New to HA - how to set/use Input_select or similar (via Google Hub)

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First off - made the switch to HA from long term (20+ years) HomeSeer. Free ‘Nabu Casa’ month just started.

Apologies if I’m in the wrong place, doing something wrong - just had this running for a week (bought an Optiplex for HA after a previous short test on a Pi).

BACKGROUND
My Use Case (simplified, does a bit more than just these two will illustrate), have -
‘Day Mode’ Input_select as Awake/Asleep
Device - say, Electric blankets.

DESIRED RESULT
Want to be able to yell at the Google (“Sleepy time” or whatever) and have it either -
Turn off the blankets (so HA can respond and run an automation to set the Day Mode to Asleep).
or
[better but seems impossible] set the Day Mode to Asleep (and have HA respond to that and run the automation for the blankets)

Latter case seems to be blocked by Google (as it isn’t on/off?), so the former more likely but I can’t work out how the automation can set the Day Mode to Asleep. (Via the GUI - I’m a developer but not good with YAML >>AT ALL<< yet.)

Oh, finally - shocked how it managed to pick up my devices (Z-Wave, TP-Link/Tapo, ZigBee etc.and the Googles too).

Drooled over the recent info about the HA Voice Preview and it looks nice - but I want MY wake work please!

Feel free to tell me how remedial I am (69 - you can’t hurt my feelings) . But remember I’ve just jumped ship…

Thnak you.

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Hey James D Westoby,
Welcome to Home Assistant and the HA forum!

65 here, so we might speak the same language that way…
I believe if you create a script in HA, then expose that to the Google Home App, it will show up as a Google Scene in there. You can turn the google scene on which will run the script.
Give that a try.

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65 - tch - youngster .

Thank you for the reply - there’s someone out there - sob!

Haven’t tried a script yet - slight lie I made a 5 minute Schedule script following the example but it did nothing other than run. I used to use this in HomeSeer [HS] to run the house (four modes - {Home|Away} and {Workday|Holiday} - yup, still working!). So I was looking to transfer this over - not quite trivial though.

I moved my test from the Pi onto an Optiplex and I’ve lost some of the python\scripts or whatever too - I’ll have to revisit it.

It’s all fun anyway - mostly I’m shocked how performant it is compared to the [HS] word…