Before getting started, exit the Public Preview program to ensure that you do not receive Gemini in your new Home (as long as Gemini remains optional):
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Next, set up a new Home within Google Home:
Once you have your new Home set up, you need to methodically factory reset and remove your smart home devices from your older Gemini-equipped Home, then set them up again in this new Home. It will be a bit of a pain, depending on how many smart home devices you have, but some users have had such a troubling experience with Gemini on Google Home that they’ve decided to go through this pain of setting everything up all over again just to get rid of Gemini.
You can check whether the commands on your newer Home are yielding the expected results. The most telltale sign of Google Assistant at work is the quick turnaround time on executing basic smart home commands.
Once your entire older Home setup has migrated to your newer Gemini-free Home, you can delete the older Home setup from the bottom of Home settings when you are the last remaining full-access member.
Note that this trick to revert to the older Google Assistant-powered engine on Google Home devices works only as long as Gemini stays in preview for Google Home devices. The writing is on the wall for Google Assistant’s eventual retirement in favor of Gemini. Hopefully, Google has addressed all of Gemini’s lingering issues by then, so members will not miss the Google Assistant experience on their Google Home speakers and displays.
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