A raspberry pi turned into a Google Home, and it works!

https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/prototype/getting-started-pi-python/run-sample

Now checking how to control HASS from a pi3 converted in a Google Home, very cool.
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Does it detect emulated_hue devices if you donā€™t have the real Google Home?

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the pi3 IS the ā€œgoogle homeā€.

You have to add a speaker and a mic to the pi3, you ask questions and receive the answers (Google Assistant). Not sure yet the smart home part. Still investigating

it cna do actions

Nice, I was planning to try this during the weekend when I was reading about it on arstechnica (link below). Keep us posted, I will share my experience as well.

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it works fine. YOu tell something and the pi3 (connecting to google servers) answers like a Google Home.

p.s. I just have a problem with my usb speaker, but unrelated to the program

A guy in a forum says he connected to the Hue ā€¦ but I am not sure about that he did not give any details.

In case it does, with emulated_hue, would already work with hass.

Pretty sweet, I would get a 50$ Google Home (a pi plus speaker/mic) in every room

It looks very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Have installed a Google Home on the same RPi3 as your HASS? Will they work in separate virtual environments?

I have 2 pi3 and installed in two different. Donā€™t know if they can be installed in the same

it works, it works, perfectly!!!

I can control all my emulated_hue entities from my pi3 with my voice, and it works flawlessy

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Thinks that do not work (or at least I did not find out)

  • wake word
  • volume set (you set it but does not affect the speaker)

just ordered a usb mic & speakersā€¦ I will definitely try this out.

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I attached a Jabra 510, it is better then an original Google Home!!

for the wake word, google say it will be implemented soon, but you could use this now

http://docs.kitt.ai/snowboy/

Is that an old PS3 camera/mic/speaker in that picture? That would be a cool alternative.

plenty of alternatives around

sort of roadmap

https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/release-notes#top_of_page

Killing me claudio, I have a RPi 3 I JUST freed up and a Jabra speaker I dont use, but Im trrrrying to get through my CURRENT list of things :slight_smile:

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Lol, adding it to my ā€˜waiting on partsā€™ to-do list of homemade sensors, homemade Google, magic mirrorā€¦

I have a Google home AND a pi3+jabra. Well the latter is better!
Just waiting now for some guy helping in coding a trigger for starting the listening (I think is very easy, but my coding skill are zero), and/or Google with the wake word. Which can be customisedā€¦ Very cool

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BTW I think the program uses very little resources, so I think we could use same pi3 as hass