I just followed this tutorial to set it up. Some of the buttons on googles site have moved around a tiny bit like where to generate the key but I think the changes are logical and easy enough to figure out with no background in using these google tools. @@Spy653
Nice, detailed tutorial! Can you follow up with a step by step on how to enable "local fulfillment" in Assistant so commands can be routed from Home devices through local network, rather than through the cloud?
It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home.
I'm having lots issues with stairs switch and colour lighting Bulbs, was informed to use Phillip Hue lighting but no clue on their setup at all I have always avoided there bulbs but maybe to resolve the switch on the stairs it might be worth investing in two of their bulbs if I could get them to work through Home Assistant, Goggle, Alexa, or Smartlife with Android Mobiles. I do not want any more than this as its confusing as it for a Diabetic to stay alive without more on top, Any further help will be much appreciated! thanks for me seeing this tip here now from you!
@@EverythingSmartHome finally got everything working after a faff regarding duck dns and my pf sense fire wall but house is finally online with google! brilliant guide nice one!
Awesome, glad it worked! If you need help in future feel free to hop into the discord and someone will help you out! Or of course if you just wanna hang out in general 😅
LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS!! Seriously I'm new to home assistant, and as someone who is technically literate, but not coding literate, your tutorials have been a life saver. Always VERY in depth and good explanations as to why were are doing something, but never TOO in depth as to scare you away from finishing. Plus his smooth Irish accent is always so reassuring haha jk!! The only thing I could be missing would be if you maybe included your key strokes on screen, as someone new to this may have missed a space here or there that would make this not work for 5 mins and make him start from the beginning thinking I missed a crucial step and making him want to defenestrate himself out of a window trying to figure out where he F****d up only to realize it was literally just a missing space in the config file or something like that. Not sure if that would ever happen to anyone.........
great tutorial, followed your previous guide using cloudflare then this guide, initially it didn't work until I removed the port numbers when setting up Google. all working 100% now. thanks for your time and effort
Haha, same here. Only belatedly realizing that he can't have been using the Cloudflared config because this video was posted nearly two years ago (plus I'm pretty sure the Cloudflare tunnel implementation was different before March 2022). And here I am scratching my head, "why am I putting the ports in when I have a tunnel set up? Oh well, la di da!"
So needed this video! I have my Zigbee devices connected to a Smartthings hub which is connected to HA via the Smartthings ntegration. I've decided to connect my Zigbee devices via ZHA (with a Sonoff Dongle). I realised the devices connected to ZHA didn't appear on Google Home and I have a number of Google Hubs. This video saved the day. Thank you very much!
I got to the point where I open the Google Home app on my mobile device, add device, and see my project in the list. However, when I go to tap on it, I get a toast message that just says "Something went wrong." Any idea as to what might be happening here? Otherwise, super clear tutorial and appreciate you putting this together. Thanks!
This must be the best video I've ever seen about this topic! For the first time ever I can finally use Google Home to control Home Assistant! Thank you so much!
You saved my life in 2022. It was a lot of time i was not understanding how to configure the voice command and just following this tutorial you made, you made my year. Thanks a lot 😁
I think this technique doesnt work any more, I just went through the tutorial, enter my credentials into the link screen (home assistant login) then all i get is "could not reach test ****** please try again" not sure why if anybody has an idea
This worked perfectly. Some slight interfaces like the keys moving to a tab but pretty much the same as you demoed. Thank you so much stepping through this
Great tutorial (I know you did this almost 2 years ago) and I was finally able to get it going. One quick thing, what's the best way to use SSL on Home assistant (running inside Docker) aside from using duckdns?
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Struggled to work out why I couldn't connect the home assistant integration to my Google Home - I had a firewall rule in Cloudflare blocking access to my domain from any country that is not the UK. I tried to then also allow the US, but Google Home doesn't actually report any country when it makes the connection, so I had to add a firewall rule to allow /api/google_assistant after getting the initial auth set up. Thanks again!
@@kimheymans6662 I'm no expert when it comes to Cloudflare, so use this at your own risk! Under my domain > Security > WAF, I have a single rule which is set up as follows: When ... Country does not equal United Kingdom AND URI Path does not equal /api/google_assistant AND URI Path does not contain /api/alexa/ AND URI Path does not contain /auth/ Then... BLOCK. The expression for this rule is: (ip.geoip.country ne "GB" and http.request.uri.path ne "/api/google_assistant" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/api/alexa/" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/auth/") As said though, I'm no expert, and would welcome anyone else with more experience to correct me if this is unsafe. I'd love to know how you got on though!
THANK YOU!, i have been trying to resolve an issue with adding HA to Google Home app for the past 24hrs. it turns out I too was blocking everything outside the UK on Cloudflare, I resolved the issue by allowing everything from googles ASN number (15169) through the WAF
@tomikohonen did you find it out? I have the same problem. But I think in my case it is due to not having https but http, but what do I need to do to get https... any idea anyone?
like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)... but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have.... Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with... I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me....
