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Maybe its my imagination, but Google Home could recognize a lot of things that it just can't do or can't do well anymore. It gives the impression that they just downgraded the whole infra behind it to run an inferior, cheaper model, hoping people will eventually stop using it so they can pull the plug altogether.

If I asked me Echo to close my curtains, it would respond that it doesn’t know about a device with that name. If I then ask it what devices it does know about, it won’t give me an answer.

Will the Google Home tell you the device names it can see?

I don't think it can do that. Asking variations of "what devices/controls/lights can you see/access/control" just gives a google search result for it. Quite stupid flaw imo in the design.

Don't know about opening curtains but I have a Deepbot connected to Google Home (now Gemini) and saying "Hey Google, start cleaning at 5.30 PM" works.