Hi, I am not sure what to buy, Google Home or Amazon Alexa. Can you let me know what your experiences are? Which device would be the best integrated with Homey and understands you the best? Choice stress :slight_smile:

Thanks all, I have decided to buy a Google Home. It works great. Voice recognition is really great! Need to find a a few things how it is working like, when I say turn all the lights off (my variable in BL will not go to Lamps = NO)?? Any tips :slight_smile:

once you have synced homey to Google assistant be sure to rename rooms as well as devices. Each device in GA can also have a nick name. The trick is to never give a device the same name as a room. eg if your room is called Kitchen, if you have a device called kitchen light it gets confused when y…

Ok, Will keep that in mind. I have the problem that my light go on based on the LUX. Then a variable will be set in Better Logic to (Lights=YES). Normally when I press a button (to switch of the lights) then a workflow will be started and switch off the lights and also change the Lights var to NO). …

The big or ultimate question is can homey adress devices in alexa ? Homey cant address devices in google , only via an odd way , one google home telling the other what do do via the google tts app.

[image] nattelip: The big or ultimate question is can homey adress devices in alexa ? Sorry what do you mean by ‘address devices’?

I use Google Home in combination with Homey. The collaboration was always a bit chunky. But now, after the update it really works fine. Sometimes Google Home responds in English. I use Google Home to operate various items en Homey to control and adapt these items as function of time and/or environme…

It can, you can track the progress of controlling Alexa Devices from Homey Here : [image] [APP][Pro] Amazon - Alexa Apps Amazon Alexa This is NOT the Athom Alexa Skill which allows Alexa to talk to Homey With this app you can allow Homey to talk to Alexa, lit…

i mean control devices paired to alexa , controlling is something different as letting talk. controllingis not possible with google home

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Jamie May 28, 2019, 8:08am 31

It can, you can track the progress of controlling Alexa Devices from Homey Here :

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