I assume you are using 1.0.1c…I just did this again matching exactly what you have and I can’t see any issue…and this does error out EVERY time you attempt to create a new scenario? By default the “Switch State To React To” SHOULD be defaulted to On/Off…yours is blank, which is fine, except I don’t know if you did this or the app is sending it over blank.
When I unselect the On/Off it is acting kind of ‘funky’…I am looking into this, but that may be the cause…have you tried to just set it to on before you choose the switch?
Not through Google Home Helper. There are ways by linking it via Bluetooth or via the Chromecast service, but the speaker can’t wake up to anything besides a command.
If you set up HASS (Home Assistant), you can tie in SmartThings and use HASS for all sorts of automations.
HASS is free and runs on almost anything. I run it on an RPi 2.
I do this as follows.
I have HASS set to alert me via the Google Home when someone rings the doorbell, when the garage is open too long, when the washer and dryer are done… etc.
I also made an IFTTT recipe that turns my Google Home into an intercom. It’s not as clean as Alexa’s new implementation, but I did this back in January and it works until Google gets around to copying Alexa.
I also use it to call people in the house if no one is answering the phone and I need to get their attention
I haven’t jumped on getting a Google Home yet; just doesn’t seem much more than novelty right now for my needs. But having the ability to use it instead of my Aeotec Doorbell to do “announcement” would certainly make me look again. Is there something you can point me at that might help me understand that integration (i.e., using HASS to get Google Home to play TTS announcements)? Thanks in advance.
I don’t have a detailed walkthrough but the TTS is a component of HASS
If at a minumum, you set up the following, you can send message to the Google Home. I use this to get the attention of people in the house when they aren’t answering the phone, sms, etc.
To get started, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml (example for google):
# Example configuration.yaml entry for google tts service
tts:
- platform: google