Google Assistant lost "connection" to Home Assistant

I’ve setup and been using the Google Assistant integration with Home Assistant for quite a while now. I had everything setup correctly including DNS, SSL certificate, etc.

I noticed earlier this evening that I couldn’t resync devices. At first I thought I had to just renew the Home Assistant project’s test in the Google Assistant Action Console. But I quickly discovered that not only couldn’t I resync, but I couldn’t control any of my previously synced devices either. Google Assistant couldn’t reach the Home Assistant integration.

Upon inspection of some logs I am certain that I am not even receiving any REST/HTTP traffic from Google at all upon voice commands.

Earlier today I had to reconfigure the Nest integration in Home Assistant. It appeared like Google rolled out some new privacy and permission controls for the SDM API. I wonder if this maybe also affected the Google Assistant integration in some way?

Does anybody else experience anything like this? Any recommendations? I tried (most) of the recommended steps on the Google Assistant integration wiki except for completely re-bootstrapping the integration. Time to upgrade to Nabu Casa? :wink:

I found some logs that might be useful. I went to the Action Console → Tests → Simulator and clicked the “Logs in Google Cloud” link. There I found an error log that’s been logging errors consistently since around ~5:30pm.

The logs all seem to show the same error:

externalDebugString: "Failed to add authorization token to the HTTP header."
isSuccess: false
statusType: "EXECUTION_GAL_NOT_FOUND"

Googling for EXECUTION_GAL_NOT_FOUND didn’t yield anything helpful. The externalDebugString leads to some Home Assistant related posts, but none of them seem particularly helpful.

Turns out, I just had to re-link the Home Assistant integration in the Google Home app and login for OAuth again.

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It’s in spanish, but it has snapshots. I hope it could help: Usa Home Assistant con Google Home - Paciencia Digital. Domótica, Estadística y Datos

This has happened to me twice in the past two weeks. I had to re-link the Home Assistant integration each time. I also see the EXECUTION_GAL_NOT_FOUND error in the Google-side logs.

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Thank you so much, this solved my issue!
For me aswell Google Assistant stopped working although it worked for months before and I didn’t change anything! Reconnecting my existing Account resolved the issue! :slight_smile:

Do you really need to create a Google project to get Home Assistant to work with Google Home, when you have the Nabu cloud solution?

I am not using Nabu Casa Cloud, but my understanding is that you do not need a Google Project when using Nabu Casa.