Why haven't we thought of adding Google Home support?

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Add voice control of your ESP32 and ESP8266 devices using Amazon Alexa

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Why haven't we thought of adding Google Home support? #124

Closed Tejas-MD closed 3 years ago

Tejas-MD commented 3 years ago

I just read about Phillips Hue having a Google Home integration too and if I'm right, we should be able to integrate Google Home too, similar to Alexa.

pvint commented 3 years ago

I've been thinking the same thing. Once we get through some current issues with Amazon Echo I'll definitely look into this. Might be fairly easy, might be near impossible....

Tejas-MD commented 3 years ago

This is one option, but the Javascript part might be a little hard: https://developers.google.com/assistant/smarthome/concepts/local

pvint commented 3 years ago

Just took a quick glance and my knee-jerk reaction is that even if that's not the path to use, it looks like it's a good way to understand the process. Thanks!

pvint commented 3 years ago

I did some playing around with this recently, and in order to add a Hue device on Google it needs to connect to your account with Philips (meethue I think it was?). Since it's using a third-party cloud based service, I think it's out of our hands and out of the scope of this project.