Google Home - Actions (API) now available!

mcqwerty · February 8, 2018, 2:52am

I am doing exactly that:

say("Hello world", "voicerss:enGB", "chromecast:audio:myGoogleHome")

Where the first argument is the phrase you want to say
Second argument is the language you want to use (I am using British English)
Third argument is the name of your google home Thing as is known to your Chromecast binding

Note: you must have ‘VoiceRSS Text-to-speech’ installed.
Paper UI -> Add-ons -> Voice -> VoiceRSS Text-to-Speech

It does play an announcement chime before it says the phrase and there is a bit of a delay but it works pretty well and is a lot of fun

dontpanic · February 8, 2018, 2:54am

Thanks for that, I’ll check out Chromecast first, I’m not using that yet.

Will.

luckymallari · February 8, 2018, 3:49am

With the gRPC based Google Assistant, all I do is send a command via REST through python, which internally just sends this command (via text API) to Google Assistant: “repeat after me < whatever I want it to say >”. No chime since it’s thinking it’s actually from someone saying the command verbally. I might post a video sometime

dontpanic · February 8, 2018, 5:00am

When you say “text API” are you referring to the public API.AI, or the “undocumented” hidden local api?

mcqwerty · February 8, 2018, 2:20pm

@luckymallari Please tell us more - do you have any links to docs, code samples, anything?
Thanks
(We are getting pretty off topic here so a new thread would probably be a good idea)

dontpanic · February 8, 2018, 9:15pm

Yes, maybe a thread for google home with IFTTT?

stef_coene_docum · February 9, 2018, 12:56pm

There is already a thread how to use google home and IFTTT:

Stef

Behram_Bajan · February 11, 2018, 5:17am

Hello Marzima,

I have been following this thread and it all sound great. Is there any chance we know when google will have this available to all a normal home control -> add device.

Well done this far and a big thank you to all in the community for helping.

MARZIMA · February 11, 2018, 5:46pm

Hi All,

great news! Google is currently testing it and if all goes well, we might have this week the official openHAB Action iunder Home Control of Google Assistant app.

I am doing a new deployment and looking forward to get it out asap. Thanks for being patient.

Google finally reacted and speeded things up the last days.

Fingers crossed!
Going to let you know these days and hope you get your long awaited suprise.

BR Mehmet

olivierf · February 11, 2018, 6:11pm

That’s awesome! Thank you for letting us know.

tylerstyle · February 11, 2018, 6:12pm

Awesome News!

Thank you for all your work, Mehmet!

luckymallari · February 11, 2018, 7:12pm

Nice work @MARZIMA

marklavercombe · February 11, 2018, 9:06pm

Hi @MARZIMA
That’s great news, thanks for updating us.
Looking forward to the announcement soon!
Cheers,
Mark

gael.grasset · February 11, 2018, 11:57pm

Thanks for the update ! Thanks a lot again

pauldsmyth · February 12, 2018, 9:31am

All comes to he who waits. Thanks for your work on this Marzima. I’ve
resisted the urge to set up my own server etc and have patiently waited for
the official solution. Fingers crossed we don’t have long to wait and
they’re quick to reassess any minor glitches.

zbot473 · February 12, 2018, 11:35pm

yay!

luma · February 13, 2018, 5:55pm

Hey, it’s seems OpenHAB is available in the Google Home App

aart · February 13, 2018, 6:01pm

Yes, i see openhab under add devices.
Wen i try to connect i get a fault on the openhab login page: “The application requested acces to unknown scope”…

andirs · February 13, 2018, 6:02pm

me too

mylAnthony · February 13, 2018, 6:04pm

yes it is!

Checked 2h ago and wasnt there… awesome!