Don’t know if this is in the right category.
But how come that the google home app detects lights and other hardware directly without connection it with home-kit (or similair)
Such as yeelight dual control relay or bluetooth messdown lights, powersockets etc.
What protocol or privilege does google have and home-assistant doesn’t? It not that google developers are smarter than the people here scripts within Home-assistant…
That’s not about a special protocol or privileges, it’s more that Home Assistant is open-source and the devs of these integrations didn’t have time/motivation to implement discovery for certain products.
It is certainly the other way for other products, that HA has discovery but Google doesn’t. Some examples that come to my mind are Kodi media players, Shelly hardware etc. (Not sure if google has discovery for them as I try to avoid google like the plague, but I doubt it).
One beautiful thing that HA has over google is that it can be set up to not send data back to google.
Does Google detect Bluetooth lights ? It does not detect mine. Neither does Home Assistant.
Yes, it finds the Yeelight blue mesh downlights through the xiaomi gateway V3 (but google get the informatie from the xiaomi account you provide. Maybe that is the reason why it works.
I’m not af fan of google home(just for testing), just want everything be managed from HA. Unfortunately not everything can be managed.
Most products i have is from Xiaomi en Yeelight.
Since the new gateway is not integrated(only partial through home-kit) i have split the automations with HA en the Xiaomi/Yeelight app. Witch is much slower or instable.