I’m using Assist on my Wear OS watch to send the command “Channel X” (where X is a number) and it’s picked up by an Automation which then changes the channel on my old LG Netcast television to channel number X.
It works fine.
However, the Assist ‘tile’ on my watch (Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 3) first requires me to press the big ‘ASSIST’ button, then I speak the command which is converted to text, then I have to press a ‘tick’ button (see attached image) to confirm it’s been converted correctly and finally I then have to press an ‘arrow’ button (see attached image) to send the text to my Home Assistant server.
It’s at least one too many button presses!
I’ve watched the demo video in the Home Assistant Assist documentation here:
and the guy isn’t having to press any ‘tick’ button to confirm his spoken words are converted to text correctly.
How can I avoid having to press BOTH a ‘tick’ & ‘arrow’ button to send my command to Home Assistant?
I’m not certain that you can use a ‘wake word’ on WearOS as even when you install Alexa on the watch you still have to press a tile button to wake her. If a ‘wake word’ was possible, then most likely the watch battery would reach 0% pretty quickly as it would have to be always listening.
As regards the two ‘tick & send’ buttons, I found no solution. But I did discover that you can tap the two buttons really quite fast that it’s almost just like double-tapping on one button.
I have the OnePlus Watch 2 and enabling the ‘Hey Google’ wake word gives me 2 day battery life which is not bad. However it does not work every time… sometimes it requires to unlock the phone, sometimes it just does not detect the wake word, hence I was looking for an alternative, but I guess for now there is none.
It would be awesome if the Home Assistant Voice Assist had it’s own wake word detection for Wear OS, because it is faster at executing commands than the Google Assistant.
