Google Home not seeing all devices (and how to read back status?)

I’m pretty sure there is no equivalent in Goole for a Fibaro smart implant, so I’m not surprised. Especially since the implant has multiple functions. A workaround for this is to create virtual devices that Google Assistant does understand and link those with flows to the smart implant.

Asking Google for the status of e.g. an open door is not possible afaik. What you could to is create a flow that casts a text to a specific smart speaker using Google TTS. If you make the flow favorite, you can ask Google to execute the flow that speaks out the state to the predefined speaker. As you cannot tell from which smart speaker the request originated, you cannot easily get the answer on the smart speaker it originated from automatically, you have to pick one in the flow.

And by the way, the questions are far from stupid, this is what the forum is for.

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