Google Home with Home Assistant Local for FREE Without Subscription

Today I will show you how to integrate Google Home/Google Assistant with Home Assistant which will allow you to control all of your Home Assistant connected devices with your Google Home or Nest speaker, all done for free without a cloud subscription.
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[@EverythingSmartHome]

Want to know how to add your scenes, automations and scripts into Google Home? I gotchu covered 👇 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmi2pIOeesuBe6s

[@giovannitroncosobordoni461]

yeeeeeees

[@Spy653]

is this still current?

[@MatthewFiereck]

I just followed this tutorial to set it up. Some of the buttons on googles site have moved around a tiny bit like where to generate the key but I think the changes are logical and easy enough to figure out with no background in using these google tools. @@Spy653

[@hexa-b]

3 years later, still going strong. I followed all the steps and it still works! Thanks for all the help and saved frustration :)

[@robertmitchell3780]

This is by far the most technical video I have watched. Very well done. As long as I pause it every 10 seconds - I can get through this! Thanks!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Robert, appreciate it! You can do it 🙌

[@d5kenn]

Nice, detailed tutorial! Can you follow up with a step by step on how to enable "local fulfillment" in Assistant so commands can be routed from Home devices through local network, rather than through the cloud?

[@hacwa]

I had no idea that this was a thing - it's exactly what is needed!

[@mjudge2]

It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Yep definitely a good point!

[@di5gustipated]

yeah i use that, i have nothing configured in google home directly, its only allowed to know about what i tell it from within HASS

[@alejandroruiz8617]

Can you exclude specific devices by ID or so? Or can you include only specific devices instead?

[@sergeantsapient]

Very good to know, thank you.

[@TheDiabeticWay]

I'm having lots issues with stairs switch and colour lighting Bulbs, was informed to use Phillip Hue lighting but no clue on their setup at all I have always avoided there bulbs but maybe to resolve the switch on the stairs it might be worth investing in two of their bulbs if I could get them to work through Home Assistant, Goggle, Alexa, or Smartlife with Android Mobiles. I do not want any more than this as its confusing as it for a Diabetic to stay alive without more on top, Any further help will be much appreciated! thanks for me seeing this tip here now from you!

[@paceside]

Wow! Thank you so much!!! This step by step tutorial was so clear and detailed. ESH IS the reference for the smart home!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you sir, appreciate it 🙏

[@paulhyland3528]

just literally switched on youtube to do this and was the first video in my feed, good timing!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Mind reader 🤯😂

[@paulhyland3528]

@@EverythingSmartHome finally got everything working after a faff regarding duck dns and my pf sense fire wall but house is finally online with google! brilliant guide nice one!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Awesome, glad it worked! If you need help in future feel free to hop into the discord and someone will help you out! Or of course if you just wanna hang out in general 😅

[@лилианадолгова-и2м]

like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, kzbin.infoUgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)... but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have.... Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with... I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me....

[@GalliumChef]

LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS!! Seriously I'm new to home assistant, and as someone who is technically literate, but not coding literate, your tutorials have been a life saver. Always VERY in depth and good explanations as to why were are doing something, but never TOO in depth as to scare you away from finishing. Plus his smooth Irish accent is always so reassuring haha jk!! The only thing I could be missing would be if you maybe included your key strokes on screen, as someone new to this may have missed a space here or there that would make this not work for 5 mins and make him start from the beginning thinking I missed a crucial step and making him want to defenestrate himself out of a window trying to figure out where he F****d up only to realize it was literally just a missing space in the config file or something like that. Not sure if that would ever happen to anyone.........

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks, glad they are useful and appreciate the feedback! Also, it's a Scottish accent but you were close 😅

[@MrDead1975]

great tutorial, followed your previous guide using cloudflare then this guide, initially it didn't work until I removed the port numbers when setting up Google. all working 100% now. thanks for your time and effort

[@Aureateflux]

Haha, same here. Only belatedly realizing that he can't have been using the Cloudflared config because this video was posted nearly two years ago (plus I'm pretty sure the Cloudflare tunnel implementation was different before March 2022). And here I am scratching my head, "why am I putting the ports in when I have a tunnel set up? Oh well, la di da!"

