I’m not entirely sure what you mean by that or how it works. So forgive me if my assumption is wrong.
I’d say that the advantage of using something that Google home sees as native is that you get all the intelligence without having to adapt to every situation. You can ask to turn off every light in a room and ask if a light is on or off for example. It will also natively support changes that Google might do.
But like you said, gBridge costs money so some people might prefer a free option instead. It’s great to have both choices.
In Assistant you can create “shortcuts” or if you like “personal commands”. You can name this whatever you like (like “Hit the sack”), type the desired command (like “ask homey to switch off all lights in the living room”) and make sure Homey has a flow that picks this up (like “something was said xxx”). In these cases, you don’t have to say the “ask homey” part.
Indeed you can’t ask for statuses (unless you create a shortcut for every question) but you can shorten the most used phrases you use for Homey.
Works fine here now. Experienced the same indeed, but that was before i added all familiy members on all GH devices (we have 4 around the house).
Fact is, i really don’t want to pay extra for functionality that should just work on something i already paid big bucks for.
I think that the version needed of the app MQTT Hub only works for 2.0. I know that the developer has no access to 1.5 anymore so he can’t maintain support by himself for it.
It works most of the time with the tablet that has the “owner account”.
But If i connect Google Ass on the secondary tablet with a user account (non owner) its not working. The homey is linked but Google Ass returns “cant send messages yet”. So iam guessing its understands the input but dont have “permission” to access homey due to the account type?
Sometimes if you say Get Homey, homey connects. In that case the account has permission all of a sudden? Then if you say something (like to turn some lights on) google responds as described above.
Ive tried unlink/relink/reset/clear data - forget me etc…
Seems to be very quiet about Google home…only sign of life from Athom lately is the blog about not worrying about Alexa…
I have tried all sorts of combinations of language and settings on Google and Homey and it seems that if you are not native English it’s quite hopeless… Don’t know if it even works then…