My grandmother used it for calling. She’d long press the home button and say ‘Call Aliya’ etc. It has stopped working last week, in both google assistant and gemini. If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know.
You might have to remap the home button to Gemini maybe?
Tried that but gemini seems incapable of placing calls
It also can’t connect to Google home without being unlocked nor set your navigation to an address in your contacts, or as far as I can tell do anything useful at all.
Oh and I almost forgot it will also fucking block other apps from doing shit that they used to be able to do because it decided that something in your phrase is a key word.
Seems to be a case of dumb incentives winning. If you evolve the google assistant to be more powerful, it’s a “small” quite project, but you build a big foundational replacement and wow promotion
I use GA to spell shit for me because I have senior moments. It’s just easier to click a button and say spell naseaous for me.
See? Fuck that word. Also fuck Google. For more reasons than just this.
Because it makes you feel sick, in so many words?
It was a convenient way to set a kitchen timer. I never used it for anything else but this is still gonna hurt.
Considering when I first upgraded to a phone that included it, Gemini was incapable of setting a timer, I do not have high hopes for this.
This is to say, when I told it “set a timer for X minutes” it produced a UI on the phone that suggested it understood I wanted a timer, but failed the critical step of actually setting the damn timer. I immediately switched back to assistant, as there’s really no coming back from a fuck-up that comprehensive.
You would have also realized that Gemini no longer can stop timers that are going off by saying, “Stop”.
This was pretty much the only thing I used Google Assistant for. I bought six Google devices. I thought I would use it for more things, but I ended up just using it for timers when making food or when I was resting and wanted to rest for 30 minutes before I do some chore.
Same here, it’s 95% timers when cooking and 5% pause or shutting off the tv when the remote isn’t in reach.
I use home automation to help manage a disability and have been meaning to move to home assistant but right now I’m still using google home devices…
Guess that means I have to move up my schedule. Really wish I did this before the ai hardware price spike like I was considering doing.
Can’t wait to go see if thin client or needed components will cost me a billion dollars. ALSO BECAUSE OF AI. Fucking stupid horseshit, I have no money
Read the article….
There are no changes on Google TV, Google Home or smart displays at this stage.
Thanks! Meant to come back and give it a read so I could learn specifics but really didn’t wanna try to wade through stressful stuff right now
Though my trust it will stay that way is not super high 😅
Home assistant integrates with Google Home devices as well, so you can start small with your HASS OS device and make a slow transition of your GH devices as you change them out (or retain them). My best friend loves his HASS and GH, and uses them both heavily with HASS as the main driver.
Can the Gemini assistant set reminders yet? Such a basic function of the old Google assistant and yet Gemini has failed every time I tried it in the past
It’s been abled to set alarms for me haven’t tried reminders. I also use it to create events from me on my calendar.
It connects to my Google home now too, which it wasn’t able to do before
Assistant tasks like this are probably the only semi reasonable LLM use case. If it was less resource intensive anyway
You don’t really need a powerful LLM for personal assistant tasks.
F: play Spotify (activated by multi button on headset)
A: Please unlock your phone yada yada yadaBRO! GUESS WHY I USED THE MULTI-BUTTON >:( I CAN’T USE MY HANDS TO UNLOCK IT AND PLAY MUSIC MANUALLY.
Because it doesn’t know what time is or how to measure it or even how to count for that matter.
At the vwry least my still remaining google home (bought in 2017 or something) became somewhat useful now and is able to understand context.
E.g.:
F: When’s the next solar eclipse starting in Germany A: In Germany, Cologne the eclipse will be visible at XY
F: No, when will it be in hometown
A: The eclipse in hometown XYZBefore it was completely incapable of achieving it and was basically a glorified voice activated timer.
This literally happened to me today while driving
Me: Text wife Gemini: Texting wife, what would you like in the message? Me: Can you pop my lunch in the microwave? I am going to be home in 5 minutes. Gemini: While I can’t put food in the microwave for you, I can set a reminder.
What the fuck?
Today was the first day I noticed Gemini instead of assistant, and from the other complaints here, I am not looking forward this. Assistant worked just fine.
Honestly I don’t understand how Google is such a valuable company. They are absolutely useless for so much shit.
It’s really bad.
Never used it. Always first thing I disable
That’s fine. Google devices have been disappearing from my life as well, so this will not be a long-term problem.
It’s already dead on my phone
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchboxNeed a follow up on this, since I’ve always assumed that package is essential.
- Is this on a Pixel?
- What happens to the space where the search bar is on the launcher?
- Does it break anything else?
I’m on graphene and I don’t have it even with gsf and google play stuff installed
ITT: “how could Google ruin shit and foist worse shit on me!?!”
Bruh, it’s Google.
Well that’s not good. I use it to set alarms fairly often, and up until recently it used to work for navigation. I think me refusing the AI crap made “navigate to 123 main st” quit working.
Yeah, I bet it’s just getting replaced with AI bullshit now.
So, now, when you use it to set an alarm, you’ll never really know for sure if the AI fucked it up or not.
The timing is crazy, that’s around the same time that Google and Android is expected to start disappearing from thousands of phones.
Gross.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Assistant was awesome. The voice isn’t as punchable as Gemini’s options.
I took an online course sponsored by Google years ago, when AI was but a twinkle in tech bros’ eyes, and one of the Gemini voices is 1000% the presenter of that course.
