If you’re a big Google Home user then you’ll have noticed a fairly big outage for Google Home over the last 24-36 hours. The good news is that it appears to be over and Google has begun emailing out apologies for the outage.
The outage hit not only Google Home, but also Chromecast as well, with Google Home giving the frustrating error ‘something went wrong’, while some apps which normally support Chromecasting content were not showing the option.
The issue was fairly widespread, though didn’t affect everyone. I was using Google Home to play podcasts from Pocket Casts at the time when reports were rolling in, and then used it a few times to turn lights on and off, check weather and time, but it appears I was in the minority.
Rishi Chandra, Google’s VP of Product Management and General Manager of Home Products has sent out an email to Google Home user overnight explaining what happened.
You may have noticed a problem with your Google Home yesterday morning. We found a glitch with one of our backend systems and spent the day working hard to get everyone back up and running. It’s frustrating when technology doesn’t work the way it should, especially when you’re depending on it. We’re sorry that this happened.
There’s a fix rolling out to all Google Home devices now. If you’re still having trouble, let us know here.
Thanks for sticking with us.
– rishi, on behalf of the Google Home team
The fix is rolling out to Google Home now, and if you are experiencing issues you should definitely hit the link to report the issues.
