Google Assistant & HA with Nabu Casa - getting started

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I’ve decided to try out the Nabu Casa Google Assistant support.

I think I have followed all the setup steps but trying a voice command just results in a “Sorry that looks like that device is not setup yet”.

I have tried multiple different entities to no avail. Under the ‘Manage Entities’ in the Home Assistant Cloud configuration, the entities are there.

What have I missed?

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Probably way beyond this but have you done the Google Sync step and then moved them into a google home and room. And then I do another Google Sync.

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Do you mean this…

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I think this is the step I’m missing.

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In google home app do a swipe from top to bottom and it should sync all entities.

You can also do it by voice, “sync my devices” I believe it is.

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Tried both. Should I see the exposed entities in the Home App?

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Digging through the logs I find this error

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It doesn’t though tell me what the issue might be.

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At least partly solved…

The sync with Google Assistant had not been successful the first time in the Google Home App. Keep trying until you get this screen

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Once you do, pull down on the Home App page and the exposed entities will appear at the bottom of the App home page

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There is no warning on the configuration page to suggest the sync was not successful. The Sync Entities to Google ‘button’ does briefly go red and perhaps that is the clue it has failed. A warning message would be better.

When it does fail you will see this error in the logs (Configuration -> Logs)

WARNING (MainThread) [hass_nabucasa.cloud_api] Fetched https://remotestate.nabucasa.com/request_sync (500)

Now to test, but not tonight…

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Guess you were not beyond that point :wink:. Glad you are making some progress.
The Google Home integration via Nabu Casa is really lacking in documentation. Two other items that bite me for a while:

  1. temperature sensors in HA can only appear as thermostats in Google Home. And it appears that Google home does not think you would ever need a thermostat in the ‘backyard’ so no outside temperatures.
  2. If you do something to get HA in ‘safe’ mode, my instance of HA will log me out of Nabu Casa. So when I get back to ‘normal’ HA running, I have to relogin to Nabu Casa.
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Got this all running - very impressed with how simple it was (once I knew something had not set up correctly).

Just need to modify some of my Friendly names now :slight_smile: