I'm sorry at the moment I can't access the home assistant

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hi all,
often google home replies : “I’m sorry I can’t access to home assistant at the moment”… If I wait some minutes and I repeat again the command probably it works…

I have Home Assistant 2021.6.4 installed on raspberry pi3b.

Lately this appens very often…

What can I check to solve this?

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As far as I know, 2 possible reasons for this:

  1. Connectivity between Google and your HA, obviously
  2. If HA takes too long to “acknowledge” the command, e.g. long running script. For whatever reason, it seems HA waits for the end of the execution of the action before acknowledging Google
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thanks for your reply.
Raspberry is connected to the lan by cable.

This is the lst script inserted:

  metti_sky:
    alias: "metti_sky"
    sequence:
      - service: media_player.turn_off
        entity_id: media_player.sala_da_pranzo_2
      - service: media_player.select_source
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.oled_lg
          source: SKY

I think is short

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If anyone else is googling the problem: I strongly recommend enabling local fulfillment for Google Assistant. This will substantially lower the fulfillment failure rates especially if you are using DuckDNS for your remote HA access. As a bonus, the fulfillment latency will also decrease. The default is cloud fulfillment accessing HA via your dynamic DNS solution.

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