Google Assistant - Automate a question

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Would it be possible to have an automation trigger a specific google home to ask a question and then await a response?

For instance, when I arrive home, and the door sensor is opened it would trigger the Google Home nearest said door to state “Welcome home, would you like to X?”
If I answer yes, the action would then be performed.
If I answer no, or do not answer, then action would not be performed.

There are quite a few automations I would like to setup that could benefit from running only if the correct binary response is given to a question asked.

Examples:
Motion detected in Guest Bedroom > "Would you like to turn on guest mode? > “yes” > Guestmode switch turned on.

Motion detected in Master Bedroom after 9am > “Good Morning. Are you ready to get up?” > “yes” > start morning script

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That would be awesome indeed. I don’t think it’s possible though. You have to enable the listening mode somehow through Hass and I don’t think that’s possible (at the moment…)

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Hi @Bill_Surowiecki, did you ever find out if this was possible, I came to the forums to ask exactly the same question.

Cheers,
Justin

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Hi, lately I’m learning about dialogflow from Google. But I came up with the same thoughts about triggering a question from Google Assistant. Did you managed to get it work?

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As far as I know, it’s still not possible, it would be awesome though!

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Anyone figure this out? I want to trigger Google Assistant to ask if it should lower the sunshades when I have deactivated my Alarm.

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someone found out how to do it with ALEXA. any thoughts here?

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