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Welcome to the Smart Home Developer Forum!

Hey Nest Community, Welcome to our Smart Home Developer forum! This space is for developers to discuss, collaborate, and ask questions about their Smart Home integrations using Google Home Cloud-to-cloud, Local, or Matter APIs. Once you post, fellow ...

I hate when google is always making changes

Why is Google constantly making these updates? One after another seems like that, they keep coming fast and furious it's hard to get used to a feature when they turn around and add a new one and change the interface. I find Myself constantly. It's re...

Resolved! Difference in Matter Device Setup Between iOS and Android (Google Home)

Hello,I’m using Google Home on iOS and would like to know:Do I need to connect to a Matter Hub device to control Matter-compatible devices?Is it possible to connect and control them locally without a hub?Are there any differences in setup or function...

Resolved! chromecast recovery

I have accidentally deleted my chromecast from my google home is there a way to add it again?

Resolved! Cloud-to-Cloud: OnlineOffline Test Fails with willReportState: false - "Device is not online" error

Hello everyone,I'm working on a cloud-to-cloud Smart Home Action for a device with willReportState: false, but I'm consistently running into an issue with the OnlineOffline test in the Test Suite.The device is a light that supports the OnOff and Brig...

Resolved! Inquiry About Delayed Execution of Google Home Timer Commands

Hello,I used the Smart Home integration to set a scheduled timer for turning on a light at an exact time. However, the timer was triggered 10 seconds late.After checking our server logs, we confirmed that the "Turn on light" command was indeed receiv...

Resolved! Sunset + voice command with door contact restriction

Hi,I wanted to do the following:- When SUNSET (time.schedule = sunset) or Voice Command 'Close Bedroom Blinds' (assistant.event.OkGoogle = Close Bedroom Blinds)- AND window contact is closed (device.state.OpenClose = 0)- ACTION assistant.command.OkGo...

Resolved! Acceptable latency for Google Home Integrations

Hello,We have an Google Home integration with our devices but sometimes when giving Google a command it returns "Could not find device". I'm wondering what is the expected/acceptable time to get back a response from our backend system? Anything else ...

Resolved! Google Home (1st gen) support, please!

My Google Home first gen is not working the the most recent Home app anymore. Could you please save these hardware by offering API support so we can develop for them?

Resolved! Matter SDK 1.3.2 fails to get trait/type information

I already created a Google ticket for it. But also mentioning it here. Google Matter SDK 1.3.2 cannot list out type/traits due to a flow related error. IllegalArgumentException: "Flow context cannot contain job in it. Had [SupervisorJobImpl{Active}@x...

Resolved! Indoor humidity from IoT sensors not showing

Google home app not able to show the indoor humidty however it able to show rest 3.

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I hate when google is always making changes

Resolved! Difference in Matter Device Setup Between iOS and Android (Google Home)

Resolved! chromecast recovery

Resolved! Cloud-to-Cloud: OnlineOffline Test Fails with willReportState: false - "Device is not online" error

Resolved! Inquiry About Delayed Execution of Google Home Timer Commands

Resolved! Sunset + voice command with door contact restriction

Resolved! Acceptable latency for Google Home Integrations

Resolved! Google Home (1st gen) support, please!

Resolved! Matter SDK 1.3.2 fails to get trait/type information

Resolved! Indoor humidity from IoT sensors not showing

Sunset + voice command with door contact restricti...

Difference in Matter Device Setup Between iOS and ...

Cloud-to-Cloud: OnlineOffline Test Fails with will...

chromecast recovery

Inquiry About Delayed Execution of Google Home Tim...

Acceptable latency for Google Home Integrations

Google Home (1st gen) support, please!

Matter SDK 1.3.2 fails to get trait/type informati...

Indoor humidity from IoT sensors not showing

Google Home API Android SDK Supported Devices