Scripts not showing up in Google Home app

Configuration
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Hi,

I have setup Home Assistant on my local server and it’s working very well. After that I connected HA with Google Assistant via the HA Cloud (for security reasons). My media players and lights are showing up in the google Home app, but my scripts don’t.

Could someone take a look at my configuration en tell me what to change?

# Cloud
cloud:
  google_actions:
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - script.watch_a_movie
      include_domains:
        - light
        - media_player
        - script
        - switch
    entity_config:
      script.watch_a_movie:
        name: Watch a movie
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I was having the same issue and discovered that the scripts simply don’t appear in the “Home” page with all of the lights, switches, and media players. Try the following and see if your scripts are there:

  • Navigate to your account page (person icon at bottom right)
  • Tap Settings
  • Open the Assistant tab
  • Tap Home Control

When going here I am able to see that my scripts are present and can be called by routines, etc.

Hope this helps!

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Tnx!!! The scripts are listed in the home control tab. I’ll take a look at in a will try to call them with a voice command. That should not be a problem :slight_smile:

I have spend hours on this issue while staring at my config file…

4

It would be just peachy if this “feature” was documented somewhere. I wasted quite a bit of time on this one myself. I also haven’t been able to get my scripts to fire without using the “Start” key word first.

I really hope they’re going to use some of those monthly nabucasa fees to improve the documentation a bit.

5

Anyone knows how the scripts can be triggered from Google Home when they don’t show on the “Home” page? I had the exact same problem. My scripts are listed in the “Home Control” tab, but I can’t trigger them from there.

6

routines --> manage routines --> open an existing routine or create a new routine --> under ’ My assistant should… choose ‘Adjust scenes’ --> choose your script

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Thanks. It works! Just one problem… I don’t have an option to create new routines in my Google Home. I just have the built-in ones: Good Morning, Bedtime, etc. Guess I’ll have to ask Google people about that one! :slight_smile:

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in my app I have a little blue circle/dot in the bottom right corner with a white plus sign (in the manage routine screen)

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Yes, I have it too now! I now also have “Routines” as an option under Account->Settings->Assistant. I know I sound like a moron, but I swear those options were not available just an hour ago! I switched my phone from Swedish to en-us to enable routines, but I guess you also have to wait for some kind of sync before all options turn up.

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haha, I believe you.
After I have synced my devices I have to close the app and reopen it again to see my new devices/scripts

11

You can run a script with the word : activate…
Or indeed, use routines…
Or make a switch that runs a script if you want it visible

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After some frustration I just found out that our Dutch Google Home app doesn’t support routines yet… I’ve been turning the app inside out for hours looking for ways to add routines only to find out they’re not there.

So I guess I’ll have to build a switch for now

13

indeed, we dutch users need to wait for the routines
but you can create a script, it acts the same as a routine :slight_smile:

14

There is support now :wink: Not for belgium atm… Ill just fake being from holland for now :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thank you.

16

Can someone please help me, i have a lot of scripts, and in the config i have added -scripts as exposed domains. How can i now really get my scripts on Google home app dutch?

17

Scripts are exposed to Google Assistant as scenes not as devices because like scenes they don’t really have a state and are just an action to do. Make a routine in the google home app, go to “Adjust Home Devices” and pick “adjust scenes”, you should see all your scripts in that list.

Would be cool if you could expose HA scripts as routines directly but I don’t think google lets you do that yet so you basically have to wrap them in a routine manually.

EDIT: Right, google home app dutch. So your menu options will be different as I only see them in English and I don’t speak dutch. Hopefully you can find your way, just basically look wherever the app lists scenes and you should see scripts as well.

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that was it, problem solved!!! thank you.

19

How can i also see the scenes which i have on HA to get it work on the Google Home App?

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Should be in the same place. Did you add scene as an exposed domain in the google_assistant config or list the scenes you want exposed in the entity or entity_glob config?

Also if you just added them and scenes weren’t exposed before then you have to tell google sync my devices for new things to show up.