Official Google Assistant Integration for openHAB

kluszczyn · May 27, 2019, 12:11pm

Hi Mehmet,

Commands open and close works as expected, opening and closing blinds respectively (roller shutters in my case).

But now command set blinds to 100% opens it completely. My understanding, reading docs, is that UP equals 0%, DOWN - 100% - Items | openHAB
It could be, that OH logic is not in line with Google Assistant states Cloud-to-cloud | Google Home Developers

Float. [0, 100]. Required. Indicates the percentage that a device is opened where 0 is closed and 100 is fully open.

enrico.mcc · May 27, 2019, 2:31pm

I can confirm the same behaviour.

Personally I prefer the 100% = open behaviour because it is the same logic of the dimmers (100% = maximum light)

tnemrap · May 27, 2019, 5:05pm

Would it be possible to get the camera function in google home with the IpCamera: New IP Camera Binding binding?
It now supports HLS streaming.

rpwong · May 27, 2019, 7:29pm

@alex_the2 Sorry to hear you’re still having troubles. I don’t have any suggestions, other than to try setting up a new account on myopenhab. That seems to be the root of the issue.

If that doesn’t work and you can’t find anything else in the forum, I would suggest starting a new topic specifically about your issues getting Google Assistant to authenticate your myopenhab account. Otherwise, you’ll just keep getting lost in the multiple conversations going on in this thread.

mark_leonard_tuil · May 28, 2019, 5:43am

I wonder whether binding developers have always implemented the 0 and 100 values consistently. I for example have powerview duette shades. They can move up and down, but they also have a vane setting (rotation). The vertical position obeys the 0 and 100 logic, the vane setting does not.

Anyway, I can work with that in rules. Thanks for all the hard work.

corrado_dal_canton · May 28, 2019, 8:53am

I followed the instructions here in the forum

jjmeseguer · May 30, 2019, 8:53pm

Hi @MARZIMA,
I still can’t get the thermostats to work correctly. Was this one of the fixes?
Regards.

ranielsen · May 31, 2019, 12:17pm

Mine doesn’t work anymore as well. Whenever I try to accessit, I get an error from google saying openhab is unavailable. My lights don’t have any issues.

pascal · June 1, 2019, 6:33am

I use IFTTT for roller shutters.
Google Assistant >> IFTTT >> Openhab

Kim_Andersen · June 2, 2019, 1:17pm

I just discovered I have problems with thermostat as well. However, it´s a odd problem.

My thermostats works fine in Google Home app, as well as voice command through Google Home mini´s. Only exception is, I can no longer get an respond when asking about the humidity.

However…
I bought a Google Home (nest) Hub the other day. My thermostats do NOT work in the Google nest Hub. I dont get an temperature state/value, and Google nest hub tells me the mode is not supported.

This is my items for one thermostat which had both temperature sensor as well as humdity sensor.

Group g_Stortbad_TSTAT               "Stort Bad Thermostat"                                                                                                                     [ "Thermostat" ]
Number stort_bad_Temperature         "Stort Bad Temperatur [%.1f °C]"                                          <cu_heating> 	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT,Temperatur,gTvaer,gSugeTemp) 	[ "CurrentTemperature" ]   { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_temperatur_fb" }
Number stort_bad_Tempsetpunkt        "Stort Bad Temperature setpunkt [%.1f °C]"                                <temperature>	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT)                              [ "TargetTemperature" ]	   { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_temperaturSet_fb", autoupdate="false" }
Switch telestat1_stort_bad           "Stort Bad Telestat [%s]"                                                 <cu_switch>  	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT,gTelestat)                                               { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_telestat" }
Number    stort_bad_fugt             "Stort Bad Fugtighed [%.0f %%]"                                           <Humidity>       (g_Stortbad_TSTAT,Fugtighed,gHumidityBathRoom) 	[ "CurrentHumidity" ]      { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_fugtighed" }

I have no idea who to set this up (which mode) to be able to get it to work with Google nest Hub. But I find it rather strange it works fine using the Google Home app, and voice control on a Google Home mini.

EDIT.
Just did a small test, as my settings didn´t have the [ “homekit:HeatingCoolingMode” ] tag. When I insert this an link it to my telestat, (which I believe is the one which should report wether it´s colling or heating (or on/off). Google Home app does no longer work with my thermostat I have inserted this tag to… Google Home app says, the thermostat doesnt respond.

This s my items for the testing: My telestat resports on/off, so I first tried with String. It didn´t work. Then I tried with Number, which didn´t work either, ofcouse… How come there isn´t a switch mode available?.

