Google home broadcast and webcore?

#1

Ok, now that google home has the broadcast feature, there hopefully is a way to push text to speech to it from webcore. I am really hoping one of the coding gurus out there has, or is working on this.

From what I can see you can do from the google assistant app:

  1. If You type ‘ broadcast hello world’ and it will repeat it on your linked google home device
  2. If you say ‘ broadcast hello world’ it will record your voice and play it back on your linked google home device.

My thoughts on this, is there hopefully is a way to use google api to make a json (not sure of the correct verbage) PUT request to do something like:

Message= ‘hello word’

Make post request to www.somegooglespi.com with type json and data {message}

Any thoughts?

#2

I’m part of several communities that would love to have this ability (/r/tasker, /r/googlehome, etc) but no one seems to have found anything yet. Direct interaction with the Assistant seems to be locked up pretty tightly. I’d love to be proven wrong though!

#3

Same here. I’ve been waiting/hoping for the feature for forever, but no luck yet… at least not without adding middleware or other hardware to the mix.

#4

There would be a way I think. Someone wrote a IFTTT recipe a long time ago where when you say a key phrase it takes out the word and google Home rests it You set up the phrase in IFTTT and use a $ to denote the word. Then the response will be whatever you have set up. For example.

Hey google say hi to Fred

IFTTT takes Fred. And you can have it respond back

Hi $ nice to meet you.

Sounding like

Hi Fred. Nice to meet you.

Problem is I don’t know how to rip apart persons recipes to see how they did it.

#5

This is actually pretty easy if I’m understanding you correctly. Basically, in IFTTT you set up some dud recipe like firing off a web request to an address that doesn’t exist. Then you do the steps you said in IFTTT.

For an added step, you can go to Assistant settings on your phone you add a shortcut that says (if your IFTTT set up is When I say: $ is here, Respond with Hi $ nice to meet you) "When I say ‘Guess who is here!’ the do: ‘Fred is here’.

The problem comes in getting anything like this to trigger with anything but direct interaction with the Assistant through a Google approved method, which at the moment is just voice and typing into the Assistant on your phone.