Thank you so much, I can't tell you how many times i've tried to get tasmota/sonoff in home assistant tied to google home, this the ONLY video that explained it start to finish with ease and simplicity.......bring on the automations ;-)
Followed along with the video and it worked the first time. Didn't understand ANYTHING within the cloud but it works lol. I did add port 443 just in case.
Nice tutorial! I'll keep using my cloud subscription though as I enjoy home assistant so much I want to support them. It's good that there's a free alternative as well though (as there should with an open source project like this)!
Thank you very ver much , I supported creators for a year but I needed to use the money to support others. Great video, a little fast and a lot of pauses to complete, google console has changed and I had some trouble finding the right options but in less than 30 minutes I got it to work.
Fantastic Video! Made it so much easier. FYI, apparently now there is an additional ste under Google Actions where you need to add a description of the app, a logo for the app, your name and email, plus a privacy policy. There is a guide on the home assistant community if you google "can no longer link google assistant"
Lewis! You are Awesome as always! I had this already setup and working but had some minor errors I ignored in the logs. Followed your video and realized my mistakes and easily fixed them! Thanks Again!!
Hi! I carefully followed all the steps you described in the video. However, when I select add device + works with google + test home assistant in the Google Home app, there was a problem. I get the error message 'Try again. Can you help me?
Same for me. It says "could not reach [test] Home Assistant. Please try again. I checked the auth URLs I entered, they are good, and my HA instance is reachable from outside my network in https. Edit : I had to remove port 8123 in the auth URLs, even if I am using duckdns ...
Same here. Apparently there are some added steps like adding a logo, description etc required by Google now. So this guide unfortunately won't work. I was up until 2 AM last Night trying to figure it out but so far no luck.
Unfortunately I'm getting an error when I want to integrate HA into GHome. "Could not reach [test]. Please try again. Having a day off tomorrow so I'll give it another try :) I noticed the layout of some website components have been changed, but not drasticly.
One topic/issue I never was able to figure out and doesn't seem to be explained on the web: How to add multiple users to Google Nest and have these individual users connecting to Home Assistant through Google Home. Currently you can easily add users to your Google Home so they can talk and play music with they linked services (e;g Spotify, TH-cam, Netflix). However regarding the Home Assistant linked service, this is using the main user account. Meaning whenever another household user performs a command to turn on a light in the home, it is not the household user that is used to perform the action, but the main user is referenced in triggers, logbook entries, history, etc... Any idea if this can be fixed ?
Great video! I just had one issue that I had to delete my port information in all the setup even though I am using 8123, maybe is my issue but that just solved it.
Hey man I also used port 8123, and it works but it doesnt show any devices of home assistant in google home, should I also remove all the port specifics in the setup of google?
I had the same issue. After removing the port info in the URLs, everything worked fine. Thanks for this great video! Without this I wouldn't be able to connect my nest mini to HA
Following the steps.. immediately after project creation, there is "Conversational Actions have been sunset. Changes can't be made to any actions. You can still view the Actions for a limited time." Isn't this a problem ?
UPDATE Nov 2022: google home doesn't let you add the device because the page is not secure. They guy in the video prepared a video on that named also if you use that video you can use the external url to authentificate. It took me a while to master both of the videos, but did exactly what the videos said and it worked. Also you need to go to Setting>AddOns> AddOn Store> install Studio Code Server to actually edit config file.
Apparently google has added a little splash sceen to the flow that happens before it calls your domain. In the Action console you need to provide: 'description of your app', 'logo image', 'your name and e-mail' and 'a link to a privacy policy'
Video worked perfectly! Thanks to much! Only have one annoyance, my Google Nest Mini now shows twice in the app, one locally from Google Home’s connection and one from it pulling from my HA’s list. Is there a way to hide certain devices from getting sent to Google, so that it only shows the local connection? Not assigning the speaker to my home doesn’t make it disappear, just has it sitting at the bottom saying it’s a linked device not in my home and I can’t remove it without unlinking everything.
It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home. - (comment from someone else)
perfect tutorial! but i did not follow your first recommendation to use the google account email address same as the google home. i have tried to add a new user to the project but did not succeeded to see the project in adding service in home app.. is there a way to add a new google account to the cloud project and have it working?
@@EverythingSmartHome it was working for me. I tried re-doing it and step by step like 5 times but cannot get it to work again. Not sure what I'm doing wrong then.
Works pretty good thanks. I was stuck at the JSON file part until I found your video. I have a question. I've setup a SONOFF solenoid to open/close my garage door. I have also attached a door sensor from AQARA so I can tell if the door is open or closed. In google assistant I have setup a routine so that I can say "Open the garage door" and it will interpret it as "turn the garage door on". So the solenoid is activated. How do I integrate the door position sensor so that the door will only open if it is sensed closed?
