Changes we're making to Google Assistant

Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by spankalee on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:21PM (#38972637)

I haven't used it myself, but Home Assistant can cast to a Google Home Hub, so afaiu, you can set up a whole dashboard of widgets and controls and use it from a stock Home Hub.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by rohansingh on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:11PM (#38974140)

I'm going to have to try that out, my whole apartment is mostly Google Home-based.

That said, we are building a Home Assistant integration at Tidbyt as well.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by pkulak on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:54PM (#38985986)

Nice! What I really want, though, is a local API! I can use a starlark script to grab entity states from my local Home Assistant super easy... but then I have to cUrl them up to a Tidbyt server somewhere, only to have it sent right back into my house. Seems kinda silly, and will break anytime my internet goes out.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by SparkyMcUnicorn on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:05PM (#38973240)

And touch interface works on the casted lovelace dashboards too!

Completely opens up these displays to be a virtually unrestricted canvas for doing or displaying anything you want.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by jfim on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:22PM (#38976005)

Are you referring to casting a URL to open a browser on the home hub? I tried that in the past but it was kinda janky. It's definitely possible with something like https://demille.github.io/url-cast-receiver/ though

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