[@raymondgreenfield6165]

Amazing explanation of how to make this work! Thank you. Thank goodness for the pause and rewind button! Well done.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you for watching!

[@chrispokrzywa5970]

I got to the point where I open the Google Home app on my mobile device, add device, and see my project in the list. However, when I go to tap on it, I get a toast message that just says "Something went wrong." Any idea as to what might be happening here? Otherwise, super clear tutorial and appreciate you putting this together. Thanks!

[@thomascorrigan3252]

Getting the same issue here

[@Chris-qe7ih]

same here

[@nol_n]

Same issue here

[@Noud543]

Same for me

[@georgesthuot2903]

same here

[@Chris173972]

This worked perfectly. Some slight interfaces like the keys moving to a tab but pretty much the same as you demoed. Thank you so much stepping through this

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice one!

[@digivish]

Great tutorial (I know you did this almost 2 years ago) and I was finally able to get it going. One quick thing, what's the best way to use SSL on Home assistant (running inside Docker) aside from using duckdns?

[@mortenmoulder]

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Awesome tutorial that works just as expected. Thank you!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Excellent!

[@tonedaflex]

So needed this video! I have my Zigbee devices connected to a Smartthings hub which is connected to HA via the Smartthings ntegration. I've decided to connect my Zigbee devices via ZHA (with a Sonoff Dongle). I realised the devices connected to ZHA didn't appear on Google Home and I have a number of Google Hubs. This video saved the day. Thank you very much!

[@PihkalTheTihkal]

This must be the best video I've ever seen about this topic! For the first time ever I can finally use Google Home to control Home Assistant! Thank you so much!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks, glad it was useful!

[@TheBelfastBikerOfficial]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Struggled to work out why I couldn't connect the home assistant integration to my Google Home - I had a firewall rule in Cloudflare blocking access to my domain from any country that is not the UK. I tried to then also allow the US, but Google Home doesn't actually report any country when it makes the connection, so I had to add a firewall rule to allow /api/google_assistant after getting the initial auth set up. Thanks again!

[@kimheymans6662]

I Seem to have the same issue. How exactly did you fix this in Cloudflare?

[@TheBelfastBikerOfficial]

​@@kimheymans6662 I'm no expert when it comes to Cloudflare, so use this at your own risk! Under my domain > Security > WAF, I have a single rule which is set up as follows: When ... Country does not equal United Kingdom AND URI Path does not equal /api/google_assistant AND URI Path does not contain /api/alexa/ AND URI Path does not contain /auth/ Then... BLOCK. The expression for this rule is: (ip.geoip.country ne "GB" and http.request.uri.path ne "/api/google_assistant" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/api/alexa/" and not http.request.uri.path contains "/auth/") As said though, I'm no expert, and would welcome anyone else with more experience to correct me if this is unsafe. I'd love to know how you got on though!

[@kimheymans6662]

@@TheBelfastBikerOfficial thanks for the reply! In the meantime I fixed it. I’ve been too quick when creating the Google part and made a stupid typo…

[@chrissnyder9583]

Thank you! I was having the same issue and your idea worked.

[@paulfisher2031]

THANK YOU!, i have been trying to resolve an issue with adding HA to Google Home app for the past 24hrs. it turns out I too was blocking everything outside the UK on Cloudflare, I resolved the issue by allowing everything from googles ASN number (15169) through the WAF

[@chrise666]

Followed along with the video and it worked the first time. Didn't understand ANYTHING within the cloud but it works lol. I did add port 443 just in case.

[@maartens5069]

Thank you for the explanation. The instructions were really clear and easy to follow without any unnecessary details or complications.

[@electroeflexy]

Great tutorial. I really enjoy watching your tutorials and running through all that HA stuff step by step. Many Thanks!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you, really appreciate it!

