Tag: Home Assistant Google Home Mini

  • 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 Turn Down Google Home Mini Volume

    How to Turn Down Google Home Mini Volume

    There are many ways for how to turn down Google Home Mini volume. These depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the speaker itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus, you can set volume with the native Google Home app. Finally, the Mini…

  • Turn Down Google Home Mini Volume

    Turn Down Google Home Mini Volume

    There are many ways to turn down Google Home Mini volume. These depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the speaker itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus, you can set volume with the native Google Home app. Finally, the Mini also sets…

  • Google Home Mini Volume Directions

    Google Home Mini Volume Directions

    Gives Google Home Mini Volume Directions for how to raise and lower, on this little smart assistant.  Here, we discuss all of them. The methods you use depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly.  But the Mini itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus,…

  • Google Home Mini Sleep Timer

    Google Home Mini Sleep Timer

    All Google Home models feature a sleep timer function that you can set and cancel with voice requests! Moreover, sometimes they refer to this timer as a sleep timer, music timer, radio timer, or podcast timer.  But no matter what you call it, it works the same for all these media sources.  So in this…

  • How to Pause Google Home Mini

    How to Pause Google Home Mini

    You can pause or play of the Google Home Mini talking smart speaker by touching it as follows. You might pause it to stop it from playing audio when ready for bed or when taking a phone call. When paused, the speaker waits indefinitely for you to resume it.  But it forgets the paused content…

  • Pause Google Home Mini

    Pause Google Home Mini

    You can pause or play of the Google Home Mini  by touching it as follows. You might pause it to stop it from playing audio when ready for bed or when taking a phone call. When paused, the speaker waits indefinitely for you to resume it.  But it forgets the paused content if you issue…

  • Google Home Mini Reset

    Google Home Mini Reset

    You may decide to sell or give your Google Home Mini smart speaker to another person. Or, you want to link it to a different Google account or a new WiFi network. Well, to unlink this smart speaker from its current Google account and WiFi, a Google Home Mini reset does the trick.  Finally, a…

  • How to Change WiFi on Google Home Mini

    How to Change WiFi on Google Home Mini

    You may experience WiFi connection errors when booting your Google Home Mini smart speaker. Or, your speaker may not show up in the Google Home app. Both problems occur when the speaker no longer connects to your WiFi network.  To see it and use it, the Mini must be online.  That is, it must be…

  • Google Home Mini Unboxing

    Google Home Mini Unboxing

    Here, we show Google Home Mini unboxing.  Just avoid opening the box bottom side up, so that the speaker inside does not fall out and become damaged as it hits the floor.  We also suggest unpacking any sensitive electronic device close to or on the floor, preferably a carpeted floor.  Therefore, this virtually eliminates the…