Google Assistant is not working - Google Home is

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hey Hey,
i just run into a problem which i cant seem to fix.
Following has happened:
Yesterday evening i tried to setup TTS in HA which was then working. But after that, i noticed google Assistant isnt working anymore / It was working just fine for the last 1,5 years. So if i try to switch my light on - the google assistant tells me “Sorry the device is currently not available”. So i decided to setup the google cloud project from Scratch and unlinked the old Google Cloud Project from my Assistant/Home App and set it up completly fresh. In my Home App everything is poping up and i can controll it manually from the Android Phones App. But when i try to do it with Google Assistant on my phone or my 2 Google Nest Minis - i get the “Sorry the device is currently not available”.
When i tell the assistant to resync the devices it syncs the devices flawless and doesnt spit out a error.

How can i debug the process? The Home Assistant Log under → system → Log is empty

Greetings and thanks for any answer given! Me
Edit: I’m using self hosted version of HA as VM without the cloud option it offers

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Are you using nabucasa also? I had an issue that if nabucasa was enabled together with manual google assistant, only the cloud version was working, and not the manual anymore

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Hey!
I edited the OP.
Sorry that I forget to mention that i am Using the complete self hosted version of HA without the cloud option it offers

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Did you relink the [test] service in the google home app?

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Yes I did. Like mentioned in the title the Google home app is working fine - i can turn off and on all devices in the Google home app and the devices are displayed fine - the only thing that is not working, is controlling the devices with the Google Assistant.

Thanks for your answer!

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I discovered something strange:
Every device is controllable via an iPhone and the Google Assistant iOS App.
On my 2 x Nest devices and my Android Phone im getting “Sorry device XYZ isnt available right now.” as a response from the assistant.
Like mentioned - the Android Home App is working fine.
Im at the end with my knowledge…

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I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. Same thing. I can control everything from the google home app but 2 google minis and google assistant fail. I thought it had something to do with me trying to configure local fulfillment earlier in the day. Something else I noticed, the google home app doesn’t update state changes. If I turn a light off, it actually goes off but the state in the google home app is still on. If I turn it off again through google home it actually corrects the state. Whatever happened, happened sometime on feb 5 th.

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God bless im not alone.
Yeah, on my end it changed at around the 4th of february.
I have some older backups of my HomeAssistant, every 3rd day i backup to backblaze, just out of intrest i reverted back to an one old copy of the assistant and its NOT working!
The time of the backup made - i guarantee that it was working! But i cant seem to find any informations on how to debug the stacktrace of the google assistant… i still dont know how to fix it…

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I’m in the exact same boat, but don’t have an old enough backup to restore from.

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It is not working anyway so you dont need to try restoring an older Version. :slight_smile:

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Strange , all working here?

Have you tried removing the link on Google account page?

Show your yaml config too?

All works here

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Yes i did unlink and relink the Project in the home assistant app - i even created a whole new Project and started from Scratch. What do you mean with Google Account Page? Where can i find this?

this is my configuration.yaml

default_config:
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

homeassistant:
  external_url: "https://assistant.xxxxxxx.de"
  internal_url: "http://homeassistant.local:8123"
http:
  use_x_forwarded_for: true
  trusted_proxies:
    - 10.10.1.0/24
    - 10.10.0.0/24
# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate
    language: "de"
    base_url: http://10.10.0.83:8123


group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
shell_command: !include shell_commands.yaml

google_assistant: !include google_assistant_config.yaml

notify:
  - platform: nfandroidtv
    name: Shield
    host: 10.10.0.19

camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    mjpeg_url: http://10.10.0.8/webcam/?action=stream/
    name: Ender2

nicehash:
  organization_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  api_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  api_secret: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  currency: EUR # (default = USD)
  balances: true # (default = false) - Enable balance sensors
  rigs: true # (default = false) - Enable rig sensors
  devices: true # (default = false) - Enable device sensors
  payouts: true # (default = false) - Enable payout sensors

#light groups

light:
  - platform: group
    name: Wohnzimmer Licht
    entities:
      - light.wohnzimmer_brine1
      - light.wohnzimmer_birne2
      - light.wohnzimmer_birne3
  - platform: switch
    name: Lichterkette
    entity_id: switch.tz3000_kdi2o9m6_ts011f_on_off

#emulated huebrige
emulated_hue:
  listen_port: 80
  expose_by_default: true
  exposed_domains:
    - light
    - switch
  entities:
    switch.kohleanzunder_on_off:
      name: Kohleanzünder
    light.wohnzimmer_licht:
      name: Wohnzimmer Licht    
    switch.wohnzimmer_lampe_on_off:
      name: Stehlampe

this is my google assistant config yaml

project_id: xxxxxx
service_account: !include xxxx-xxxx.json
expose_by_default: true

Greetings and thanks!

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this is mine, all working here:

  project_id: !secret google_proj
  service_account: !include xxx.json
  expose_by_default: false
  report_state: true
  entity_config:

try to remove the app HA from here:

https://myaccount.google.com/accountlinking?hl=nl

then do a “sync my devices” command
then link again the app

just a suggestion

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Thanks for your input, but there is no HomeAssistant linked in the given link. only spotify and netflix.

Thanks anyway - greetings.

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Strange, i see there my HA linked, all services that are linked
Maybe thats the issue, that you dont see it linked?

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I think the odd thing here, at least from what I can tell, is from those that it is broken for, there were literally no changes. I have had google assistant configured and working for 3-4 years and then bam, the voice assistant stuff stopped working. The home app still works perfectly fine. Sync’ing works perfect. Everything but voice assistants. Even if I try to use voice in the google home app….broken, but clicking on devices in the home app works just fine except for the state updating. I can even go into the google logs and see states updating. I have checked everything locally, opnsense, nginx (swag) container, APs, nothing indicates any issues. Google logs don’t even show an attempt when I attempt a voice command. And the test portion of the google actions fails.

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Just wondering, if you browse to this page:

http://IP:8123/api/google_assistant

do you get a 404 or 405 ?

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Ok, then you have not same issue as me

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There were changes for local fulfillment, also for NC, maybe some thing went wrong there… And devices areenr able to discover/make connection