Couple of questions re voice with Nabu Class

I purchased the one year subscription yesterday to Nabu Casa and now trying to understand how it works. I have read everything but still confused. I bought it primarily for voice integration although I do want to support the project in any event. I already had remote access working through a VPN.

Questions:

  1. Do I have to have the remote control turned on in order to use the voice integration when I’m in my home network?

  2. Is there anything wrong with just leaving the remote control on all the time on the companion app?

  3. I have Assist set up with whisper and piper configured. The Wyoming integration is set up. I have Google Home integration set up with necessary entities exposed. Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa is showing up as a works with Google partner with the entities listed.

When I do my OK Google or hit the Google assistant button and say something like turn on bathroom light, instead of turning on the light it simply considers that a search request and opens up a browser. See picture.


Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

  1. Finally last question, does the Nabu Casa subscription assist me in playing back notifications to my Google devices or is it only a benefit when I give commands through Google.

Thank you