@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks I will give that a shot! Another question, now my lights are duplicated on google home. Both from the HUE connection and from HA that I just setup. Would you recommend keeping just the HA assistance or the HUE?
Hi Lewis, just followed this to setup Google Assistant with HA. In the google home app, I get as far as authorising OAUTH (it opens up my HA instance and ask for user credentials). I input user credentials and then, it says "linking your account" and then fails, with "unable to reach". Any ideas?
I could fix this issue with a fix of a typo in Action Console > Develp > Actions > Fulfillment URL > [domain]/api/google_assistant I was missing the underline between google and assistant. After that I had to change the name of the whole action, otherwise it was always using the old data. Hope this helps fixing the issue.
@@schi9207 ty for that suggestion it was the one thing I had not looked at yet. I had the video playing in the background and was not watching at that moment. phew. now to thin out the 10000 devices that got added to Google home.
Another great tutorial. thank you. how can one go the other way around to import google home "skills" into HA. I am not sure if you are familiar with Broadlink I have a Broadlink RM4 Pro controling few dumb devices using the broadlink native app and integreated with Google Home. I would like to import everything in HA without having it to relearn codes and just simply import them to HA?
Going to try this! Is there a video or a tutorial on simple command I can give to my Home Mini device that will start up a automation or scene? I'm newbie so an example how it works would be great 👍
Hi, I successfully did the setup by following another tutorial a couple weeks ago. But since this week Google Home is not finding my devices anymore, because of some problem with the connection to Home Assistant. I tried doing the whole setup again on a different google account using this video, but I get a notification that "[Test] HomeAssistant" is not reachable after trying to add it as a device in the Google Home app. I double checked everything, from url's to login credentials, but nothing seems to work. I also disconnected the originally created connection ant tried to reconnect, but that gives me the same notification. I'm wondering if I'm the only one with this problem. If not, maybe something changed in the way it needs to be setup.
I've tried everything in the video, but when I get to the Google home app portion when I press the project instead of getting to the HA page to sign in, I'm getting an error "Could not reach [test] and the name of the project, I'm kinda lost. anyone know how to solve it?
I have got Google Working now thanks to your guide. Question: a toggle helper switch appears in Google Home but why not a momentary Button. Would be nice to have a Voice scene activator 🙏😊
I followed your steps and now see the device int he google home app. When I select it, instead of home screen, it returns the 404. And yes, HA is accessible via https outside the network.
Great Tutorial!! I'm planning to setup Home Assistant instance behind HAProxy running on my PfSense firewall. Is it possible to integrate Google Home with Home Assistant behind PfSense's HAProxy? Thanks
Great Video! Can You show how to cast HA tab to Google Nest Hub without Nabu? and how to create automation to cast HA tab to Nest Hub. thanks in advance!
Love this video, it's how I set up my integration with Google Home. But now I am facing the fact I have exposed too many devices to Home, which causes my AdGuard to turn off when I tell google to turn everything off, but I can not find a way to remove individual devices? Is my only option to delete the complete integration and reconnect?
❓Great tutorial and works well. Question: If I deploy this, will it be available to anybody or will it only be available when logged it to my Google Home account?
Hi, thanks for another great video, got it up an running like a charm. I'm trying to capture all my automation logic in Node Red and was wondering if this could be used to trigger NR sequences?
Great video! I noticed that not all my sensors are sent to GA, despite me specifically allowing "sensors" or the the actual sensor name with in entity config. What gives? Do I have to set up the sensor properly in HA? For the specific sensor I'm not seeing if from an MQTT broker. HA sees and logs the sensor no problem, but GA cannot see it.
Hi, what a nice video and have followed all the steps. It sync'ed one time to my google home. But when i want to sync my devices I receive the following error from Home Assistant : "Failed to call service button. Unable to sync devices with resultcode 404. Check the logs for more. Also when i say to google nest "sync devices'the message will be reported that devices cannot be sync'ed. I have tried to make new projects, but with every attemp i get the same results. I have looked several forums but i cannot find the cause of the problem.
Nice tutorial, I was almost there. Logged in to home assistant from google home with message "connected", and after a while "Something went wrong". Guess somethings have changes the last years 🙂
@@eriklyse6746 I was able to find a solution online and it works! In order for this info screen to work correctly, you must complete the “Enter information required for the Actions directory” portion of the Actions setup overview. This requires you to provide: A description of your app A logo image for your app Your name and email A link to a privacy policy For description: Short: “Connect Google Assistant to a private Home Assistant server” Long: “This Action is intended for personal use. It exposes smart home devices controlled by a local Home Assistant server to Google Assistant and by extension the Google Home mobile app.” For the logo, my house had one already, so I used that. Otherwise, just upload the HA logo. For the privacy policy, create a Google Doc that can be viewed by anyone with the link that says: " This application is intended for the private use of its developer. Any unauthorized users which connect to this service should have no expectation of privacy or protection of their data."
