I created a free service that permits to control a French set-top box (which provides different services like TV, playing media, Netflix, …).
This set-top is a 3rd party product for me because I do not own the material, but because the constructor provides an API I've been able to create a service from end-to-end that controls the box. The box provider doesn't have any service published on Google to control their box and they do not plan to do it in the future.
I tested everything with my own Google Home account and everything is working fine. I'd now like to deploy/publish my service to all my users in Google Home… While I'm filling all the steps to publish my project, it's asking me to complete a form (Smart Home Certification form), but at the top of the form it says: “if your action is non-commercial (personal/hobby project) or you are implementing only the SCENE trait, do not submit the form.”
My action is non-commercial (it's a free service) and I'm maintaining it on my personal time (hobby project), so I'm not supposed to submit the form. But if I don't, then I cannot have my service published/deployed?!
Is it possible to publish a Smart Home Action without being a company that sells products/pays a developer to maintain the service?
For your information, I already published an Alexa Skill for this service 1 year ago and it works very well. I was waiting for Google to publish the Channel trait in French to release it. Right now I have to ask my users to create applets in IFTTT to make the service works with Google, which is not optimal and very painful…
I tried to reach to the ha-certification Google team but no answer after 2 weeks… So maybe someone in the community would already have experimented the same case as me!
Thanks
After sending emails around, I finally got an answer from a Google employee:
due to our new policies, we are now not launching any partners who are not tied to commercial products
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We are a smart home product development company and we have been working on voice assistants integration and Google action is actually part of our assistant integration. We developed and submitted our initial google action for the certification that will be shipped with our product to the customers. As per in the action console release page, they state the review may take 5-7 days and will be notified via an email once review is completed but it's been longer than said days now, we didn't hear back anything yet. We are unable to find any support email to google action for direct inquiry hence we don't have any clues what's the actual status with our google action. Is there any support email, we can directly reach out to google action support rep like in Alexa? The critical part is our marketing team has planned to release the product within next couple of weeks. So, we have to make sure the google action developed is on Live.
This is a dedicated page for actions that are stuck in review, but it also offers some other support options.
https://support.google.com/actions-console/contact/support
I have been experimenting with Google Smart Home and the protocol flow looks very clear for me. In summary:
action.devices.SYNC - sent by Google Smart Home to fulfillment service to find out the available devices
action.devices.EXECUTE - sent by Google Smart Home to fulfillment service to execute a certain action on a device
On the smartphone/tablet, the customer can place a device in a certain location. This allows him to ask questions such as Turn everything in my office off. Internally, Google Smart Home knows which devices are located in the office, and sends a action.devices.EXECUTE action for each device in the office subsequently, as explained above.
I am now wondering about the following: is it possible to retrieve the configured locations/rooms in the fulfillment service also? Is this information exposed and available to retrieve?
It is not possible to receive information about a user's home layout through the Home Graph API. When the user gives a command like "Turn everything in my office off", you may get several OnOff commands in your fulfillment, although you will have no way of knowing the original query.
There is a post re: implementing stripe connect from a couple of years ago.
How to use Stripe Connect in an iOS app
I have built an app where only User A needs to register and login while User B can choose from a list of User As and i am trying to set up the app so User B can pay directly to a User A.
While the basic version of stripe is relatively easy to implement Stripe connect is giving me a bit of grief.
Specifically there is an example called Rocket Rider on github (which is meant to.mimic uber, etc.) made by stripe but in this example the "Pilot" had to register via a website.
I'd like it all to happen from within my app. I've read the docs a few.times now and still a touch uncertain.
Is the post from a few years ago still relevant? Is the only way to have the registration done via the app to use a webview?
In the stripe docs there is a section https://stripe.com/docs/mobile/ios/standard
Which essentially goes through the implementation for iOS. But I wasn't sure if these docs only refer to payment that as the developer I would receive if say I was selling a product to users.
Again, in my app there is a list of User As and each User A would register ideally within the app and then User B can choose who to pay. I wasn't sure if the "Standard" doc above also refers to this scenario.
Thanks
Been looking into the same thing today (March 2019) and have a few answers for you
The current state of the Stripe Cocoa Pod does not have anything that has to do with connect accounts. That will not help you in any way with creating connect accounts.
All is not lost. If you must stay in-app, you may create what is called a Custom Account--This means that you are responsible for the UI, User Validation, and Communication. Your users will not be able to use the Lovely Express Dashboard either....but you can stay in app.
As you alluded to, you are still able to use Safari to open Stripe Express and have your app handle the deep linking once the experience is complete. While this is an annoyance, there are some serious perks to having the Express experience. You don't have to deal anything bank account related because the Express Dashboard will handle it for you and Stripe will handle all verification communication. (Outside app).
TLDR: You can do it completely in app using Custom Accounts......but you'll be on your own!
I'm looking for the CMS to run subscription service.
customer signs up and fills in preliminary question-form
customer can subscribe to receive informations based on the question-form and other question-forms filled periodically
admin is able to create new question-forms, send it to specific customer and based on his response send him an information
customer can see the admin's response in his dashboard
Some of the key features are:
user management
subscriptions support (Paypal, payment cards)
JSON API to connect the mobile iOS/Android application to the system
analysis atc.
I know there are Drupal and Joomla or commerce systems like Magento. But is there any CSM that will fit my needs?
I think that correctly modified WordPress would do the trick.
You will have to extend it's functionality with plugins. There are some nice ones for PayPal subscription and advanced Q forms making. Built in functionality will allow you to manage users and additional plugins of either your or others authorship will allow you to easily connect with JSON POST/GET requests depending what your specific needs are.
WordPress is very neat, has a great developing community, and you may create beautiful designs with it.
But system like Joomla is also very "customizable", with enough time spent you will have the features you need.
I'm sorry if that's not what you were looking for, but there will never be a 100% match to features you have specified.
I wonder if someone could offer insight here:
I work for an independent multimedia firm who builds communications material for their clients. We're currently working through our first iPhone app. So, my shop has now completed an app that conforms to our client's brand, and we wish to deploy this app to the App Store on behalf of our client. Looking over Apple's documentation, everything seems to be written on the assumption that you are releasing your own app... therefore, the Apple documentation seems to start one step ahead of where I need it to.
So, as a multimedia production firm, I have set up a developer account for my company that I have been using to develop our client's app. However, I assume my account cannot release my client's application, given that it would cite my company's name as the publisher. Therefore, how do I start this process on behalf of my client? Will they first need their own $99 developer account to publish with, or is there a separate publisher identity that I can set up within my account that represents my client?
Any and all help on this would be appreciated. Thanks!
I typically have the client create their own account. From there most clients will provide me access to their admin account so I can go through the rest of the steps.
I often submit apps through their admin account, however, a team member is an option if the client is not interested to provide admin credentials.