Google Assistant - On maps to Off

Feature Requests
1

Does Google Assistant currently have this capability or can it be added? I have a script that turns off multiple devices and I’d like to be able to say “Turn off devices” to trigger it.

2

Did you figure this out? I’m just migrating from emulated hue to Google Assistant and miss the off maps to on option from emulated hue

3

You can expose scripts to Google Assistant. It’s activated by saying “start <scriptname” or "turn on "

4

Thanks, but that’s not really what I’m looking for. My situation is the same as what kylerw described. I have a script to turn off some devices. Saying “turn off device A” is a much more natural way to trigger that than anything beginning with “start” or “turn on”. Emulated hue has “off_maps_to_on_domains” to address this. I’m hoping there’s something similar for Google Assistant now that I can’t use emulated hue with Google Home

5

That is also working. If the type of device can be exposed to Google Assistant (light, switch etc…), then you can control them by saying "turn on/off <device’s nickname> in " (room name only needed if multiple devices share the same nickname)

Personally, I use the component a lot to issue voice commands like:
Turn on / off DVD
Turn on / off Radio
(these are broadlink IR controlled devices for example)

If I am not mistaken, it also accepts like “Turn everything off”, but I’m sure it accepts “Turn all lights off” as a valid command to turn all my lights off.

6

Sorry if I’m not being clear about the functionality I’m missing. I agree turn on/off commands work for lights, switches, etc. I’m looking specially to trigger a script by saying something like “turn off”.

My specific problem is that I have a TV that I want to turn off. The TV isn’t able to be added as a component directly to Home Assistant. Instead I have a script that triggers an IR blaster to shutdown the various physical devices connected to the TV. With emulated_hue and off_maps_to_on_domains set to script, I could trigger my “living room TV” script that shuts everything off by saying “turn off the living room TV”. Now, with Google Assistant, I have to use “[turn on/start] the living room TV”, which is backwards because it actually shuts it off. Does anyone have a workaround to make that more intuitive?

I can think of some hacky stuff like a RESTful switch to call home assistant APIs to trigger my script, but it feels like there should be an easier way.

7

OK I understand your issue better now.

If it can be of any help, I’m using a Broadlink RM Mini, which has a config like this :

switch:
  - platform: broadlink
    host: IP-ADDRESS
    mac: 'MAC-ADDRESS'
    timeout: 15
    type: rm_mini
    switches:
      tv:
        friendly_name: "TV"
        command_on: 'TV-SPECIFIC-TOKEN-ON'
        command_off: 'TV-SPECIFC-TOKEN-OFF'
      dvd:
        friendly_name: "DVD"
        command_on: 'DVD-SPECIFIC-TOKEN-ON'
        command_off: 'DVD-SPECIFIC-TOKEN-ON'

With this switch configuration exposed to Google Assistant I’m able to say "Turn on DVD " or “Turn off DVD”

8

I ended up using a template light to expose the turn on and turn off scripts in a way that let Google Assistant recognize “turn off …” as a trigger for the script