Group     g_Stortbad_TSTAT           "Stort Bad Thermostat"                                                                                                                     [ "Thermostat" ]
Number    stort_bad_Temperature      "Stort Bad Temperatur [%.1f °C]"                                          <cu_heating> 	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT,Temperatur,gTvaer,gSugeTemp) 	[ "CurrentTemperature" ]   { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_temperatur_fb" }
Number    stort_bad_Tempsetpunkt     "Stort Bad Temperature setpunkt [%.1f °C]"                                <temperature>	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT)                              [ "TargetTemperature" ]	   { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_temperaturSet_fb", autoupdate="false" }
Switch    telestat1_stort_bad        "Stort Bad Telestat [%s]"                                                 <cu_switch> 	(g_Stortbad_TSTAT,gTelestat)                                               { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_telestat" }
DateTime  telestat1_stort_badStamp   "StortBad Telestat ON [%1$tH:%1$tM:%1$tS %1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY]"              <time>           (gTelestatStamp)
Number    stort_bad_fugt             "Stort Bad Fugtighed [%.0f %%]"                                           <Humidity>       (g_Stortbad_TSTAT,Fugtighed,gHumidityBathRoom) 	[ "CurrentHumidity" ]      { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_fugtighed" }

String    stort_bad_Mode             "Stort Bad Heating/Cooling Mode"                                                           (g_Stortbad_TSTAT)                       [ "homekit:HeatingCoolingMode" ]  { channel="ihc:controller:elko:stortbad_telestat" }

aqq · June 3, 2019, 8:07pm

According to thermostat and reading temperature and humidity I have a question: Is this possible to develop universal tag for sensor, i.e:

temperature
humidity
power
pressure
any other value.

Similar like this:

Number GF_FamilyRoom_Outdoor_Humidity_Sensor "Outdoor humidity [%.1f%%]" <humidity> (gSensorTemperature, gPersistenceSensor) ["Sensor"]
Number GF_FamilyRoom_Pressure_Sensor "Outdoor pressure [%.1fhPa]" <pressure> (gSensorTemperature, gPersistenceSensor) ["Sensor"]

- OK Google, what is the <label>?
- Current value of <label> is now <value>.

(I was asked about that in Read openhab sensor value using Google Home and OpenHAB Cloud Connector some time ago).

Kim_Andersen · June 3, 2019, 8:12pm

You can, but you cant use it for thermostats then, and Google home wont recognize it either. Hmm, so the answer is probably, you cant

aqq · June 4, 2019, 1:37pm

Wait
I understand, that using thermostat to read humidity and temperature (in my case from dht sensor) is a workaround.

I won’t set any thermostat values. This is rather the question for enhancement in OpenHAB integration plugin to support this. I won’t use any additional services (I read that IFTTT can manage that).

There are many values accessible in various types of sensors/metrics. The question is how to read them using OpenHAB.

Update:
I’ve checked IFTTT integration with OpenHAB. It can only send command, not return any value to Google Home (IF Google Assistant THEN OpenHAB). If I understand it well, there is no possibility to get any value from OpenHAB this way and native support is required or changes in IFTTT binding.

Kim_Andersen · June 5, 2019, 8:16am

As far as I know, nothing is possible to send to Google Home. Google Home devices, as its a receive device only, unless you use casting. But this kind of “send command” is not really usefull for what you are seaching for, I guess.

Daniel_Linder · June 8, 2019, 7:06pm

Just a comment.
I changed the “homekit:HeatingCoolingMode” to “homekit:TargetHeatingCoolingMode” as per the HomeKit Add-on page, and my thermostats (heating control only, on radiators) works as normal with google home after this.

massi · June 9, 2019, 8:24am

you mean that you can change mode to off and on again ?

Daniel_Linder · June 9, 2019, 9:18am

The Danfoss Thermostats do not support different modes (they are always in heating mode), so I cannot tell if that works.

Tobi77 · June 9, 2019, 11:42am

Is this a new convention that has to be used in future versions, e.g. in upcoming milestone builds?

Just asking because of an annoying bug here that might be related: Thermostat works well in Google Home, but not with Alexa

mark_leonard_tuil · June 9, 2019, 3:57pm

I tried. If I change the setting on google home, nothing happens in openhab. Looks like this is not a fix. In effect you are just removing the mode item from the thermostat

sparkplug23 · June 12, 2019, 4:13pm

Hi,

Thanks for this great work!

I was wondering is there an option to capture voice data that is not assigned to an item. For example, right now I have been using voice into node red commands, then searching the sentence for key words (e.g., “heating” & “timer” & “20” & “minutes” etc). Basically bridging the gap until GA becomes increasingly supported in openhab. I also use it for scenes, such as “bedroom + off” and via mqtt configuring numerous devices, rather than saying this light off etc.

Really, all I need as a way to call an item some key phrase (its actual name eg “control”) and then the words after this become the string assigned to that item, which I can then parse as a rule. Is there anything like this?