Google home has some unique api-access that I can’t get any other way. For example, I have found no way to programatically and reliably cast spotify playlists at any given time.
Unfortuneately google home doesn’t have an api, but I have another speaker in the same room. So I have tried something like this:
alias: Say playlist
service: tts.google_say
entity_id: media_player.living_room
data:
message: 'Hey google ... play short. cortana. playlist ... on spotify'
I have a playlist called short cortana playlist, that I want to play for waking up in the morning. I picked the words because they were words the google home misunderstood other words for, but I haven’t quite got this to work 50% of the time google won’t hear the right words. Are there any characteristics for words that google easily underrstand or is there a more suitable way to do this?