Hi Community,
I hope someone, anyone of you can help or shed some light on this...
The question is: what is the right way to make an automation open a website on my Google Nest Hub.
In other words, make it literally do what I told it to do and not mix in own "intelligence"?
Here's what happening:
I've created an Household Home Automation with an Action that opens my website's home page (for instance) mrgren.nl (so, note: not "green", but "gren").
This is the automation action:
open https://mrgren.nl (this should open fine bc it resolves fine).
This will trigger a server side php on my webserver (on the internet), that fetches the "current solar power" from my solar power system (load time < 100ms) and puts it on the screen as HTML.
This worked great(!) for a couple of days (approximately a week?).
After that, it started to fail. Instead of specifically/literally do what I programmed (as it did before), it now starts living its own life. It makes a google search out of it (and comes up with crazy results).
It is not taking the website domain/url as literal input but uses it tries to reason it by using its own "intelligence". What is should do: open the browser and show the https:/mrgren.nl home page.
What it actually does:
1. It opens the browser, and opens linkedin to search for "Mr Green" (I mean: "LINKEDIN???". Thinks it's a person, tries some -seemingly random- person registry? WHY? There's not even a valid login cookie for linkedin.com, whyyyyy does it do this anyway :-))) ?);
2. it would say "I can't cast anything, you should give instruction blah blah"...;
3. it says "I've looked up pages containing Mr Gren... please find some examples here";
4. it says "I've looked up pages containing Mr Green... please find some examples here";
5. it opens the browser and opens the page "mrgren.com";
6. it opens the browser and opens the page "mrgreen.nl";
7. it even opens the browser and opens the page "mistergreen.nl"...
Not good, pretty annoying. Why is this happening and how do I tell it to do as I programmed it to do? Or is this (still) not possible and won't be possible like for ever?
Fuchsia version 18.20240225.3.63
Software version 58.102.2.613521407
FW version Chromecast 3.73.411796
I'm located in The Netherlands, and the Nest Hub's language is set to Dutch - should not be an issue I hope (although the Dutch seem to be very stubborn also 🙂 ).
Thanks for the help!
PS: not using actual names, you get the picture I hope.
