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Devakanta Rao
Devakanta Rao

Reputation: 105

Google Smart Home custom devices and sensors

Is there any way to use the Google Smart Home actions platform for custom devices that are not supported like let's say a motion sensor? If not is there any way we can create custom actions and make it work together with Smart Home platform?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1025

Answers (1)

Nick Felker
Nick Felker

Reputation: 11978

The "types" of devices are somewhat trivial to support or not support. They're really useful semantically, when the user is referring to a set of devices (like lights). What is more important are the traits, which represent the capabilities of devices.

For a motion sensor, you can register it as any device type (such as a Light). While that may not make a lot of sense, it'd work. You would then want to take a look at the traits for what capabilities make sense.

Consulting the list, you may or may not find one that fits. If you need custom capabilities, you should take a look at building a conversational Action which provides greater flexibility.

Upvotes: 4

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