I am experimenting with Google Smart Home. My end goal is to receive home control events, such as Turn the lights in the living room on, in my Dialogflow fulfillment service.
I am wondering if it is possible to develop and test Google Smart Home without actual devices. That is, it would be great if I could configure a Google HomeGraph configuration via browser and verify Google Smart Home actions via the console (console.actions.google.com).
Is this possible and practical?
No, currently it isn't possible to test smart home devices with the web-based Simulator. You will need to add the device using the Google Home app on your phone and can then test it using the phone's Assistant.
As an aside, you also can't develop it using Dialogflow directly - you'll need to use the Action SDK. (You can relay it to Dialogflow if you want - but since you just get events and not conversation, it really doesn't help you much.)
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I have deployed an Alpha version of my app and supplied the email address of a tester and received the opt-in link the user can use to access the Alpha app. In typical fashion, Google gives no instructions for the user, who clicks on the link and promptly gets an error message that no Google or Stackflow search throws any light on.
A further Stackflow search reveals a complex procedure for an Android phone involving copying the opt-in link to Google Notes, pressing on it, and then taking the option to open the Google Assistant app. It would be difficult to find a better way to discourage testers.
Also, this only opens the app on an Android phone. No mention of how the 20 testers can access the Alpha app on Google Home or Nest Mini. Frustrating when the app is specifically designed for use on Google Home or Nest Mini and not on a phone. Does anyone have a solution?
Users need to opt-in to the alpha program on the phone by following the link. (They shouldn't need to copy it, but they will likely need to open it in an actual browser such as chrome.)
Once they have opted in, however, it will be usable on any device linked to the same account on your approved list and that they used to accept.
I have a pretty basic conversational action built in Actions Console and Dialogflow, it's published publicly in the directory.
No surface capability requirements, so it should be available on all surfaces according to Actions Console.
I'm able to invoke the action on my Google Home Mini, on Google Assistant and Google Home on Android, on Google Assistant on iOS, but not on Google Home on iOS. There I only get the error "Sorry, isn't supported on this device."
And we get customer complaining this as well, so it's not a one-off with my account. I've also used the same account across all surfaces when testing. Any ideas what can cause this behaviour?
I want to create an app that every hour asks me "What are you doing?" through voice notification.
There are a few ways I can respond, "Working", "Playing", etc.
Then it can log it on my calendar. If this is possible, what are the correct terms that are used to describe this? So I can search for documentation.
Would like to build this with Google Actions https://developers.google.com/actions/ and with Google Home
You can try the Push notifications feature to trigger the wanted intent where you will prompt the user for the type of activity he/she is doing.
The user can respond and then your webhook can take care of logging to your activity to your calendar using the Calendar API (Assuming you are referring to Google Calendar)
Note that this feature is currently in Developer preview and will not work in a production environment. Also it is only intended for Google Assistant on mobile devices. Google Home devices do not support any push notification features at the moment.
I am working for a non profit organisation and Our Project needs an android app (to develop a brief intervention that uses mobile text/voice messaging to address
problematic drinking among adolescents.) This app should woks as a bidirectional and better if it collaborate with watsapp. so that we will get responses quickly via watsapp and automatically our apps should tell questions base on
his/her answer. Also it should store conversation data into the database.
You can start from the friendly chat app based on Firebase. Take a look here https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-android/#0 . For the "auto reply" functionality you will have to write your own cloud function. Read some docs about that
How can I display the results from an intent in Api Ai to users phone. So basically when user ask something to the google home, the response will be audio in his google home also a visual representation in his phone.
The best method we have at the moment would be to have your Action use something like Firebase Cloud Messaging to send a notification to the phone. There is currently no way to have a card or anything along those lines show up in the Google Assistant on the phone when you do something on Google Home's Assistant.