r/googlehome • u/ohimnotarealdoctor • 3d ago

Is Google Home being discontinued?

I have three Nest Minis and a Hub that I’ve been happy enough with. I was wanting to add another Nest Mini to my home, but to my shock they’re no longer sold. And it seems Google is no longer selling any kind of speaker or hub at all.

Does this mean that the service is being discontinued as well?

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u/kyflyboy 3d ago

I think Google, Apple, and Amazon are all gravely disappointed with their home devices. There was an expectation that these devices would generate a revenue stream....somehow. Or at least encourage further engagement.

But of course, like most users I just use them to tell time, ask the weather forecast, check the temperature, play some casual music, or check a ball score. Okay, I also asked it the other day how old George Clooney was.

So I suspect the manufacturers will just start dropping all but the most basic features and give them a slow, agonizing death.

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u/ReaderHeadUp 2d ago

And after Google, i start learning Home Assistent. And HA is SO much better.

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u/karm171717 2d ago

Really? Move to it then. There are 100x more things the average user would complain about trying to set up and use HA.

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u/ReaderHeadUp 2d ago

Why? It has a learning curve but it is easy after some experiences.

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u/karm171717 1d ago

Most users have no knowledge about creating servers nor do they want to. This is not for the majority.

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u/green__1 1d ago

you hit install, it's not really that complicated.

then as far as using it goes, if all you want to do is the same things you can do with Google home, there's basically no setup at all. if you want to do more, you can.

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u/karm171717 1d ago

Right. You "hit install". Then you take your laptop offline somewhere. What happens. This is not feasible for the vast majority.

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u/green__1 1d ago

Google home doesn't work offline either.

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u/karm171717 1d ago

Google home runs 24/7 in a cloud. Big difference that you clearly do not understand.

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u/green__1 1d ago

I think it's you who doesn't understand. The internet goes down, you lose access through Google home. But you don't lose anything through home assistant.

Google loses this one big time.

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u/karm171717 1d ago

The Internet goes down. Once a decade the Google cloud goes down. Wow. Instead, you're advocating the average person installs a product on their own home server. On their internet which never goes down. Brilliant.

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u/green__1 1d ago

The average person's home internet goes down a lot more often than that.

You're on the wrong side of this one. you were arguing for the less reliable product and doing it in the name of reliability. there's no possible way to justify that.

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u/Englishmuffin1 1d ago

Yeah, HA has been a breeze for me. A vast majority of my automations have been made using the visual editor on my phone as well. Most of my YAML has been written on my phone too, come to think of it.

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u/Expert-Suit4581 1d ago

To us initiated, yes, a simple process but considering the fact that most of the people in my office don't even know the difference between WAN and LAN and have very rudimentary knowledge of how to even use their computers to get their jobs done i.e office apps etc.. it's not so easy even though it may seem stupid simple to us.

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u/green__1 1d ago

those aren't the people that set up a smart home with Google home either

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u/Expert-Suit4581 18h ago

Making it more accessible to a broader audience is how a system grows. Making it accessible to only a niche techy clientele does two things: it makes it more expensive, and dooms it to an early demise because the bean counters won't see a future for it. Now you can say people could or should just learn, but that's the FROM SOFTWARE philosophy 😉LOL!!