IMPORTANT!!! This tutorial is outdated and will not work with Home Assistant 0.80 and above. If you want to migrate your existing setup to 0.80, please follow this quick guide.
Download and execute GActions
In this step you need to download a Google application called ‘gactions’. You are doing this in the SSH session. Make sure you are in the same working directory as the previous page.
- Copy the command that matches closet to your Home Assistant setup (The computer where Home Assistant is installed) and run it in your SSH session.
Operating System Command Windows (64 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/windows/amd64/gactions.exe/gactions.exe Windows (32 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/windows/386/gactions.exe/gactions.exe Mac (64 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/darwin/amd64/gactions/gactions Mac (32 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/darwin/386/gactions/gactions Linux (64 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/linux/amd64/gactions/gactions Linux (32 bits) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/linux/386/gactions/gactions Linux (ARM) wget https://dl.google.com/gactions/updates/bin/linux/arm/gactions - If you downloaded the Linux or Mac edition, run the following command
chmod 755 gactions
- Now refer back to the command you copied in page 4, step 6.
- Change the words ‘PACKAGE_NAME’ to ‘project.json’. And add ./ to gactions (if you are running Linux). So your original URL will change from:
gactions update --action_package PACKAGE_NAME --project your-app-XXXXX
to./gactions update --action_package project.json --project your-app-XXXXX
- Run the modified commandline in your SSH window (in the same directory where project.json is).
- You’d be prompted to enter an authorization code. Above this prompt is a unique URL for your Actions app (see red box below).
- To get your authorization. Copy the URL (see red box) and paste it into your browser. You should see a screen like the following. Sign in with the same account your Google Home/Mini is registered to:
- Click ‘Allow’.
- The next screen should give you an authorisation code. Copy that code:
- and paste it into the SSH session (step 3, where gactions is waiting for it). If everything works, gactions will exit with the following message:
Your app for the Assistant for project home-assistant-XXXXX was successfully updated with your actions. blah blah
- The message also has a URL for you. Copy that URL to the clipboard.
Confused? You have just created a new Google Actions app and authorized it to view and manage actions. So far so good, next configure this Actions app.
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Comment from: resnick Visitor
Comment from: Agent Kith Member
Hi Resnick,
I’ve not seen that before. Is that when you’re running gactions (page 6 of this tutorial), or somewhere else?
Not that because of the nature the cloud works, you may have to wait a bit for things to work (say wait 5 minutes before trying to run gactions).
A second thing is the project ID is case sensitive.
Double check the above and re-run the commands again and let me know how it goes.
Comment from: Agent Kith Member
With the release of 0.80 this guide is no longer up to date. I’m drafting a new version for 0.80 so stay tuned.
Hi, nice , very interesting project, appreciate that. Can you give me an advice. After I applied your walkthrough. Im not able to see any devices. Once Ive executing add device from google assistant link opens
https://xxxxxxxxxxx:8123/api/google_assistant/auth?api_password=xxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=token&client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&redirect_uri=https://oauth-redirect.googleusercontent.com/r/home-assistant-8a435&state=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#xxxxxxxxx
and I see a message{"message":"missing project_id in redirect_uri"}