I setup my the google_assistant component successfully a couple of months ago and all my sonoff devices displayed in their app and been very happily using.
google_assistant:
project_id: assistant-dfsd43
exposed_domains:
- switch
- light
- group
A couple of months on and I have added a couple more new sonoffs to HA but they don’t show up in Google home app.
If found this thread from back in 2017 and been through the suggestions such as
automation:
- alias: 'Update Google Assistant on start of Home Assistant'
trigger:
platform: homeassistant
event: start
action:
service: google_assistant.request_sync
which produced this error in the home assistant log “Setup failed for automations: Integration not found.”
google_assistant.request_sync service is not in my list of services under the services tab
I also enabled homegraph for my project.
In all situations I have rebooted the host system after changes to no luck. Any ideas?
According to the docs you need an API key setting for Home graph to use the request sync service. It seems to be missing from your configuration?
Also, there’s a mention with this service request sync:
agent_user_id
Optional. Only needed for automations. Specific Home Assistant user id (not username, ID in configuration > users > under username) to sync with Google Assistant. Do not need when you call this service through Home Assistant front end or API. Used in automation script or other place where context.user_id is missing.
From memory now when I was setting up google assistant originally I got interrupted and then it was working so I never finished the article.
Once I finished following the instructions in the docs you linked I was not able to use the ‘call service’ as it produced and error which in the notes it said it would I think coz the resync component wasn’t activated during initial sync.
I had to go into the google home app click on ‘setup up device’ > add existing device and the delete the connection I have made with test. and then re-add it. This of course deleted all my assigned rooms which was a pain but the call service is not producing error now and my new sonoffs are showing.
I just want to add my experience:
I already had the API key setup and syncing used to work, but stopped. The docs show that the test app expires and you can re-create it. This worked for me and I could resync my devices without much effort.
And there you have a reason to pay for Nabu Casa: you don’t have to republish your test app every month (or 6 weeks?). Home assistant just keeps connected to your Google devices.
I found a suggestion somewhere here to add resync as an automation that kick off every time you boot HA. That way you make a change to a device and reboot it will automagically be update with google directly. I am hoping that this will keep my test app from expiring.
- alias: 'Update Google Assistant'
trigger:
platform: homeassistant
event: start
action:
- service: google_assistant.request_sync
data: { "agent_user_id": "<from your user the long string in the ID field>" }
That’s good to hear. I think this should be a part of standard documentation for the Google Assistant integration. It might be a good paragraph in the troubleshooting section of the page. Do you agree and if so, would you mind if I added your automation there?
I just want to add to this, because I’ve spent a long time trying to work out where to find it… For the agent_user_id, you want to grab the value from the ‘ID’ field of your home assistant user. Configuration -> Users -> <username> -> ID
Configuration – Users – Username (The account you want it to run under. Must be admin).
Take the field that I have marked in i red and surround it with quotes before pasting in that field.
