{"id":390921,"date":"2022-01-07T18:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-home-speakers-are-losing-features-due-to-a-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:13:03","slug":"google-home-speakers-are-losing-features-due-to-a-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-home-speakers-are-losing-features-due-to-a-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google Home Speakers Are Losing Features Due to a Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sonos sued Google over the way Google Home speakers sync up and work together, and Sonos won. Unfortunately, this means your existing speakers will lose a helpful feature, which is never a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to a recent legal ruling we\u2019re making some changes to how you set up your devices, and the Speaker Group functionality will work moving forward,\u201d said Google in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll no longer be able to set the volume on multiple linked Google Home speakers at the same time, so you\u2019ll need to set the volume on each speaker individually. If you use your speakers individually, this shouldn\u2019t be an issue for you. However, if you like to take advantage of syncing your speakers, this will be a rather annoying change.<\/p>\n

In its blog post, Google said, \u201cTo adjust volume on your speaker groups, you will need to adjust each speaker individually instead of using the group volume controller. You\u2019ll also no longer be able to change your Speaker Group volume using your phone\u2019s physical volume button.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, some users will need to use the Device Utility app<\/a> to get their speakers up and running. Speaker groups containing non-Google Cast-based devices, like JBL or Lenovo, need to be on\u00a0Cast firmware version 1.52.272222 or higher.<\/p>\n

Google says it will \u201cwork to minimize any additional changes,\u201d so hopefully, these are the only things that\u2019ll change with the way Google speakers work together, but we\u2019ll have to wait and see. According to the New York Times<\/a>, the US International Trade Commission ruled that Google violates five Sonos patents relating to smart speakers, so other changes could come as the ruling is sorted out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n