Google with Cloud and Rooms and two homes

Configuration
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Am using the cloud integration with Google Assistant, and through config accident I lost all my room assignments which I had done manually in google home.

I went back and tried doing it in Home Assistant to see if it would transfer. I tried two places, I put the devices in areas of the same name (no impact), and I explicitly used the entity configuration option “room”, also no impact.

Looks like this:

cloud:
  google_actions:
    filter:
      exclude_entities: 
        - climate.heat
      entity_config:
        climate.ac:
          room: Den
      switch.pantry_ceiling:
        room: Pantry

At present both entities above are showing as “linked to you” but not in a home or room.

Here’s the catch - I have two homes defined (in the process of moving). There is no syntax given to specify a home that I see.

Is having two homes preventing this from flowing over?

Should Area define Room, or do you need to put it explicitly in the cloud config?

Thanks,

Linwood

2

I decided to be a bit brave (as it might impact my wife’s use at the other house) and moved all the devices into one home, and then “sync my devices” and indeed now it works.

It appears the room hints require a single home, or (I guess) a way to specify home?

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