This integration is a copy of Google Assistant SDK integration with the following additional features:
- HTML responses as text from commands to Google Assistant
Due to a bug in the Google Assistant API, not all responses contain text, especially for home control commands, like turn on the lights. The workaround, per the linked bug, is to enable HTML output and then parse the HTML for the text. Because the core integrations are not allowed to parse HTML, this custom integration is needed.
- Add custom integrations repository: https://github.com/tronikos/google_assistant_sdk_custom
- Select "Google Assistant SDK Custom" in the Integration tab and click download
- Restart Home Assistant
- Enable the integration
- Copy directory
custom_components/google_assistant_sdk_custom
to your<config dir>/custom_components
directory - Restart Home-Assistant
- Enable the integration
- Go to Settings / Devices & Services / Integrations. Click + ADD INTEGRATION
- Search for "Google Assistant SDK Custom" and click on it
Following example allows controlling Nest Guard and getting its status in a text helper. A similar approach, especially the automation that polls the status, can be used for other devices, for which a template, e.g. template light, might make more sense. Here a Template Alarm Control Panel wouldn't work because Google Assistant doesn't allow disarming Nest Guard.
Create a text helper with:
Name: Nest Guard Status
Icon: mdi:shield-home
Entity ID: input_text.nest_guard_status
Create following scripts:
nest_guard_refresh:
alias: "Nest Guard: Refresh"
sequence:
- service: google_assistant_sdk_custom.send_text_command
data:
command: what is the status of nest guard
response_variable: response
- service: input_text.set_value
data:
value: "{{ response.responses[0].text }}"
target:
entity_id: input_text.nest_guard_status
mode: single
icon: mdi:shield-refresh
nest_guard_away:
alias: 'Nest Guard: Away'
sequence:
- service: google_assistant_sdk_custom.send_text_command
data:
command: Set Nest Guard to away and guarding
- service: script.nest_guard_refresh
data: {}
mode: single
icon: mdi:shield-lock
nest_guard_home:
alias: 'Nest Guard: Home'
sequence:
- service: google_assistant_sdk_custom.send_text_command
data:
command: Set Nest Guard to home and guarding
- service: script.nest_guard_refresh
data: {}
mode: single
icon: mdi:shield-home
Create automation:
alias: "Nest Guard: status"
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: "10"
condition: []
action:
- service: script.nest_guard_refresh
data: {}
mode: queued
max: 10
Add the following Entities card in the lovelace dashboard:
type: entities
entities:
- input_text.nest_guard_status
footer:
type: buttons
entities:
- entity: script.nest_guard_home
show_icon: true
show_name: true
- entity: script.nest_guard_away
show_icon: true
show_name: true
- entity: script.nest_guard_refresh
show_icon: true
show_name: true
(You will have to replace google_assistant_sdk.send_text_command
with google_assistant_sdk_custom.send_text_command
).