Is it possible to connect Webcore in some way with Google Home / Mini. For example when open / close sensor on my mail box is opened Webcore sends a push notification. Is it possible to get Google home to announce that there is mail? Or anything else for that matter.
Best regards.
I don’t think wC can communicate directly with Google home/mini (I hope I am wrong :))
I have Bluetooth paired a Google home and get announcements via lanouncer using an android tablet
Then have pistons telling me:
what doors/windows etc have been left open
If the gate has been left open every 30 seconds (stops the dog being on the loose)
Edit… oh yeah… when the mail is delivered
I have been thinking on this for a while. However I would need some one with much more coder experience to do it. Here is my thought:
You can get custom responses with google home and iftt. There is a recipe that takes out what you say and assigns the portion you want to a variable, they use $. It then tells google home what to say using that $ and what else you add in the recipe.
There has got to be a way to utilize that functionality to create a speak command to google home with what you want it to say. For example, speak “ kitchen door open”. And google home would repeat that.
I would guess it’s an api call but I know so little about that that I am lost.
The concept is there and a working example is there. However the only way the iftt recipe triggers if you actually say hey google, blah blah.
Need a guru for coding to mak a SmartApp that you could load up your phrases and the reference them in webcore. Or could make them piston variables or global variables then pass them to webcore.
I’ve been using this, but am getting kind of tired of having to run the node.js listener all the time… but it works well. I can say anything with my google home 
Looks like there are some newer ways to communicate with it in this thread since I last checked in May 2017: https://community.smartthings.com/t/google-home-notifier/71237/81
There are two other projects that are significantly easier to use than that.
Very easy to use to send TTS notifications or issue commands like “What’s the weather?”
More versatile, but more difficult to use.