This has nothing to do with photography

But I still wanted to share this tip because it drove me nuts for months.
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 automations and devices are almost added automatically. So when it all works so easy 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, 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 blogpost 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.

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.