Google Nest Hub (1st Gen) Smart Speaker with Google Assistant Voice Control in Chalk

Google Nest Home Review

I am going to rate this 4 stars because it's a lot of fun. We decided to dive into some smart home stuff this year, and bought this hub as well as a few minis and various lights. Getting everything to work together is fun and an ongoing experience. We placed the hub in the kitchen so we could view recipes, use as a photo frame, listen to music, control lighting, leave reminders and set timers. To begin, it's super easy to use as a timer when cooking, I no longer have to stop what I am doing and ...

Voice Control for Your Nest Devices

I decided to purchase a Google Home Hub after Christmas when I saw that it was on sale and I also had a Lowes gift card to use. I've been automating my home with Wemo switches and Nest devices. The Google Home Hub works with the Wemo switches as well as Alexa, but it is even better if you have Nest equipment. You can use it to arm Nest Guard and lock the Nest Yale lock with voice command. Alexa cannot do this and I'm not sure they will ever add that functionality to her now that Amazon and N...

Great for Seniors and Tech Savvy too

The voice recognition can be sketchy at times; it would be nice if it could be better trained liked Dragon Naturally Speaking even though that is a pain. As a virtual assistant, I like the fact it is not directly attached to a store and thus cannot “accidentally” order things on my behalf. I also like the mechanical on/off microphone button to ensure it cannot listen if I do not want it too. The most amazing thing is how fast it can come back with an answer to an obscure question. I can ask it...

Keeps getting better

I usually don't buy the newest gadgets, i wait awhile for the price to drop. The Google home was the exception. As soon as it came out i bought my first one. It was just the speaker, then came the Google Assistant display and the Mini speakers. I now have them in every room. This review is for the Display. I have one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. I love them. It is a bit of a learning curve. But to get the most of yours i recommend at the very least going to You Tube and watching the la...

Not easy

I don't know if it's the nest hub or the home app. Anytime I ask it to do something it executes the action both on my phone and the hub. If I want music playing now I have it playing on both devices, and not in sync. Speaker groups are hard to use and clunky. Executing commands to move the sound to a speaker group often ends in an error. It's hard to connect to the device and play music directly from your phone. It gets easily confused if you send it too many actions in a row. You never know wha...

Cool design, lame function.

I was really excited for this. I thought, Oh great! A google tablet on a speaker base that can takes command prompts. I was duped. It is not a tablet. It does have a nice clean design. The screen quality is ok but would serve better in an 8 or 9 inch with 1080p vs. its existing 720. The look is simple+ and unobtrusive. Worthy of the 2 stars. No play store. No apps (other than a few limited bloatware options). No google maps. No radar or weather setting options. No social media. NO WEB BROWSER! R...

Really wanted to like this, but....

I really wanted to like the Google Nest Hub. When I first set it up, it worked perfectly. It controlled my lights, my switches and my thermostat by voice. About two weeks later, after a power failure, Google Nest Hub would no longer link with my thermostat, switches or lights even though they continued to work perfectly within their individual apps. I spoke to both manufacturers who indicated that it must be a problem with the Google Nest Hub since their devices and apps worked perfectly. A...

Not worth having, not user friendly.

This item isn't user friendly. hard to navigate through different options because there are to many and each one takes you to a different screen that appears to have insignificant options. I found out there is nothing I can use this device to simplify my life instead it is frustrating to hear certain responses that are wrong. For example asking it to "show me some recipes" instead it gives me the definition of the word recipes. There wasn't a single word I asked to define recipe. Cant figure out...

Buyer Beware - Broke less than after 2 years

Broken already and Google Customer support is unwilling to replace the product even after troubleshooting and confirming it was defective. Save your money and invest in any other smart home device because this product is junk and will break on you after a couple of years. The screen broke after using it for less than 2 years and now won’t turn on. Really disappointed how unwilling Google Customer Support was to replace their defective product simply because it’s out of warranty. If your consider...

Great, but could still be improved

As a smart home control device and media hub, it's pretty awesome. It does everything I was looking for EXCEPT the ability to watch cameras attached to your smart home kinda blows. It basically casts the feed to the screen as it would to a chromecast, and it doesn't work well AT ALL. Sometimes it just says feed not available, but I know that it is because I can pull it up on my phone. Usually if it does pull it up, it will only stay for 5 to 10 minutes and then you have to request the feed again...