Script Editor: Share your ideas and vote on others' ideas!

[Prafulla]

We built the Google Home script editor to give you more control over your home automations (announcement post). We are still in the early days of the script editor, and we highly value feedback and ideas from our community to shape its future.

You can use this post to:

• Share ideas that will help you build your next scripted automation
• Vote on other people's ideas by clicking the "Kudos" button next to the idea

How do I submit an idea? Can I submit more than one idea?

To submit an idea, simply click the "Reply" button below this post and add your idea in the following format:

• Idea: Weather as a starter 
• Example automation: If it's about to rain today, remind me to carry my umbrella.

We encourage you to submit as many ideas as you like, but please use one comment per idea so that it's easy for others to vote on your ideas.

How do I vote for an idea? Can I vote on more than one idea?

To vote for an idea, simply click the "Kudos" button next to the idea that helps you with your use case. Please use your votes thoughtfully so that we can clearly understand what matters to you the most.

Will my idea be implemented? Will the top-voted idea be implemented?

We will do our best to prioritize what is important across our entire community and look at feedback across many channels throughout the product cycle. We will very actively use your feedback in our prioritization exercise, but cannot make any guarantees or promises that you'll see your idea/feedback implemented into the product. That said, we will do our best to address the pain points and problems our community is trying to solve.

We look forward to hearing your ideas!

Prafulla Rawal, Senior Product Manager, Google Home

[TBCuthbert]

Thank you for this example.

are you referencing a Nest cam Zone within this script ?   such as 
Nest cam name "Front yard"

Nest cam zone name " Driveway" 

[JS740]

The Front Yard is just the "Room" that the camera is located in within the Google Home App... When I set it up about a year ago you couldn't pick zones. I haven't checked to see if you can do that now or not cause everything works pretty good as is. 

[TBCuthbert]

I have put in a request to access the zones in the script.
Not sure why they have left out a tag for the 4 activity zones that are available for out Nest cams.

I use the 4 zones daily.  It separates events in garage, from driveway, from front of house and from street.  It also allows me to ignore the rest of the area. 
‘for those not using defined activity zones they can be very helpful.

[JamesonPrice14]

Idea: Allow Google Nest Wifi Devices on the network to be "set as the priority device" on the network using only voice input 

[DQSDQSDZAE]

Add the ability to overide a device type. 

Also add radiator commands, because for example Heatzy defines the type of its thermostats as "radiators" which limits what can be done with them on Google Home.

[Nmkt_Homeuser]

I'd like the ability to have the Assistant turn on a light when a condition is met, but then turn it off after a set amount of time. 

For Example, when the door bell rings, turn on the porch light and turn off 10 minutes later.

[Sergisoft]

That can be made using the action time.delay.

All actions are run in sequence so you can add a time.delay action between turning on and turning off the light defining the time you want the light to be on.

[Darren-M]

Could you elaborate one how that’s done?

I’m new to script editor and have added the condition of after sunset and before sunrise when the doorbell rings the light comes on but I cannot figure out  how to set the time delay to turn the light off. I’m new sure where to put the “time.delay” and any other script that goes with it.

cheers. 

[Pat_]

  actions:    
    - type: device.state.OnOff
      state: on
      is: true
      device: Lamp 1
    - type: time.delay
      for: 10min
    - type: device.state.OnOff
      state: on
      is: false
      device: Lamp 1

It's simply a list of actions.

In this example you have a 10 minute delay between lights switched on and off again.

[Darren-M]

Hi Pat, 

thanks for your reply. 

under actions I don’t have the “device.state.onoff” I only have the “device.command.onoff” but it will not allow me to add the “time.delay” keeps coming up as an error. 

[Darren-M]

metadata:

  name: Doorbell and porch

  description: when the doorbell rings after 20:30 and before 05:00 turn on the porch light and after 5 minutes turn the porch light off.

  starters:

    - type: device.event.DoorbellPress 

     device: Doorbell - Front door

  condition:

    type: time.between

    before: 05:00

    after: 20:30

    weekdays:

      - MON

      - TUE

      - WED

      - THU

      - FRI

      - SAT

      - SUN

  actions:

    - type: device.command.OnOff

      on: true

      devices: Porch Light - Front door

    - type: time.delay

       for: 5min

   - type: device.command.OnOff

        on: false

     devices: Porch Light - Front door

It only has the errors from the “- type: time.delay” 

[Darren-M]

Idea: Allowing the use of more than weekly scheduling 

Using script editor there seems to be a lack of scheduling options.

Right now there only seems to be a weekly schedule when I would like to automate notifications to tell me what bin it is one week and what bin it is the next. 

Adding in a more complex scheduling system to allow for bi weekly/bi monthly ect. scheduling. 

[Pat_]

Hi there, 

You're right, weekly is too narrow, monthly would be nice, for summer or winter routines etc.

Concerning your use case, why don't you set up a Google calendar "Bins" that you fill with the specific dates for your area?

That's what I did. Everyone who has rights to that calendar receives customizable notifications.

(Filling the calendar is quite easy in my area because the department provides an ics file I can easily integrate, but you can of course set up bi-weekly dates or whatever is necessary.)

[Darren-M]

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

I have set it up on the calendar but I was wondering if there was a way to get it to communicate with my Google Hub to send an announcement at the certain date and time in case I’m not on my phone when that notification that comes through, but the automations on google home don’t allow for the precise scheduling.