Bluestacks Android Version
Sandra Grady
A follow up to using an android emulator: I decided to try the MEmu emulator on my Windows 11 PC. I tried various versions of Eufy app on MEmu. I found using the apk version of Eufy V4.7.0_1747 gives me a very fast and very complete Eufy experience that mimics exactly the android phone app of Eufy. I see live views with clear images and see all the events clearly. It works very well.
Hi I am trying to play Top free games' Bike Race game in Bluestacks software for Windows. I installed it and I started to play the game. But I am not able to tilt action for adjusting my bike. How can I do that?
I've tried the left and right arrow keys and also with ctrl and alt key combinations. I read this post on How to mimic the tilt function in bluestacks but its not working in my Windows 7 PC. I'm using Blue stacks beta-1 version.
I contacted the support team of bluestacks and they suggested to upgrade to the latest version. Updated the version and tried but still I have the same issue.My current bluestacks app version is 0.9.25.5401
Update 1:As the tilt function is working fine in other games. It is dependent on the games that you play and its support on the Bluestack app player. Once the game is supported it will show a popup of the controls that can be used to control the actions and mimic the accelerations. So for example when playing a game like Labrynth Lite, after installing and opening the game the app player resized the windows like a phone and showed the controls using the arrow keys.
I actually found out how to mimic the tilt functionality in all games. The first thing you have to do is to configure the tilt motion using the key mapping functionality provided by the Bluestacks app player. Here's what you want to do,
Open Bluestacks, and click the keyboard icon shown first in the bottom menu (along with share, fullscreen and exit icons aside). This opens the configuration window to configure the Dpad, Tilt and other such Kep mapping functionalities such that you can control the object using those keys and mimic the tilt in the games.
After Clicking the Tilt option in the menu shown for key mapping, Click each Rounded buttons and press any key in the keyboard to configure that key as the key to make the control for tilting. Likewise set the controls for tilting Left, Right, Up and Down. Set the sensitivity to default and play the game once and set it according to your needs.
Once you click confirm and it will show you the Keys that you have configured for each tilt functionality. You can see the configured keys for tilting is displayed as I set. Eg. For tilting the bike backward I need to tilt left so I set the Left tilting to Left Arrow key mapping. Set the Key whichever is convinient for you and you should be able to do the tilting in all games you install on Bluestacks.
Just installed 2 new "Nest Cam with Floodlight"s. Added both to Google Home app. Both floodlights work fine - can turn them both on & off using the Google Home app. Both cameras are recording events, and even sending notifications to phone & watch. BUT - when I select either camera in the Google Home app - it puts me in a "settings" dialogue that gives me 2 options: "Remove device" or "Finish setup". I select "Finish setup" ... 1 or 2 seconds later the app falls back to the screen for the main home. If I again select the camera - same thing - asks me to Remove or Finish Setup. Note that I can select the floodlights, and turn them off & on, and adjust brightness. But if I select the camera - I get stuck in the "Finish Setup" infinite loop.
Have re-installed Home App, have restarted phone. Installed Home app on iPad - got same exact behavior. Tried pushing the factory reset button on the back of one of the cameras - held for 10 seconds. Didn't seem to do anything at all.
I solved this problem. Thanks to a suggestion from Supert3d, I was able to complete the setup using an android phone. Since I don't own an android phone, I downloaded & installed (for free) Bluestacks (android emulator) on my MacBook Pro. Ran Bluestacks, logged in using the same gmail login I use for my Google Home app on my iPhone. Installed Google Home inside of Bluestacks - so now I could run Google Home on an android platform. Ran Google Home inside of Bluestacks, logging in using the same gmail as I use for Google Home on my iPhone. It showed my entire home setup, and allowed me to "finish setup" on both cameras.
After completing the "finish setup" inside of Google Home running inside of Bluestacks on my MBP, I then went back to my iPhone and ran Google Home there. And all was working - yay! I can see live footage on both cameras, history from both cameras, etc. It now all works on iOS.
Thanks for your attention. I've tried all of them, none of them work for me. The camera did show white light, then blinking blue light. Near the end of the setup, the blue light went off and the step on downloading update never complete... Extremely frustrated.
The funny thing is even when the camera is unplugged (no power), Google Home App still allows me to proceed to set up all the way to "Downloading updates" as if the camera is reachable. Of course the setup never finish.
I read -and-Doorbells/Indoor-Nest-Cam-gen2-will-not-finish-se... there are people with similar issue back a year or two ago. I'm quite upset and have no idea whether it is the Cameras, iPhone Google Home app or Google server issues. I've an older generation of Nest Cam (black). It works well with Nest App. Never so disappointed and helpless with Google's product before. Should I ask for refund? Or is that an official Google communication channel to get it sorted?
Hi - I shared your frustration back in March (see my "solution" post above). I concluded that all the rebooting of routers and modems and phones and cameras was useless. The problem is the iOS version of the Google Home app. It has a fatal bug in it that seems to cause this problem. I didn't own any android devices, and didn't want to buy one just to solve this problem ... so I found the free Bluestacks Android emulator, installed it on my MacBook laptop, and then ran the Android version of Google Home inside that emulation. The Android version of Google Home running inside Bluestacks worked just fine - it completed setup without a hiccup, and everything then functioned as expected. The happy-ending part of this story is that after completing the setup using the Android emulator (Bluestacks), everything worked just fine on my iPhone using the iOS version of Google Home. The bug is just that dreaded "can't complete setup" problem. If you get past that problem, then Google Home on iPhone works fine. Yes - it's a royal pain to have to resort to the Bluestacks solution. Yes - it is completely unreasonable to expect the average consumer to be willing to go to that length to work around the obvious bug in Google's iOS app. Yes - I do think that Google is probably losing LOTS of sales due this problem. Yes - if you're not willing to either buy an android device, or use an emulated solution like Bluestacks, then I think your only choice is to return the product. Another lost sale due to Google ignoring the fact they have a bug in their iOS app. Are you listening Google. Good luck edgeofuniverse.
Hmm. Sorry to hear you're having trouble with that - I'm not a Bluestacks expert ... I've only used it for just this one instance of solving the dreaded can't-complete-setup problem. I just tried it again on my MacBook (2016 model, running macOS Monterey 12.6) - and it still works just fine. I followed these instructions to get it all setup .... maybe this will help (??): -home-on-pc.html
BTW - If I run the Google Play Store app inside of blue stacks - it can't even find Google Home. Can't explain that. The search that finds it - and allows me to download and install it - is the search in the upper right corner of the Bluestacks window itself (as described in the instructions in that link above).
Edit: One more piece of info: In my instance of Bluestacks, I have it configured to be emulating a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Configured in BlueStacks->Preferences->Advanced->Choose a predefined profile. Maybe that would solve your unsupported device problem.
Super thanks for your suggestions. I tried them all. Unfortunately I can get my Bluestacks setup for Google Play Store to allow installing Google Home App. Also I tried to get hold of an old Android phone. Unfortunately, Google Home App does not support that phone...
Is Google not aware of the issues that are surfaced in this forum/community? If not - well that's weird. Also - what is your role? Are you simply a volunteer that tries to help out on this forum, or a Google employee, or ?? When you say "We hear you", who is "We"? Is Google not part of "We"? Please don't take this as criticism, but rather than pointing me at a convoluted way of telling Google about their BUG, I suggest you short-cut the process by simply pointing them at this thread yourself. I've pretty much laid out what the problem is. Even if I were willing to go to the trouble of figuring out how to report this through the Google Home app, I would do nothing more than share the URL to this discussion.
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