Google Home and Siri Integration - Using Siri Shortcuts to Drive Google Assistant Actions
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- Siri and Google Home Integration - Using Siri Shortcuts to Drive Google Assistant Actions
Those of you with an iPhone and an iPad know that Apple's Siri is the voice assistant that you've been forced to use for a long time. Well, now with Siri Shortcuts on iOS, you can pull up the Google Assistant application and therefore use your home automation with Google Home, Google Home Mini, Google Home Hub, and of course the Google Assistant.
In this tutorial video, I show you the easiest way to get Siri and Google Home working together. I show you how to create shortcuts quickly and efficiently, and then how to ensure that you have easy ways to use those new shortcuts. With these shortcuts, you can drive all kinds of home and life automation, including running routines, playing music, videos, and much more.
After you link Siri to Google Assistant through Shortcuts and the Google Assistant application, you simply need to execute commands on your Google Assistant application. Once you've executed those commands (with the right settings on your iOS device), they show up as Siri Suggestions in the Shortcuts application. From there, it's just a matter of placing them into the different shortcuts you'd like.
All in all #Siri shortcuts and #GoogleHome or #GoogleAssistant integration is going to be very useful and it'll allow all of us to really drive a lot of great integration with our iPhones.
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Correct me if I am wrong, for "Hey Siri" when iphone is locked, it is still needed to unlock the phone before able to run the commands in Shortcuts app and/or Google Assistant?
And unlocked phone is required for Siri shortcuts
@@AutomateYourLife Thats' important info! I've been going nuts trying to figure out what I've done wrong . I think that info should be included with your description under the video. THanks Brian.
Yeah...perhaps you're right! Maybe I'll pin this comment
That’s a very good point Bernard! Most of my hey Siri commands are while my phone is locked.
@@AutomateYourLife can we now use google assistent on all aple devices?
This was extremely informative. I don't own an iPhone so I didn't even know what the Google home app looked like on an iPhone, let alone having it run shortcuts though Siri and the Google Assistant. As always Brian you have helped me help others automate their lives when I go to Best Buy! Thank you and keep up the good work my friend!
Thanks Jacob! It’s great stuff. Apple finally opened up a piece of their platform and look...there are people and companies filling it up!
I’m a bit lost.....not sure why you would press your Siri button so therefore asking Siri to ask Google Assistant to do something when you could just press the Google Assistant icon on your iPhone instead.......perhaps would be good if you had a widget on your iPhone/iPad as Android doesn’t have widgets yet....but you didn’t show us this bit....
Hey Adrian - the idea of this is to show the new functionality available, but I’ll tell you that my head is spinning with ideas! More to come :)
Very good information but all I did was download google assist on my iphone and then told Siri to open google assist, Wala. It worked. I am74 but still giving it a go. I appreciated all you techs. I told google to add milk to my shopping list.
Way to go!
This was very helpful. My wife has Parkinson’s and she has a weak voice. I created shortcuts to ask for Ice water, sweet tea etc. then broadcast on my Google Home speakers. Thanks 👍👍. Oh I took photos from Google so she wouldn’t have to read the description.
Excellent! Enjoy, the both of you!
Hi, thanks for the video. Are you able to trigger a google home routine from siri? It seems like you are only able to send a specific command, OR trigger a google assistant routine. Thanks
I belieeeeeeeeeve you can. Google Assistant is really just the interface to Google Home in a lot of ways so I think you can trigger them? At least, last time I tried that was possible.
@@AutomateYourLife Thanks a lot for your reply. Im struggling to trigger the 'Bedtime routine'
When I try on google assistant - 'Ok Google, Bedtime' - The routine triggers on my iPhone's Google assistant app instead of it triggering on the google home app.
When I try on google assistant - 'Ok Google, Start bedtime routine on google home' - it provides me a help link to setting up routines online instead, and does not trigger any routine on either app.
I have HomeKit with Siri controlling everything in my Smart Home already but I’d like to purchase a Google assistant instead of another HomePod for my bedroom. If a wall switch is already set up to work with Siri and HomeKit, can I also control that switch through a Google assistant speaker? I want a Nest Hub for my bedroom. The switches say that they are compatible with all 3 assistants but they don’t specify if they are all compatible with all of them together at the same time. Will it work? Thanks
Yep! You can use any voice assistant at any time to control any device it's compatible with. You just have to make the connections in the right apps.