Many thanks for your video, really helpful. I got stucked adding home assistant to Google home and I got an error "could not reach home assistant [test].... Please try again". Knowing that I am using Tailscale for remote access. Even turning on Tailscale nothing is changing
Great video and I have had it working now for years however everytime I tell Google to sync devices it says that it has two errors and i cannot find where or how i go about finding the log etc to try and fix it as it syncs everything fine but when others use the system it causes concerns when it says there are errors
Thank you for your another great presentation. Unfortunately, I must have missed something here, since I get "Error: invalid client id or redirect url" in my iPhone. My homeassistant has working same internal/external url. (thanks to one of your your video). The fragment 4:31 was unclear for me. 'Client secret ' - what should be typed there?
Hello and thanks! Hmm that's a strange one, can you show me what you are using as a URL, make sure to remove your domain part. The client secret does not matter, enter anything you want
Want to know how to add your scenes, automations and scripts into Google Home? I gotchu covered 👇
th-cam.com/video/h7SsPhEfNEI/w-d-xo.html
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is this still current?
I just followed this tutorial to set it up. Some of the buttons on googles site have moved around a tiny bit like where to generate the key but I think the changes are logical and easy enough to figure out with no background in using these google tools.
@@Spy653
Any idea why this results in "Something went wrong" @EverythingSmartHome ?
This is by far the most technical video I have watched. Very well done. As long as I pause it every 10 seconds - I can get through this! Thanks!
Thanks Robert, appreciate it! You can do it 🙌
Nice, detailed tutorial! Can you follow up with a step by step on how to enable "local fulfillment" in Assistant so commands can be routed from Home devices through local network, rather than through the cloud?
I had no idea that this was a thing - it's exactly what is needed!
It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home.
Yep definitely a good point!
yeah i use that, i have nothing configured in google home directly, its only allowed to know about what i tell it from within HASS
Can you exclude specific devices by ID or so? Or can you include only specific devices instead?
Very good to know, thank you.
I'm having lots issues with stairs switch and colour lighting Bulbs, was informed to use Phillip Hue lighting but no clue on their setup at all I have always avoided there bulbs but maybe to resolve the switch on the stairs it might be worth investing in two of their bulbs if I could get them to work through Home Assistant, Goggle, Alexa, or Smartlife with Android Mobiles. I do not want any more than this as its confusing as it for a Diabetic to stay alive without more on top, Any further help will be much appreciated! thanks for me seeing this tip here now from you!
just literally switched on youtube to do this and was the first video in my feed, good timing!
Mind reader 🤯😂
@@EverythingSmartHome finally got everything working after a faff regarding duck dns and my pf sense fire wall but house is finally online with google! brilliant guide nice one!
Awesome, glad it worked! If you need help in future feel free to hop into the discord and someone will help you out! Or of course if you just wanna hang out in general 😅
LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS!! Seriously I'm new to home assistant, and as someone who is technically literate, but not coding literate, your tutorials have been a life saver. Always VERY in depth and good explanations as to why were are doing something, but never TOO in depth as to scare you away from finishing. Plus his smooth Irish accent is always so reassuring haha jk!!
The only thing I could be missing would be if you maybe included your key strokes on screen, as someone new to this may have missed a space here or there that would make this not work for 5 mins and make him start from the beginning thinking I missed a crucial step and making him want to defenestrate himself out of a window trying to figure out where he F****d up only to realize it was literally just a missing space in the config file or something like that. Not sure if that would ever happen to anyone.........
Haha thanks, glad they are useful and appreciate the feedback! Also, it's a Scottish accent but you were close 😅
Wow! Thank you so much!!! This step by step tutorial was so clear and detailed. ESH IS the reference for the smart home!
Thank you sir, appreciate it 🙏
great tutorial, followed your previous guide using cloudflare then this guide, initially it didn't work until I removed the port numbers when setting up Google. all working 100% now. thanks for your time and effort
Haha, same here. Only belatedly realizing that he can't have been using the Cloudflared config because this video was posted nearly two years ago (plus I'm pretty sure the Cloudflare tunnel implementation was different before March 2022). And here I am scratching my head, "why am I putting the ports in when I have a tunnel set up? Oh well, la di da!"
So needed this video! I have my Zigbee devices connected to a Smartthings hub which is connected to HA via the Smartthings ntegration. I've decided to connect my Zigbee devices via ZHA (with a Sonoff Dongle). I realised the devices connected to ZHA didn't appear on Google Home and I have a number of Google Hubs. This video saved the day. Thank you very much!
3 years later, still going strong. I followed all the steps and it still works! Thanks for all the help and saved frustration :)
Amazing explanation of how to make this work! Thank you. Thank goodness for the pause and rewind button! Well done.
Thank you for watching!
I got to the point where I open the Google Home app on my mobile device, add device, and see my project in the list. However, when I go to tap on it, I get a toast message that just says "Something went wrong."
