Script to send actions to the right Google Home (based on voice commands)

[TheFes]

I’ve update the first post so it explains how it works with the new script (and amended the script to work with other actions besides TTS)

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.0.0 - 9 February 2022

New feature

• Now the new script is used, other actions besides TTS are supported

Improvements

• Added version number as a variable to the sequence. This will make it more easy to see which changes there are since you last updated the script
• Several improvements in the templates
• Update of the first post of this forum topic

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.1.0 - 10 February 2022

Improvements

• No need to define speaker_groups anymore, as I found a way to define them using a template.

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.2.0 - 13 February 2022

BREAKING

• Made several changes in how data is sent from this script to the Google Home Resume script. So if you update this script, make sure to also update the other one. However, as of this version, it is also possible to use this script without the Google Home Resume script

New feature

• It is now possible to use target_conversion. This means you can give your voice command, and perform your actions on another target eg the speaker group the target belongs to.
• By setting the use_resume variable to false you can send the actions without using the Google Home Resume script. This can be used if you for example want to start a radio stream which is not in TuneIn, and do not want to resume other streams in case that one is stopped.
• The target determined by the ambient sound will only be used in case you omit the target in your service call. If you provide it, that target will be used. This can be useful if you also want to provide other actions, for example setting the state of an input_boolean.
• In case you don’t have the need to use the Google Home Script at all, you can set use_resume: false in the variables of the Google Home Voice script, and it will just send the actions.

Improvements

• Information is shared with the Google Home Resume script in a better way. This was also needed because now multiple targets or groups as target are possible, where in the old version there was always only one target.
• Information on for the ytube_music_player integration is now also shared.

[TheFes]

Sorry for all the updates

Update

Version 1.2.1 - 14 February 2022

Bug fixes

• Fix for resuming ytube_music_player after voice command

[TheFes]

UPDATE

Version 1.3.0 - 25 February 2022

BREAKING

• Changes in the way data is shared with the Google Home Resume script. So if you update this script, make sure to also update the other one. However, as of this version, it is also possible to use this script without the Google Home Resume script

Improvements

• The ytube music player integration will now resume at the right position in the track

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.3.1 - 14 March 2022

Improvements

• Do not store unnecessary data of non playing devices

Documentation

• Created seperate file for older changes

Older changes can be found here

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.3.2 - 21 March 2022

Improvements

• No need to for the variable primary_spotcast anymore, this will be handled by the Google Home Resume script
• Only data of playing Spotify entities will be stored (other non playing entities were already excluded in 1.3.1)

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.3.3/1.3.4 - 22 March 2022

Improvements

• Added a update of Spotify entities before data is stored, so the most recent data is used
• Only relevant data of entities is stored (depending on state and playing app)

Bug fixes

• (1.3.4) Template fix

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.3.5 - 2 April 2022

Improvements

• Ambient sound will now be stopped after the data from the media_player is stored

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.3.6 - 8 April 2022

New features

• Support for extra variables in service calls added. This is a new feature of the Google Home Resume script. Version 2.0.0 or higher of the Google Home Resume script is required for this. For more information see here

[FragMenthor (Pedro Roque)]

Hello!
I’m really thankfull for your work, but I haven’t been able to modify all the settings of both script to make them work; seems that there are a lot of scripts inside, with radios and all, lots of diferrent entities that I don’t have, and I really don’t want that. All that I really wanted was to know the entity_id of the media_player that was used to call a script, is there any way to simplify this, without thinking in youtube / spotify or any other integration for that matter? I thisnk that would be very usefull, for a lot of people, on it’s own.

For instance, I have this list of media_players, and is possible to know the “last_changed”, but that doesn’t quite work as expected:

{% set colunas = ['media_player.coluna_da_sala', 'media_player.coluna_da_cozinha', 'media_player.coluna_da_cave'] %}

{{ expand(colunas) | sort(attribute='last_changed', reverse=true) | map(attribute='entity_id') | first }}

Is there something that I could do before just to get the correct media_player ?
Thanks in advance!

[TheFes]

The script is intended to actually send an action to the right Google Home.
The Google Home Resume script is not required, you can use this script without the Google Home Resume script if you use: use_resume: false

I don’t know what you actually mean with your template example, because it doesn’t seem related to starting an action by voice on your Google Home, and knowing which one you asked it to in Home Assistant.

What your template does is determine which media_player was changed last, which of course could be because of the question asked, but also because someone changed the volume or whatever. So that might be the reason why it doesn’t work as expected.

[FragMenthor (Pedro Roque)]

I know you are right, and I’m thankfull for your approach. I will try to make both scripts work, but mainly understand the sequence to send the white noise and get the media_player from there. That’s mainly what I want.
I managed to replicate the white noise and possibly get the player, but as it goes last in the sequence in Google Home app it has to wait for it to be identified, as I understand. Don’t know any better aproach, so I will try to addapt your scrits to my entities. Thanks again.

[TheFes]

You could use a trigger based template sensor with an event trigger on state change
Then use the media_title attribute with the title for the ambient sound, and use the entity_id which triggered is as the state of the sensor

[TheFes]

Something like this:

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: state_changed
        event_data:
          new_state:
            attributes:
              media_title: "White Noise"
    sensor:
      name: Google Home entity
      state: "{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}"

Every time an entity starts playing White Noise (please check if this is the correct title), the state of this sensor (sensor.google_home_entity) will reflect the entity_id playing the sound.

[FragMenthor (Pedro Roque)]

THANKS!!! That’s defenitly the path to follow! But I’m still gonna try to use your scripts

[TheFes]

Version 1.4.0 - 5 May 2022

BREAKING

• Due to implemented changes introduced in 2022.5 this version is now required for the script

Improvements

• Code review and implementation of new script actions introduced in HA 2022.5

Bug fixes

• Bug fix in case target replacement was used (Ambient sound would not be stopped)

[TheFes]

Update

Version 1.5.0 - 20 May 2022

New feature

• Added the target_variable option. When set to true it will add the variable voice_target to the service call containing the entity_id of the Google Home which was used to trigger the script. This can be used to use the entity in a script. It will only be added on script service calls. In case the Google Home Resume script is used as well, it will also add the entity_id under extra, so the resume script will recognize it as a target to be resumed.

[Jokerigno]

@TheFes

google_cloud_say

Hi,

in the example at the first post you used the service highlighted to send the tts message.
in the latest script this part is missing.
Sorry for the noob question but “where” I have to call the chosen tts service?