Hi there. I am sorry if this question has been asked already, I could not find it. With IFTTT becoming a pay service, does anyone have an example of using integrations directly with Google Home actions?
Three apps (what IFTT free lets you have now) is not enough and I would like to avoid pay services.
Anybody?
Thoughts?
Hey Brian, since I do not use any Google Actions it’s hard for me to give you any interesting thoughts.
One thing that comes to mind is this: would it be possible for you to create a few IFTTT accounts with different email addresses to circumvent the limit?
Gustavo.
Gusgonnet
That is an interesting idea. I had not thought of that. If the limit to three apps were the only problem I think I would try that out. However, they are also slowing down the free teir. There are lots of people complaining about this and other issues.
I had thought that if we could just “go direct” it would speed things up and not rely on a third party that could change thier business model.
Thankl you for your responce.
Cheers.
yeah, I guess IFTTT needed to capitalize on their product a bit more.
Anyhow, you are talking about these Google Actions, right?
Can you give an example?
I searched a bit and could not find an API that we could use to control Actions… (so far)
another question:
do you want a Particle device to trigger a Google Action, is that what you are after?
Perhaps this Google Assistant Relay can be of help?
My goal is to gave google Assitant to trigger a function on my photon. In my case it will be turning on lights or opening/closing my garage amoung other things.
I used the term Google Actions becuase I searched for help and found that there is a Google Actions system that is supposed to do this kind of thing but reqires a lot of set up and seems very difficult ro get working. https://developers.google.com/assistant/smarthome/overview
I was hoping that perhaps the Webhooks integration could be made to work with this.There by bypassing the setup of my own “cloud” frontend.
Does that help / make sense?
ok, and google assistant on your phone? If so, I’ve tried something in the past with Tasker. I documented what I did on this Hackster project.
I think with the autovoice plugin we can talk to our phone to execute a tasker task that will in time trigger a Particle cloud function.
Thanks for the idea but as I said I would like to avoid paid sevices. otherwise I wouuld just pay for IFTTT.
I was hoping for a way to directly connect particle cloud to Google with the Action console.
Hi Brian,
I came across this today in case it helps.
Also, if you find (or already found) a solution, post it here if you do not mind for future visitors 
thanks
Gustavo.