I have a Smart Home Action under development (marked with "[test]"). It appears under the list of Google Smart Home Action in my Google Home App. However, the icon is the generic cloud icon even though I uploaded my custom logo in the Action Console->Deploy->Directory Information->Images. How can I update the logo so it will show up next to my under development Smart Home Action (marked with [test])?
How can I update the logo so it will show up next to my under development Smart Home Action (marked with [test])?
This is not currently supported. The directory contents you enter into the Actions console are only populated once the Action has been submitted for review and approved.
If you'd like, you can file a feature request in the public issue tracker.
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We are developing a google smart home action. As per this and this guides we added testers as viewer and shared action and it worked few months ago. Now we don't see this share button in our simulator anymore. Wonder how to share with testers anymore? As guides still wants us to share the project through this button.
Screenshot from documentations:
Screenshot of my simulator:
We are able to add the tester in IAM project, but tester is unable to see the action like owner does ([test] ABC agent) in google assistant app.
Edit 1:
It doesn't work even sharing an action with owner rights. Second user is unable to see that action in Home Control under google assistant app
As per discussion with 'Actions on Google Support Team' they say that "There has been a slight modification on the interface in the simulator page. Unfortunately, the current documentation hasn't been updated yet to reflect this change."
You can still share your Action without the share button. To recap:
Go to the Actions console and select your project.
In the right navigation menu, select the three dot icon and then Manage User Access.
This redirects you to the IAM page for your project.
Click ADD to set a team member's access to your project. You must be an owner of the project.
Type the member's email address in the Members box. To assign view access, from the Roles menu, select Project and then Viewer. The members you add will be able to see the Action on their console. Please note that the system does not proactively notify the added members.
Tester/Viewer will have to login in to console and Enable testing in simulator to see the action in Google Assistant App.
Happy Coding !
I have published an alpha version of my action quite a while ago. I'm trying to determine the bare minimum to get it visible to testers.
I have whitelisted the one email account I had created for this test.
If I add them and send them the opt in link, it opens a page with the title "null" and says something along the lines of "we can't find what you're looking for..."
If I open the same link as the owner of the action it works fine.
What do I need to do to enable white listed users to access the action on their devices?
The link must be opened on a mobile device that has the Assistant installed. It can't be opened on the web. (The Assistant is the one that actually needs to go to the page - not a browser.)
The approach I usually use is:
In the Assistant, make sure it is set to the account you want to use. I usually go to the "Explore" screen and click my user avatar in the upper right to set it to the right one.
Send the link to the authorization page via email, hangouts, or some other chat.
Open that link by clicking on it. If you're prompted for an app to use to open the link, select Google or Google Assistant.
We want to make our own app store as a website where all the "apps" are PWAs. Since people aren't yet used to the "Add to home screen" feature of PWAs, we want to make all the apps in our app store instantly launch the "Add to home screen" feature of the PWA.
For example, https://pwa.rocks/ is a nice "app store." But to add it to the home screen, users have to first navigate to the page, and then they are prompted to add it to the home screen. We want to skip step one entirely.
Your use case seems prone to abuse and has the potential to do serious damage both to your brand as well as the general perception of PWA's by your customers.
However, to answer your question, you could try using frames or iframes to achieve this. Here are the criteria to get the Add to Homescreen banner to show up:
The web app must not already be installed
Must meet a user engagement heuristic (currently, the user has interacted with the domain for at least 30 seconds)
Must have a web app manifest that includes:
short_name or name
icons must include a 192px and a 512px sized icons
start_url
display must be one of: fullscreen, standalone, or minimal-ui
Must be served over HTTPS (required for service workers)
Must have registered a service worker with a fetch event handler
When these criteria are met, Chrome will fire a beforeinstallprompt event that you can use to prompt the user to install your Progressive Web App.
Other browsers have different criteria for installation, or to trigger the beforeinstallprompt event.
Source:
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-banners/
I am developing actions for google home. It is still in development phase. I have developed music actions and the songs are playing fine in google-home. I am performing account linking which is also working properly by getting account linking card in home page of google home app. All I want to know is where can i find my actions in google-home app where i can see link/unlink buttons to my actions.
Like in Alexa app i was able to see my skills in your skills -> dev skills section. Is there any way in google-home app like this where i can link/unlink actions. I have checked but i am not able to find this.
You will need to look the Actions Directory. On your phone, you can search and find the action, and then see specific controls for the action like unlinking and clearing user storage.
I am developing an app for windows 8 , in which I want the toast to have link to any webpage or any other metro application rather than the own application.
note:The web link or App Name will be entered by the user.
This isn't supported. Toasts can only take the user to the application that sent the toast. See below.
From MSDN:
A toast notification can contain text and/or images, but secondary
actions such as buttons are not supported.
and
When a user taps or clicks the notification, the associated app is
launched and the user can expect that the resulting view is related to
the content of the notification. It is the only mechanism by which one
app can interrupt a user in another app.
You can also try this :
create a new xaml page with WebBrowser element and use following code to easily navigate to webpage.
Here On clicking the shell Toast it is navigated to the specific page inside your app specified in the url.
It's just a workaround it's not great but will partially accomplish your task.
Thanks .