For all that want to know how to ask your google what the temperature is and have it read a temperature sensor or motion sensor with temperature, here it is.
- make a virtual thermostat for every device you wish to add, and
- after making said thermostat IMMEDIATELY add to google home BEFORE creating any rules that change values. I don't know why, but any rule set to change the value based on something else makes the google home incapable of recognizing it unless it's already been added.
- Use rule machine to create a rule as follows
Trigger; must be the temperature device in question, the easiest way to do it is to have the device changing the temperature value as a trigger.
Action: a custom action to set the value of temperature as a DECIMAL. And add %value% as the value, it will select the value of the trigger device. (Why trigger cannot be periodic schedule but must be device)
That's it. No documentation anywhere shows how to do this. But this is how.
DO NOT REMOVE DEVICE FROM GOOGLE HOME OR YOU WILL NEED TO DELETE THE DEVICE AND RULE AND START ALL OVER yerp. The alpha google home app just throws errors so this is the only reliable way.
This is the key portion to making this work. Using that community created Google Home integration instead of the built-in Hubitat integration makes a huge difference is what is possible currently.
