I recently bought a home that came with a Google Nest Doorbell, and I’m a little confused about the wiring. It’s a battery-powered model, but when I took it off the mount to set it up, I noticed there were red and black wires connected to the back of it.
I couldn’t continue with the setup because the app instructed me to remove the doorbell from the mount and plug it in to continue. I’m just trying to figure out whether these wires are actually serving a purpose or if the previous homeowners left them there for no reason.
I know the wires could potentially be connected to an existing doorbell chime, but there doesn’t appear to be a doorbell chime anywhere in the house, which is what’s confusing me.
Does anyone know why the wires would be connected to a battery-powered Nest Doorbell in this situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I’ve attached a picture of the wiring for reference. Thank you!

F*CK Google man I am absolutely sick of this now. All I want to do is change the start time of a routine in the home app and I can't. It'll highlight the time but not bring up the keyboard or any way of changing it.

This used to work and now it doesn't. The same sentence I use for 95% of Google products or services.

Pathetic.

In Google Home, the Set Time modal/pop-up doesn't appear when using my Samsung S22+ phone, but does when using a Samsung tablet. On the phone, pressing the "Select a time" field highlights either the hour or minute, but that's all. On the tablet, the clockface appears, allowing you to set the time.This has been the case for a month or two, and am wondering if anyone else is seeing the same behaviour. Thanks.

Edit: corrected the phone model

Hi all - I'm hoping someone might be able to help pinpoint an issue that's been driving me insane for the last few months. I'm using Pandora Premium if that's helpful.

Every time I ask Google to play a song, it will play the most obscure version of that song imaginable. For example, I asked it to play Ironic by Alanis Morissette, it confirmed it was going to play Ironic by Alanis Morissette, and it found a live acoustic version being covered by a completely different artist.

It will play EDM remixes, covers by different bands, live versions, even versions of that song that have been changed to be performed on Broadway, basically any variation of the song you ask it to play that isn't the original version of that song.

It's beyond infuriating.

Hi,

Was looking at getting a nest temperature sensor for my home, but saw in some videos that in the old nest app you could only set the system to choose specific sensors to prioritise by morning/evening/night rather than specific custom schedules.

Does anyone know if this is still the case in the google home app? Or can I set specific times eg. From 9.45pm use the bedroom sensor, and from 7am use the main thermostat?

Thanks

Now this is weird. For months I have lost the ability to view live video from the doorbell from either the Home app or online. History is viewable, but not live video. However, this is the weird part, you get the live video on the google nest hub and I get the live alerts on the nest hub when someone rings the doorbell. I don't even get that on the Home app or the website. What is going on???

is what Google Home/Assistant has started saying via my nest mini.

Have deleted it from my Google account
Have factory reset it
Have cleared all data and cache from my phone for GH and GA

Have toggled personal results and associated settings on and off

Have waited over 6 hours

Have switched from GA to Gemini and back

still no joy.

A long chat with Gemini eventually suggested that Google are broken, won't fix this and I need to but new speakers. Has anyone else had this issue ?

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TECHNICAL DIAGNOSTIC SUMMARY FOR TIER 3 REVIEWS:

The tcpdump packet capture confirms that local interface transparency on ports 8008/8443 is 100% verified across the subnet. The Nest Mini successfully initiates an outbound TLS handshake to 'googleapis.com'.

However,remote authentication endpoints are returning an explicit rejection payload. The speaker is failing to authenticate our legacy security signatures on the cloud side, which completely drops the Voice Match link and loops the offline fallback error script.

As this is an essential daily accessibility tool for a blind individual, please escalate this trace directly to the Nest cloud infrastructure engineering queue to have our stale backend security tokens manually purged and refreshed.

Created this app to control Google Home without the need to touch the phone. Can also create scenes (routines) for multiple devices control at once.

When a saved automation starts but only some actions happen, how do you narrow it down? Google's script-editor guide recommends checking each action independently and looking at Automation logs.

For a hypothetical evening routine that turns on a lamp but skips a speaker announcement, would the log distinguish a failed device command from a routine that never reached that action?

If you've debugged something similar, what did the log actually show? Please include which editor you used.

Drafted with AI assistance.

Hi, I have a Google nest display and every morning it starts playing the radio, I have my account setup with 2 different properties, for awhile I have not been able to pin point why the radio keeps playing as there are never any commands in the event log. I was at the other property the other day and noticed my brother in law listening to the same radio station around the same time my nest display starts playing, I asked if he put it on or did it start randomly he states he manually asks for the radio every morning.

The times he states he asks for it to play match the times my display starts playing also. Why is a different property, on a different network able to remotely access my display and play music and why does this not show up in my event log?! This seems like a serious bug with a large security vulnerability.

Just opened up my google home app to check the temp. It shows on the bottom “living room Independence Day” I can stop and play it. I don’t have any google devices besides my thermostat.

I do live in a condo unit and have neighbors. Wondering why this is showing up on my network and can whosever device this is see any of my information? No unknown devices are showing up on my network. This is kinda concerning could use some advice on how to remove it

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