Any idea as to what might be happening here?
Otherwise, super clear tutorial and appreciate you putting this together. Thanks!
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This must be the best video I've ever seen about this topic!
For the first time ever I can finally use Google Home to control Home Assistant!
Thank you so much!
Haha thanks, glad it was useful!
You saved my life in 2022. It was a lot of time i was not understanding how to configure the voice command and just following this tutorial you made, you made my year. Thanks a lot 😁
Nice one, glad it helped!
I think this technique doesnt work any more, I just went through the tutorial, enter my credentials into the link screen (home assistant login) then all i get is "could not reach test ****** please try again" not sure why if anybody has an idea
This happened to me too. If you are using Cloudflare, disable "Bot Fight Mode" and it will fix it
Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Awesome tutorial that works just as expected. Thank you!
Excellent!
This worked perfectly. Some slight interfaces like the keys moving to a tab but pretty much the same as you demoed. Thank you so much stepping through this
Nice one!
Great tutorial (I know you did this almost 2 years ago) and I was finally able to get it going. One quick thing, what's the best way to use SSL on Home assistant (running inside Docker) aside from using duckdns?
hi great explanation but can you explain what is Fulfillment URL and from where can i get it
Try this video th-cam.com/video/xXAwT9N-7Hw/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Struggled to work out why I couldn't connect the home assistant integration to my Google Home - I had a firewall rule in Cloudflare blocking access to my domain from any country that is not the UK. I tried to then also allow the US, but Google Home doesn't actually report any country when it makes the connection, so I had to add a firewall rule to allow /api/google_assistant after getting the initial auth set up. Thanks again!
I Seem to have the same issue. How exactly did you fix this in Cloudflare?
@@kimheymans6662 I'm no expert when it comes to Cloudflare, so use this at your own risk!
Under my domain > Security > WAF, I have a single rule which is set up as follows:
When ...
Country does not equal United Kingdom
AND
URI Path does not equal /api/google_assistant
AND
URI Path does not contain /api/alexa/
AND
URI Path does not contain /auth/
Then...
BLOCK.
The expression for this rule is:
(ip.geoip.country ne "GB" and http.request.uri.path ne "/api/google_assistant" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/api/alexa/" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/auth/")
As said though, I'm no expert, and would welcome anyone else with more experience to correct me if this is unsafe. I'd love to know how you got on though!
@@TheBelfastBikerOfficial thanks for the reply! In the meantime I fixed it. I’ve been too quick when creating the Google part and made a stupid typo…
Thank you! I was having the same issue and your idea worked.
THANK YOU!, i have been trying to resolve an issue with adding HA to Google Home app for the past 24hrs. it turns out I too was blocking everything outside the UK on Cloudflare, I resolved the issue by allowing everything from googles ASN number (15169) through the WAF
I get an error while adding the project in google home "could not reach Home Assistant, Please try again." Any ideas where I could have gone wrong?
Did you ever figure this out?
@@cdfox85 Yes I did. I needed to enable remote access first.
@@m.danial225 Enable it within Home Assistant? How? I can't seem to find that anywhere 🤔
Sorry for the beginner question, but where did you enabled the remote access?
@tomikohonen did you find it out? I have the same problem. But I think in my case it is due to not having https but http, but what do I need to do to get https... any idea anyone?
I had done it before ages ago, but this gave me the latest way of doing it. Saved a lot of time, appreciate it.
Excellent glad it was useful!
Great tutorial. I really enjoy watching your tutorials and running through all that HA stuff step by step. Many Thanks!
Thank you, really appreciate it!
like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)... but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have.... Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with... I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me....
Your smile after the first voice command was exactly the same as my smile ;) thx for this tutorial!!!
Thank you for the explanation. The instructions were really clear and easy to follow without any unnecessary details or complications.
Thank you so much, I can't tell you how many times i've tried to get tasmota/sonoff in home assistant tied to google home, this the ONLY video that explained it start to finish with ease and simplicity.......bring on the automations ;-)
Nice one, glad it worked! 👍
Followed along with the video and it worked the first time. Didn't understand ANYTHING within the cloud but it works lol. I did add port 443 just in case.
Nice tutorial! I'll keep using my cloud subscription though as I enjoy home assistant so much I want to support them. It's good that there's a free alternative as well though (as there should with an open source project like this)!
Thank you very ver much , I supported creators for a year but I needed to use the money to support others. Great video, a little fast and a lot of pauses to complete, google console has changed and I had some trouble finding the right options but in less than 30 minutes I got it to work.
Cheers!
Worked on first try, awesome! Liked and Subscribed.
Fantastic Video! Made it so much easier. FYI, apparently now there is an additional ste under Google Actions where you need to add a description of the app, a logo for the app, your name and email, plus a privacy policy. There is a guide on the home assistant community if you google "can no longer link google assistant"
Lewis! You are Awesome as always! I had this already setup and working but had some minor errors I ignored in the logs. Followed your video and realized my mistakes and easily fixed them! Thanks Again!!
