Google Home with Virtual Switches?

[vacane (Gene King)]

I have been using Echo with SmartThings for awhile and love it. I really like the ability of the Alexa Helper and using virtual switches to control certain devices or routines. I just got a Google Home and putting it through it paces it doesn’t natively support running SmartThings automations. Does anyone know if this is in the works or if there is an app like the Alexa Helper?

Thanks!

[JDRoberts]

It should work with virtual switches.

The author of Alexa helper is currently working on a google home helper.
He asked for community support to help purchase a Google home and the community came through. The contributors are going to be his first beta testers, but I would expect we’ll see the end result in the community before too long.

[BETA] GOOGLE HOME HELPER-From the author of Ask Alexa

Well, today is the day that Google announced their new product line and as expected they announced Google Home, a ‘Alexa like’ device that DOES integrate with SmartThings. Behind the scenes I have been prepping a version of Google Home Helper, a derivative work of Alexa Helper which I released at the beginning of the year. This will have (I hope) the same high level operation as the original Alexa did, requiring the native integration to be active. This will allow NON native things to be accessed (like locks, CORE pistons, routines, modes, etc) Outside of that, however, I have NO other information on the device or how it operates. I have a lot of lessons learned from that experience and need your help to develop this new application. First, I find myself spending a lot of time on these a…

[MichaelS (Micheal)]

Correct…it might be sooner, but that is the current timeline.

[vacane (Gene King)]

That’s awesome! Thanks for the quick replies

[Floatingpi (Mike Curran)]

Looking forward to the beta.

I set mine up with IFTTT and a virutal switch. Took about 10mins to do. Works great.