Whether you have one Google Home Mini or several, you might experience this issue at some point with the devices randomly making a beeping noise. Although these smart speakers are fairly new, there have been several instances where Google Home Mini owners reported that the smart speaker started to beep on its own.
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Check the beep
A Google Home Mini was placed in a room and left to record audio after he went to sleep. The following morning, he woke up to a voice alerting him that the recording had been sent to one of his contacts.The beep indicates that it’s about to record your question. This is normal behavior for Google Home Mini. If you don’t want that feature, you can disable it in the Google Home app on your phone or tablet.
- Open the Google Home app and tap your account icon at the bottom right corner of the screen and select Settings.
- Under “Devices,” open the device card for your Google Home Mini and tap More Options (three dots) > Settings.
- Scroll down and tap “Calls on speaker.”
Check the light ring
My home mini does this too, fairly regularly. From what I understood from the google home subreddit, it is supposed to do this when listening for commands, but there seems to be a bug that causes it to do so even when not expecting a command.
If you look at the underside of your mini and see if there are any lights on, it should be solid white when listening for commands and blinking white when receiving audio input (from anything, not just from you). If the light ring is solid white while nothing is playing, then you can be sure thatthere is a bug causing this issue.I highly recommend checking out the google home subreddit at /r/google home. That’s where I learned about all this stuff.
Check whether your phone has been paired to your Google Home Mini
Google Home Mini is a smart speaker and it can be used without a smartphone. However, you need to pair your Google Home Mini with your phone once in the initial setup phase and then Google Home will remember the settings.
If you find that your Google Home Mini beeps randomly, here are some of the steps you can follow:
- Check whether your phone has been paired to your Google Home Mini. If not, do so and check if the issue persists.
- Check if there are any notification sounds turned on in your phone or in any of the apps in your phone. If yes, disable them and check if the issue still persists.
How to stop random beeps
This is a known bug. The company says it will send out a software update to fix the problem. In the meantime, if you’re getting annoyed by a beeping Google Home Mini, unplugging the smart speaker should stop the noise.
- Google Home Mini is the smaller version of Google Assistant-powered smart speaker that costs $50 and competes with Amazon’s Echo Dot.The tech giant gave away thousands of them at its product launch event last Wednesday and started selling them online and in stores on Friday.
- For owners who have already set up their device, Google is telling them to unplug it as a temporary solution until they can send out an update that fixes the issue in two weeks’ time. It also said it’s working with those who have preordered it to make sure they are aware of the problem before it arrives at their doorstep.
- Those who received one from the product launch event can contact Google for an exchange or refund.
- Someone could be trying to contact you.There’s a lot you can do with your Google Home, and some of its best features are the ones you don’t enable right away. One of those is Broadcast, which lets you send voice messages to everyone in your home at once. If someone calls you on your Google Home, they’ll be able to leave a message while they’re at it. That’s great, but what if you’re not there?
- That’s where the beep comes in. The beep is there to let you know that someone is trying to contact you. The person who called will be able to leave a message, even if you don’t answer, and the next time you check for messages on your phone or with “Hey Google, play my messages” on the speaker itself, you’ll hear the notification sound.
Conclusion
If your Google Home Mini or Nest Mini randomly beeps when you’re not using it, then you likely have a muted device. You can also refer to Google’s specifications for more information. The Google Home Mini has a mute button on the back.
This can be pressed if you want to mute the device so that it doesn’t make any noise, but it also is probably causing your Google Home Mini to randomly beep. This is a known issue, and hopefully one that won’t last too long as a bug, but one you will have to deal with in the meantime.