Nest: One solid white light, for about 10 minutes

What Google says to do

1. Say “Hey Google, what’s up?” to hear it.

The same colour on other speakers

Another maker’s speaker can use this colour for something else entirely.

• Echo: White — When you change the volume, white lights show the volume level.
• HomePod: Static white light — Your HomePod speaker is playing audio.
• HomePod: White flashing light — A white light shining on and off repeatedly means HomePod isn’t responding normally.
• HomePod: White pulsing light — Your HomePod speaker is ready for setup.
• HomePod: White spinning light — Your HomePod speaker is turning on or updating software.
• Sonos: Solid white — The Sonos product is powered up and working properly.
• Sonos: Flashing white — The Sonos product is powered on and booting up.
• Sonos: Flashing orange and white — The Sonos product is updating, or a factory reset is in progress.
• Sonos: Flashing red and white — The Sonos product failed to update.
• Sonos: Flashing pattern of red, white, orange and green — The product is in a hardware diagnostic mode.

Other Google Nest and Google Home lights

• 4 solid orange lights
• Pulsing orange light
• 2 solid red lights
• 4 solid blue lights
• White lights slowly pulse
• White lights run back and forth
• White lights light up from left to right
• 4 white lights pulse quickly
• Rainbow or multicoloured lights light up from left to right
• Orange lights count down
• Purple lights run, pulse or flash twice
• Yellow light ring pulsing fast
• Pulsing yellow light
• All Google Nest and Google Home lights on one page