Controlicz - Domoticz to Google Home/Assistant integration Topic is solved

[Madgeni]

Hi all -
am working on integrating Controlicz (the Alexa skill) with Google Home. It's difficult to work on, as i don't have a google home!
If anyone's interested in helping out with some testing - let me know

[sach]

I have google assistant on my phone and shield tv if that would work?

[Wob76]

Hi all -
am working on integrating Controlicz (the Alexa skill) with Google Home. It's difficult to work on, as i don't have a google home!
If anyone's interested in helping out with some testing - let me know

Hi Madgeni,

happy to do some testing on my home, also looking at getting a home mini soon. I found when testing the nodered/ifttt solution that assistant on my phone is very close, less the talk back.

Wob

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[Bradds]

HI Wob.

I use the IFTTT and dom/Nodered to send pushover notifications to the phone via GA.
I then use tasker and tasker notifications to only read out the pushover messages, works just the same as the google home solution.

Regards

[Wob76]

Hi Bradds,

I think you mentioned that to me in the other thread, I don't have to much need for it so I haven't implemented it yet, it would be nice to have something made for Google Assistant, but the API is a bit beyond my skill set.

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[Thomasdc]

I just had a power cut in my house.. so my Rpi had to reboot, -->HA bridge did a reboot, now my google home don't work anymore, normally i have to do a 're-pair' of the ha bridge (phillips hue) in the google home app.. but now it's not possible to pair anymore

i liked it very much and used it all the time, the fast response was great!
thats one of the reasons i dont want to use ifttt, the delay is just so annoying..

I hope there will soon be a new option? thats independent of the internet..
i think it would be nice if there could be a home control device in the google assistant that you can set up for mqtt or something.. or just something like the ha-bridge it worked so nice! and it was easy/fast to set up

how do you guys do it now? easy to set up?
Controlicz .. it would work like an assistant app so there would still be a delay or not?



is someone working on this:
https://developers.google.com/actions/smarthome/

[Madgeni]

Hi -
yes i am actually
I have written the native Alexa skill - Controlicz, and am now extending it into Google. It's currently in test - but would welcome some volunteers to assist. Controlicz delay is about 1 sec.
Currently it will discover your devices, turn on/off lights/devices/scenes/groups - set brightness of lights, set temperature, query device/scene status/temperature status.
It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's getting there.
It doesn't necessarily need a Google Home, i've been running it from 'Ok Google' on my android phone.

[Thomasdc]

It's currently in test - but would welcome some volunteers to assist.

I can do some testing if you want, i do have a google home, I would use it to control switches/dimmers/scenes
but normally the google home and google assistant on the phone works the same.

If you need some helping testing it out, just let me know how i can do it.
But i'm not a programmer.. i can get around using lua, and install something on the RPI with a good explanation.. but thats about it..

btw, is your 'skill' based on this: https://developers.google.com/actions/smarthome/ ?


Regards,
Thomas

[Madgeni]

Hi Thomas,
yes it's using the Smarthome actions - PM me your email address, and i'll get you added.
Google run very short test phases - think it's a week - whereas Amazon allow beta tests to run for much longer.

I've submitted the app for certification, but it's definitely rough around the edges. The APIs i'd built for control and discovery were based around the Alexa API, so some on the fly refactoring for Google may be required! But i'm always happy to improve it - the Alexa skill grew based on the great feedback from the community here

and yes it runs both via Google Assistant (how i use it) and Google Home

[gloret]

Hi madgeni,

if you want a beta tester on google home (assistant) i can participate !

[gijsje]

Same here have a mini and the normal one is on its way

[Madgeni]

sure, if you PM me your email address, i'll add you to the test

[gijsje]

I did send you a pm this morning.

Also made a video of google home working at home using ifttt and it is fast enough for me.
https://youtu.be/SVvuH1IwUYU

[Madgeni]

I have a job

Honestly, not looking to enter a beauty parade of voice controls - if you want to use it, use it, if you don't and have a solution you're happy with, stay with that

[gijsje]

I know i was not pushing anything for sure.
Just wanted to show off how the ifttt works in my case as i do read on some places it is slow but not for me

[Madgeni]

it's ok - i'm a little sleep deprived today, sorry

Honestly not even looked at ifttt, i can imagine there's some latency. There's bound to be, Controlicz *may* be a little quicker, but it is more about ease of use and integration, rather than latency

[gijsje]

It works sort of
I have of course all the names of the devices in dutch and it is trying to say the name in dutch when it switch the device
We really need to have the dutch home assistant rolled out in the Netherlands but i think we need to wait until half 2018 for that
If is ask for the temperature it says it can not reach the "Tuin Temperatuur" so it seas the device but can not get the temp

[Madgeni]

You can use the device description in Domoticz to create 'Friendly Names' as per https://www.controlicz.com/FAQ.

I'll look at the temperature now

[Madgeni]

ok - temperature should be working now

[gijsje]

Thanks temp is working now will look the friendly names later