Where is the google assistant App?

JPe

Where is the google assistant App?

lubbertkramer

You don't need an app for it, on Homey you can connect your Google assistant with the assistant skill (also linked on the page ->  https://www.athom.com/en/homey/speech/#google-assistant (click view directory))

chrisnash

Yes but only if you set your phone and Home to US English which is a PITA! Voice recognition drops dramatically for me when I switch from US to UK. I also lose other services too in the switch so if you like in the UK (like loads of the backers and early adopters of Homey) then this is not an option.
Had the same issue in three beginning with Alexa. I could either link with Homey or LightwaveRF but not both at the same time. Homey was set to work on US localisation only and Lightwave Ruth UK  The LightwaveRF integration with Alexa is so much better than Homeys.
Doesnt seem to be any information on when this will work in the UK. 

lubbertkramer

chrisnash said:

Yes but only if you set your phone and Home to US English which is a PITA! Voice recognition drops dramatically for me when I switch from US to UK. I also lose other services too in the switch so if you like in the UK (like loads of the backers and early adopters of Homey) then this is not an option.
Had the same issue in three beginning with Alexa. I could either link with Homey or LightwaveRF but not both at the same time. Homey was set to work on US localisation only and Lightwave Ruth UK  The LightwaveRF integration with Alexa is so much better than Homeys.
Doesnt seem to be any information on when this will work in the UK. 

That's not in control of Athom, for example most backers live in the Nederlands (and Athom sells the most Homey's here) but Google Assistant/Alexa don't support Dutch at this moment, so we need to change our native speaking to use those skills? If you want to use them here the answer is Yes, otherwise we need to wait until those companies decide that our country is good enough to put the effort in.  

Like Alexa, the skill was first available in the US after that the UK followed several weeks later, every country had it's own acceptation criteria and process it was not one submission prcess for all the countries that support Alexa.

swttt

Alexa might be a bit different tho...they had to change the code to work with UK versions since it lacked some kind of function that the US speech did had.

In other words, seems like amazon doesn't have their basics covered

Why google assistant isn't working for UK i dont know, but worth a shot to message athom support and ask about it.

[Deleted User]

Can only recommend US for GH. You get the latest services, and voice recon + integration with Homey is just great

chrisnash

hnijveen said:

Can only recommend US for GH. You get the latest services, and voice recon + integration with Homey is just great

In my case voice recognition is better on U.K. English as I'm English. When I switch to US English recognition drops so not everyone has a better experience with US GH!

swttt

Might be since we are used to the "American" english
Plus you guys got some dialects over there that are impossible to understand (still remember i spoke with a girl from Manchester, i am still not sure what she told exactly )

FredrikJ

How do I integrate Google Home with Homey? I haven´t been able to find any instructions for how to set it up...

bvdbos

searching forum : https://forum.athom.com/search?q=google+home leads to
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/58851/#Comment_58851

searching google : https://www.google.nl/search?dcr=0&q=google+home+homey&spell=1 leads to
https://www.athom.com/en/homey/speech/