Google Home/Assistant - querying information

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Hi guys,

I’m still setting up my homeassistant instance and there are a couple of things I was hoping I could do with it.

I have a Google Home and a couple of Android devices with Google Assistant), and would like to ask Google Home (and Google Assistant on my phones) what the temperature (or other data) from a sensor currently is.

I’ve seen how this can be done easily with Alexa, and have played around with api.ai (this works well, but the preview expiry is a pain, and of course I dont want to publically expose and data by publishing it).

Has anyone got a workaround or a service they use for this?

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Hi,

I’m currently playing with api.ai and a google home and having the same issue with the preview.

I was planning to try this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41088596/make-google-actions-development-project-preview-persist-longer/41205026#41205026

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Yes - I tried that and it worked for a bit until recently. I don’t want to rely on something that breaks too easily. There’s got to be a better way;)

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yeah… me too, I’d like to know if there is a better way.
So far, for me it’s working like this.