Integration with Google Home / Google Assistant - Now available for general use

[Max*]

Thanks for your feedback.

1. Are you talking about the multiuser feature of Google Home? That is fairly new. I would have to do some research on that. In general, this is something I've thought about quite a bit. It can be a security issue. On the other hand though, I find it quite useful. Amazon just plainly disallows unlocking of any kind of doors so it had to disabled in the Amazon skill. Google does prohibit unlocking of house doors but they haven't said anything about car doors yet. I won't be surprised if they update that policy.

2. That error message is a catch all in case a specific error is not handled. Looking at the logs, it seems like errors are happening while setting climate temperature. I have added some more checks for that and updated the backend. If you still see the same error, please send me the spoken command that caused it.

1. Yes, the multiuser feature. It's not perfect, but it does distinguish between me, the wife and kids. One of my friends fooled it into thinking he's me, so it does need work.

How is it a security issue in a negative way, if the multiuser were integrated?

2. That's exactly it -- I think I said "what's the interior temperature", instead of saying "get climate status". I'll mess with it some more, thanks again!

 

[Firewired]

I also am unable to get it to work despite clearing cache. I am running 7.1.1 on a Oneplus 3T. Everytime I try it I get the message that "app is not installed."

 

[Gol4]

I also am unable to get it to work despite clearing cache. I am running 7.1.1 on a Oneplus 3T. Everytime I try it I get the message that "app is not installed."

I got somebody with a Oneplus 3T to try it out and he was able to reproduce the problem. There is a workaround though: In Google Assistant, click on the blue icon on the top right. That will display a directory of all Google Actions. Scroll down to the "Travel and Transport Section" and click on "More". Find EV Car in that list and click on the "Link" button. You should be able to proceed as usual from there. Let me know how it goes.

 

[Gol4]

1. Yes, the multiuser feature. It's not perfect, but it does distinguish between me, the wife and kids. One of my friends fooled it into thinking he's me, so it does need work.

How is it a security issue in a negative way, if the multiuser were integrated?

2. That's exactly it -- I think I said "what's the interior temperature", instead of saying "get climate status". I'll mess with it some more, thanks again!

1. Its a security issue only if multiuser doesn't work reliably. We'll try and experiment with that part and see how it goes.
2. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Teslita]

@Gol4: thank you for the reply.
Google Assistant not yet deployed here in Switzerland; 2 more months, I believe :-(
I wanted to impress the kids with this amazing development of yours, but it will have to wait a bit more

 

[nimrooz]

Following..! Keep up the good work

 

[Fat Bao]

OP, can you please make the welcome prompt shorter so that we don't have to wait that long to issue a command. Thanks!!!

 

[Gol4]

OP, can you please make the welcome prompt shorter so that we don't have to wait that long to issue a command. Thanks!!!

Yes, I guess it could try and identify if this is a returning user and if so issue a short prompt.

 

[Gol4]

Yes, I guess it could try and identify if this is a returning user and if so issue a short prompt.

This change is in place now.

FYI you can also use the "one-shot" invocation which will bypasses the welcome message completely. E.g. "Hey Google, Ask EV Car to get charge status"

 

[Fat Bao]

This change is in place now.

FYI you can also use the "one-shot" invocation which will bypasses the welcome message completely. E.g. "Hey Google, Ask EV Car to get charge status"

Thank you very much!!! Works perfectly

 

[Max*]

This change is in place now.

FYI you can also use the "one-shot" invocation which will bypasses the welcome message completely. E.g. "Hey Google, Ask EV Car to get charge status"

That's an awesome addition/information, thanks!

 

[highedu]

First off - thanks for doing this!

Request: can you post what some of the non-obvious commands do?

Also - will it summon?

 

[Gol4]

First off - thanks for doing this!

Request: can you post what some of the non-obvious commands do?

Also - will it summon?

There are commands that are non-obvious ??
I will compile a list of commands and associated actions. In the mean time if you have specific one you are curious about, let me know.

It does not do summon. Alexa does not allow anything that unlocks or moves the car. Not sure what Google's policy is. This could be something we can try and push for if there is sufficient interest.

 

[Xenius]

This looks super neat. Tried to connect using google assistant on my Google Pixel XL, it simply told me "It looks like your EV Car account is not linked yet" but I get no other prompts. Any ideas?

 

[Gol4]

This looks super neat. Tried to connect using google assistant on my Google Pixel XL, it simply told me "It looks like your EV Car account is not linked yet" but I get no other prompts. Any ideas?

You should be able to click on that "card" and that brings up a login screen.
If that doesn't work, click on the blue icon on the top right, scroll down to the "Travel and Transport" section, Look for EV Car there and you should see a button for "Link" account.

 

[Xenius]

You should be able to click on that "card" and that brings up a login screen.
If that doesn't work, click on the blue icon on the top right, scroll down to the "Travel and Transport" section, Look for EV Car there and you should see a button for "Link" account.

That did the trick (the blue icon) and looking for it. First command I tried failed (where is my car) but I'll try again later. I'm sure the car was in deep sleep at the time, not sure if that has an effect.

 

[DaddyP713]

Holy crap this is cool! Thanks for doing this!

 

[DaddyP713]

Can you make the key phrase something like "ask model x for charge status"?

It would be neat if I could use model x instead of ev car...

 

[ABC2D]

Can you make the key phrase something like "ask model x for charge status"?

It would be neat if I could use model x instead of ev car...

What would model S owners ask? Also model X charging status?

 

[DaddyP713]

What would model S owners ask? Also model X charging status?

In some likelihood, Google home / assistant probably can't tell the difference between "x" and "s" without a lot more context.

But, why not let both "model s" and "model x" be the key phrase?

I'm not sure how the API works, but it seems like it should be reasonable to allow multiple aliases to map to the Tesla handler.