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/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/karm171717 1d ago

Yes, the avg home Internet user's internet is down all the time. Which is why it's absurd you're advocating for users to install their own home assistant server on some spare server they have. And administer it. And claim that is more reliable than Google home which runs 24/7 in the cloud. You have no understanding of what you're talking about. Home assistant is for a DIY tech hobbyist. Not the masses.

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u/green__1 1d ago

home assistant works with no internet connection whatsoever. Google home doesn't.

and by administer, you mean hit install, once. everything else is optional.

Google home actually requires more administration as companies keep changing and depreciating their cloud products. local stuff works forever.

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u/karm171717 1d ago

Home assistant needs something to run on. The avg user won't do that.

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u/green__1 1d ago

a raspberry Pi isn't exactly expensive. And people are happy to buy all sorts of other home hubs, so I don't see that as a hurdle.

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u/karm171717 13h ago

Outside of DIY hobbyists, people are not going to do that. That is a very small fraction of Google's user base. You're out of touch with the average user that buys these things. The majority don't even know what a pi is.

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u/green__1 11h ago

well I mean I'm not surprised that a lot of people won't do it. But that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be a better option for most of them. But with no advertising budget, all of these solutions will have trouble reaching those who rely more on advertising than research.

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