This tag targets question related to programming for Google Home device.
Questions tagged [google-home]
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Google Home user defined voice commands
I have a google home speaker, and I can issue commands like what's the time or play some music, but I'd like to be able to define my own responses to certain commands, like
how many appointments do I have today
or
are there any cancellations
I would…

Rich S
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Capture input in the child process after spawn in node
I'm working on a small cli tool that can automatically deploy Google Home actions based on the projects that are setup in a directory.
Basically my script checks the directories and then asks which project to deploy. The actual command that should…

Maarten
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Ask Google home to play a mp4 video on my chromecast
What I have :
A Google Home
A chromecast on same LAN
A Personal Video Library accessible by a public API
I want to develop a custom Google Action for my Google Home.
I want to be able to get some random video and play it on my chromecast.
For…

godo57
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connect third party service to google assistant
I want to develop some application for my Google Home but before I start coding I have to be sure if I can connect the Google Home with third party service for example:
Paypal
Amazon
I mean all service API that need an authentication like paypal…

user3528466
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Google Action integration with Smart Home Devices
I am trying to find solution to integrate my smart home device server to Google Action but I cannot find any google documentation or step by step tutorial on it. If anyone is able to implement google action with smart home device then please help me…

Abhishek Kumar
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Acknowledge an asynchronous action for Google Assistant
I am creating an action for Google assistant getting some data from a REST API. The action launch a http request then parse the response to create the resulting action speech, all this processing is done using a Promise to perform it asynchronously.…

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create IoT device controlled by google home
i want to make a IoT device (with raspberry) that can be controlled by google home (and voice commands). I see online that all configuration are:
Google Home <---------------> IFTTT ----------> IoT Action
Is there a way to avoid IFTTT? I want…

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Google Home app with account linking option
I'm developing a google home speaker app using DialogFlow.
My scenarios is if a user signed in then the app shows user's specific information or if a user is not signed, it should show general information.
I filled account linking section (Linking…

mmmin
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How to force implicit invocation in Dialogflow (google actions)
I would like to know how to force dialogflow to use implicit invocation on my intents.
I have set up a custom domotic system (light, heating, coffee machine, etc..).
it's controlled by a raspberry pi with webhook for dialogflow and it works fine.…

Alex
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Send requests to Google Assistant from Java
We have developed a Google Action with Dialogflow that responds to personalized requests from users and performs some tasks that require a certain amount of time, usually several minutes.
Our goal is to announce the result of the tasks using the…

Antonio Sánchez Díaz
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How to make asynchronous calls from external services to actions on google?
I'm trying to connect Google Home to an external chatbot with actionssdk. I have an API that take user inputs and send them to my chatbot with webhook, but my chatbot make a response calling another endpoint of my API in an async way, and I can't…

Ignacio Dones Téllez
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Actions on Google always defaults to Mountain View, CA on simulator
I am trying to follow the below sample available on GitHub that explains how permissions work using the Node JS SDK:
https://github.com/actions-on-google/dialogflow-name-psychic-nodejs
I am noticing few strange things:
When tested on the web…

Sai
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Custom error message with Google Actions account linking?
I have succesfully implemented the Account linking with Google Sign-in in my server.
The service logic goes like:
user authenticates with the server via browser, so I get his
credentials
user authenticates with the server via Google…

rodurico
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Google Home: Send email when an intent is invoke
I want to send email through the Google Home when a user invokes a specific intent (using fulfillment).
Please tell me how we can achieve this.

sahil arora
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Dialogflow webhook (Actions on Google). Should I be using RichResponse or not?
Reading through the documentation for Actions on Google, I've built a browse carousel by using a rich response class and supplying it with a simple response, the carousel and some suggestion chips.
const carouselItems = [];
items.forEach(item => {
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Will
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