Question about Voice Control

[skhs]

Dunno, but i would like everything to go through HS for consistency and tracking.

Same here. I just purchased this plugin and use Google Home for voice automation. I'd like to not necessarily have voice commands for every single app, rather I'd like to be able to control it via homeseer.

The master device for my ceiling fan was easy to configure Google Home to see the device from homeseer, and to turn the fan on and off. However, the sub-devices (light, brightness, speed, direction, etc) do not show up as devices that Google Home can control even when the Google Home settings are checked on those items.

Any ability to control these within Homeseer via Google Home would be much appreciated. Perhaps there's a way to accomplish this that I'm missing - if so, please let me know.

[alexbk66]

However, the sub-devices (light, brightness, speed, direction, etc) do not show up as devices that Google Home can control even when the Google Home settings are checked on those items.

For Google Home / Alexa to recognise the sub-devices (features) their "Control Use" should be set to some specific types. I.e. for fan speed it should be Dim (or DimFan) - I added fan speed "Control Use" in BETA 4.0.4.4, but you can experiment your self (screenshot below).

For each feature separately you need to find which setting works and please let me know, so I can add in the code.

Probably rjh can also help.

[rjh]

You can use the control use for ON/OFF/DIM. We don't have a way to handle "open/close" but we are looking into that. So for the shades you will need to use on/off which is a little odd as you will have to say "turn on the shades". If the value for positioning the shades accepts a percentage for a position, use control use DIM. Then you can say "set the shades to 50%".

For Google Home / Alexa to recognise the sub-devices (features) their "Control Use" should be set to some specific types. I.e. for fan speed it should be Dim (or DimFan) - I added fan speed "Control Use" in BETA 4.0.4.4, but you can experiment your self (screenshot below).

For each feature separately you need to find which setting works and please let me know, so I can add in the code.

Probably rjh can also help.

[alexbk66]

You can use the control use for ON/OFF/DIM. We don't have a way to handle "open/close" but we are looking into that. So for the shades you will need to use on/off which is a little odd as you will have to say "turn on the shades". If the value for positioning the shades accepts a percentage for a position, use control use DIM. Then you can say "set the shades to 50%".

Thank you Rich. So just to confirm, only ON/OFF/DIM is supported for Voice Control? Both Google and Alexa? And for DIM the range has to be 0-100?

[rjh]

Alexa always sends us values in the range of 0-100 but if the control has a range of 100-200 we will convert the Alexa value to yours.

Thank you Rich. So just to confirm, only ON/OFF/DIM is supported for Voice Control? Both Google and Alexa? And for DIM the range has to be 0-100?

[alexbk66]

Alexa always sends us values in the range of 0-100 but if the control has a range of 100-200 we will convert the Alexa value to yours.

Thank you Rich. If control has value 1-6 - do you also convert it to 0-100? I guess you convert to double, so I must make sure it's int?