Google Home group 'unavailable'

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I have a group setup in my Google Home app which comes through into HassIO but regularly goes ‘unavailable’. I don’t know why and it comes back good just as randomly as is goes bad… can anyone help please?

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The individual Google Home devices in that group never go ‘unavailable’…

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Lots of us have this issue for now. Here is the issue to keep track of:

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/13530

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thanks. good to know it’s not just me and that some people who know what they are doing (I’m unfortunately not one of those!) are working on it. cheers

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no prob, for now i just send it to all devices in the group individually…for the most part its close to spot on lol

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I’m having this issue too, seems to be rather random. From what I can see there’s been limited progress. Does anyone have any other workarounds than sending to all devices individually?

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I have the same issue. I want the devices in a group so that they all talk at the same time. Someone above mentioned they send them individually… how do you do this so they are in sync? I have 8 devices. Code example?

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create a ‘group’ in the Google Home app (not in HA). It should then show up as a single media_player within HA which you can then send music / TTS to in the usual way and it will be in sync. Volume control of that media_player will then affect all devices in the Google Cast group. I have one simply called ‘house’ that I created in the Google Home app which shows up as media_player.house in HA.

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Oh okay- yes this is what I’ve done. It still has issues. The “All” group still goes to unavailable randomly and then nothing talks.

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what version of HA are you running? I had a lot of trouble in the past but the upgrade to 0.78 seemed to fix it

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I’m on 0.79.2 and can tell you that the problems persist. In the image below, Downstairs, Everywhere, Entry, and Living Rooms are all groups. “Everywhere” has been unavailable all day. Yesterday it was different groups that became unavailable. It’s still very unstable. I think it has something to do with the actual google firmware. But, the HA devs have been having a heck of a time trying to re-connect the disconnects.

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i agree i think the issue is with the google code. i believe there is a master node of a group and if that goes offline the whole group does and either takes to long to create master node and reconnects or doesn’t at all, i could be wrong but that was my take on how google implements the group feature

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The issue I have with the statement above is that all the other devices are online when the group is unavailable. I’m always on the most current version of has.io.

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I’m the same. It’s only ever my google home group that goes ‘unavailable’ and at that time the individual Google homes are still available and working fine. Also, if I ask a Google home to cast to that group, it works fine. The issue is only with HA thinking that it is unavailable and therefore not being able to cast to the group from HA

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I have the same issue with the current version (0.82.1) and several past versions of hassio. Restarting hassio always corrects the problem. When the problem happens, each group is visible and working from the Google Home application.
Thanks.

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Same issue here, seems only one group keeps going offline, have deleted and recreated but same result

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Same - I can’t believe how long this has taken to fix

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There’s a fix in beta right now that looks promising. Fingers crossed.

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Version 0.88+ seems to fix the problem. Looking good so far… Thanks.

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Agreed. Good job.

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Been with a technically no longer supported config for a while now due to cast groups being lost:

media_player:
  - platform: cast
  # Google Home Mini Kitchen
  - platform: cast
    host: 192.168.0.9
  # Google Home Mini Living Room
  - platform: cast
    host: 192.168.0.10
  # Kitchen Cast
  - platform: cast
    host: 192.168.0.12

Tried to change it to the official config.
If I just add cast:, no single google cast is discovered (even with discover: enabled)
If I add the below, I can see the google cast devices nicely detected, but no group are discovered:

cast:
  media_player:
    # Google Home Mini Kitchen
    - host: 192.168.0.9
    # Google Home Mini Living Room
    - host: 192.168.0.10
    # Kitchen Cast
    - host: 192.168.0.12
    # Conservatory Cast
    - host: 192.168.0.13
    # Mi Box
    - host: 192.168.0.28
    # Onkyo
    - host: 192.168.0.26

What am I doing wrong please?
(Original config on top of this message still works for me, though I can’t see the devices listed under integration)