So, what's wrong with Google this morning?

[ultimatebob]

I can't access my GMail account, and all of my Google Home devices are saying "Something went wrong" when I ask them to do stuff. Google searches still work, though.

 

[ultimatebob]

This one is definitely not just me:

Google Workspace Status Dashboard

www.google.com

Google Classroom is down as well. So much for online learning this morning.

 

[Mai72]

I can't access YT mobile. It states that I need to chck internet. I just tried to sign in on my laptop. It says that I don't have an acount. I can access gmail, and i can access YT desktop with no issues. I just read that Google servers suffered a power outage.

 

[Genx87]

Somebody made a bad mistake or a major attack is happening.

 

[ultimatebob]

The Google Cloud console seems to be broken as well. I hope that the underlying servers are still OK, or they just broke a big chunk of the Internet.

 

[highland145]

But OT is up and running.

 

[Kaido]

But OT is up and running.

We're just a GUI running on a Usenet server from 30 years ago. Works off dialup & bubblegum.

 

[highland145]

We're just a GUI running on a Usenet server from 30 years ago. Works off dialup & bubblegum.

I don't need to see behind the curtain.

 

[sandorski]

Back up.

 

[allisolm]

Shows all green on the dashboard for me. Shows the interruption was just less than an hour.

 

[brianmanahan]

everything's been fine for me

 

[lxskllr]

A good lesson on putting all your eggs in one basket, and doing your computing on someone else's computer. Good thing no one had a spreadsheet they had to finish up first thing.

 

[ultimatebob]

You know what is total BS? I lost the ability to turn my "smart" lights on and off while my Google home was down. Something like a Google Nest Hub should be smart enough to allow basic smart home functionality like lighting and HVAC controls without an Internet connection.

 

[IronWing]

I thought this thread would be about how Google made their search totally useless on phones by frontloading the paid results to the point that one never gets to anything real.

 

[brianmanahan]

You know what is total BS? I lost the ability to turn my "smart" lights on and off while my Google home was down. Something like a Google Next Hub should be smart enough to allow basic smart home functionality like lighting and HVAC controls without an Internet connection.

lol, i remember hearing that last month when AWS when down for a while, some people's sweepers wouldn't even work anymore

 

[kt]

You know what is total BS? I lost the ability to turn my "smart" lights on and off while my Google home was down. Something like a Google Nest Hub should be smart enough to allow basic smart home functionality like lighting and HVAC controls without an Internet connection.

Couldn't you just walk up to the light switch to turn it on and off?

 

[IronWing]

Couldn't you just walk up to the light switch to turn it on and off?

Walk? What year is this?

 

[ultimatebob]

Couldn't you just walk up to the light switch to turn it on and off?

That light isn't on a switch... mostly because I thought that it would be voice activated (shrug).

 

[lxskllr]

Try talking louder. That's what I do at the Indian restaurant when there's a communication issue.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You know what is total BS? I lost the ability to turn my "smart" lights on and off while my Google home was down. Something like a Google Nest Hub should be smart enough to allow basic smart home functionality like lighting and HVAC controls without an Internet connection.

That is why I refuse to touch any of the consumer home automation stuff, I don't like the fact that they require some external server to run. Everything should be local.

Been meaning to design my own solution, I really need to get on that since I do have lot of things I want to automate/monitor. Currently I only really do my hvac, and have a couple things I monitor but it's all hard coded.

 

[kt]

Walk? What year is this?

Sorry I already wiped this year out of my memory.

 

[Exterous]

Education is pretty big into the entire Google ecosystem so my Monday morning was quiet as no one could email us

 

[snoopy7548]

I almost had a panic attack - I thought my Gmail account was hacked and/or deleted.

 

[kt]

I almost had a panic attack - I thought my Gmail account was hacked and/or deleted.

That's still a possibility. For all we know, Google just hasn't told us yet.

 

[pmv]

Am finding that emails to people with Gmail accounts keep bouncing back. Says their account doesn't exist.