Google Assistant -> Domoticz Using IFTTT

[JoeBot]

Hi,

I just wanted to share my solution to Google Home/Assistant. The main reason for this is because:

• I didn't want to open any ports on my router

• I didn't want to use Ngrok or similar because that creates a publicly available URL (plus It costs to have a fixed URL)

• I tried the Telegram solution, but I couldn't get it to startup automatically and no more development is being done

https://github.com/Joe-houghton/PushBulletDomoticz

There is Install instructions on the GitHub page.
Basically it uses PushBullet through IFTTT.

I will be updating the program with more functionality. Let me know if you have any issues or feature requests.

Enjoy,

Joe

[EDsteve]

Thanks for that. Works like a charm.
Also very useful for people who only have a 3G/4G router which doesn't have port forwarding options. So now i can finally control my Home via email messages from outside.

[blacksn0w]

Great solution, my feeling while sharing my credentials with a service like Controlicz were never good, since no one can guarantee me that there will no breach or loss of data in the Web Service.

[shaavik]

I have used the installation guide from the github on my Synology NAS, but I have the following error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "PBDomoticz.py", line 6, in <module>
from pushbullet import Listener
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pushbullet/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from .pushbullet import Pushbullet
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pushbullet/pushbullet.py", line 10, in <module>
from .filetype import get_file_type
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pushbullet/filetype.py", line 21, in <module>
import magic
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/magic.py", line 155, in <module>
dll = ctypes.util.find_library('magic') or ctypes.util.find_library('magic1') or ctypes.util.find_library('cygmagic-1')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/util.py", line 242, in find_library
raise RuntimeError("can not find library %s" % name)
RuntimeError: can not find library magic

pip list :
certifi (2018.1.18)
chardet (3.0.4)
idna (2.6)
libmagic (1.0)
pip (9.0.2)
pushbullet.py (0.11.0)
python-magic (0.4.15)
requests (2.18.4)
setuptools (39.0.1)
six (1.11.0)
urllib3 (1.22)
websocket-client (0.47.0)
wheel (0.30.0)

What is wrong ? Does the package work on non windows OS ?

[kevster]

@JoeBot not working for me.

I have a couple of issues not working for me

1) I had to add 'from collections import namedtuple' to stop initial error

2) When I run the script I get:

got this far
got a pb instance

I then type the command:
#command Off 1233

Nothing happens.

Can you advise ?

Thanks

[JoeBot]

Hi @kevsterd, I have also replied on GitHub to your question, but I will also put my reply here so that others can benefit from the conversation.

Thanks for your input. I think that I missed the namedtuple import when copying over to github (I do this manually so not to include my api key etc). Thanks for letting me know.

As for why it is not working -

I also noticed that there was an import missing (json). I have adding this now, try with the latest code.
1233 seems a very high number, are you sure that this is correct? Using the menu in the Domoticz web interface and select Setup -> Devices. Use the number that is in the Idx column.

[JoeBot]

Ok, kevsterd's issue is sorted now.
There were two issues
1) The program only works when sent from IFTTT, you cannot manually type into the terminal to trigger events
2) There was an issue when no scenes were set up. I have fixed this now

[kevster]

@JoeBot

Yep thanks for your help and fixing the bugs. Working fine for me now. Now need to see what I can do with it !

As a side issue, can the results be piped back up the chain (domo > pushbullet > IFTTT > Google Home) as the results from a call.

I was thinking like 'OK Google, whats the temprature in greenhouse" ... ?

[pvklink]

I use two raspberry 3b
One with the latest raspbian and domoticz
One with a working google home sdk so i can talk to my devices. I installed your py-file here.

Hi joe,

I also installed the py-file, python was allready in place with the latest raspbian.
when i start PBDomoticz.py, it seems to listen for pushes, but nothings happens when i make a IFTT cal to #command On 181
I dont see anything happens on the py service, no errors, nothing!
Do i have to set something in my firewall, routers, port forwarding?
Or can i check some file for errors?

Peter

[manguty]

Hi JoeBot,
I follow the isntructions, but I have the followin message when I run: "python /home/pi/scripts/PushBulletDomoticz/PBDomoticz.py"
The error message is:

"Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/scripts/PushBulletDomoticz/PBDomoticz.py", line 7, in <module>
from pushbullet import Listener
ImportError: No module named pushbullet"

Can you guess where the error come from?
Thanks.