I'm trying to add a virtual presence sensor to Google home so that I can override the away settings that home and nest automatically enable. I have tried a number of different things but I can never get any of them to be showing up as a present sensor in Google home. Has anyone done this? Any ideas?
You can use a virtual presence sensor with switch as the device and get that to show in Google Home. The switch part will show up in Google fine and can be used to start routines.
This part I see but I'm trying to get it to allow the presence sensor part. Google Home will set thermostats to away when motion on all the thermostat stop. I would like to override that by having a presence sensor that Google recognizes. None of the virtual presence sensors seem to show as an option for presence in Google Home.
I'm all but certain Google doesn't allow presence sensors to be integrated like that -- HomeKit doesn't, and I don't know about Alexa (but I suspect not).
What JB10 is saying is that you can treat presence as a switch using Hubitat's "Virtual Presence With Switch" virtual device option -- since Google just sees that as a switch, it's the easy to integrate into Google and use it however you want within Google's routines.
This is the same method folks (myself included) use to integrate presence into Apple's HomeKit.
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I get that and already use that for a few things. I'm specifically trying to control the built-in automation of nest thermostats when the house is empty. I'd like to be able to override that with a virtual presence switch but I haven't found the ability to do it.
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