Fix Homey / Google Assistent speech control

Questions & Help
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I have connected Homey Pro 2019 to Google Assistent. A while ago, I could control my homey connected devices by giving speech commands to my Android phone (Pixel). For example ‘switch off the lights in the living room’.
Since long, this doesn’t work anymore. It will simply show me some search results based on what I said as a comand. Quite annoying.
Strange thing is: when giving the exact same commands to my Google Home, it works fine.
But the phone doesn’t recognize it as a command but as a search prompt.

I’ve already tried a few times to reconnect homey with Google assistent but that doesn’t help.

So, who knows how to fix this?

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Had the same issue… Google Assitant is now Gemini… first time it didn´t work Gemini told me that it can´t control devices…I had to adjust Gemini and now it works.

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Thanks @Till! And what exactly did you adjust in Gemini to make it work?
Because indeed gemini tells me that it can’t control devices, bla bla bla.

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Just check the internet… Erste Schritte mit der mobilen Gemini App - Android - Gemini-Apps-Hilfe … guess you will manage to translate, or open Gemini on your smartphone…press your pictures in the upper right corner and change from gemini to google assistant again

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Thanks @Till, I did this. But unfortunately after switching from Gemini to Google Assistent, speech controlling devices (for example ‘Switch off the lights in the living room’ or even ‘Hey Google, switch off the lights in the living room’ still opens a list of search results based on that sentence. It does not understand that I am actually trying to switch off lights.

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Also in Dutch I had those problems.
The sentences are change in short ones.

If I translate:

'Do [name of lamp] on/off

‘Set [name of lamp] to 50%’

‘Make [name of lamp] green’

Maybe you can find the rest on YT.

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Thanks Theo.
That would make it so much less user friendly though! Because then you have to remember how you named all your devices exactly in Homey / Google Home. Which is not easy if you have ~100 devices. You just want to say ‘switch off the lights in the kitchen’ or ‘switch off the kitchen lights’ or ‘dim the kitchen lights with 50%’ etcetera. You’d think that in this day and age with AI / ChatGPT, talking to your Homey in a natural way, would be possible?

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Here I have just give: do kitchen on and off.

Avery lamp and socket reacted except 2.
Those where locally blocked.

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Hello JonE , well Theo explained it maybe well… yes…you have to tell the device the exact name… we always use it like this…like: turn light living room off. There is just one name. Where we eat we have one lamp…two bulbs…so if we want to turn it on we say: turn Esstisch on. And than we divided it in Esstisch upper part, and Esstisch lower part. So we can say turn Esstisch lower part off. Maybe complicated but that is what it is all about a smart home…we may have 50 devices running…so it is all about automatization…from these 50 devices we maybe control 8 by speech… rest is automatic…