Hi all. I have several Google Nest Mini’s all over the house. My wife and I use them for various things, obviously, but one specific function we use regularly is to run a countdown timer. “Hey Google, start a four minute timer”.
Now, I tried to setup an automation in HA, that will start a 4 minute timer the moment the kettle is done boiling. This is so it will automatically start a brewing timer for my wife when she makes tea. At present, she has to tell Google every time she makes tea.
I used the Google SDK (it works for almost all the commands that we would usually give Google), BUT, I discovered here in the community, and from trying to do it, that there is no way to use the SDK to start a timer on the Google Nest Mini. When I input “Start a four minute timer” into the SDK in the HA automation, Google responds that it cannot. I then posted on the community, and I believe the developer of the SDK responded (kudos for that!) that there is no way presently to address timers from the SDK to Google.
So, the obvious next step is to simply start a timer in HA.
But, here’s the thing: when the Google timers run, they start beeping once completed, and then only stop if you say “stop”, or press on the speaker.
If I run an HA timer, how will I make the speaker beep, AND, more importantly, how will my wife be able to simply tell it to stop?
Am I expecting too much? Should I simply lower expectations? Or, does someone know of a path from where I am, to where I want to be?