MichaelS
November 17, 2016, 12:08am
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No worries…not to be ‘that guy’, but if you look in this thread I have asked folks to send a donation to be part of the beta test. To be fair to them, I will want to continue that.
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…