What kinds of devices does the Google integration support?

LennyG · December 30, 2018, 12:01am

I’m having trouble understanding the current state of the Google integration. According to https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/pull/4390#issuecomment-387876369 we will be able to use tags like ```
SpeakerVolume and EntertainmentInput. Are those available yet? If so, in what version?

Thanks, and thank you for all of the great work

cweitkamp · December 30, 2018, 9:47am

According to this documentation the following tags are supported:

[“Lighting”]
[“Switchable”]
[“Scene”]
[“Outlet”]
[“CurrentTemperature”]
[“Thermostat”]

LennyG · December 30, 2018, 4:55pm

Yes, thanks. I’m trying to find out if the documentation is out of date.

dakipro · January 4, 2019, 2:53pm

I also noticed that documentation is different from github page

and github

github.com

openhab/openhab-google-assistant/blob/master/README.md#item-configuration

# openHAB Google Assistant

openHAB Google Assistant is based on [Google Cloud Function](https://cloud.google.com/functions) powered by Firebase and realized by Node.js. This serverless application connects the Google Assistant platform with the users openHAB instance through the openHAB Cloud service and lets the user control IoT devices through the Google Assistant. The openHAB Smart Home app lets you connect, query, and control devices through openHAB Cloud infrastructure.

[openHAB Cloud](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-cloud) is the Smart Home IoT cloud engine in this setup and provides both the main openHAB business logic for the web services and proxying, as well as the web portal used to administrate the granted application in the frontend. It handles authentication, and ultimately handles requests from the Google Assistant. openHAB Cloud is also the access point and backend for the Node.js based openHAB Google Cloud function app that acts as mediator and adapter code. This Adapter will receive commands from the Google Assistant and has listeners for POST requests for receiving SYNC, QUERY or EXEC smart home device control messages towards the openHAB Cloud. The path for requests to this adapter is `/openhabGoogleAssistant`.

Google Home Graph:
The Google related parts of any Smart Home action rely on Google Home Graph, a database that stores and provides contextual data about the home and its devices. For example, Home Graph can store the concept of a living room that contains multiple types of devices (a light, television, and speaker) from different manufacturers. This information is passed to the Google Assistant in order to execute user requests based on the appropriate context.

# General Instructions

## Requirements

* Google account with "Actions on Google" and "Google Cloud Functions" access
* oAuth2 Server/Provider (like Google Cloud or Amazon Login)
* openHAB server that a Google Cloud service endpoint can access

## Google Cloud Functions

* Enable the Cloud Functions API and install the Google Cloud SDK by following this [quickstart](https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/quickstart)

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I tried the link on the bottom of the documentation that says " Caught a mistake or want to contribute to the documentation? Edit this page on GitHub" but the link doesn’t work.

I might get down entire documentation to make a pull request, but if someone already has it all set up and can just update the devices list and url, that would be awesome!

LennyG · January 6, 2019, 1:48am

I probably should have mentioned why I asked my original question.

I have a homemade sensor that tells openhab whether my garage door is open or closed. I’d like to ask my Google Home whether the door is open. My item is a String and I set the values to open or closed. Is there a way for me to ask the GH to ask OH the status and get back “the door is open”?

I created a second item that’s a Switch, so I can ask if the door is “on”, but my family doesn’t find that very helpful.

Thanks

talldragon · January 9, 2019, 10:26am

Interesting user story. Integration could go one step further. Asking Google Assistant a question, like “show me the weather”, start the tv, start a browser with the result on the tv, and on “Thank you” closes the browser an shuts down the tv. So next to switching, getting status, setting state, integration could also create the junior-jarvis.
What I really would love to know if I can use integration and still be in control. Openhab as the integrator instead of google being the integrator. Problem is that cloud services are not for free, they are collecting your behavior an I would like to minimize this buy in.