[Solved] Google Home play a song/list comand?

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Hi guys, quick question... how (if possible) can I rulemachine a Google cast device to play a song from the internet?

My scenario is, I have a great weak up light set up with RM. Now I want to integrate a wake up sound playing while the sun is rising... bird noise and stuff like that.
Of course I want it just as a base line not as my actual alarm (reliability).
I know how to set up the rule, but I have no idea from where I could stream a song. I tried it with a shared GDrive file w/o any luck.

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Do you know the URL you want to use? If so, you can use the playTrack command and send that via the Chromecast beta integration. What you can't do is send a command to the Google Home the same way you would with your voice. That is a limitation of the Google Home, not of Hubitat.

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Does Google Assistant Relay on a Rpi work that way for sending commands?

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Not these commands. Telling a different google home device (since your GAR server is acting like one) is not supported by the Assistant SDK which GAR is based on. You can only do that from a genuine Google Home device.

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Funny, one of the guys I watch on YouTube, sent a TTS to Alexa to say "Hey Google, play..." . Sort of bizarro land though, where one AI gives commands to the other.

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Yes, I put a file on gDrive, turned on the sharing option to everyone and tested it. but it didn't work.
I also testet it with GitHub as I read somewhere here in the forum... and it didn't work either.

Maybe the place where I upload is relevant... that's why I asked.

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Google Drive will not work because it doesn't expose the raw file. It sends you to a splash page. In Github you have to use the raw file link.

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Okey. I think that would do it. I will test it, out of curiosity. For now I have found a solution... I use the NAS functionality of my FritzBox (my modem/router). This way I don't have to missuse GitHub.

Thanks anyway. I knew it would be you who give me a working solution :wink:

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I've done something similar by sending a TTS to a Sonos which sits right next to a Google Mini. It is ultra reliable and works every single time without error. It seems GA completely understands the synthesised voice from the Sonos ha ha ha.

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You can have Google and Alexa talk to each other too. There was a group that did it first where it worked really well but a lot of gimmicky videos have come out since.

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I saw the video where they got the two in a loop one triggering the other constantly lol.

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