# ha-brave-summarizer

Uses the Brave search api to ask the Home Assistant Voice Assistant simple questions and get meaningful results.

Flow

The flow for this is a little convoluted because accessing the correct Home Assistant properties in the correct places proved tricky.

• A custom intent script AskQuestion detects that a question is being asked and pipes the question to a custom Home Assistant Script ask_question
• ask_question sends the question to a custom service brave_summarizer which makes the web request to Brave Search
• brave_summarizer returns the question, summary, and sources to the script ask_question in the variable brave_response
• ask_question then calls the python_script.set_state 3 times in parallel to update template sensors question_asked, answer_summary, and answer_sources.
• the intent script AskQuestion now considers the process complete and answers the user from a template which uses sensorsanswer_summary and answer_sources.

How to

• Set up an intent script under custom_sentences that will intercept the question type and wildcard (this is broken into two parts so we don't just put a wildcard as the base)
• Configure the custom summarizer_service including setting the X-Subscription-Token
• Update the configuration.yaml with sensors that will hold the values for the question_asked, the answer_summary, and the answer_sources. I used a template type that updates at midnight just so the question does hang out forever
• Update the configuration.yaml to include python scripts
• Include a python script to update the state from a script. I used the implementation provided by Rod Payne
• Update the configuration.yaml to include the custom brave_summarizer
• Update the configuration.yaml to include the intent_script: AskQuestion
• Update scripts.yaml to include the ask_question script (Just paste it onto the bottom)