Listen to the radio with Google Home - how it works

Google Home is a speaker with an integrated voice assistant. This allows you to control various functions, such as listening to the radio, by voice input. How to listen to the radio with the Google Home and what to do in case of problems, you can read here.

How to use Google Home to listen to the radio

Before you can use the Google Home to listen to the radio, it is necessary to connect the speaker to the power supply and set it up. To do this, connect both your smartphone and the Google Home to the same Wi-Fi network and follow the setup steps in the Google Home app on your smartphone.

1. Once you have successfully set up the Google Home, please activate it using the commands "Ok Google" or "Hey Google".
2. To play a radio station, you can choose to name, frequency or call sign of the station.
3. If you do not want to play the radio station directly on the Google Home, but on a connected Chromecast device, name the name of the device in addition to the station.
4. Once the radio station has started playing, you can also control it with the Google Home and pause, stop or resume at any time.

Listen to the radio with Google Home: This helps with problems

If problems occur when trying to listen with the Google Home Radio because the desired station is not found, it usually helps to specify the request. Instead of the name of the station, name the exact frequency of the station or specify which app or website you want to use to access the radio station.