Official Google Assistant Integration for openHAB

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Does this actually require the Google Home Hardware? I have downloaded the App and tried to follow the steps to connect to myopenhab. but The app looks totally different to me and I have no way to connect oh myopenhab. It seems that this feature is simply not available…

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No it doesn’t, all you need is the Google Home app, and then you can use Google Assistant on your phone. Here’s documentation from Google: https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7073578?hl=en

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Hi, I couldn’t find a description how to install the binding into openHAB.
Can anyone pinpoint me how get the Binding?

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I didn’t have to install anything, other than openHAB Cloud Connector.

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Need minds greater than mine.
I’d like to use the voice control to set the channel on my TV. (I have the LG binding installed)

I know I could make a virtual switch (eg channel 22) so that when I say turn on channel 22 it will then run it. That would mean a switch for all the channels I want. This would use the Switchable tag

Would it work if I make a virtual dimmer so when I say “Set the TV Channel to 22” it will ‘dim’ the virtual switch to 22% and then have a rule fire off to the TV channel 22? There would then be one rule for all the percentages for the channels??? (There are no channels past 100) This would use the Lighting tag.

Where would I even start?
Can rules send commands at a specific percentage?

Thanks Josh

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You would use a Dimmer Item. Tag it with “Lighting” and you should be able to do what you describe. Furthermore, you can also send ON/OFF commands and use those in your Rule to turn on/off the TV as well.

There might be some weirdness (e.g. it will turn to channel 100 when you turn it ON, it might turn OFF the TV when you issue “Turn off all the lights”) but I think it could work.

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Thanks, I’ll give it a go and play around with some rules when I get a chance then…

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Lighting
Switchable
CurrentTemperature
CurrentHumidity

Are tags i am using with homekit or alexa.
This leads to a non working google home integration.
I would like to ignore invalid tags instead of deleting the tags for now.

Thank you in advance.

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The current official release will definitely work with Lighting and Switchable. CurrentTemperature and Thermostat will come soon.

Edit: Saw your bottom text, I have been playing around with my dev setup to try to ignore tags, but also probably soon

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Does anyone have this issue? If I say:

  • Dim the - the command OH receives is always 0%
  • Brighten the , they command OH receives is always 14%

I was expecting to bring the lights up by a few %. Anyone with the same issue?

(Works fine with if I say: “Dim the 20%” specifying the percentage)

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Changing TV Channel with voice works like this for those who are interested:
(LGWebOS binding for changing channels too)

Dimmer	MasterTV_Channel	"Master Bedroom Channel"	["Lighting"]

rule "Master TV Set Channel"
when Item MasterTV_Channel received command
then
    switch receivedCommand{
        case 22: LGTV_ChannelNo.sendCommand(22)
        case 73: LGTV_ChannelNo.sendCommand(73)
    }
end

Keep adding channels as needed.
Limitations: obviously can only do channels 0-100 and the response from GA is 'setting Master Bedroom Channel brightness to 22%"

Thanks for the help! Josh

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I wonder if you could just replace your switch statement with this:

LGTV_ChannelNo.sendCommand ((MasterTV_Channel.state as DecimalType).intValue)

That way you don’ need to add explicit cases for each channel.

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Thanks, that could be useful for some and I’ve given it a go and it does work. I just don’t know enough about rules and coding…

A few notes for those who are interested.

  1. For my LG TVs when a channel is selected that doesn’t exist, I assume the command to change is sent but the TV doesn’t change. Which is a good thing. With individual cases, no command to change the TV is sent.
  2. For some reason there is a little more of a delay. Some changes didn’t get sent through and had to be sent again.

It’s probably harder but I’m sticking with the original just because of the quicker changes and less drops. Not sure why though…

Josh

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Do you need a Google Home device? I connected my local config with myopenhab. This is working, I can open my whole config via myopenhab.org.

But I can’t find any settings in the Google Home app to select openHAB… what am I missing?

The screens of my google home app are completely different…
(doesn’t look like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openhab/openhab-google-assistant/master/docs/openhab_google_app.png)

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The screenshots shown are guiding you through the process of setting up google home with your self deployed version of the google action.
Yet for me the process also looks different. First you need the “Google Assistant” App and try and find the OH Action there.

I’d have assumed that you can find the devices via the Google Home app— but this is not working for me. So nothing local works.

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I was unabe to install Google Assistant because I was ‘beta tester’ of the Google app. Removed this and now I see some extra options. Will have a look.

edit:
it’s working perfect! the issues I had were due the missing Google Assistant app (not officially released in Belgium) + my phone was set in Dutch, not supported (yet) by Google Assistant. I also changed the name of the items I want to control, because they need to be in English so Google understands me…

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Does anyone know what this “scope” in the authentication configuration is supposed to do? I have used “profile” as this was used in the Alexa configuration. But I get refused at the openhab cloud login (the app requested access to unknown scope)
As the Google Cloud seems to take it’s time to update changes in the configuration I am not sure if my new scope values (taken from the TL;DR) make a difference. I am waiting already for 2h but so far I still get the error.

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Has anyone had an issue recently with the integration erroring with Google home?

My integration has worked flawlessly since its release, but yesterday it said there was an error when trying to control any of my openhab items. I tried to sync my devices and it synced devices for my other integrations, but errored with openhab.

I can still control the devices through the openhab app and through the browser (both remotely and through myOpenHAB), so I know this is an issue on the google assistant side. I just don’t know where to start debugging.

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this may be related to what tags you have on your items. only “lighting” and “switchable” are allowed. remove all other tags, then try again.

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I set a Dimmer item for lighting and the commands work very well, but when i ask
Is the on?
Is the off?
i receive “Sorry, I am unable to reach the right now. Please try again.” i repeat several times. Then test instead a Dimmer item a Switch item, ask Is the on? or Is the off? and work very well, my question in a Dimmer item can’t ask the state?