My automations often have several variables that I want to be able to control with google voice commands.
Since the generic thermostat allows you to have the desired temperature, a high and low temp, and
many more it has been a Godsend for controlling automations on the fly.
For example, I have an automation that turns on the fan when a humidity sensor hits a certain number. With the generic thermostat I can use google Assistant to change that with voice. Sometimes I don’t want the automation to run at all, so I added a condition to the automation that looks at the thermostat to see if it’s in heat mode (on) or off (off, lol). So the following will disable my automation.
Hey google, turn off Bath Threshold
Likewise this turns it on
Hey google, turn on Bath Threshold
And I can change the humidity variable with
Hey google, set Bath Threshold to 53
This sure beats setting up input booleans and numbers.