Hass Io and Google Assistant integration

Filipe-Figueiredo · October 18, 2017, 1:16pm

Hello all,

I am using Home Assistant for a short period of time, but I already have my Xiaomi Yeelights connected to it. Latter on, I will have MQQT controlling my RGB Led strips as well, integrated with HASS.

I don’t have a Google Home device (at least for now), but I use my Android phone (a Nexus 6p) to control my lights.

Now I’m doing it using IFTTT and WebHooks to communicate with my Home Assistant, but this is quite painful as I need to carefully specify everything I want to say to the google assistant, and I ended up with a non scalable bunch of If statements.

My question is: Is there a way, using the setup I currently have, to directly integrate the google assistant on my phone with home assistant? is there something planned in order to accomplish this?

Many thanks.

Pantomax · October 18, 2017, 1:43pm

Well, yes. if your hassio is correctly configured with the google assistant addon, you can use everything connected to it. You can talk to hassio using a usb microphone or directly your phone… or both of them at the same time, and only one of them will answer back to you.
Obviuosly you also have to create your conversation patterns on dialogflow.com

kylerw · October 18, 2017, 1:50pm

Or, soon there will be native Google Assistant integration:

Filipe-Figueiredo · October 18, 2017, 2:00pm

@kylerw That would be awesome! I will check that thread later. Thanks

Filipe-Figueiredo · October 18, 2017, 2:02pm

@Pantomax, do you know it there’s a tutorial or something on how to create the conversation patterns and correctly configure the Hass IO Google assistant plugin? This is still very new to me. Thanks for the help

Pantomax · October 18, 2017, 3:41pm

Sure .
Here is how to install Google assistant on your Hassio:

github.com

home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/google_assistant/README.md

# Home Assistant Add-on: Google Assistant SDK

A virtual personal assistant developed by Google.

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## About

[Google Assistant][google-assistant] is an AI-powered voice assistant that runs on the Raspberry Pi and x86 platforms and interact via the [DialogFlow][dialogflow-integration] integration with Home-Assistant. You can also use [Google Actions][google-actions] to extend its functionality.

You can simply say "Ok Google" following by your command, and Google Assistant will answer your request.

## ℹ️ Integration your mobile or Google/Nest Home with Home Assistant

If you want to integrate your Google Home or mobile phone running Google Assistant, with Home Assistant, then you want the [Google Assistant integration][google-assistant-integration].

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Here are some examples on how to use it:

and remember to download the zip on that page (https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/blob/next/source/assets/HomeAssistant_APIAI.zip) and import it in Dialogflow.
If you want to master how to use Dialogflow and Google Assistant just start with the basics here:
https://dialogflow.com/docs/getting-started/basics

Vaclav_Chaloupka · April 20, 2018, 11:55am

Dialogflow has launched API V2. Is it safe to upgrade from V1 to V2? They say that I must update the agent to ensure my API calls and fulfillment are compatible with Dialogflow’s V2 API. Is Hassio dialogflow componnent compatible with it?