[@StealthChannel]

You saved my life in 2022. It was a lot of time i was not understanding how to configure the voice command and just following this tutorial you made, you made my year. Thanks a lot 😁

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice one, glad it helped!

[@Iisakki3000]

Nice tutorial! I'll keep using my cloud subscription though as I enjoy home assistant so much I want to support them. It's good that there's a free alternative as well though (as there should with an open source project like this)!

[@yashkurchaniya9203]

hi great explanation but can you explain what is Fulfillment URL and from where can i get it

[@KnDdreamteam]

Try this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/romkqIdvg5Jqftk

[@MarkGhali]

Lewis! You are Awesome as always! I had this already setup and working but had some minor errors I ignored in the logs. Followed your video and realized my mistakes and easily fixed them! Thanks Again!!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Your too kind Mark, thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you got it sorted 🙏

[@Chsae314]

Fantastic Video! Made it so much easier. FYI, apparently now there is an additional ste under Google Actions where you need to add a description of the app, a logo for the app, your name and email, plus a privacy policy. There is a guide on the home assistant community if you google "can no longer link google assistant"

[@h0vding]

Excellent tutorial on how to set it up Im just missing 1 thing. Can it use voice recognition? and if so, how to add more users?

[@timelaps9693]

Your smile after the first voice command was exactly the same as my smile ;) thx for this tutorial!!!

[@makaveli7771]

Another great tutorial. thank you. how can one go the other way around to import google home "skills" into HA. I am not sure if you are familiar with Broadlink I have a Broadlink RM4 Pro controling few dumb devices using the broadlink native app and integreated with Google Home. I would like to import everything in HA without having it to relearn codes and just simply import them to HA?

[@sliekens007]

Thanks, worked the first time. Where can I find more examples of voice commands that it will recognize?

[@carlnakamura4861]

Great video as always, thanks! Will I be able to query status of sensors "hey Google, what's the temperature in the bedroom?" with this setup?

[@Krolitian1]

Video worked perfectly! Thanks to much! Only have one annoyance, my Google Nest Mini now shows twice in the app, one locally from Google Home’s connection and one from it pulling from my HA’s list. Is there a way to hide certain devices from getting sent to Google, so that it only shows the local connection? Not assigning the speaker to my home doesn’t make it disappear, just has it sitting at the bottom saying it’s a linked device not in my home and I can’t remove it without unlinking everything.

[@ShedrickFlowers]

Did you figure it out? I'm having the same issue. It works, but pretty annoying seeing duplicates.

[@stan7341]

It's worth mentioning that the exposed_domains setting (and a couple of others) in the home assistant config can be used to exclude certain devices from being exposed to google assistant. This is useful for devices that support google assistant control directly. For example Hue lights can be controlled directly from Google home, it's useful to still have the configured in home assistant for other purposes (eg routines & dashboards) but not have them duplicated in google home. - (comment from someone else)

[@mrsurfhead]

you just keep killing these vids. what 3d printer do you have?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks James, means a lot! 🙏 It's a Prusa MK3s

[@EstebanBurneo]

Thank you very ver much , I supported creators for a year but I needed to use the money to support others. Great video, a little fast and a lot of pauses to complete, google console has changed and I had some trouble finding the right options but in less than 30 minutes I got it to work.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Cheers!

[@rudolphyustian4024]

Hi, lovely tutorial. I need to confirm something. Basically, will this google assistant integration to HA work when internet is down?

[@ReviewCantina]

Worked on first try, awesome! Liked and Subscribed.

[@TheDanJones]

Excellent walkthrough as usual with every step covered. Any time I try something new in HA I always check your videos first. I've been having very slow responses when using the Nabu Casa option with my Google Home, do you find that this option has less latency?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Hmm that's strange, I'm not sure I haven't really compared that two tbh, I'd imagine they would be similar

[@TheDanJones]

@@EverythingSmartHome I followed your Duck DNS video which was perfect, however my copy paste skills failed me and I got stuck for a while. Then I followed this tutorial and have it all working. I think it is actually a second or 2 faster than the Nabu Casa integration, and it certainly doesn't have the errors I have been having lately from the Nabu Casa integration. Thanks for the brilliant tutorial!

