r/GoogleAssistantDev

I have a Grafana instance where I have configured alarms. One example is detecting the humidity in the bathroom to detect the shower starting. I would like to use this alarm to have the Google Home Assistant Mini in the bathroom to start playing music.

I can trigger webhooks/make API call from the Alert Manager, but Im unable to find any documentation on APIs to achieve this. Has anyone else achieved something similar?

Hello Everyone

I'm in struggle to how I can add a voice command for react native project.

I Did a shorcut.xml already and imported into androidmanifest.xml.

I wanted to do is once a certain command was invoked it will triggered some function in react native typescript.

"Hey Google, Open Start Survey"

then the function from my app will be triggered

Hi there,

I am currently trying to link my Homeassistant instance with Google Assistant to controll some lights and more. I followed the on how to configure this. My problem now is that i get an "Could not reach [test]Homeassistant" error when i try to add my homeassistant to the google home app.

I found where some other guys have a simular problem so i thought this could maybe be solved by filling out the directory information in the google action (description, logo, name and mail, privacy policy) . The problem is that I am not able to upload a Logo (which is required). I’ve tried different image formats with diferent resolutions and different file sizes on differnt devices on three different browsers from different networks in different google action projects and on multipe days... All i get after selecting my logo in the upload popup is a loading bar at 100% and nothing is happening. In the browser debug console i can see lots of 503 (Service Unavailable) returns after selecting the image. I contacted google support with this information and all they said is to try different browsers and clear cache.

Is anyone having the same issue?

Mistakes were MADE! I like so many people fell into the "Try as Gemini" trap, I now can't seem to figure out how to revert the App to a previous state. So my daily phone Pixel7a is no longer my alarm because it's world breaking that my old morning routine on alarm is gone!

Stupidly I also pay for Gemini (from it's beta) which can't handle Routines like my Google Assistant. I used to be able to say "Play Today's News" to start my day, but now that functionality seems to be missing.

I'd like my assistant back, this is earth shattering enough for me to now consider those cheeky iFruits from Apricot because at least there upgrades don't break how I use my MacBook.

The is open for our two flagship events this Fall: and , taking place together under one roof from October 28-30 in Arlington, VA.

We're looking for talks, classroom sessions, long-form workshops, and panels. .

Know colleagues or friends that might want to submit a talk? .

Please enlighten me what's so woow with gemini... or google assistant. Can I get a list with what these two can do ? Since years the good/cool voice commands have gone and I don't see anything working now

Few days ago - until now i got an error 500 on creating an app action preview, using Google App Action Tools (latest ver) on my android existing project. This problem occurs after Google Assistant Plugin for Android Studio releases new version on March, 01 - 2024. It works smoothly before the release of plugin, tried to rollback the version but the problem still the same. Filed a ticket on Google's bug issue tracker:

Does anyone also experience the same thing or know about this problem? Thanks

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I've been trying to get it to work for about 6 months.

There are many duplicate issues with my problem on the issue tracker dating back to 2021 and it seems no attempt is being made to address them.

Full info here:

This feature is quite essential to my app and so I'm quite desperate to get it working. I would be extremely appreciative if anyone could help.

I'm trying to create a really simple app that listens for something like "Hey Google, I spent $10 on a video game" and then the app tracks that expense. Is it possible to use App Actions in an Expo project? I couldn't find anything about it.

Hey guys, i recently updated my Google assistant on my galaxy phone to the new Gemini. It was really unfortunate to discover it asks me to unlock the screen for actions it used to make while it's still locked, like turning the a.c on. The settings still allows to some actions to be done, or at least it's supposed to, but still asks to unlock every time the screen.. Any advice? That's sooo annoying🤦🏻‍♂️

I aim to trigger a request to Cloud Functions upon receiving a specific intent command from Google's smart speaker and have it processed by calling an external API. My plan was to develop this using Actions on Google Console.