Nicely done. App interfaces obviously change but this gives a great overview of how you can get these platforms talking to each other. You do note it in the comments but for the Google users, HOME and ASSISTANT are definitely needed. Google seems to have users focus only on needing the HOME app. Now on to using Pythonista on the iOS!
Thank you!
October 2020, is there any way to run the google assistant on the iPhone lock screen?
Nope. Not that I know of.
If you were to tru and use the Google Home to play that video, would it work?
Yep
is there any way to stop the google assistant app from opening up when I ask Siri to run a command. I want to use NFC tags to control my lights but dont want the app to open up every, there is a check box but it doesn't make a difference for me
Not on Apple devices, sorry.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Thanks so much for posting this video. Now I can easily control my Nest Thermostat with Siri. 👍🏼
Exaaaactly!
Thank you for this, this is just what I needed!!!
That's what I'm here for!
Can you update this for the latest version of IOS in Oct. 2020? It doesn't work the same way your video shows.
yeahhhh...I think I can! Thanks!
Figured out a fix for Siri Shortcuts that just stopped working yesterday. I finally figured out how to fix it. Here is what I did to get it working again.
Leave the shortcut alone in shortcuts app. Then go to "Siri and Search" in settings. Then "My Shortcuts" Delete the specific shortcut phrases that aren't working in app. Now exit that and go back into Shortcuts app and re record the Siri Phrase for the non working shortcut and it should now work. This issue was only happening to me with third party apps. Google Assistant, Nest as examples. Hopefully this helps people experiencing the same issues I did.
Wow, great stuff! I’ll pin this.
Automate Your Life Thanks. I know this issue affected quite a few people on twitter so hopefully some of them will see this. Btw, updating today to iOS 12.1.1 didn't fix the problem either until I did the above.
I have a bunch of shortcuts set up to do this with vsync plugs. The problem I have is siri will successfully give the command to google assistant but google assistant gets stuck and does nothing. They usually work about 60% of the time. Any suggestions?
Hey Todd - Great stuff you're doing there. You know, I started finding this too, but I find I get a higher success rate if I leave the GA application open. I find it fails more if we're just opening GA.
Have you had Siri Shortcuts with Google Assistant just stop working? Siri works great with everything but the shortcuts I setup with Google. They worked fine this morning but stopped working this afternoon. The other non Google assistant shortcuts work fine. The Google Assistant shortcuts I made work fine when I push the shortcut in the app. But not using Siri. Any suggestions?
Apple must have blocked functionality with Google Assistant. 😡
Something definitely happened, but just remake your shortcuts either by duplicating them through the share button or just simply remaking it.
Automate Your Life Just tried to make a new Siri shortcut for Nest thermostat. "Set Nest to 73". Siri doesn't recognize it at all.
Hmmm, it’s still working for me. Siri doesn’t actually know your Nest, so make sure you’re going through GA to do that! If it’s not working after that...yeah something is up for you. Just know that it’s still working here
Automate Your Life Weird. I know it's set up correctly as I had been using it for 2 days with both my Harmony remote and Nest Thermostat. Now neither work at all with Siri.
How do I create an automation where I’ll turn on a Homekit accessory, and a google home accessory will be automatically turned on as well? I can’t seem to figure this out from the shortcuts app.
Also, I noticed if I created the shortcut from an iPhone, I won’t be able to execute the shortcut if I say the same phrase to Homepod or another iPhone / iPad. Thanks for such useful video!
Will this work on the Apple Watch?
I don't believe you can get G.A. to run on the watch.
Very helpful video as always. When do you think we might see continued conversation on the Google Home Hub? It was a glaring mistake to not include that feature from the start if you ask me.
Good question, but I wonder if the smart displays were intended to run this way...I worry a little that we are going to have to push a lot for that feature to show up! Start sending feedback!
Stinks it can't run properly when the device is locked.There needs to be things you can allow to run with the device locked. But that's not something Apple... well I never expected shortcuts even though I owned Workflow... So we'll see if they realize that's the last hold-out.
Another great video. Question, why do all that if you have the Google home app on your iPhone. Can't you just hit the mic on Google home app and do that directly? I'm probably not understanding but at first look, it looks like the iPhone "shortcut" is processing through the Google app but just let's you press the Siri button instead of Google. I guess the integration really comes when things are controlled with Homepod and Google hub and you want them to process together. I'm looking forward to future videos on this because I'm going Google in my house but my wife and kids have iPhone and iPads (have Google Mini and JBL Google Assistant speaker, hope to get Google Assistant smart display and the three boys Google minis for their rooms Christmas). Thanks again.
