Your Dish account is paired to the account(s) listed in your google home app. There are no other settings or options.
Edit: So to be clear, it doesn't pair to devices but rather to your master account which is generally your gmail account.
Thanks. Can more than one smartphone be paired to the same Hopper/Google Assistant?
OK, got it. ThanksYour Dish account is paired to the account(s) listed in your google home app. There are no other settings or options.
Edit: So to be clear, it doesn't pair to devices but rather to your master account which is generally your gmail account.
Correct, Google home does not have room awareness. So you have to say "change bedroom Joey to espn". Works on my Hopper and all 4 Joey's. Not sure how useful it really is at this point though.I'm already back to using Alexa.
First of all, it breaks Smartthings (harmony) functionality so I can no longer turn on/off TVs or control volume. Half the time it says it can't do that or asks me what device (and I tell it to no avail). The rest of the time, it just starts playing something on the home itself: "Hey Google, change channel to ESPN" - and it starts playing ESPN radio on the home closest to me.
That said, it might be useful if all you have is one hopper and one home device.
They neglected to have any configurable settings in the home app (dish interface) itself to chose defaults (duh!) so when you say "Change channel to ESPN" and the master bedroom home hears that phrase, it should know to tune to the master bedroom default device (it doesn't) not the living room hopper or the guest room joey...
They should have the bugs worked out in 18-36 months.
Correct, Google home does not have room awareness. So you have to say "change bedroom Joey to espn". Works on my Hopper and all 4 Joey's. Not sure how useful it really is at this point though.
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I think the verbosity comments come from the need to say Hopper, Joey, etc. With my Dot I simply say Alexa, ESPN and my Hopper goes directly to the ESPN channel.I'm not seeing all of that verbosity and multi-room changes so far. If I say "switch the Hopper to CNN", it changes the hopper to CNN and responds almost instantly with "OK, switching to CNN on the Hopper". If I say "Switch Joey 2 to NBC", it switches Joey 2 to NBC and responds with "Switching to NBC on Joey 2." No cross effects on the other devices.
I suspect the difference is that I have applied Nicknames to each device in the Google Home app. Google will announce the convenient nickname that you give each device, instead of the original label.
The only oddity I'm getting today, is that it won't manage a channel number change. That was working yesterday. If I say" Switch the hopper to channel 5", it responds with "I'm sorry, there was an error and I'm unable to control your home device." I assume that's just a temporary mess up, but overall it's working great for me.
Too many syllables in Alexa. I changed mine to Echo.I think the verbosity comments come from the need to say Hopper, Joey, etc. With my Dot I simply say Alexa, ESPN and my Hopper goes directly to the ESPN channel.
Another few years and we probably will be able to just think "ESPN" and it will switch.Too many syllables in Alexa. I changed mine to Echo.
Too many syllables in Alexa. I changed mine to Echo.
I could SO comment on the CNN thing, but as the rules state, no politics here.I'm not seeing all of that verbosity and multi-room changes so far. If I say "switch the Hopper to CNN", it changes the hopper to CNN and responds almost instantly with "OK, switching to CNN on the Hopper". If I say "Switch Joey 2 to NBC", it switches Joey 2 to NBC and responds with "Switching to NBC on Joey 2." No cross effects on the other devices.
I suspect the difference is that I have applied Nicknames to each device in the Google Home app. Google will announce the convenient nickname that you give each device, instead of the original label.
The only oddity I'm getting today, is that it won't manage a channel number change. That was working yesterday. If I say" Switch the hopper to channel 5", it responds with "I'm sorry, there was an error and I'm unable to control your home device." I assume that's just a temporary mess up, but overall it's working great for me.
I left mine set for "Alexa" but I just say "Lexa" and it works. That makes it the same number of syllables as "Echo."Too many syllables in Alexa. I changed mine to Echo.
But you did anyway.I could SO comment on the CNN thing, but as the rules state, no politics here.
But you did anyway.
Back to ignore you go.
My favorite example is when the ad for their Alexa skill airs on my local TV station, WMFD. The ad ends with the tagline, "Alexa just got smarter." My Echo Dot hears that and responds, "Hmm, I don't know that."I think Amazon should allow Hal! One syllable, excellent name.Seriously though, may Dot sits right next to me in my theater room. It is amazing how many times it hears, or thinks it hears, Alexa. I am thinking Echo is a more used word than Alexa. That could drive me crazy just watching the Dot continuously lighting up. Or worse, hearing Echo from some TV dialog and then responding that it doesn't know what to do with the dialog that followed.
My favorite example is when the ad for their Alexa skill airs on my local TV station, WMFD. The ad ends with the tagline, "Alexa just got smarter." My Echo Dot hears that and responds, "Hmm, I don't know that."
I posted about something similar in the Pub Members section awhile back. I would fall asleep listening to one radio station through my Echo Dot, and when I woke up, it would be playing a different station. I assumed something like that was happening. This hasn't happened to me in awhile, but I have not been listening to that station as often, either.That’s actually why I changed the trigger word. A commerical in my area says “Hey Alexa, play....” and she changes the channel.
No, the same problem was reported elsewhere. I am sure Dish is aware of this and working on it.Since Wednesday, Google Assistant errors off for me on any voice command to switch to a channel number. Channel names work fine. Am I the only one experiencing that problem?
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