[@DannyFeliz]

It works great, I was getting "Error: invalid client id or redirect URL" but I had a typo in the URL. Thank you very much man 💪

[@sygad1]

Thank you so much, I can't tell you how many times i've tried to get tasmota/sonoff in home assistant tied to google home, this the ONLY video that explained it start to finish with ease and simplicity.......bring on the automations ;-)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice one, glad it worked! 👍

[@pangit9999]

I had done it before ages ago, but this gave me the latest way of doing it. Saved a lot of time, appreciate it.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Excellent glad it was useful!

[@SimonKenyon]

i have been trying to do this for such a long time. your video is brilliant. it explained what i had to do and worked first time. thank you so much.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Awesome, glad it was useful!

[@jonathancrawford2181]

Hi, thanks for another great video, got it up an running like a charm. I'm trying to capture all my automation logic in Node Red and was wondering if this could be used to trigger NR sequences?

[@sammyd1603]

❓Great tutorial and works well. Question: If I deploy this, will it be available to anybody or will it only be available when logged it to my Google Home account?

[@JuanAmeijeiras]

Great video! I just had one issue that I had to delete my port information in all the setup even though I am using 8123, maybe is my issue but that just solved it.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, glad you got it working!

[@drannoyinghv7297]

Hey man I also used port 8123, and it works but it doesnt show any devices of home assistant in google home, should I also remove all the port specifics in the setup of google?

[@lasr3n877]

I had the same issue. After removing the port info in the URLs, everything worked fine. Thanks for this great video! Without this I wouldn't be able to connect my nest mini to HA

[@DavidTrebacz]

Great video walkthrough. I started the process way back in 2020. You video was the step by step I need to be successful. Thank you.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks David, glad it was useful!

[@MajorHector]

Great as always 😎 The account that I link in google home need to be Administrator or it can be a normal user?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! I'm actually not sure sorry I would assume administrator

[@SmartHomeMakers]

Hi Lewis! In your experience is it quicker to do Google or Alexa for the average user ?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey! I would say Google is much quicker IMO!

[@marcdaure8487]

perfect tutorial! but i did not follow your first recommendation to use the google account email address same as the google home. i have tried to add a new user to the project but did not succeeded to see the project in adding service in home app.. is there a way to add a new google account to the cloud project and have it working?

[@tarranadhira8069]

Great Tutorial!! I'm planning to setup Home Assistant instance behind HAProxy running on my PfSense firewall. Is it possible to integrate Google Home with Home Assistant behind PfSense's HAProxy? Thanks

[@TommiPuuska]

Going to try this! Is there a video or a tutorial on simple command I can give to my Home Mini device that will start up a automation or scene? I'm newbie so an example how it works would be great 👍

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Yes there should be a round-about way of doing it, I'll see what I can come up with!

[@guritche]

Works pretty good thanks. I was stuck at the JSON file part until I found your video. I have a question. I've setup a SONOFF solenoid to open/close my garage door. I have also attached a door sensor from AQARA so I can tell if the door is open or closed. In google assistant I have setup a routine so that I can say "Open the garage door" and it will interpret it as "turn the garage door on". So the solenoid is activated. How do I integrate the door position sensor so that the door will only open if it is sensed closed?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Excellent! I would do this via HA instead of Google home, use Google Home for voice yes but use a HA automation instead

[@guritche]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks I will give that a shot! Another question, now my lights are duplicated on google home. Both from the HUE connection and from HA that I just setup. Would you recommend keeping just the HA assistance or the HUE?

[@Ned798]

Another great video Thankyou! do you know if there is a way for homeassistant actions to differ dependin on which Alexa/google assistant you are talking to. eg bedroom/livingroom

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Unfortunately don't think that is possible

[@Alexsintra]

Thank you very much! tried other ones didnt quite work for me! this one was great!!!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Amazing thank you!

