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Removing ghost Google Wifi devices from Google home

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This has nothing to do with photography

But I still wanted to share this tip because it drove me nuts for months. How to remove ghost Google wifi devices from Google Home?

How to remove ghost Google wifi devices from Google Home?

Google Home is a great system if you want an easy way to automate your home and connect everything together. Also, the Google Home app is easy to use and supports a lot of automation and devices are almost added automatically. So when it all works so easily you might expect that if you have to replace a defective Wifi unit it’s super easy to remove that device…..you probably already guessed it, but it’s not.

I tried almost everything (except of course delete the home and rebuild everything). But whatever I tried there was no way to remove the old device. At one point I just gave up and accepted that the ghost of my defective Wifi device would haunt me forever.

But I would not be writing this blog post when I did not find a solution.
And it’s not logical, to be honest.

If you have a Google Home Wifi device that is not accessible anymore you can remove it by following these steps.
How to remove ghost Google wifi devices from Google Home?
Go to the device and open the settings.
Now wait (it will take a while)
When it opens up click on the factory reset

Now when you look it’s still there, but don’t give up.
Do exactly the same.
Go to settings, wait, and do the factory reset.

Now close the app and open the app and voila… you exorcized the Ghost of the Wifi device.
I hope this helped some of you that had the same problem I had.

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Review : Watermark Plus for Mac

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I get a lot of requests to review software, and to be honest I always look at the software but I also realize “How many plugin and apps does someone need”, I’ve seen plenty of smart phones for example that are literally stuffed with apps to a point that even the user doesn’t remember which one does what (yeah I also have a few too many on my phone). So when I do a review the app/plugin really should add something. And in all honestly I was in doubt if I would review this one, because most of the software I use already supports adding watermarks and they do it pretty good.

 

The reason I eventually did decide to do the review is that I hear a lot of the starting photographers ask for a way to resize and watermark images without the use of Lightroom for the simple reason they don’t own Lightroom or they just simply want something a bit more fancy and want it simple and fast. And this is exactly where I think Watermark Plus shines.

 

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OKDOTHIS

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Now it’s not often that I review an app on this blog, but this time I want to make an exception for a very special one, “OKDOTHIS”
It’s available on iPhone only at the moment.

OKDOTHIS-001OKDOTHIS is an app that was brought to my attention a while ago but to be honest I did not downloaded it, the idea was cool, the app looked great and it was started by a good friend of us Jeremy Cowart, but somehow I did not find it necessary to add another “social network” to my collection, and let’s be honest most of us are already on G0ogle+, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, What’s app etc. etc. it’s almost a day job just to keep up with everything, so why, oh WHY add another one… well that was also my idea until last week I started trying out “OKDOTHIS” and I can tell you it’s freaking awesome.

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