Assist cannot tell me the temperature of my rooms

Alpentroll · March 3, 2023, 1:56pm

I was hoping to get the assist dialog to be able to tell me the temperature in the room.
I only have Temp and Humidity Sensors and NO thermostats, thats why I thought it didnt work in the first release of assist.
But even now it is not working. Even if I copy the example promt “What is the outside temperature?”
It doesnt understand me…
I tried replacing outside with my rooms, that have sensors in them, but no luck.
My room names are correct, I can for example turn all the lights on/off in a room, but it will not tell me the temperature.
Is this because I have no thermostats and only use sensors?
Can any of you people ask Assist for temperatures of sensors?
I would greatly appreciate some feedback

Looking forward to integrating a local speach assistant, but first I want the basic features covered!

Blow · May 9, 2023, 4:04am

Same problem here.

Themsk · August 19, 2023, 9:28pm

same here. looks like Assistant works only for actions not to get some info from your sensors. too bad

reijmeruser · December 10, 2023, 7:38pm

Same here, a year ago home assistant told me all temperatures incl all the connected smartphones temps, now it’s not understanding me.

Webb · December 30, 2023, 12:13am

I just hooked up my Assist to a M5 Stack Atom Echo and ran into this issue. After reading the responses to this thread, I fear that @Themsk is right. I hope this changes in the future.

Rudo1111 · January 22, 2024, 9:55pm

Hello, I have the same thing, it turns the lights on and off, the temperature of the sensors does not show even though approx. it worked for a week. I hope for an early remedy.

homemattizz · March 6, 2024, 7:42am

Hello, is there any update on this topic ? Would be very useful if it 's possible

daalja · March 18, 2024, 10:42pm

With Homeassistant 2024.3.1 its functional:

Q: What is the temperature in Bath?
A: Bath is 21.4°C
Q: What is the temperature in Bathroom?
A: Sorry. I am not aware of any climate in the Bathroom area.

As you can see I have two areas defined. One has a thermostat connected. To get a grip on what to query I looked into [1], the intents repository with training data - don’t know a better source yet, as this is the first time I’m trying intents with homeassistant. That concrete file also shows what domain is required (climate). and there are more languages available.

Regarding your question about temperature sensors, I queried a temperature sensor:

Q: What is the state of Outsidetemperature?
A: Outsidetemperature is 6.88°C

As those are just sensors you’ll have to query them accordingly as it seems. Sensors are listed in the HassGetState.yaml file [2].

Rich37804 · March 18, 2024, 10:55pm

You can set up a response automation for this. Its retty easy to set up.

alias: response_outside temperature
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: conversation
    command:
      - What is the outside temperature
      - What is the temperature outside
      - What's the outside temperature
      - What's the temperature outside
condition: []
action:
  - set_conversation_response: |-
      The current temperature outside is {{
        states("sensor.outside_temp_temperature")}} Degrees
mode: single

Although, I can ask what the temperature is in the garage and get an answer and I dont have an automation like this set up for the garage.
I do have ChatGTP set up as a fall back also.

daalja · March 18, 2024, 11:12pm

Or if you want to keep it the generic intent way it might work if you use a generic thermostat to cast your temperature sensor.

I guess I would prefer @Rich37804’s solution as it can be more natural the way my brain thinks than my hassio assistant thinks.

ncasaux · February 16, 2025, 10:36am

Hello,

Does anyone know if things have changed regarding this topic ? Assist still can’t read info from sensors ?
I’m still unable to query temperature of a specific room without some extra-setup/tricks which could be avoided as per my understanding.

wmaker · February 16, 2025, 11:13pm

I have a temperature sensor with a friendly name Outside Temperature, and I ask Assist “what is the outside temperature” and it returns with the value of the sensor.

Have you looked at the Assist debug?

jackjourneyman · February 17, 2025, 1:49am

The original post is two years old. Yes, everything to do with assist/voice has changed dramatically.

Having said that, there are no built-in sentences yet for requesting the temperature in a particular area - presumably because there could be several sensors and the system has no way of telling them apart.

As @wmaker says, if you give an appropriate name or alias to a specific sensor entity and expose it to Assist, you should be able to ask “What is [sensor alias]” and get a reply.

ncasaux · February 17, 2025, 9:39am

Debug in assist tells me that there is no thermostat in the room, which is wrong When I look at all my temperature entities, there is one (and only one) in each of my room.

ncasaux · February 17, 2025, 9:40am

That is the kind of trick (defining alias like “kitchen temperature”) I would like to avoid, because as per my understanding HASS has already all the info and should not need extra help !

jackjourneyman · February 17, 2025, 12:50pm

It already has the info, but it can’t know you want it unless you’re specific.

wmaker · February 17, 2025, 6:54pm

The other thing to do is go to UI->DevTools->Assist and type in the sentence you are using and see

what intent name is being used (ex. HassClimateGetTemperature).
what intent sentence_template is being used (ex. <what_is> <name> [current] <temp>)

ncasaux · February 17, 2025, 11:19pm

Here you can find the results when I debug the assist.

intent:
  name: HassClimateGetTemperature
slots:
  area: cuisine
details:
  area:
    name: area
    value: Cuisine
    text: cuisine
targets:
  binary_sensor.rfy_000001_1:
    matched: true
  cover.rfy_000001_1:
    matched: true
  event.rfy_000001_1:
    matched: true
  switch.rfy_000001_1:
    matched: true
  button.sonoff_snzb_02d_2_identifier:
    matched: true
  sensor.sonoff_snzb_02d_2_batterie:
    matched: true
  sensor.sonoff_snzb_02d_2_temperature:
    matched: true
  sensor.sonoff_snzb_02d_2_humidite:
    matched: true
  update.sonoff_snzb_02d_2_micrologiciel:
    matched: true
match: true
sentence_template: Quelle est la température <dans> [<le>]{area}
unmatched_slots: {}
source: builtin

From the assist debugger:

So, the intent and the area are correct, but it seems it does not know which value to read ?
Maybe some configuration missing on the sensor ?

Thank you for any tip!

wmaker · February 18, 2025, 1:22am

Looking at the built-in YAML for the “Response” to intent HassClimateGetTemperature it is:
default: "{{ state_attr(state.entity_id, 'current_temperature') }} degrés"

I think what is happening, is that this particular built-in intent was designed for a climate entity, and the intent is more focused on areas. A climate entity does contain an attribute “current_temperature”, so when I ask “what is the temperature in the living room” or “what is the living room temperature” (I have a climate entity in the area Living Room) it works and returns a value.

ncasaux · February 18, 2025, 10:15pm

Thank you @wmaker for your analysis!

Does that mean that maybe there is currently no intent to query those kind of devices ?
I can create a issue if that make sense.

FYI, it is this one: SNZB-02D - SONOFF Official
I thought it was pretty popular and quite common to query those kind of devices with HA!