❇Virtual Google Home Assistant

[ArnoutVerbeken]

Problem/Motivation

As requested by Frenck, I am opening this ticket to have a new addon that has the functionality of a Google Home Assistant.
The existing addon on
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-google-assistant-webserver-broadcast-messages-without-interrupting-music
is broken and not maintained anymore.
The SDK can be found on https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk

Somebody was able to create something "new" in a non-hassio environment, but he does not have the skills to create an addon for it (and neither have I - still learning).
More info about this "new way" can be found on
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-google-assistant-webserver-broadcast-messages-without-interrupting-music/37274/234

I think creating an addon of that one is a good start. But I think it is still not using the full potential of the SDK and API's mentionned above.
But I will let that decision over to the experts.

Expected behavior

My personal use case for this is to broadcast messages on my personal Google Home devices. Right now, this is done by google_tts, but it uses a more static voice than the new SDK/API.

Actual behavior

An existing addon seems to stop working and seems to be not maintained anymore

Steps to reproduce

Install/configure the addon from https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-google-assistant-webserver-broadcast-messages-without-interrupting-music and notice it is not working anymore.
You will still see the "broadcast" messages in your Google History, but they are never played on the devices itself.

Proposed changes

Create a new addon, based on https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-google-assistant-webserver-broadcast-messages-without-interrupting-music/37274/234

Home Assistant Community

Community Hass.io Add-on: Google Assistant Webserver (broadcast messages without interrupting music)

Hello everyone! Just recently, I was able to successfully get my add-on for the text-based Google Assistant working on Hass.io. Here is the add-on repo: Once installed, the setup is similar to https://home-assistant.io/addons/google_assistant/ So, it needs the google_assistant.json file added to /share Also, it follows the same OAuth setup. Once completely running and set up, you can broadcast a text message to your Google Home devices using: http://hassio.local:5000/broadcast_message?...

Google Developers

Google Assistant SDK  |  Google Assistant SDK for devices  |  Google Developers

The Google Assistant SDK for devices lets you embed the Google Assistant in your devices.

Home Assistant Community

Community Hass.io Add-on: Google Assistant Webserver (broadcast messages without interrupting music)

For those who meet the requirements of the Google Assistant Library (i.e. arch linux-armv7l or linux-x86_64, audio capture and playback), feel free to try this workaround: Disclaimer: this is not an Hassio add-on and I don’t intend to create one as I don’t use Hassio myself. The following Python script is provided “as is”. With some linux knowledge this script can be run as a system daemon. You will need first to follow this guide “Embed the Google Assistant”: https://developers.google.com...

Home Assistant Community

Community Hass.io Add-on: Google Assistant Webserver (broadcast messages without interrupting music)

Hello everyone! Just recently, I was able to successfully get my add-on for the text-based Google Assistant working on Hass.io. Here is the add-on repo: Once installed, the setup is similar to https://home-assistant.io/addons/google_assistant/ So, it needs the google_assistant.json file added to /share Also, it follows the same OAuth setup. Once completely running and set up, you can broadcast a text message to your Google Home devices using: http://hassio.local:5000/broadcast_message?...

Home Assistant Community

Community Hass.io Add-on: Google Assistant Webserver (broadcast messages without interrupting music)

For those who meet the requirements of the Google Assistant Library (i.e. arch linux-armv7l or linux-x86_64, audio capture and playback), feel free to try this workaround: Disclaimer: this is not an Hassio add-on and I don’t intend to create one as I don’t use Hassio myself. The following Python script is provided “as is”. With some linux knowledge this script can be run as a system daemon. You will need first to follow this guide “Embed the Google Assistant”: https://developers.google.com...

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[frenck]

Thanks for opening this @ArnoutVerbeken, will check it out!

[ArnoutVerbeken]

This can be of interest too:
https://github.com/greghesp/assistant-relay/blob/master/readMe.md

GitHub

greghesp/assistant-relay

A Node.js server that allows for sending commands to Google Home/Assistant from endpoints - greghesp/assistant-relay

[ArnoutVerbeken]

Found this also.
https://github.com/shivasiddharth/GassistPi

GitHub

shivasiddharth/GassistPi

Google Assistant for all RPi Boards. Contribute to shivasiddharth/GassistPi development by creating an account on GitHub.

[ArnoutVerbeken]

Think this is it. Just need to dockerize it.
https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-google-assistant-relay-v2-0-google-home-audio-notifications/136473

SmartThings Community

[Release] Google Assistant Relay V2.0 - Google Home Audio Notifications!

ASSISTANT RELAY I’ve wanted to get audio notifications on my Google Home for a long time as have a number of people. There are quite a few implementations of this, however they all use the cast feature to cast TTS audio to your speaker. Back in Autumn/Fall last year, Google announced their broadcast feature for Google Home which lets you send audio notifications to all Google Home devices. Until recently, there hasn’t been a way to do this, until one of the Node modules I follow was updated ...

[capstan1]

Any news on this?

[frenck]

@capstan1 Still just marked as an idea.

[capstan1]

This might be of interest, too:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/google-assistant-webserver-in-a-docker-container/88820

Home Assistant Community

Google Assistant Webserver in a Docker container

Google Assistant Webserver in a Docker container What is this? This is a emulated Google Assistant with a webserver attached to take commands over HTTP packaged in a Docker container. The container consists of the Google Assistant SDK, python scripts that provide the Flask REST API / OAuth authentication and modifications that base it from the Google Assistant library. I did not write this code, I simply pulled pieces and modified them to work together. AndBobsYourUncle wrote Google Assistant w...

[marcelveldt]

This what you mean ?
https://github.com/marcelveldt/hassio-addons-repo/tree/master/google-assistant-webserver

I can extend/polish it a bit and submit to the community repo, no problem.

GitHub

marcelveldt/hassio-addons-repo

Marcelveldt's repo with hassio add-ons. Contribute to marcelveldt/hassio-addons-repo development by creating an account on GitHub.

[frenck]

Thanks @marcelveldt, however, the add-on you listed does not need a bit of polish to match the community add-ons, but almost a rewrite.

Secondly, I've stopped accepting add-ons from others.

[marcelveldt]

Hi Frenck, Yeah, I had a rewrite in mind. This one is based on that original version but it is no rocket science to make it a descent solution. Let me know if you're interested. Otherwise I'll just keep it on my own repo.