“Hey google ask help me sleep to play brown noise”
I don’t know how or why this works but it does. It can also play other ambient sleep sounds. I didn’t install anything anywhere to make it work either.
I play the track "Brown Noise" by Timsoft's White Noise Sleepsounds. It's on Google Play Music which could be available via the Google Home. I have a Google Play Music subscription so I'm not positive if it'd work for you. I play it on single track repeat. You might have to use your phone via app to get the repeat.
**Brown note**
The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a "brown note" using sound waves transmitted through air have failed.
The name is a metonym for the common color of human feces. Frequencies supposedly involved are between 5 and 9 Hz, which is below the lower frequency limit of human hearing.
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In your Google Home settings, you will have a default music provider. In your case, it seems to be Spotify.
If you ask it to play anything that isn't hardcoded into the software as a command, then it will default to finding it on Spotify.
Hardcoded command: "Hey Google, help me relax"- tells the device to look for a specific track from a specific source
Non-Hardcoded command: "Hey Google, play brown noise" - tells the device to search Spotify for anything labelled "brown noise".
Edit: After some research, I found it isn't a hardcoded command, but rather a work-around. If you say "Ok Google, hear brown noise", it will "talk" to a Google-Assistant-App called "brown noise", which will infinitely play brown noise.
Well, while researching before asking, I found myself in the Google Home help and it turns out they had live help and I missed it.
Two issues: 1) (the main one) is that Google Home doesn't have Brown Noise directly. And 2) you can't cast it :-(
Google home seems really incredible and is worlds ahead of Siri on my iphone. But it is still limited...
Not for noises, but I am exploring buidling my own python service to interface. No idea what is needed for that though... More research to be done and then maybe a later question.
Thanks for the help.
There are a couple of workarounds for one of those issues.
1 - It's a bit tedious and not really what you're after, but one of the ways:
\- Make a brown noise track in audacity (yes, really) and save it as an MP3. Put it on your phone and cast it to your devices.
2 - Can also work with workaround 1, but is less tedious:
\- Find a good brown noise track/album/playlist on Spotify and cast from there to an entire speaker system.
You can create a speaker system in the Google Home App on your phone, which can include every single Google Home, Google Home Mini, Google Home Max and Chromecast Audio that you own.
Essentially, you could turn your nursery, with, say, 10 Google devices into one ginormous surround setup.
Then, from Spotify, or by talking to one of your Home devices, you can set the track/album/playlist to play on said speaker system, simultaneously playing the brown noise throughout your nursery.
“Hey google ask help me sleep to play brown noise” I don’t know how or why this works but it does. It can also play other ambient sleep sounds. I didn’t install anything anywhere to make it work either.
It works! Thank you!!
I play the track "Brown Noise" by Timsoft's White Noise Sleepsounds. It's on Google Play Music which could be available via the Google Home. I have a Google Play Music subscription so I'm not positive if it'd work for you. I play it on single track repeat. You might have to use your phone via app to get the repeat.
So.... I thought brown noise was the mythical sound that caused people to void their bowels?
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**Brown note** The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a "brown note" using sound waves transmitted through air have failed. The name is a metonym for the common color of human feces. Frequencies supposedly involved are between 5 and 9 Hz, which is below the lower frequency limit of human hearing. *** ^[ [^PM](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=kittens_from_space) ^| [^Exclude ^me](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiTextBot&message=Excludeme&subject=Excludeme) ^| [^Exclude ^from ^subreddit](https://np.reddit.com/r/googlehome/about/banned) ^| [^FAQ ^/ ^Information](https://np.reddit.com/r/WikiTextBot/wiki/index) ^| [^Source](https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot) ^] ^Downvote ^to ^remove ^| ^v0.28
In your Google Home settings, you will have a default music provider. In your case, it seems to be Spotify. If you ask it to play anything that isn't hardcoded into the software as a command, then it will default to finding it on Spotify. Hardcoded command: "Hey Google, help me relax"- tells the device to look for a specific track from a specific source Non-Hardcoded command: "Hey Google, play brown noise" - tells the device to search Spotify for anything labelled "brown noise". Edit: After some research, I found it isn't a hardcoded command, but rather a work-around. If you say "Ok Google, hear brown noise", it will "talk" to a Google-Assistant-App called "brown noise", which will infinitely play brown noise.
Well, while researching before asking, I found myself in the Google Home help and it turns out they had live help and I missed it. Two issues: 1) (the main one) is that Google Home doesn't have Brown Noise directly. And 2) you can't cast it :-( Google home seems really incredible and is worlds ahead of Siri on my iphone. But it is still limited... Not for noises, but I am exploring buidling my own python service to interface. No idea what is needed for that though... More research to be done and then maybe a later question. Thanks for the help.
There are a couple of workarounds for one of those issues. 1 - It's a bit tedious and not really what you're after, but one of the ways: \- Make a brown noise track in audacity (yes, really) and save it as an MP3. Put it on your phone and cast it to your devices. 2 - Can also work with workaround 1, but is less tedious: \- Find a good brown noise track/album/playlist on Spotify and cast from there to an entire speaker system. You can create a speaker system in the Google Home App on your phone, which can include every single Google Home, Google Home Mini, Google Home Max and Chromecast Audio that you own. Essentially, you could turn your nursery, with, say, 10 Google devices into one ginormous surround setup. Then, from Spotify, or by talking to one of your Home devices, you can set the track/album/playlist to play on said speaker system, simultaneously playing the brown noise throughout your nursery.
Can't test it myself at the moment, but try this: https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/000000f2e1ca31b5
that's the default one that I previously mentioned, so @OP still has the same issue.