Your too kind Mark, thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you got it sorted 🙏
It works great, I was getting "Error: invalid client id or redirect URL" but I had a typo in the URL.
Thank you very much man 💪
Followed and got it working in no time! Masterpiece!
Thank you buddy!
i have been trying to do this for such a long time. your video is brilliant. it explained what i had to do and worked first time. thank you so much.
Awesome, glad it was useful!
Hi! I carefully followed all the steps you described in the video. However, when I select add device + works with google + test home assistant in the Google Home app, there was a problem. I get the error message 'Try again. Can you help me?
Same for me. It says "could not reach [test] Home Assistant. Please try again. I checked the auth URLs I entered, they are good, and my HA instance is reachable from outside my network in https.
Edit : I had to remove port 8123 in the auth URLs, even if I am using duckdns ...
Same here. Apparently there are some added steps like adding a logo, description etc required by Google now. So this guide unfortunately won't work. I was up until 2 AM last Night trying to figure it out but so far no luck.
I took the port out, the :8123 out of the urls and it worked. I used cloudflare tunnel to go remote
There is a manual on the official ha website google ‘home assistant google assistant’ worked for me. Good luck!
Thank you Thank you Thank you! Ive been trying to do this for a year and a half, this is the only tutorial that worked for me
Nice 🙌
great tutorial! loving the channel
Thanks, appreciate your support!
Thanks, worked the first time. Where can I find more examples of voice commands that it will recognize?
Unfortunately I'm getting an error when I want to integrate HA into GHome. "Could not reach [test]. Please try again.
Having a day off tomorrow so I'll give it another try :) I noticed the layout of some website components have been changed, but not drasticly.
same issue....
Did you manage to fix? Sadly my instance stopped working...
@@piereligio_ds still haven't found time to tinker. After the next attempt I'll post an update 😉
@@xisop thank you 😊
@@piereligio_ds I got it to work with the tutorial from Juan 😉.
Slightly different setup
I was expecting some demo at the end :D, Will gonna try this when my nest arrive
Excellent tutorial on how to set it up
Im just missing 1 thing.
Can it use voice recognition? and if so, how to add more users?
Thanks for the guide.
I have some questions, Can i Use Google Nest Hub (Gen 1) and Google Nest mini as with Home Assistant local assistent?
Thank you very much! tried other ones didnt quite work for me! this one was great!!!
Amazing thank you!
One topic/issue I never was able to figure out and doesn't seem to be explained on the web:
How to add multiple users to Google Nest and have these individual users connecting to Home Assistant through Google Home.
Currently you can easily add users to your Google Home so they can talk and play music with they linked services (e;g Spotify, TH-cam, Netflix).
However regarding the Home Assistant linked service, this is using the main user account. Meaning whenever another household user performs a command to turn on a light in the home, it is not the household user that is used to perform the action, but the main user is referenced in triggers, logbook entries, history, etc...
Any idea if this can be fixed ?
Great video! I just had one issue that I had to delete my port information in all the setup even though I am using 8123, maybe is my issue but that just solved it.
Thanks, glad you got it working!
Hey man I also used port 8123, and it works but it doesnt show any devices of home assistant in google home, should I also remove all the port specifics in the setup of google?
I had the same issue. After removing the port info in the URLs, everything worked fine. Thanks for this great video! Without this I wouldn't be able to connect my nest mini to HA
Following the steps.. immediately after project creation, there is "Conversational Actions have been sunset. Changes can't be made to any actions. You can still view the Actions for a limited time." Isn't this a problem ?
Great video walkthrough. I started the process way back in 2020. You video was the step by step I need to be successful. Thank you.
Thanks David, glad it was useful!
UPDATE Nov 2022: google home doesn't let you add the device because the page is not secure. They guy in the video prepared a video on that named also if you use that video you can use the external url to authentificate. It took me a while to master both of the videos, but did exactly what the videos said and it worked. Also you need to go to Setting>AddOns> AddOn Store> install Studio Code Server to actually edit config file.
Worked for me, thank you, keep up the good work, SUBSCRIBED!
Thanks Stephen! Appreciate it!
Apparently google has added a little splash sceen to the flow that happens before it calls your domain. In the Action console you need to provide: 'description of your app', 'logo image', 'your name and e-mail' and 'a link to a privacy policy'
Video worked perfectly! Thanks to much! Only have one annoyance, my Google Nest Mini now shows twice in the app, one locally from Google Home’s connection and one from it pulling from my HA’s list. Is there a way to hide certain devices from getting sent to Google, so that it only shows the local connection? Not assigning the speaker to my home doesn’t make it disappear, just has it sitting at the bottom saying it’s a linked device not in my home and I can’t remove it without unlinking everything.
Did you figure it out? I'm having the same issue. It works, but pretty annoying seeing duplicates.