[@m.danial225]

I get an error while adding the project in google home "could not reach Home Assistant, Please try again." Any ideas where I could have gone wrong?

[@cdfox85]

Did you ever figure this out?

[@m.danial225]

@@cdfox85 Yes I did. I needed to enable remote access first.

[@cdfox85]

@@m.danial225 Enable it within Home Assistant? How? I can't seem to find that anywhere 🤔

[@tomikohonen]

​Sorry for the beginner question, but where did you enabled the remote access?

[@jaro5822]

​@tomikohonen did you find it out? I have the same problem. But I think in my case it is due to not having https but http, but what do I need to do to get https... any idea anyone?

[@AnthonyDiRuggiero]

Thank you Thank you Thank you! Ive been trying to do this for a year and a half, this is the only tutorial that worked for me

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nice 🙌

[@joelthomas968]

Great video Lewis! Just wondering what would be better, Alexa or Google home for Home Assistant? Or what you personally prefer and why? Much appreciated, thanks!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! I prefer Google home myself, only because I prefer how it handles my voice and also search results, but I literally never use voice so my opinion isn't really a good one! 😅

[@whatsmyname4165]

Thanks for posting this! May I ask... What is the yaml editor you're using?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks for watching! It's the visual studio code add-on. You can find it in the supervisor store! 😁

[@tobi061]

One topic/issue I never was able to figure out and doesn't seem to be explained on the web: How to add multiple users to Google Nest and have these individual users connecting to Home Assistant through Google Home. Currently you can easily add users to your Google Home so they can talk and play music with they linked services (e;g Spotify, KZbin, Netflix). However regarding the Home Assistant linked service, this is using the main user account. Meaning whenever another household user performs a command to turn on a light in the home, it is not the household user that is used to perform the action, but the main user is referenced in triggers, logbook entries, history, etc... Any idea if this can be fixed ?

[@TheNikesh85]

Great video....as usual... followed all the steps, seemed to be going alright, just got stuck toward the end... @10:27, google home couldn't add the project. The created project is shown when setting up the device but it doesn't take me to home assistant login instance. Did I miss smth? Any pointers where I might have gone wrong? Thanks in advance!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! This usually means you have your URL incorrect, check all 4 for any typos! If your still stuck feel free to join us in discord!

[@Hasse-swe]

Thanks for the guide. My first question is, what do you have for an texteditor in Home Assistant you use in the video? My second question is, I got 7 lights in my living room. But in Google Home app it say i have 15 lights. Do you know what the problem may be? Take care.

[@Hasse-swe]

I found the problem. I had Philips Hue synced with Google Home.. After i removed it i have the correct number of lights.

[@uokwildcat1]

Hello, Lewis! I'm a HA Noob, and your videos have been making it easy to get started. Is it possible to have this work just opposite and have all of your current devices in Google Home synced with your HA so you can access them all, without trying to integrate each different device on its own?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hello and thank you! No unfortunately this doesn't and can't do that I'm afraid!

[@mitchelllems745]

Excellent video, still very helpfull in 2023! Many Thnx!

[@abedelmajidnasser6373]

Many thanks for your video, really helpful. I got stucked adding home assistant to Google home and I got an error "could not reach home assistant [test].... Please try again". Knowing that I am using Tailscale for remote access. Even turning on Tailscale nothing is changing

[@karstenlauritsen6251]

I have got Google Working now thanks to your guide. Question: a toggle helper switch appears in Google Home but why not a momentary Button. Would be nice to have a Voice scene activator 🙏😊

[@mkomarac]

Great Video! Can You show how to cast HA tab to Google Nest Hub without Nabu? and how to create automation to cast HA tab to Nest Hub. thanks in advance!

[@antoniodecrisci2369]

Great video! I noticed that not all my sensors are sent to GA, despite me specifically allowing "sensors" or the the actual sensor name with in entity config. What gives? Do I have to set up the sensor properly in HA? For the specific sensor I'm not seeing if from an MQTT broker. HA sees and logs the sensor no problem, but GA cannot see it.

