My wife and I are in the habit of using the broadcast feature on Google home whenever we need to communicate across the house. (i.e. you need a roll of toilet paper, or you're in the shower and realize you don't have a towel, etc.) That's fine and all, but we just had our first kid, and having all the speakers in the house ding then start talking is bad for keeping a kid asleep.
The ideal solution in my mind would be to do a command to Google, and have a notification pop up on our devices with the text. I know Hubitat can display text in notifications, but I don't know if there's a way to extract text from a command sent to Google.
Does anyone know if this is possible? I'd be fine writing a custom app, but I've never messed with Google's API, and I don't really care to do a deep dive.
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Wondering if you found a solution to this. I’m looking for something similar in that my son is playing games on the TV with headphones on and can’t hear us calling him.
We can send a message to the LG TV through Hubitat and I could create a few virtual switches such that when we ask Google to turn them on they would result in specific messages being sent to the TV, but I would like to be able to send a custom message if possible.
Something like “hey Google, turn on Five Minute Warning” would send a preset message to the LG. But I would like to have something similar to Siri where I say “Hey Siri, text so-and-so Come to the basement and help me with this fun chore.”
Unfortunately, no. The only ways I've thought of are very workaround-y and only work from your phone. I just don't have the patience to dump dozens of hours into figuring it out, especially when I'm not positive it's possible.