It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home. - (comment from someone else)
perfect tutorial! but i did not follow your first recommendation to use the google account email address same as the google home.
i have tried to add a new user to the project but did not succeeded to see the project in adding service in home app.. is there a way to add a new google account to the cloud project and have it working?
Does this method still work. It worked for me a few months ago but it's not working anymore
It's still the same yes
@@EverythingSmartHome it was working for me. I tried re-doing it and step by step like 5 times but cannot get it to work again. Not sure what I'm doing wrong then.
Thanks dude!!! This guide really helped me
Works pretty good thanks. I was stuck at the JSON file part until I found your video.
I have a question. I've setup a SONOFF solenoid to open/close my garage door. I have also attached a door sensor from AQARA so I can tell if the door is open or closed. In google assistant I have setup a routine so that I can say "Open the garage door" and it will interpret it as "turn the garage door on". So the solenoid is activated. How do I integrate the door position sensor so that the door will only open if it is sensed closed?
Excellent! I would do this via HA instead of Google home, use Google Home for voice yes but use a HA automation instead
@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks I will give that a shot! Another question, now my lights are duplicated on google home. Both from the HUE connection and from HA that I just setup. Would you recommend keeping just the HA assistance or the HUE?
Excellent video, still very helpfull in 2023! Many Thnx!
Could you make a Nest integration to the Home Assistant video, please? You have the best explanations on TH-cam without BS.
Unfortunately I don't have a NEST device to test with! But thanks!
Hi Lewis, just followed this to setup Google Assistant with HA. In the google home app, I get as far as authorising OAUTH (it opens up my HA instance and ask for user credentials). I input user credentials and then, it says "linking your account" and then fails, with "unable to reach". Any ideas?
I could fix this issue with a fix of a typo in Action Console > Develp > Actions > Fulfillment URL > [domain]/api/google_assistant
I was missing the underline between google and assistant.
After that I had to change the name of the whole action, otherwise it was always using the old data.
Hope this helps fixing the issue.
@@schi9207 ty for that suggestion it was the one thing I had not looked at yet. I had the video playing in the background and was not watching at that moment. phew. now to thin out the 10000 devices that got added to Google home.
Added Goggle too...super simple. Thanks again.
Another great tutorial. thank you. how can one go the other way around to import google home "skills" into HA. I am not sure if you are familiar with Broadlink I have a Broadlink RM4 Pro controling few dumb devices using the broadlink native app and integreated with Google Home. I would like to import everything in HA without having it to relearn codes and just simply import them to HA?
dude you are a freaking life saver I am so serious
Glad I could help!!
Going to try this! Is there a video or a tutorial on simple command I can give to my Home Mini device that will start up a automation or scene? I'm newbie so an example how it works would be great 👍
Thanks! Yes there should be a round-about way of doing it, I'll see what I can come up with!
Hi, I successfully did the setup by following another tutorial a couple weeks ago. But since this week Google Home is not finding my devices anymore, because of some problem with the connection to Home Assistant. I tried doing the whole setup again on a different google account using this video, but I get a notification that "[Test] HomeAssistant" is not reachable after trying to add it as a device in the Google Home app. I double checked everything, from url's to login credentials, but nothing seems to work. I also disconnected the originally created connection ant tried to reconnect, but that gives me the same notification.
I'm wondering if I'm the only one with this problem. If not, maybe something changed in the way it needs to be setup.
Thanks for your great step-by-step explanation! You are great!
Thanks my friend!
Great video as always, thanks!
Will I be able to query status of sensors "hey Google, what's the temperature in the bedroom?" with this setup?
Hi, lovely tutorial. I need to confirm something. Basically, will this google assistant integration to HA work when internet is down?
I've tried everything in the video, but when I get to the Google home app portion when I press the project instead of getting to the HA page to sign in, I'm getting an error "Could not reach [test] and the name of the project, I'm kinda lost. anyone know how to solve it?
same problem here..
Anyone figure this out by chance? Having the same issue.
@@amandawagner916 Yeah I did, are you guys in the discord server? I can explain what to do there, it will be easier
You are the BEST, this is very helpful video. Keep up the Good Work!!!!!
Thank you Cia! Appreciate it!
Thanks man got it working when i use my phone but when i use my nest mini it seems not recognizing the orders or my devices am i missing something?
I have got Google Working now thanks to your guide. Question: a toggle helper switch appears in Google Home but why not a momentary Button. Would be nice to have a Voice scene activator 🙏😊
Hi Lewis! In your experience is it quicker to do Google or Alexa for the average user ?
Hey! I would say Google is much quicker IMO!
I followed your steps and now see the device int he google home app. When I select it, instead of home screen, it returns the 404.
And yes, HA is accessible via https outside the network.
Once again great video!
Great Tutorial!!
