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Does yours even work? I have a Polk Google nest capable sound bar and like 4 of the small nest mini speakers and the groups have always inconsistently worked and overall it works like utter shit.
Yeah I've got two sitting around and they work pretty well, but I'm annoyed that they need WAN access to stay working for playing my local media. Would prefer a WAN blackout at the router level to make sure that the microphone off toggle doesn't get "accidentally circumvented" by Google.
My thoughts exactly. Is it a hardware switch, or a hardware switch that just sends a signal to a software switch... 🤔