Use Google home with HA without paying for cloud?

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Are there any ways to get Google home support for my HA devices without paying for home assistant cloud?

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Gershy13

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Yes, the Home Assistant Cloud is 100% optional. You are not required to use it.

If you want to use Google Assistant without Home Assistant Cloud, you can follow the steps in the Google Assistant Component Docs here: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/google_assistant/

You have to set it all up and maintain it yourself. That is what’s great about the Home Assistant Cloud is you don’t have to worry about maintaining anything.

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Plus using Home Assistant Cloud, your also supporting the project which is a good thing.

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ahh thanks ill give that a shot… is it still as hard and buggy as it was before? I tried it before HA Cloud was released and i got many errors on the google side.

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It can be a little difficult but I had no real issues. Just have to follow the steps to the T and they work. Every once in a while something breaks either cause of an HA update or a Google Update.

I prefer the HA Cloud. $5/month to not have to worry and to help fund the program is good enough for me.

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thanks… i just got it working, only thing is i cant seem to change the app name from “my test app” to anything else… any idea how to do that? (not a big deal really, just i prefer the google home app to look a little nicer…)

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Now that google_assistant integration has been depreciated from Home assitant 105, is there any other way to keep using my 5x google homes to control Home assistant without paid option?

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no it has not been depreciated

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Eh? What do you think you’ve seen. Cause GA is not deprecated.

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Sorry i read it wrong, google_assistant API key is the one depreciated. I was using this setup, hence when it broke I assumed google_assistant integration is depreciated and wasn’t aware of the service_account option.
Well, thankyou for waking me up and pointing in the right direction.