[@izwanmohd]

I was expecting some demo at the end :D, Will gonna try this when my nest arrive

[@ricardow9281]

Love this video, it's how I set up my integration with Google Home. But now I am facing the fact I have exposed too many devices to Home, which causes my AdGuard to turn off when I tell google to turn everything off, but I can not find a way to remove individual devices? Is my only option to delete the complete integration and reconnect?

[@alexpaveloiu7811]

UPDATE Nov 2022: google home doesn't let you add the device because the page is not secure. They guy in the video prepared a video on that named also if you use that video you can use the external url to authentificate. It took me a while to master both of the videos, but did exactly what the videos said and it worked. Also you need to go to Setting>AddOns> AddOn Store> install Studio Code Server to actually edit config file.

[@Mr_ToR]

Could you make a Nest integration to the Home Assistant video, please? You have the best explanations on KZbin without BS.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Unfortunately I don't have a NEST device to test with! But thanks!

[@vaidaspaulauskis9956]

Followed and got it working in no time! Masterpiece!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thank you buddy!

[@derricklukas8136]

Thanks for the clear video on this. I had followed a text set of instructions on this, and failed miserably! I do have a problem, though. I'm very new to Home Assistant, so everything is a learning experience. I followed the video and everything worked, but perhaps too well. Similarly, as mentioned earlier on this thread, all of my devices, including lights, outlets, and Google speakers, are now duplicated in Google Home. And for some reason, playing music on the Google speakers randomly redirects to my cell phone. As mentioned, I tried unlinking Smart Home and Lutron devices, but it made no difference. Also, the duplicated device entries in Google Home both work, so I'm not sure which ones I should be targeting for removal. Any hints on how to attack this? ...would be greatly appreciated!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Derrick, check out the home assistant documentation, it details how to exclude devices being brought in from home assistant. Once you've done that, restart home assistant and then say "sync my devices" and the duplicates should be removed. Hope that helps!

[@AlexDelPrete]

Added Goggle too...super simple. Thanks again.

[@guilhermeamiziara]

Muito Obrigado pelo vídeo e pelo compartilhamento de conhecimento. Excelente tutorial.

[@minkthegreat]

Worked for me, thank you, keep up the good work, SUBSCRIBED!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Stephen! Appreciate it!

[@xXFULLFU210NXx]

Hey just found your videos and they look really cool so far! Do you have a tutorial on how to configure an Arduino esp8266 with home assistant to communicate roller door states back to google home as well as open and close? I have an Arduino script ready to act in regards to open, closing, and already opened or already closed but I don't know how to make this information get delivered back to google assistant and dictated to me

[@gurkanyesilgun]

Hi! I carefully followed all the steps you described in the video. However, when I select add device + works with google + test home assistant in the Google Home app, there was a problem. I get the error message 'Try again. Can you help me?

[@clementsoulier6882]

Same for me. It says "could not reach [test] Home Assistant. Please try again. I checked the auth URLs I entered, they are good, and my HA instance is reachable from outside my network in https. Edit : I had to remove port 8123 in the auth URLs, even if I am using duckdns ...

[@IronMeDen1]

Same here. Apparently there are some added steps like adding a logo, description etc required by Google now. So this guide unfortunately won't work. I was up until 2 AM last Night trying to figure it out but so far no luck.

[@clach02]

I took the port out, the :8123 out of the urls and it worked. I used cloudflare tunnel to go remote

[@Koelewijn91]

There is a manual on the official ha website google ‘home assistant google assistant’ worked for me. Good luck!

[@tinkano]

WOW many many thanks dude. As always you are the best.

[@JohnHight3270]

Great help! Thank you so much, and I was able to get Alexa working with Home Assistant.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Excellent glad it worked!

[@TheDiabeticWay]

I do anyway so whats the difference having this setup in Home Assistant? thanks fo the video not done this setup yet as Im not too sure it worth it as I ask google not to turn my things on without home ASSistant so Im a little confused on this one? I'm also able to control my light with Home Assistant out of my home and I have no HDDS what ever that is do you mean not fully understanding you! At a Guess are you meaning something like Nabu Casa Account? Thanks

[@seetcas]

Thanks man got it working when i use my phone but when i use my nest mini it seems not recognizing the orders or my devices am i missing something?

