Hi Google Announced this new features Broadcasts, my questions now will be easy to use Google Home to push notifications from Smartthings?
"Google also took the stage to announce Broadcasts, a small addition that should come pretty handy in times – and pretty annoying at other times. With Broadcasts, you can send a message to your Google Home speakers and have it spoken out loud by the Google Assistant to everyone in the room. To send a broadcast, you just need to say “OK Google, broadcast” followed by the message you want the Google Home to speak out. It’ll be read aloud in the Google Assistant voice instead of your own voice, so it’s not simply broadcasting a simple voice message.
This feature, while it’s actually something really basic, can have many different utilities: you can use a broadcast for telling your friends something in another room, you can use one for waking up your children in the morning, and a lot more!"
According to Google, this feature is invoked using your smartphone via the Google Assistant, so I see no reason to conclude that it will now be easy…or even possible…to use the feature to push notifications to your Google Home(s) from ST.
this got me thinking about triggering Google Home commands in general. Is it possible to trigger Google home commands from ST at all?
Another Use Case: I set up a scene/routine called “welcome home” where the lighting comes on to a certain level when I arrive at home, and google home plays a certain playlist. Or maybe a “good morning” routine, where ST brightens my lights over a period of time, and plays my favorite song on GH at a certain point.
It all comes down to being able to send commands to GH from ST. Just brainstorming at this point, but interested in whether people have had any success with these types of GH integrations… Could this be done with IFTTT? Or would it require Tasker? Or is there some GH SmartApp I don’t know about?
EDIT: I just answered one of my questions myself, I think. IFTTT won’t work because it only has Triggers for GH, not actions.
I was excited as the having the access to Broadcast API could potentially open the door to Google Home being usable as the output device for CoRE or BigTalker… But it looks like currently you can’t broadcast arbitrary messages. There is a fixed number of scenarios which are recognized and mapped to a handful of messages – lunch time, time to wake up, XXX is on his way etc.
Yep. You can broadcast any message and it actually generates a sound clip of your voice for playback. If you type it rather than use voice though then it uses the generic Assistant voice, but even then you can broadcast basically anything.