I am unable to imagine how terrible the Google House app is true now

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Google’s House platform is experiencing connectivity points with varied third-party sensible dwelling gadgets.
Complaints on Reddit about disconnections from the Google House app led to Google acknowledging the problem (there’s nonetheless no answer but, although).
Belkin will cease supporting Wemo sensible plugs on January thirty first, 2026.

A couple of weeks in the past, I tried to activate my lounge lamps with the Google House app on my iPhone 16 Pro. The lamps are plugged into comparatively not too long ago launched Wemo smart plugs that may generally be somewhat delayed, however to my shock, they did not reply in any respect, even via my Nest Audio and voice instructions.

The following day, the sensible plugs nonetheless did not flip on, so I attempted to take away and re-add them to the Google House app, solely to uncover this Reddit thread with hundreds of posts about the identical downside. For those who’re acquainted with the world of sensible dwelling gadgets, outages like this aren’t that unusual, so I assumed the problem would get fastened in some unspecified time in the future. However after briefly reconnecting to my varied Wemo sensible plugs, they as soon as once more dropped from the House app and Google Assistant voice instructions a number of hours later.

Making the state of affairs worse, Belkin, Wemo’s mum or dad firm, then introduced that it is dropping support for the smart plug brand on January 31th, 2026. It isn’t clear why, but it surely seems sustaining the connection to Google’s House app and Alexa simply is not price it for the accent maker (the sensible plugs will reportedly nonetheless work with Apple’s HomeKit). Hopefully, this is not the beginning of a brand new development with third-party sensible dwelling gadgets.

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It isn’t simply Wemo both. Almost all of my sensible dwelling equipment, starting from the a number of Philips Hue smart lights I’ve all through my dwelling (that are normally fairly dependable), to iRobot’s robotic vacuums and a number of other sensible thermometers, have all not too long ago dropped their connections from the Google House app and Google Assistant; and I am not alone with these points.

The wave of complaints on Reddit associated to rampant Google House app disconnections caught the eye of Anish Kattukaran, Google’s Director of Product Administration, Google House and Nest, who acknowledged that the tech large is engaged on a repair in a recent post on X.

Good dwelling merchandise aren’t normally the sort of gadget you wish to wait to get magically fastened with a server-side replace, as you sort of want to have the ability to flip your lights on and off. In actual fact, the problem has gotten so unhealthy that I’ve thought of abandoning Google’s House ecosystem and certain nearly all of my sensible dwelling gadgets altogether. The comfort of fast voice instructions simply would not appear price it once they do not work constantly.

That is particularly disappointing as a result of Google’s House ecosystem as soon as felt like essentially the most dependable sensible dwelling platform on the market. To be truthful, all of them type of suck, together with Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem, however Google’s House platform appeared like the simplest to make use of and essentially the most dependable. A part of me is not stunned given the sluggish, painful demise of Google Assistant over the previous few years as Gemini, Google’s fancy AI chatbot, pulls nearly all of the tech large’s assets.

Hopefully, Gemini makes its solution to Google’s Nest and House sensible speaker within the coming months, and these irritating points change into a distant reminiscence. Or, possibly Apple’s next-gen Siri will present as much as save the sensible dwelling day.

Some individuals have discovered success in navigating to the Google House app’s Settings and deciding on Works with Google. You possibly can then re-sync or re-add every third-party machine. Sadly, within the case of Wemo and a few of my different sensible lights, this answer hasn’t labored for me. That stated, I’ve had my Wemo sensible plugs randomly reconnect to the House app a few occasions over the previous few days.