Actionable Google Notifications

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I know it’s been asked, the threads seem to be kinda old and stale though.

Anyone figure out how to send actionable notifications to Google? I really hate Alexa and don’t want to switch back, I just spent this money to switch out of them. From what I can tell it may be possible with AOG, I just don’t have the skill to set it up. I was watching someone send commands with no wake word, so technically can’t we sent a blank set that would just wake it up so we can answer?

Also, any progress on being able to stream camera to Android notifications?

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Actionable Notifications require a second automation to handle the Notification Action.

On my Automation that sends the Actionable Notification I have this for my Action:

service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_4a_5g_tim
data:
  message: The coffeemaker has turned off and is cooling down!
  title: Coffeemaker Status
  data:
    ttl: 0
    priority: high
    actions:
      - action: turn_on_coffeemaker
        title: Turn on Coffeemaker

Then I have an automation that is the handler for turn_on_coffeemaker, which has the following Trigger:

platform: event
event_data:
  action: turn_on_coffeemaker
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
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That’s cool but he’s not asking about actionable notifications with the companion app but for Google assistant like you can do with Alexa…

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@RogerDodger is indeed correct. It’s cool though. I got over my issues with Amazon. Realized my problem is only with the FireTV. So I’m setting the Echos back up.

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I believe the best we can do with google is “hey Google, yes please” or similar

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The goal here is to walk into a room with my presence detection and the speaker ask me if I would like to watch TV, or if I remembered to feed the dog yet. True automation with no wake word. This is possible with Alexa… for some reason not with Google. Kinda like iPhone can show the camera stream in the actionable notifications and Android can’t. Probably another limitation of their API. I have 4 dots, an 8 inch show and a 5 inch show, so I’ll just set them back up. I miss being able to whisper to tell it to turn off the lights anyways. Oddly superior equipment.

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Ah, OK I wasn’t quite clear on the aspect of having Google Assistant/Home doing the Actionable Notification.

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want this addon used for that?

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I’ve been tinkering with that a bit, but it is no longer being maintained, and the new changes to the API don’t bode well for that. I know it can send the command, but can it simulate that a command was already sent after the wake word, that the home is asking a follow up question for?
Based on what I’m seeing in the docs, it wouldn’t be able to. Honestly though it’s cool. I’m to the point of realizing that trying to move to Google was a mistake, they keep removing features that I use in all of their products.

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I would like to do something like the OP mentioned where I am asked do I want to watch tv when my presence is identified. Has anyone managed this with google assistant?