Google Home Notifier

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I’ve been thinking about the suspend / resume as I’ve been working on a separate implementation of chromecasts / google homes as smartthings devices

DTH for Chromecast / Google Home

TL;DR: I’ve created a DTH that allows you to talk to your Chromecasts / Google Homes. It’s ready for testing if you’re familiar with using the SmartThings IDE / Github integration and can deal with the (inevitable) bugs that will show up. There’s only very basic documentation (this post) at this point. Components The Chromecast integration consists of three components: Chromecast Manager, the service manager smartapp Chromecast DTH an intermediary app that runs in the cloud, receiving commands from the DTH and passing them on to your Chromecast / Google home. The cloud intermediary While the rest of the code here is relatively standard, using a cloud intermediary adds complexity. In particular, it comes with two issues: You need create an app running in the cloud. That cloud ap…

I don’t think there’s any native capability of the chromecasts to resume / restore an app, so potential solutions are:

• delay the notification until the current app is idle (that may be okay for some kinds of notifications, but not so much for others)
• If the current app is an app that can play an audio file (DefaultMediaReceiver for sure, but probably not many others), insert the notification at the beginning of the queue
• Look into saving current application state and restoring it afterwards (that might be possible for some where the protocol is known, like Youtube).