Why the heck cant I detect what Google speaker was used to trigger a script

[FPro (Florian)]

I think this is a limitation of the Google API and not Home Assistant.

There are workarounds like this script:

Script to send actions to the right Google Home (based on voice commands)

Background I first started to create a script to send actions to a Google Home and resume the stream (TuneIn / Spotify) which was playing afterwards. It also restores the volume, and you can work with Google Home speakers groups. In my home I have several Google Nest/Home speakers, and I had some scripts where a TTS would be sent which was triggered by a Google Home routine. However, I could only set it to a predefined Google Home speaker, and not to the specific speaker on which I gave the vo…

@Hellis81

If you create a routine in Google to run the script then it’s possible to respond to the same speaker.

How?