Tag: How

  • How to Put Google Home in Pairing Mode

    How to Put Google Home in Pairing Mode

    All smart speakers in the Google Home family now support Bluetooth.  They can act as BT speakers themselves. This allows you to play audio from your phone or other mobile device through them.  Indeed, you get better sound quality through a Google speaker.  So in this demo, we prepare the Google Home to act as…

  • How to Turn On Google Home Bluetooth

    How to Turn On Google Home Bluetooth

    All smart speakers in the Google Home family now support Bluetooth.  They can act as Bluetooth speakers themselves. This allows you to play audio from your phone or other mobile device through them.  Indeed, you get better sound quality through a Google speaker.  So in this demo, we prepare the Google Home Mini speaker to…

  • How to Factory Reset Google Mini Speaker

    How to Factory Reset Google Mini Speaker

    You might factory reset the Google Mini speaker to clear out its data, for gift or sale to another person.  Or, maybe you want to link it to another Google account. But then again, perhaps you desire to connect it to a different Wi-Fi network. Whatever the purpose, this piece should help you with enough…

  • How to Setup WiFi on Google Home

    How to Setup WiFi on Google Home

    You may sometime move your Google Home speaker to a different house, and thus, want to link it with another WiFi network.  Or, the speaker does not show as linked in the Home app. In either case, the speaker is no longer joied to your WiFi network. So this post shows how to setup a…

  • How to Clear Google Assistant History

    How to Clear Google Assistant History

    Each time you speak a request or command to your Google Home speaker, Google Home records your voice and sends that up to the Google Assistant service in the cloud.  There, the assistant saves your voice recordings for an indefinite period. However, some folks worry about these recordings “hanging around” in perpetuity, for reasons that we…

  • How to Change Google Mini WiFi Network

    How to Change Google Mini WiFi Network

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

  • How to Set Sleep Timer on Google Mini

    How to Set Sleep Timer on Google Mini

    The Google Mini speakers features a sleep timer function that you can turn it on and off with voice requests! They also refer to this timer as a music timer, radio timer, play timer, or podcast timer.  But no matter what you call it, it works the same for all these media sources.  So here,…

  • How to Connect Google Mini to Bluetooth Speaker

    How to Connect Google Mini to Bluetooth Speaker

    This post shows how to connect Google Mini to a Bluetooth speaker.  Here, we demo this using JBL ‘s Flip 3 Bluetooth speaker.  Since this connecting happens between the Flip 3 and Google Mini speakers directly, you need not turn on Bluetooth in the mobile device you’re using to establish this connection. How to Connect…

  • How to Change Volume on Google Home Mini

    How to Change Volume on Google Home Mini

    Here, we explain the many ways for how to change volume on the Google Home Mini smart speaker.  The methods you use 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…

  • How to Unlink Pandora from Google Home

    How to Unlink Pandora from Google Home

    You may wish unlink (remove, delete) your Pandora account from a Google Home Speaker due to one or more of the following: You like different versions of music than what Pandora offers, and so, you temporarily wish to remove Pandora from your list of searchable music station sources.  Then, the streams you request will not be found…