2020-09-08

Google home and power outage

Tuesday morning at 04:20 (AM) - "Hey Google Good Morning". Nothing happens, no lights no nothing. WTF, after some fumbling around I realized there is no power in my flat. I found a message in my phone from the electric power supplier there is an outage since 04:08 2836 households affected. and they expect the power to be back 06:00. Power outage in Stockholm is extremely rare it just do not happen, but now it happened anyway. 06:06 the power came back, now my google home pucks told me there was no internet connection so they could not do anything. I suspect they checked for the wifi connection before the router was operational and then refused to do anything else than complain about the internet connection. 

This is not acceptable and also very bad behavior of the Google Home pucks. When powered on they should loop around connect to internet with lets say a minute delay. As it is now I have to manually turn off and on the power to the pucks after the router is wifi operational. 

Actually there is two things involved, first connect to the router, then connect to the internet. I do not see why Google home cannot turn on my lights without an internet connection, a router connection should suffice for internal domestic chores.