Can’t see my scenes through Google Home

[Michal_Kriukow]

Hi guys,
I’m having trouble activating my smartthings scenes through google home. In fact I’m not even sure where GH is supposed to display the smartthings scenes, it seems that it changed over time. The latest info i found was to create a routine and add an “adjust action” scene, however in there I also cant see anyof my ST scenes.
Besides the scenes the rest works correctly, google is authorised in smartthings and they cam see each other. Any ideas?

[danjp (Daniel Pena)]

I’ve never been able to see my Smartthings (or Hue for that matter) scenes in Google home app, but when I ask Google to activate a scene it works.

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

I have posted a comment about this recently:

Updates to Google integration

Ok, here to confirm, that the Scenes in this extremely well tested and superb integration is a FUBAR. I have some Scenes showing up in the Google Home app under Other devices, but not all of them, what I have listed in the SmartThings app. Those, which show up, are controllable by all Home members (the Google Home is shared with multiple Google accounts). Those, which doesn’t show up in the Google Home app, are controllable by the owner of the Home, the user which linked the SmartThings account to the Google Home, but they are not shared with any other Google Home members. This is just a mess. There is no apparent reason why some shows up in the Google Home app, why some doesn’t. But for sure none of them which shows up came from the new app, but the Classic one. But not even all the C…

[Michal_Kriukow]

And where they do show up, where in google home is it? Under routines?

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

See the comment below mine:

Updates to Google integration

I only have a handful of Scenes but all those without restricted devices show in the Google Home app. However only under Account Icon > Assistant Settings > Name of home. They are shown in a room but when you look in the room settings they are not there. They do not appear elsewhere in the app. I have to say that the Google Home would be FUBARed without any help from SmartThings and every time it updates they change things around and you have to guess what they’ve done this time. SmartThings scenes and Google are particularly odd though.

[Michal_Kriukow]

What would you guys advice as an alternative? What im trying to do is set up movie time scene that would adjust lighting in multiple rooms (i have an open loft). Should I set up gh routine to mimic the st scene, or set up a st switch?

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

I use a Scene and activate that, but that works only for the owner of the Google Home, who has added the connection to SmartThings. Any other members of the Google Home cannot see most of the Scenes.

Otherwise some Scenes seems to fail to execute correctly, as reported by many users. Some lights not changing state or the Google Home gives an answer that “Something went wrong with SmartThings”. (Yeah, right, the integration has been bonkered…)

Probably the Google Home Routine is a hood choice, but you might see the same issue as I listed before. And it might be more complicated to set it up.

[NoralfG (Noralf Gamlem)]

I ended up creating virtual switches that I control from Google Home, as the scenes did not appear at all.

[troy_owens]

The only issue I have had with Google Home triggering a scene is if the scene contains a lock command. If you use a lock/unlock command in a scene, Google refuses to use it just as locks do not show up in Google Home. I guess Google sees it as some kind of security issue.

[Juan]

What I have found is that scenes do not show up for other google home accounts unless the SmartThings scene is assigned to a room. This worked for me in the past but now it seems that the Google Home app crashes when I try to add an ST scene to a room. I have since created virtual switches and created automations to run a scene when the switch is turned on. Then you just add it to a Google Home routine to hide the ugly command (“Turn On Good Night Scene Switch”).