive deployment that's already gone on in the background as far as I'm
concerned and this massive massive deployment that I think is going to go
on in the next couple of months where does this leave us ultimately it leads
us with our devices struggling right now and you know what I think we're going to
have to live with it here for another month or two I've already seen some
issues even out go away and then I've seen other ones crop up so I think this
is going to go on for a little while longer I don't think we're getting out
of this anytime soon but within a couple of months I think
you will have a massive massive increase in Google assistant capabilities
including full deployment of do in the US and as well as lots of these
other features all over the world the other thing is that real-time
translation and their focus on the international market I do think you
international folks outside of continental North America here I do
think you're about to get a massive increase in features as well in 2019 and
I would say in the first half of 2019 so guys this is what I can give you today
you know I hope this is helping you see a little bit of the light and also
understand a little bit of what's going on with your Google home products so let
me know in the comments below I'm open to other suggestions because again this
is research I've been doing here for the last few weeks this is what I'm finding
and you know what there's going to be things that other people are finding
right now and I am open to that and I want to have an open honest discussion
about this right now I'm not here to attack Google and I'm not here to defend
Google as well just giving you my opinion and trying to help you see
what's coming no guys this is the kind of content and insight that I am giving
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different resources and the different capabilities that I'm intending to give
you as home automation folks so there you have it everyone make sure you check
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watching everyone and we'll see you next time