I'm planning to setup Home Assistant instance behind HAProxy running on my PfSense firewall. Is it possible to integrate Google Home with Home Assistant behind PfSense's HAProxy? Thanks
Hi is it possible to do the command flow other way around? can I turn on do not disturb on Google Nest thru Home Assistant?
Great Video! Can You show how to cast HA tab to Google Nest Hub without Nabu? and how to create automation to cast HA tab to Nest Hub. thanks in advance!
thank you. you saved me 5 lifes
Excellent tutorial, worked flawlessly, thank you so much
Thanks Jack!
awesome guide, but i have a problem. HA Studio Code can't find my project id? Does someone have a fix for that?
Great walkthrough, thank you really comprehensive
It does not work if you have cloudflare setup as you cannot add the port to the url. What would be the solution ?
WOW many many thanks dude. As always you are the best.
Love this video, it's how I set up my integration with Google Home. But now I am facing the fact I have exposed too many devices to Home, which causes my AdGuard to turn off when I tell google to turn everything off, but I can not find a way to remove individual devices? Is my only option to delete the complete integration and reconnect?
❓Great tutorial and works well. Question: If I deploy this, will it be available to anybody or will it only be available when logged it to my Google Home account?
Hi, thanks for another great video, got it up an running like a charm. I'm trying to capture all my automation logic in Node Red and was wondering if this could be used to trigger NR sequences?
Great video! I noticed that not all my sensors are sent to GA, despite me specifically allowing "sensors" or the the actual sensor name with in entity config. What gives? Do I have to set up the sensor properly in HA? For the specific sensor I'm not seeing if from an MQTT broker. HA sees and logs the sensor no problem, but GA cannot see it.
Great help! Thank you so much, and I was able to get Alexa working with Home Assistant.
Excellent glad it worked!
Hi, what a nice video and have followed all the steps. It sync'ed one time to my google home. But when i want to sync my devices I receive the following error from Home Assistant : "Failed to call service button. Unable to sync devices with resultcode 404. Check the logs for more. Also when i say to google nest "sync devices'the message will be reported that devices cannot be sync'ed. I have tried to make new projects, but with every attemp i get the same results. I have looked several forums but i cannot find the cause of the problem.
followed along without any problems thanks so much for a great video
Thanks Fred, appreciate it!
Nice tutorial, I was almost there. Logged in to home assistant from google home with message "connected", and after a while "Something went wrong". Guess somethings have changes the last years 🙂
Hi, were you able to fix the issues? I am running into the same problem
@@nidarsh9 Hi, no I gave up
@@eriklyse6746 I was able to find a solution online and it works!
In order for this info screen to work correctly, you must complete the “Enter information required for the Actions directory” portion of the Actions setup overview. This requires you to provide:
A description of your app
A logo image for your app
Your name and email
A link to a privacy policy
For description:
Short: “Connect Google Assistant to a private Home Assistant server”
Long: “This Action is intended for personal use. It exposes smart home devices controlled by a local Home Assistant server to Google Assistant and by extension the Google Home mobile app.”
For the logo, my house had one already, so I used that. Otherwise, just upload the HA logo.
For the privacy policy, create a Google Doc that can be viewed by anyone with the link that says:
" This application is intended for the private use of its developer. Any unauthorized users which connect to this service should have no expectation of privacy or protection of their data."
@@nidarsh9 Thanks 🙂
Many thanks for your video, really helpful. I got stucked adding home assistant to Google home and I got an error "could not reach home assistant [test].... Please try again". Knowing that I am using Tailscale for remote access. Even turning on Tailscale nothing is changing
Excellent Tuto, thanks Lewis for the great vidéo step by step
Thanks for watching!
Will this allow you to use voice command with google speakers to run a HA automation ?
Thanks a lot for yet another great video! Unfortnunately at the end it doesn't link with home assistant. It just logs in into home assistant instead.
I would guess you've made a typo, join the discord and I'm sure we can get it working
lets buy this man a beer!
Haha make it a coffee and I'm sold!
Great video and I have had it working now for years however everytime I tell Google to sync devices it says that it has two errors and i cannot find where or how i go about finding the log etc to try and fix it as it syncs everything fine but when others use the system it causes concerns when it says there are errors
Not sure on that one sorry, maybe try set it up again from scratch? That's all I can suggest
Thank you for your another great presentation. Unfortunately, I must have missed something here, since I get "Error: invalid client id or redirect url" in my iPhone. My homeassistant has working same internal/external url. (thanks to one of your your video). The fragment 4:31 was unclear for me. 'Client secret ' - what should be typed there?
Hello and thanks! Hmm that's a strange one, can you show me what you are using as a URL, make sure to remove your domain part. The client secret does not matter, enter anything you want
I will try to reach you on Discord..
That will be easiest!
@@EverythingSmartHome I have the same error, is there a solution?
Yes I have yet to see this error without someone who hasn't made a typo in the URLs 😅 if your stuck hop into the discord and we can help you out!
Thanks again for the great video. Very helpful!