Newbie Google Home developer question

[Choltern]

Hi,

I hope this is the right subreddit to ask technical questions about Google Home. I have to admit I'm baffled by the choices on developers.home.google.com and what's happening now Conversational Actions has been deprecated. All I want to do is be able to add a voice command to my own Google Home that sends the text of what I said to a webhook and then just reads out the text that's returned. What's the best way to do that now? Is it via cloud-to-cloud (and therefore needing to go through the whole process of setting up an OAuth2 server)?

Thanks.

[Choltern]

@sipriyadarshi 

👋Almost all of the posts in here have no responses. Is this forum monitored by anyone from Google? I hope someone can please point me to the right docs for my simple project. Thanks.

[sipriyadarshi]

Hello @Choltern ,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your issue and feedback about our platform and system. We, the engineers at Google are working continuously to make improvements to the Google Smart Home Ecosystem, so as to make the experience of users seamless and smooth. We get hundreds of questions on a daily basis asking for guidance and help with their smart home integrations/setups. The team prioritizes each question posted on this forum equally and try to provide the developers with a response on a first come first serve basis. We appreciate your patience and assure you that we are committed to providing the best of the assistance to our users/developers. 

[sipriyadarshi · Accepted solution]

Hello @Choltern ,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your issue. Google Smart Home ecosystem no longer supports Conversational Action. More information in this regard can be found here. Currently, there is no support for the capability what you are looking for at the moment. 

[Choltern]

Thanks for responding @sipriyadarshi . What a bizarre step backwards. On the one hand Google is significantly pushing Gemini, on the other it's removing functionality that already exists in a significant number of homes. It very much feels like "smart home" is still on Google's  roadmap but any other use of in-home speakers is being quietly phased out. I think that's going to be be a huge mistake in the long run.