Google Hangouts

This integration allows you to send messages to Google Hangouts conversations, as well as to react to messages in conversations. Reacting to commands is accomplished by firing an event when one of the configured commands is triggered. Home Assistant will impersonate a Smartisan YQ603 phone which will then show up in your Google devices.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

• Notifications

Configuration

Adding Google Hangouts to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user interface, by taking the following steps:

• Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

• In the sidebar click on Configuration.

• From the configuration menu select: Integrations.

• In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.

• From the list, search and select “Google Hangouts”.

• Follow the instruction on screen to complete the set up.

After completing, the Google Hangouts integration will be immediately available for use.

Manual Authentication

If you are sure your email and password are correct, but the integration says the login is invalid then you would need to use the manual authentication method.

To use the manual method, first you would need to obtain an authorization code (see instructions below for details).

Once the code is obtained fill in the form with your email, password and the authorization code to complete authentication.

Steps to obtain Authorization Code:

1. To obtain your authorization code, open this URL in your browser.
2. Log into your Google account normally.
3. You should be redirected to a loading screen. Copy the oauth_code cookie value set by this page and paste it here.

To obtain the oauth_code cookie value, follow the steps below:

Note: If the oauth_code cookie is not showing in Chrome, try Firefox.

• Press F12 to open developer tools.
• Select the “Application” (Chrome) or “Storage” (Firefox) tab.
• In the sidebar, expand “Cookies” and select https://accounts.google.com
• In the cookie list, double click on the value for the oauth_code cookie to select it, and copy the value. This is the authorization code

The authentication token will be generated and stored internally.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
hangouts:
  intents:
    HangoutsHelp:
      sentences:
        - Help
    LivingRoomTemperature:
      sentences:
        - What is the temperature in the living room
      conversations:
        - id: CONVERSATION_ID1
        - id: CONVERSATION_ID2
  default_conversations:
    - id: CONVERSATION_ID1
  error_suppressed_conversations:
    - id: CONVERSATION_ID2

The conversations has to be precreated, the conversation id can be obtained from the hangouts.conversations entity. Make sure to use quotes around the conversation id or alias to escape special characters (!, and #) in YAML.

The intent HangoutsHelp is part of the integration and return a list of all sentences the integration unterstand in this conversation.

Adding sentences

# The Hangouts component
hangouts:
  intents:
    HassLightSet:
      sentences:
        - Toggle {name}.
      conversations:
        - id: CONVERSATION_ID1
    Ping:
      sentences:
        - How many Conversation do you know
  error_suppressed_conversations:
    - id: CONVERSATION_ID2

intent_script:
  Ping:
    speech:
      text: I know {{ states('hangouts.conversations') }} conversations

This configuration will:

• Toggle the light in the given location in a specific conversation.
• Return the conversations the bot know.

Adding advanced custom sentences

Sentences can contain slots (marked with curly braces: {name}) and optional words (marked with square brackets: [the]). The values of slots will be passed on to the intent and are available inside the templates.

The following configuration can handle the following sentences:

• Change the lights to red
• Change the lights to green
• Change the lights to blue
• Change the lights to the color red
• Change the lights to the color green
• Change the lights to the color blue

# Example configuration.yaml entry
hangouts:
  intents:
    ColorLight:
      sentences:
        - Change the lights to [the color] {color}

intent_script:
  ColorLight:
    speech:
      text: Changed the lights to {{ color }}.
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      data:
        rgb_color:
          - "{% if color == 'red' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"
          - "{% if color == 'green' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"
          - "{% if color == 'blue' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"

Services

Service hangouts.update

Updates the list of conversations.

Service hangouts.send_message

Sends a message to the given conversations.

Service hangouts.reconnect

Reconnects the hangouts bot.

Advanced

Automatic reconnect after IP change

The hangouts integration can’t detect if your IP address changes, so it can’t automatic reconnect to the Google servers. This is a workaround for this problem.

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: https://api.ipify.org/?format=json
    name: External IP
    value_template: "{{ value_json.ip }}"
    scan_interval: 10

automation:
  - alias: "Reconnect Hangouts"
    trigger:
      - entity_id: sensor.external_ip
        platform: state
    condition:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ trigger.from_state.state != trigger.to_state.state }}"
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ not is_state("sensor.external_ip", "unavailable") }}'
    action:
      - service: hangouts.reconnect

Notifications

The hangouts platform allows you to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to Google Hangouts conversations. Conversations can be both direct as well as group chats.

To enable Hangouts notifications in your installation, you first need to configure the Hangouts component. Then, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry  
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: hangouts
    default_conversations:
      - id: CONVERSATION_ID1
      - id: CONVERSATION_ID2

Finding the conversation ID

The conversations has to be precreated, the conversation id can be obtained from the hangouts.conversations entity, this can be found in Developer Tools -> States. Using your web browsers search tool to find the hangouts.conversations entity. You will find something like below.

0: {
  "id": "<Hangout ID>",
  "name": "A simple hangout",
  "users": [
    "Steve",
    "Jo"
  ]
}

This may have more if the account is in multiple hangout conversations, for configuring the bot to be in a conversation you will need the ID that would be where <Hangout ID> is in that example. Make sure to use quotes around the conversation id or alias to escape special characters (!, and #) in YAML.

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.