Can't find Home Control settings in Google Home app (Note 8 + Oreo)

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#2063772 27-Jul-2018 17:17

Lizard1977:

If it is a case of voice control for Hue only working with a smart speaker-type device like Google Home Mini, then I am quite surprised. There are plenty of videos on Youtube showing people controlling Hue lights with voice control on their Android phone.

I can control my Hues with my phone, but I couldn't until the GH device was available locally IIRC.

I *think* I had to use UK region originally. Before I got my first Home device

Now I have 9 Homes and 20+ hues, it's a no-brainer to at least get a mini, even my kids (in Kapiti) have one each (thanks to sales).

Once you have a Home device, Hue should work no matter what (don't quote me on this tho as it's been awhile).

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#2063774 27-Jul-2018 17:21

Lizard1977:

freitasm:

I had to change my device from English (NZ) to English (AU) and restart it, wait a couple of hours and then I managed to get Home Control in action.

That was one of the suggestions I discovered from my searches. I've changed it to English (US) in just about every place I could find, and that was a few hours ago, but it didn't make any difference. Where specifically did you change the language? Just want to make sure I haven't missed it somewhere...

In "Languages & Input".

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#2063775 27-Jul-2018 17:24

Interesting... I can use Assistant voice commands to turn lights on and off but I can't see Hue lights in my Google Home app anymore.

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#2063782 27-Jul-2018 17:50

Checked the app when I got home. Definitely on the same network but app still doesn't show Home Control.

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#2064540 29-Jul-2018 13:06

It seems Google Home is a mess. I can certainly control lights from my smartphone but the option to manage/add/remove completely disappeared from the Google Home app now.

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#2064543 29-Jul-2018 13:13

Presumably you added your Hue hub at some point though, through the app? But if you needed to do that now you couldn't?

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#2064544 29-Jul-2018 13:16

Correct. I did it before, through the Google Home app. "Home Control", "Shopping List" were options there - they no longer exist for me now.

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#2064546 29-Jul-2018 13:18

When you set it up originally, did you have a Google Home or Home Mini smart speaker?

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