I’m thinking of buying a google home mini in order to have a nice, flush TTS device. However I’m trying to find any information I can in order to figure out exactly HOW it’s integrated and the +/- people have with them.
I read that it does have multi acount support for me and the GF. So things that I tell it to put on my shopping list would not go on hers etc.
What I’m looking for is of course the best of both worlds, integration with both google assistant AND HA.
for example, would this scenatio be possible:
“OK google, remind me to shop milk when I’m at the store”
This would mean that “milk” would be synced to the google shopping list on my account and set a reminder that’s synced somehow to the MTQQ gps location where I’ll have a zone that would be “store” or something.
Basically I want to know your experiences with google home and if it’s worth it.
Google Home is definitely worth it for the simple fact of controlling your HA via voice while walking around the house.
You can ask GH to add items to individual shopping lists as you said, but that is to a Google shopping list and has nothing to do with HA.
I don’t know that you can integrate with multiple locations for reminders because Google only lets you set your home and work locations. (obviously you could swap the work one for the shops if thats more useful but you would have to say ‘work’ instead of ‘shops’) There have been some cool custom components regarding Google locations lately (in HA) so this may be a usable feature within HA with the right coding.
end result, I love having 3 Google Homes in my place because I can use voice commands from pretty much anywhere
Thanks for the responses! Okay, so yes. Since I’m fairly new to HA I am asking kinda about how hard it would be to set that up, I know nothing about gactions CLI, I have some programming background but not a lot. But more in general I’m interested in the more abstract HOW it’s integrated. For example: Once integrated will it ONLY be able to handle HA commands or also google assistant commands like for example reading calendar items without having that component in HA.
So in general, is the google home device “locked” to one home automation system or is there the best of both worlds so it could handle commands for both etc. Sorry for the ranty response, I’m just curious exactly HOW much you can do with the GH + HA combo.
Okay cool! Thanks for the clear response. Could you give me some examples of what you tell you’re GH to do or more importantly, can you tell me what it CAN’t do. Like for example. program custom responses or triggers? Or say “send an email to person X” and then there could be an automation that would be triggered from that email?
You don’t have to know anything about it. You run it one time to get a special URL…it has nothing to do with anything else.
If you read the page I linked, you will see the list of Available Domains. That is what you can control.
Once you add it, your home assistant stuff is just another device or set of devices it can control. It absolutely does not take over all Google Assistant functionality. It’s just another device like a Phillips Hue or Nest. It doesn’t take over your Google home.
No.
You’re confusing jobs. Home Assistant has nothing to do with Google Assistant functionality. Home assistant will never see that you want to send an email to person X. Google home will keep working just as it does today on your phone.
Now I know a little more of what I can expect from the GH. Thanks!!