Google assistant SDK notify stopped working about core

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[databoy2k]

Can confirm; the "target" portion of the data causes the command to not send. Deleting any "target" data causes the message to send immediately.

Test string (you will almost certainly need to alter "target" to your own rooms, but you can also delete the "target" portion entirely afterwards)
service: notify.google_assistant_sdk data: message: > Looks like the dog and fish have been fed. You guys rock! target: - Living Room - Kitchen - Media Room - Play Room

I checked the "My Activity" on Google (https://myactivity.google.com). When it was working (e.g. 2024-05-23) I would get the following, e.g.:

(I should note that this was one of 4 identical, except for the room. It appears that the integration cycles through the targets and sends a separate broadcast to each target)

Compare to today:

Note how it doesn't say what the message was (this is one of the ones with a "target" that didn't work). It must have been malformed from the start because for whatever reason the Assistant doesn't actually get the message itself.

I have zero idea how to get logs from the Cloud Console; happy to turn on logging if someone can walk me through it.

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

@databoy2k yes indeed it works without target, in my case the target part is the most valuable part as not need my announcements be made through whole the house... probably this is a problem on google's end as also it not works if I ask google to broadcast a message to kitchen, it says that there is no device named kitchen while my Nest Mini located in kitchen area is called Kitchen, but being that Google not really cares about its end consumers it will be just guessing and hoping when and if this get fixed (similar it not let me stream new generation nest cams to my hub devices by voice command if the command is not been given on the hub where I want ro stream the camera to, this also already is a issue for 1.5 year if not more)

For now I switched to TTS in HA to announce messages to the media_player devices in the areas relevant for me.

EDIT: by the way 23-05-2024 was last day for me (also) that it still was working.

[databoy2k]

probably this is a problem on google's end as also it not works if I ask google to broadcast a message to kitchen, it says that there is no device named kitchen while my Nest Mini located in kitchen area is called Kitchen...
For now I switched to TTS in HA to announce messages to the media_player devices in the areas relevant for me.

Fair enough. For what it's worth, I just manually tested using another google device. I just said, "Broadcast to the Play Room, this is a test" and only the play room received that broadcast.

I think our issue here is that the way that the integration sends the broadcast requests is getting malformed somehow thanks to a change on Google's end.

I use the SDK because we're almost always playing music in our house through the speakers, and the broadcast continues the music after sending the message. So I'm in a bit of a "do I just broadcast to the whole house or do I interrupt the music" situation. My hope is that my confirmation can help it get fixed by someone way smarter than me.

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

probably this is a problem on google's end as also it not works if I ask google to broadcast a message to kitchen, it says that there is no device named kitchen while my Nest Mini located in kitchen area is called Kitchen...
For now I switched to TTS in HA to announce messages to the media_player devices in the areas relevant for me.

Fair enough. For what it's worth, I just manually tested using another google device. I just said, "Broadcast to the Play Room, this is a test" and only the play room received that broadcast.

I think our issue here is that the way that the integration sends the broadcast requests is getting malformed somehow thanks to a change on Google's end.

I use the SDK because we're almost always playing music in our house through the speakers, and the broadcast continues the music after sending the message. So I'm in a bit of a "do I just broadcast to the whole house or do I interrupt the music" situation. My hope is that my confirmation can help it get fixed by someone way smarter than me.

Yes the interruptions are indeed the downside if you use TTS, I just tryed again to ask google assistant on my phone to broadcast a message to Kitchen but at me get the same error as described before.

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

@databoy2k after trying a bit more it seems that it only affects my Nest Mini's, if I ask Google Assistant to broadcast a message to my Hubs or Hub Max it does work.

[databoy2k]

As far as I'm aware, "Target" refers to rooms as defined in your Google Home app. So, the "Playroom" in my case refers to a Google Home that is called the "Play Room Home" but could be named any name as long as it's associated with the room.

Try to add your minis to rooms (e.g. kitchen) even if it's the only device in that room.

Still doesn't change the fact that the request is being misformed in some way if targets are defined in the command. Sadly, this is as far as I can take it but I hope that one of the coders actually takes a look at this.

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

As far as I'm aware, "Target" refers to rooms as defined in your Google Home app. So, the "Playroom" in my case refers to a Google Home that is called the "Play Room Home" but could be named any name as long as it's associated with the room.

Try to add your minis to rooms (e.g. kitchen) even if it's the only device in that room.

Still doesn't change the fact that the request is being misformed in some way if targets are defined in the command. Sadly, this is as far as I can take it but I hope that one of the coders actually takes a look at this.

Yes you are correct, targets are areas within Home Assistant, and normally it will play the broadcast to all suitable devices in that area. I have all my devices located in areas/rooms as well in Home Assistant and also in the Google Home App, as said till 23rd May all was working fine, and the sdk_send_command service also still works as expected at the moment.

Indeed only choice for now is waiting for one of the coders and hopefully they come with a solution.

[genestealer]

I can confirm I have the same issue.

Specifying a target room only works when Google Assistant SDK has it's language set to "en-US"

Changing it to any other language makes it so nothing is broadcasted, if a target is set, including en-GB.

NOTE: This stopped working a few months ago, it used to work just fine before that.

If I set the language to "en-US" it works, but I get an American voice doing the broadcast!

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

I can confirm I have the same issue.

Specifying a target room only works when Google Assistant SDK has it's language set to "en-US"

Changing it to any other language makes it so nothing is broadcasted, if a target is set, including en-GB.

NOTE: This stopped working a few months ago, it used to work just fine before that.

If I set the language to "en-US" it works, but I get an American voice doing the broadcast!

@genestealer good catch on the language thing 👍 I had mine on en-CA, changing it to en-US makes it work for me also again. Only I not recognize your remark that it stopped working Months ago at me it worked fine untill 23rd of May with language set to en-CA.

[dw1562]

I have tried setting the language to en-US and also removing the targets so it just goes to all devices. No luck. It's still not working. It had been working fine for months.

[smarthomefamilyverrips]

I have tried setting the language to en-US and also removing the targets so it just goes to all devices. No luck. It's still not working. It had been working fine for months.

@dw1562 Without setting targets here it works fine on any language, using targets only works when changing from en-CA to en-US

From the sound of it seems a different issue at you if it not works at all, your google_sdk_command service does still work? Maybe your Google Assistant SDK integration not works at all?