#Google assistant as timer update#
#Google assistant as timer pro#

Quick Phrases on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro let you perform actions like set alarms, cancel alarms, send broadcasts, respond to calls, create family notes, control volume, and more without saying “OK Google” or “Hey Google.” For more information on Quick Phrases, check out our previous coverage. Google recently debuted support for a new feature called Quick Phrases with its flagship Pixel 6 series, which adds support for a handful of commands that you can use to trigger various Assistant actions without saying the hotwords. Note that this isn’t the only command that doesn’t require you to say the “Hey Google” or “OK Google” hotwords. What's weird is it only happens on my regularly used Google Account, if I switch to a different one it will work fine. (Literally says 'Sorry I don't understand'). This happens across my Galaxy S21 and Nest Hub. 📣 Helpful new Google Assistant feature alert! Want your smart display or speaker to stop talking? Just say “stop” - no #HeyGoogle needed. Recently, my Google Assistant just can't understand setting an Alarm or Timer anymore.

#Google assistant as timer update#

You can try it out by asking the Assistant to give you a weather update and saying “Stop” when the Assistant starts talking. I looked on the Google Assistant Help center (and did a google. See the google assistant help center to learn more'. But it effectively gave you something sorely lacking on. However, I recently encounter an issue where every time I sent a voice command to IFTTT via Google Assistant, afterward, the Google Assistant would say: 'By the way, there will be some upcoming changes to this IFTTT integration. Or HA could implement Google’s thermostat trait and we can use the thermostat as a first class citizen and support voice commands such as changing the thermostat by any number of degrees.Google announced this change in a recent tweet, which states: “Helpful new Google Assistant feature alert! Want your smart display or speaker to stop talking? Just say “stop” - no #HeyGoogle needed.” The feature already appears to be live on all my Assistant-powered smart speakers and it works quite well. It was called Active Edge, and it let you summon Google Assistant just by giving your phone a squeeze. A button for decreasing the thermostat temperature by 1 degree.A button for increasing the thermostat temperature by 1 degree.

A script for doing TTS of the thermostat temperature.

Your examples of roundabout ways to support timers work, but to give another example It’s like controlling a thermostat with switches and scripts. If HA were to implement importing Google’s timers, we would expect reading the timer trait according to this interface.īut also if we are exposing timers to Google from HA this is the interface we need to implement in HA so that Google can read and modify HA timers. This means it is a common way of speaking between Google and other services such as HA so it is used in both directions. It is a smart home API which is an “interface”. This trait can be used to control a built-in timer on devices, such as starting a new timer as well as pausing and canceling a running timer, and asking how much time is remaining. Why do you think the documentation I linked to is related to existing Google timers in HA? From the linked documentation:Ī - The Timer trait represents a timer on a device.įor instance, a smart sprinkler controller or smart light switch may have a built-in timer. For past 6 days (last 2 updates to Google on phone - I am on Beta channel, current version 9.27.3.21.arm64 but problem also reported on 9.21.5.21 from. Now change the entityid and duration and click Call Service button. Navigate to Developer Tools-> Services and select the timer.start service, then click the Fill Example Data button. Thanks for explaining what you were thinking. Reload timer’s configuration without restarting Home Assistant itself.This service takes no service data attributes. There, you can separately adjust the timer and. It seems like you were making certain assumptions such as “assuming the documentation is about exposing Google timers in HA”, though I have twice explained it’s about exposing HA timers in Google. To get to this menu, open the Google Home app and go to Devices > Settings > Alarms & timers. It’s a little difficult to communicate with you.