Need Help Creating "Night/Vacation/Away" Modes Triggerable via Google Home

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Hey folks,

Having some trouble wrapping my head around creating “something” in Home Assistant that I can switch on and off via speaking to Google Home.

For example, I want to say “Hey Google, Good Night” and have that flip something in HA to “on.” I can handle the various automations via Node-RED. I’m just having problems figuring out what to create in HA and then how to make that available via HA Cloud to Google.

Thanks!

-Tim

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Well assuming it’s not just a switch you want to expose, I use an input_boolean that triggers an automation and the input_boolean is exposed to Google Assistant.

in config:

# Binary Switch for Home and Away Automations
input_boolean:
  homeandawayauto:
    name: Home and Away Automations

automation:

- id: 'homeawayinpboolturnon'
  alias: Home and Away On
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - entity_id: input_boolean.homeandawayauto
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  action:
  - service: automation.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: group.homeaway
- id: 'homeawayinpboolturnoff'
  alias: Home and Away Off
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - entity_id: input_boolean.homeandawayauto
    from: 'on'
    platform: state
    to: 'off'
  action:
  - service: automation.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: group.homeaway

Then in my google assistant config:

# Google Assistant
project_id: !secret ga_project
api_key: !secret api-ga
exposed_domains:
  - switch
  - light
  - scene
  - input_boolean
entity_config:
  input_boolean.homeandawayauto:
    room: house

Works well.

3

PERFECT! Thank you so much!