Hey Michael - yes that’s it. The true automation comes as you bring together more functions and more systems with this kind of integration. What I showed here is simple, but it’s easy to make a shortcut now that uses HomeKit and GA, Home Hub, and anything that connects to either of those systems.
Hi thanks for the video but I don't find add google to siri in my google assistant app
Try the explore button. I believe it's bottom left now in the Google Assistant app.
What if add to Siri isn't an option?
I can add to home screen, show in share sheet (whatever that is), show on apple watch, and import questions. No add to siri.... ugh
Ohhhhh, with the NEWEST update as of March 2021... you don't have to 'add to siri' she just uses whatever name you give the shortcut.
There ya go!
Your Levono Google Home Hub camera is blinking on this video and appears to be taking pictures back to Google hq..
Yep. That's what it's doing!
It's a sensor :) The camera is higher up.
With IOS 13 the screens and terminology have all changed with Google Assistant and Shortcuts, its almost impossible to follow your instructions with all Apples changes, even the buttons in 'settings' have been changed and some are missing. Hope you will make a new or updated video, Thanks.
Yeah...it's wildly inaccurate at this point. Point taken.
This works on IOS 14 with some modification. However it's weird because I can't trigger the shortcut using Siri on my watch but I can on the iPhone.
Never tried with that watch...that's something I should try to work out.
Just discovered this. So cool to use.
:D
thanks man!
Happy to help!
So I was able to successfully do this from my phone but when I ask Siri to do it from my HomePod, it asks to finish the command from my phone :( how do I fix that? I’m doing the opposite to what you are doing where I am getting my HomePod to execute google assistant commands.
So I don't know that you can get that to work right now....
Great video for iPhone users Brian. The step by step is crucial for no so techy ppl. Good job mate.
Thank you sir!
Very helpful!
Such great functionality! Unfortunately, Apple instantly nerfed this and now makes you tap on the screen to start Google Assistant! ARGH!
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Can you share all the short cuts from Siri and google with my housemate? Or do we have to setup both iPhones seperate?
You totally can share them! There's actually the ability to share any shortcut right in the app.
What happens if you turn on lights with a siri command through google home? Does the google assistant reply to the command with a verbal confirmation? It's kind of annoying that the lights can't just turn on and off without a reply. Does this still happen if you address to siri?
Siri is sometimes silent on a command to turn on and off my lights. Google is always going to respond with something....
When I open the assistant app, I don’t see an option to add assistant to siri. Help pls?
Try the explore button. I believe it's bottom left now in the Google Assistant app.
Thanks bro, great video 👍
What if Siri suggestions don’t show up
doesnt work from homepod when my iphone is locked
I used this technique to make nfc tags work with my google speaker and Spotify
Very nice!!
Thanks, really cool Video. Thanks for sharing 💪🏼💯
Love the avatar!
after i say the shortcut hey google. siri now said “you’ll need to continue in assistance” and show google assistance icon. i will have to press it to get to google assistance now. wtf
Yeah I think Apple changed something....
Automate Your Life yupe. sigh
It was too good to be true
I know. WTF. It worked good for a few days now it stops at “you’ll need to continue on assistant”. That’s annoying.
Finally! It looks like Apple is giving up on this area. Apple Music is also coming to Amazon Alexa:)
I wonder? Is this more like a workaroud? Or it is a real Apple/Google Integration? 😳
I don’t know if it’s giving up, but I do think that they’re learning to play in the sandbox with the big boys!
This is actually pretty fucking cool
You're actually pretty cool
I’d like to see the OPPOSITE of this, i.e., trigger a HomeKit action using Google Home
Yeah that’s a little tough right now with the closed system that Apple has, but I’ll give it some thought. There is a voice way to do it, but not an automated way I can see yet...
Automate Your Life My issue is that I have a Hunter “smart” ceiling fan that claims to be GH compatible, but uses a kludge - “Hey Google, tell simpleconnect to turn on the fan.” It works, but it’s slow, and simpleconnect will then ask if there’s anything else I need, and keep asking until I reply. I can tell Siri to turn on the fan and it works immediately. But I don’t have a HomePod. I have a GH.
Does this work with HomePod?
No, still doesn't :(
What about phone calls
As in make phone calls? Just ask Siri to do that!
Automate Your Life Yeah it works better on IOS.
Great video! But dude, you drag on and on.
I didn’t think I was too bad! ;). Thanks
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