However, in the Develop tab of Actions on Google Console, I only see Invocation (DisplayName) and Actions (webhook, log, SDK settings) as the available options. Despite connecting to the Cloud Functions trigger via a prepared webhook, nothing happens during testing.

I noticed that functions developed by other developers for Direct Actions are still operational, which makes me wonder what I might be missing.

Here are my questions:

1. What exactly are Direct Actions?

2. I came across terms like Scenes / Intents and learned that support for Conversation Actions has ended. Does this mean customizing Scenes / Intents to process specific actions is now impossible?

3. If development through Actions on Google Console is not feasible, is there an alternative approach? In my preliminary research, I found something about App Actions, but it seemed like it would require a significant development effort.

4. Is it possible to invoke Cloud Functions via the HomeGraph API? It appears that it needs to be done through Google Assistant, but I can't find any information on customizing Google Assistant for this purpose.

Since the Gemini stuff GA never answers on my 8 pro. The microphone just searches now. So what good is that bar?!?

I have been working on implementing actions for Google Assistant using shortcut.xml, but unfortunately, it's not functioning as expected at the moment. Initially, it worked fine for my account, but when we tested it on an internal build, it failed to work for everyone as anticipated.

When I say "hey google" it opens the google app(like I just pressed the google search bar on my homescreen) yesterday the feature to open the assistant worked by saying Hey Google, but now saying that doesn't open the assistant instead it opens google itself.

Any ways to fix this issue? Or is it something that an update needs to be pushed?

Hi – We are in the process of adding Voice and Google assistant support to our app that runs on Phones, tables and Google TV.

We think we have been successful in implementing and successfully testing (in the test plugin and by using voice commands on actual devices using internal testers) a few BII intents such as GET Thing and _app Open Feature – that we will be using but..

A couple of questions:

1. We have not been able to trigger any custom intents by using voice or text using GA on a phone , despite the intents working correctly via the plug in test tool. E.g. we are providing. Query patterns like “Set display <Setting name> to <Value> on our <Appname> ” etc --- We get either “I don’t understand”, tries to do something on an some setting in weird places it goes off on a web search ---- Are we missing a step ? The test version of the app is published in internal test, by not yet on Open or production. – There seem to be very few examples of custom intents around / or code labs etc that I could find. I did check Stackoverflow -there are a couple of unanswered posts that seem similar but nothing useful.

2. Is there a list of actions that ARE/HAVE or will being deprecated - for example we thought we could use the Update software application BII , but the latest test tool plug, said it was deprecated I have not cone across any docs about this

Thank in advance for your help

Cheers

Is there a way to interact your app with Google Assistant and tell the assistant to ask these questions from user and then take those reply as a parameter in your app ?

For example, I make app for healthcare sphere-

"Hey Google, Call nurse"

"Hey Google, Call doctor"

"Hey Google, need help"

So, and would not like use additional keyword like - "Hey Google, open app HealthCareHelper and Call nurse".

Is this possible? Or exist another variants how implement this (like Alexa 😄)?

As I know is not possible, and need use additional words like "open app and ..." / "start app and..."

Not sure if this is the right place to ask
I have a a home IoT device under development, connected using cloud-to-cloud implementation
When the device status changes, it immediately informs the server, that part works ok.
The problem is that it takes a very long time to update the status in the google home app.

If I have the app open, and I'm trying to refresh the status by going in and out of the device details, it works pretty fast, but when I don't have the app open, it can take a very long time to update.

This is important for Google Home Automation for example, if I'm adding an automation when the device status changes, it can take a very long time for the automation to be executed.

I tried the same with a YeeLight, and the status updates almost immediately.

What could be the problem?

I was develop feature App Action in my android app, it's running well in test account, and somehow not running with other account, my app has been published in production.

*note: Opt-in to integrate my services with App Actions also checked in play console

when request success, my app will open and request query to my back end.
request failed when app not open and show web result

App Name: MY ALVA

Ex. Query
"Turn On in my alva"