Ask Google Home if anyone is home (presence)

ralf.heffels · September 1, 2018, 11:35am

Hi,

just started to use hass.io.
I set up the presence for 4 family members with nmap.
In the startscreen I see who is at home and who is away, so that works great.

I also setup the Hassio-cloud and bound to google assistant.

I’d like to ask the Google assistant:" is Ralf at home?" or something alike.
Is that possible and what additional configuration should I do?

Thanks in advance for your help

nckslater · April 1, 2021, 1:25pm

Hi. Did you ever do this?

I’d like to do the same

Hellis81 · April 1, 2021, 1:28pm

“is Ralf at home?” Could be a Google home routine that sets a boolean to true in Home Assistant and returns a TTS message.
The issue is to return the TTS message to the correct speaker/device.

nckslater · April 1, 2021, 5:18pm

Why not do it with IFTTT setup with a Webhook and a script in HA?

Hellis81 · April 1, 2021, 5:53pm

That works to but you introduce another point of failure.
Google Assistant => Home Assistant
Vs
Google Assistant => IFTTT => Home Assistant.

nckslater · April 1, 2021, 6:07pm

True.

I’ve only just started playing with scripts today. Couldn’t get it to work but I figured it out.

I agree it is another point of failure but I’ve really struggled to get the Google integration to work so until then IFTT, webhooks and scripts for me.