Tag: Google Home Family

  • How to Reset Google Home

    How to Reset Google Home

    You may decide to sell or give your Google Home device to another person. or wish to link it to a different Google account, or connect it to a different Wi-Fi network. So to do these things, we show you how to reset the original Google Home to factory settings. To unlink this device from…

  • How to Use Google Home Mini as Bluetooth Speaker

    How to Use Google Home Mini as Bluetooth Speaker

    The Google Home Mini smart speaker, pictured above, may now be used as a Bluetooth speaker due to firmware and Google Home app updates in the last few years. In this article, we show how to use your tablet or phone to drive this speaker via Bluetooth.  You indeed can send audio to the Mini,…

  • How to Restart Google Home Mini

    How to Restart Google Home Mini

    You may want to know how to restart the Google Home Mini smart speaker if it behaves erratically, becomes non responsive to questions and commands, locks up, emits strange noises, breaks up, chirps unexpectedly, and so on. Always try a speaker restart first, as this often clears up many problems, and avoids the unnecessary action…

  • Google Home Mini Charger Specs

    Google Home Mini Charger Specs

    The Google Home Mini charger cord shipped with the smart speaker, is a standard medium-current USB power supply, though it does no charging. Why not?  Because the speaker has no rechargeable battery inside.  Furthermore, though a USB style cable, the five foot long white cord is permanently attached to the power plug part.  Thus you…

  • How to Pair JBL Clip 3 with Google Home

    How to Pair JBL Clip 3 with Google Home

    This post shows how to pair JBL Clip 3 with Google Home speakers. Further, these include the original, mini, and max Google Home versions. And, since this pairing happens between the Clip 3 and the Google speakers directly, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to establish this pairing. How…

  • How to Hook Up Google Home Mini

    How to Hook Up Google Home Mini

    This post explains how to hook up the Google Home Mini and get your speaker up and running after purchase, or when you move a speaker you already have to new WiFi routers or make other WiFi changes.  With your iOS or Android mobile device and the Google Home app, setting up your speaker anew…

  • How to Control Honeywell Thermostat with Google Home

    How to Control Honeywell Thermostat with Google Home

    Shows how to control Honeywell thermostat with Google Home. So here’s how we set up the connection between Google Home and the thermostat to enable such controlling.  Not too hard, although there are a few steps to run.  No fear though, because we list all of them below. How to Control Honeywell Thermostat With Google…

  • How to Restart Google Home

    How to Restart Google Home

    You can restart every Google Home smart speaker in the Google Home family. These include the original, the Mini, and the Max.  So restarting restores them to factory default state. Thus this can fix many problems. Or you might also do this to prepare the speakers to sell or gift to another person. Here, we…

  • How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home

    How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home

    The Victor Reader Trek GPS navigator, eBook player, podcatcher, and web radio can connect to most any Bluetooth speaker.  This allows listening to podcasts, books, recorded notes, and streaming internet radio through that speaker. We thus show here how to pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home speakers that can act as Bluetooth speakers. How…

  • How to Reconnect Google Home to WiFi

    How to Reconnect Google Home to WiFi

    You may sometime relocate your Google Home speaker, and want to link it with another WiFi network.  Or, the Google Home does not show as reconnected in the Home app. In either case, the speaker is no longer linked to your Wi-Fi network. So this post shows how to reconnect your Google Home to WiFi…