Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

Well I guess I wasn't the only one.

Only took about a day to get it figured out and reset.

For reference, I only have 3 devices attached. 2 lights and an outlet that is basically another light as it's connected to a dumb LED strip (aka I can't use Assistant to control it or change the colors or pattern of changes, I just control the outlet to turn on do I can turn the strip itself effectively on and off- I still need the manufacturer's app to change the colors and brightness- and as fucking terrible as that app is, at least it works; it has ads and needs an account, but it does function).

More often than not I turn on/off the lights at the same time, and the strip separately, or I turn all 3 on and off together.

When I do them all together, I use the command "bedroom off".

When the issue affected me, the symptom was that only my night stand light would respond.

In the Google Home app, all 3 were still associated with the bedroom, but only the night stand responded to the spoken command.

I changed the other 2 items to another room and then signed them back to the bedroom, and it's fine now.

There is one other oddity that might be Google's fault, or maybe the light itself. The other light (not the night stand) will occasionally register as "offline" and doesn't respond to commands at first.

Then the Nest speaker starts to announce "(that light) is offline and can't be (something or other)"

But it usually triggers while the message is still being said (which is why I can't remember the rest of the error- it usually fixes and it stops saying the message when the light finally heard the message and changes).

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Well I guess I wasn't the only one.
Only took about a day to get it figured out and reset.
For reference, I only have 3 devices attached. 2 lights and an outlet that is basically another light as it's connected to a dumb LED strip (aka I can't use Assistant to control it or change the colors or pattern of changes, I just control the outlet to turn on do I can turn the strip itself effectively on and off- I still need the manufacturer's app to change the colors and brightness- and as fucking terrible as that app is, at least it works; it has ads and needs an account, but it does function).
More often than not I turn on/off the lights at the same time, and the strip separately, or I turn all 3 on and off together.
When I do them all together, I use the command "bedroom off".
When the issue affected me, the symptom was that only my night stand light would respond.
In the Google Home app, all 3 were still associated with the bedroom, but only the night stand responded to the spoken command.
I changed the other 2 items to another room and then signed them back to the bedroom, and it's fine now.
There is one other oddity that might be Google's fault, or maybe the light itself. The other light (not the night stand) will occasionally register as "offline" and doesn't respond to commands at first.
Then the Nest speaker starts to announce "(that light) is offline and can't be (something or other)"
But it usually triggers while the message is still being said (which is why I can't remember the rest of the error- it usually fixes and it stops saying the message when the light finally heard the message and changes).