You'd think all my Google Home devices would keep tabs on each other, and that the Google Home Mini in my bathroom would know the Nest Hub ($90 at Best Buy) in my kitchen was trying to tell me my frozen pizza was done cooking.
But even though I can play the same song on all my speakers at once, or broadcast a message across the whole house, for some reason when it comes to timers, each Google Home smart speaker or display is an island unto itself.
When it comes to timers and alarms, Google Home devices operate independently of one another, but you can control all of them from anywhere in the Google Home app.
If a Google Home timer or alarm is going off in another room, no matter where you are in your house you can just yell, "Stop!" No "Hey, Google" or "OK, Google" is necessary.
Tap the colorful little device icons to access settings for timers and alarms in the Google Home app.
A little-known trick is that you can actually turn off timers and alarms from within the Google Home app.
Now that you know how to stop an alarm or timer from anywhere, consider these five unusual places to put a Google Home smart speaker.