Google Home outage resolved — devices respond to voice commands again

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Google Home started experiencing a service interruption late yesterday.

Impacted hardware would silently fail to respond to voice commands.

Google now says that the issue has been resolved.

The convenience of a full-blown smart home setup is one of those things that’s difficult to truly appreciate until you’re really living it — and once you are, just as hard to go back from. Being able to control everything from the lights to the temperature with just a few voice commands is the kind of luxury that’s very easy to get used to, but what do you do when all that control infrastructure breaks down? That’s just what Google Home users have been dealing with since late yesterday evening, but the good news is that their ordeal is finally over.

Google confirms in comments across Reddit’s Google Home sub: