Creating own google home commands with IFTTT
Google home commands with IFTTT. Set up your own sentences to control your home automation.
- Set your IFTTT account
- Connect it with your google assistant
- Create applets which communicate with openhab
To create account and sign in go to https://ifttt.com
After signing in go to your applets https://ifttt.com/my_applets (first top menu option)
click new applet. click on the blue +this
search for google assistant. click on it.
choose Say a simple phrase
in first 3 fields write what you want to say to google home / assistant.
in 4th what google home should reply.
for example i have set this:
1. open dining blinds
2. open blinds in dining room
3. open dining room blinds
4. dining room blinds are opening
click create
click on the blue +that
search for openhab. authorize with your myopenhab cloud account.
select the item you want to control.
write command you want to send (ON, OFF, number)
I am opening blinds so i have set 95 to open the blinds and 100 to close them.
And that is it. Now you can control things as you wish from your google assistant/google home.
