Google Home Integration for RM Mini 3 Automation

[DreXor]

Hello and thank you ahead of time for any input you may have!

I'm working on trying to make my google home more "friendly", and i was in the midst of adding IFTTT triggers for voice commands and then having to stack those to my RM Plugin and found an article relating to IFTTT variables routed through apilio. So the though process I figured i needed to ask, Can IFTTT and apilio work well enough together to extract multiple variables from a single voice command from google home/assistant. 

for basics i have 2 google minis, 2 tvs, 2 rm3's etc. 

if i want to turn on the bedroom tv, i would prefer to denote which google mini the request was made at but since it cant, i'll need to use bedroom in the trigger.

The RM plugin requires not only the send code ID but also the MAC address of the device, as such, i would rather apilio trigger variable on "bedroom tv" to denote the MAC, then the command after to define the ID , assemble the string and send it back to IFTTT

as example : 

"hey google {turn on} the {bedroom tv}" and less naturally "hey google {bedroom tv} {turn on}"

i've already made static string variables to contain the MAC's and to boolean "if_bedroom" or "if_livingroom" as these will inherently carry different code ID's and i'll end up assigning those to static variables to feed into the return to IFTTT

Suggestions?

Thanks 

Drex

[EB]

Hi, I too have a google home and started to learn Tasker. Then Broadlink opened up the devices directly to Google Home Anyway…

The key is:
1) use their newer App (IHC, not e-control)
2) pretend everything is a simple lamp. It can only do simple on/off for now so you have to come up with phrases including the words on or off - for example the pause button my TV remote is now a lamp called “knock it”…

[pebneter]

Hi Drex,

did EB‘s reply answer your question?
I re-read your post a couple of times, but I still don‘t get it :-). Maybe it is because of my lack of experience with Google Home...
What is are the final webhook request you need to make to IFTTT to accomplish the job?

Cheers
Philipp

[DreXor]

I'm still working on the final objectives for my scenario. I am finding some very plausible results through dialogflow on Google's development site. if I can get it working I'll happily share my end result as it might be very close to what many others seem to be wanting.

[Chillihead]

Yeah man, use the IHC app - the key is to set up the RM3 as a Universal Remote. 

I have mine set up that way and can use GH to naturally turn the turn tv / stereo on with voice commands. No need for IFTTT at all.