[@GmodMark]

Thanks dude!!! This guide really helped me

[@miroszn]

Thank you for your another great presentation. Unfortunately, I must have missed something here, since I get "Error: invalid client id or redirect url" in my iPhone. My homeassistant has working same internal/external url. (thanks to one of your your video). The fragment 4:31 was unclear for me. 'Client secret ' - what should be typed there?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hello and thanks! Hmm that's a strange one, can you show me what you are using as a URL, make sure to remove your domain part. The client secret does not matter, enter anything you want

[@miroszn]

I will try to reach you on Discord..

[@EverythingSmartHome]

That will be easiest!

[@michnl1772]

@@EverythingSmartHome I have the same error, is there a solution?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Yes I have yet to see this error without someone who hasn't made a typo in the URLs 😅 if your stuck hop into the discord and we can help you out!

[@cecastil]

Another great step-by-step tutorial. Google Assistant connected to my HA setup... check!

[@James-hb8qu]

Another great no-nonsense tutorial. Question: When I completed this it populated Google Home with devices from HA. Home Assistant did not seem to get my devices that are only on Google Home(e.g. A GE Cync bulb that is supported by Google but unsupported by HA) . Am I correct that the population of devices only goes one way?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks James! Yes that's right, this only syncs devices to Google home and not the other way around unfortunately

[@IkBenNietHier]

Hi, I successfully did the setup by following another tutorial a couple weeks ago. But since this week Google Home is not finding my devices anymore, because of some problem with the connection to Home Assistant. I tried doing the whole setup again on a different google account using this video, but I get a notification that "[Test] HomeAssistant" is not reachable after trying to add it as a device in the Google Home app. I double checked everything, from url's to login credentials, but nothing seems to work. I also disconnected the originally created connection ant tried to reconnect, but that gives me the same notification. I'm wondering if I'm the only one with this problem. If not, maybe something changed in the way it needs to be setup.

[@Mike-jl2kp]

Will this allow you to use voice command with google speakers to run a HA automation ?

[@bishamsingh1490]

Hi Lewis I am a noob, I really do enjoy and learn from your videos. They are very clear and to the point. I have Maria DB and Nginx proxy manager install. I also have port 80,443 and 8123 open. My question is will your process work to integrate Hass with Google home, I tried following another video, however Hass will not open when I tried to add it to Google home app on my phone. I ping my duckdns address like you suggested in one of your video also check all the ports they are ok...please help. I do not have DuckDns installed , just create the address and install it in Nginx....thank you.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It does work but you will need to do some extra steps if you want to use NGINX. Join the discord server if you need help

[@bishamsingh1490]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thank you

[@thomokx1252]

@Everything Smart Home, This tutorial is offcourse really really good... but I got a question... I also followed your cloudflare setup tutorial for access HASS without port forwarding and setup the tunnel.... when I try to add the project to google home it does not link me to my hass url and does not show up my credentials login page... Can you help me what I am doing wrong? Because if I type port 8123 in the account linking url's that does not work....

[@ZeTiGaming]

Did you find a solution to this?

[@thaenandosreismarioni6273]

Another great tutorial, thanks! Works perfectly. One question though: using a Shelly 1L, in addition to the lamp device in Google Home, I also get its temperature as a device, which appears with a shield-like symbol. Do you know how to get rid of or mask it? Just for aesthetics... Thanks!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Do you mean remove the entity or change the icon? If it's the first one you can use the "exclude_devices" option in the config to get rid of certain devices

[@thaenandosreismarioni6273]

@@EverythingSmartHome Right, no I was actually talking about the Google Home interface. When I link HA with Google Home, I see the lamp device, but also a temperature "device" which is useless for me in Google Home interface. The exclude_device option is in HA, right?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

That's right so use the exclude option in the Google home integration, make sure to check the HA docs for Google home it will show you what to do!

