Google Home And Chromecast Outage Affects Millions of Users; Fix Is On The Way

Has your Google Home speaker stopped responding to you? Is it stuck in a loop talking about a glitch? Well, you lot're not lone every bit Google Home and Chromecast devices are suffering an outage beyond the earth.

Google hasconfirmed that its smart speaker and streaming dongle is suffering from an ongoing problem that affects 'some' users worldwide. On beingness called out for assistance, Google Abode speakers have been spewing out errors like, 'Something went wrong, effort once more in a few seconds' or 'There was a glitch. Effort over again in a few seconds.'

The first reports of Google Home suffering from an unknown glitch started to trickle in around six:30 a.1000 PST (or 7 p.m IST) on Reddit, Google Product Forum, and Twitter, of course!

@madebygoogle Hey Google, Google Domicile Mini and Chrome Bandage are not working at all. Any workaround on this? #googlehome #chromecast #glitch motion picture.twitter.com/3NJZOgIYMB

— Andrew Abogado (@andrewabogado) June 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/misssippimoon/status/1012074504418361344

Information technology wasn't until subsequently in the day (or late night in India) that Google shared details on the outage proverb that its systems were having an issue. Some users speculate that Google was trying to solve the issues where the smart speaker revealed the user location and it yanked the service offline instead.

Nosotros're pitiful to hear some of our users are experiencing bug with their Google Domicile and Chromecast. We're on it. Stay tuned for updates.

— Fabricated Past Google (@madebygoogle) June 27, 2018

A couple hours downward the road, Google tweeted out a temporary gear up for the Google Home and Chromecast outage. It requested users to reboot their devices and to get it upward and running right away, or look a few hours for the set up to kicking in automatically. Google further asks users to contact the support team if their speakers don't offset working after the reboot.

Nosotros accept a gear up for Google Habitation and Chromecast. It volition automatically roll out within the side by side vi hours. To get back upward and running at present, reboot your device → https://t.co/CM4ov63F46. Cheers for sticking with us!

— Made By Google (@madebygoogle) June 27, 2018

Google has already identified the issue, which stemmed from their backend system that supports both Google Home and Chromecast infrastructure. Information technology is currently working on a fix to go the millions of smart speakers working once again – so that Google Banana doesn't leave them hanging. A Google Home team member issued a statement on Reddit proverb,

We've identified a fix for the event impacting Google Home and Chromecast users and it volition exist automatically rolled out over the side by side 6 hours. Nosotros are actually distressing for the inconvenience and are taking steps to prevent this issue from happening in the future.

At present that Google Dwelling has been faced with such a lengthy outage, users on Reddit are now discussing solutions such equally 'local commands' for the same. The fix nonetheless hasn't been rolled out but we'll keep you updated. Did your Google Dwelling house face an outage every bit well? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: https://beebom.com/google-home-chromecast-outage/

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