I tried this …
Does not matter whether i unlink or not the “tag” field keeps greyed out in HABmin.
Keeps up with REST, even this is pretty confusing to use
After I worked out how the commands within the console needed to be phrased, I found this the best / easiest solution.
opening the console was my first task…
From a command prompt within the host machine
openhab-cli console
you’ll then get prompted for the password
habopen
It’s then a matter of correctly formatting the “smarthome:items addTag” command.
For example, why could I set the tags for Bath_Red but not for Mid_Red ???
The reason was that I wasn’t using the correct Item name.
I found the best way to locate the correct item name was to go as far as editing the item in PaperUI / Items and copying the text from the orange bar at the top…
Edit Bath_Red
The required command within the console is
smarthome:items addTag Bath_Red Lighting
Or what turned out to be for Mid_Red
smarthome:items addTag BackSuiteColour_Mid_Red Lighting
Now I can tag most items…
Good luck
Reference :- [Official Google Assistant Integration for openHAB](http://Official Google Assistant Integration for openHAB)
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The other tiny detail I had missed previously was that I hadn’t configured the Cloud Connector correctly.
I had copied my UUID and Secret to link my OpenHab2 instance to the myopenhab.org account, but I hadn’t noticed the “Items to expose to apps such as IFTTT” check list.
I found it all by doing the following:-
Open - PaperUi
Goto - Configuration
Click on - Services
Find “IO” in the tabs
Find - OpenHAB Cloud
Click on - Configure
Open the check list by clicking on - “Items to expose to apps such as IFTTT” - in the top right hand corner.
Click on Save
Plenty of people have commented that the changes are NOT reflected instantly in myopehab or Google Assistant, this I can agree with.
But given that the information has to filter through plenty of gateways and stuff I don’t pretend to understand, I do the following:-
I add tags in the console and check the “Items to expose to apps such as IFTTT” check list.
Leave it all alone for a few hours, change a few thing’s states in the real world or via the app…
THEN ask Google to “Sync my Things”
The next issue I experience is that setting rooms and nick names in Google Assistant doesn’t tend to work well straight after a Sync. “Unable to save changes, please check your settings”
Again…
Leave it a few hours to settle and it seems to respond a lot better.
An interesting observation —
If I leave my instance of PaperUI in Openhab2 in “Simple Mode” while adding Things, any automatically created Items can’t have tags edited using the Console.
Any attempt returns the error “Cannot change tag {x} on item {y} because this item does not belong to a ManagedProvider”.
If I create Items as I add Things, not only do the Items’ names make more sense, I also don’t get a lot of unused Items.
You can’t edit items created in Simple Mode or in .items -files. Have a look at my solution:
HowTo: Move ALL items to JSON dB for easy editing in PaperUI and tagging for Google Home (and Alexa)
Hi All,
i’d like to follow up on this topic as i have the same issue + a weird behavior on the Google Home App.
Little bit of background:
I have created all my things in PaperUI with “simple” mode enabled.
However, at one point i switched “simple” mode off in order to be able to group and reasign items. In any case, i was trying to integrate Google Assistant with Openhab following the documentation. This worked to the extend as i could connect with credentials but couldnt see and devices(items) in the app.
Reading several threads and documentation, this is because the requiered “tags” for google assistant where not applied to the items. So i followed this thread for example ,and were able to assign tags via comand line and via rest api. No problem. I was also able to successfully verify the changes on the items with the added tags.
However, once tge tags are applied, the Google Home App cannot refresh the devices anymore and returns a “configuration error”. If i remove the tags, the app is able again to refersh the devices.
Can anyone commetn on this behavior?
Version: OpenHab 2.5.4 “Master” branch.
Regards
Patrick