[@thaenandosreismarioni6273]

@@EverythingSmartHome Great, thanks! Will do! Cheers

[@111Leonidas]

Thanks a lot for yet another great video! Unfortnunately at the end it doesn't link with home assistant. It just logs in into home assistant instead.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I would guess you've made a typo, join the discord and I'm sure we can get it working

[@johnmoxonuk]

Great walkthrough, thank you really comprehensive

[@sastelios]

Great tutorial as always. I want to ask a question. I have pfsense & I can connect to my HA through OpenVPN and therefore HA is not exposed externally. Shall I implement DuckDNS & Let’s Encrypt to integrate Google Home/Google Assistant with HA? Thanks a lot!!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! Yes you will need it externally available for the Google services to connect!

[@sastelios]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks a lot for your answer!

[@simonkalk5709]

Apparently google has added a little splash sceen to the flow that happens before it calls your domain. In the Action console you need to provide: 'description of your app', 'logo image', 'your name and e-mail' and 'a link to a privacy policy'

[@joes_drone]

Great Video - thank you .. i have just started to "Smart" up my home so you have been a big help... Question though - is there a way to get google NEST mini woking on H.A. without using port 443? reason i ask is because i already have a Cloud device using SSL and dedicated to that port. Many thank in advance.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Glad I could help! You don't need to use port 443 for Google home, it will work on any port, Alexa requires 44e however

[@joes_drone]

@@EverythingSmartHome lovely ok.. thank you .. so no need to port forward to my H.A. VM the Pre-requisites stipulate that i will need to have H.A. available outside of my network.. but 443 is already tied to another VM

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Typically you would use port 8123 as the default

[@joes_drone]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks Lewis.. i get that port 8123 is used internally on H.A. but all the tutorials i have watched state that i should port forward "externally" 443 to "Internal" 8123 for DuckDNS to work - this is where i have the issue as port 443 is already forwarded to another VM that has SSL 443 running and my router will not allow another 443 to be forwarded... is it possible to use another "external" port on DuckDNS i.e. 8443 maybe? Thanks Again

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I would suggest that others are wrong or perhaps there some miscommunication, 100% it is not required other than for Alexa, give my video on remote access a watch, it answers many of your questions

[@DomenicoGiambra]

It works, great! Other KZbin tutorials didn't work in the past. There is some way to make it recognize even "ping" entities in HA (to ask for their state)? Or trigger the actions of the Broadlink RM integration I made via HA?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, glad it works! 🙏 Yes that should be do-able if they are recognised as sensors or switches

[@DomenicoGiambra]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for the reply! The ping ones are in the config file as binary sensors, but still don't show up in Google Home 🤔

[@werra3254]

@@DomenicoGiambra Binairy sensors don't show up in GH. Make a template switch that uses the state of the sensor. The switch will get exposed to GH so you can see it's state.

[@mbp5863]

Is it possible to get a robust voice assistant that can do everything a voice assistant needs to do, but without collecting all your data? Preferablyself hosted. Google voice assistant and Amazon echo are just sooo useful, but I don’t like that big data collecting corporations have such control and insight into my (smart)home. I’m sure if they wanted to (or had because government) they could listen to everything I say and probably also give commands to control the network. I’m not it’s happened before but I don’t want anyone to have that kind of control.

[@romanoscheurwater6245]

Hi, what a nice video and have followed all the steps. It sync'ed one time to my google home. But when i want to sync my devices I receive the following error from Home Assistant : "Failed to call service button. Unable to sync devices with resultcode 404. Check the logs for more. Also when i say to google nest "sync devices'the message will be reported that devices cannot be sync'ed. I have tried to make new projects, but with every attemp i get the same results. I have looked several forums but i cannot find the cause of the problem.

[@olivierpiette3363]

awesome guide, but i have a problem. HA Studio Code can't find my project id? Does someone have a fix for that?

[@impoze]

great tutorial! loving the channel

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, appreciate your support!