Within the ISY portal 'Google Home Device List', in the 'spoken mapping' section there are only 4x categories to assign to a device - Scene, Light, Switch & Outlet. It appears that Google home supports a lot more options (see this list - https://developers.google.com/actions/smarthome/guides/). 

I have some roller blinds that are not natively supported by Google and within the ISY they are assigned as lights.  "Google open the blinds" does NOT work but "Google turn on the blinds" works.

Is it possible to add these additional categories (valve, shutter, window, ect) ? Would this open up the ability to use Open/Close commands (vs. On/Off) per the google documentation?

 

Edited August 11, 20196 yr by switzch

I have the same problem with Bali AutoView Blinds/Shades. When I tell Google Home to "set lights to 20%", it sets both my Hue light to 20% brightness and also my blind to 20% (!!!) because it is considered a light

As to a Google routine and you can say open the blinds

On 9/13/2019 at 3:33 AM, lilyoyo1 said:

As to a Google routine and you can say open the blinds

I don't get how that would solve my problem. My query to set lights brightness to X% would still affect both the real lights and the blinds that are exposed as "lights". 

Google added a separate device type for shades/blinds in their Google Home API earlier this year. It would be great if Universal Devices team would add support for it. 

51 minutes ago, zmarty said:

I don't get how that would solve my problem. My query to set lights brightness to X% would still affect both the real lights and the blinds that are exposed as "lights". 

Google added a separate device type for shades/blinds in their Google Home API earlier this year. It would be great if Universal Devices team would add support for it. 

My response was to the op and what he said he wanted. Routines would help him achieve his stated goals at this time. Hopefully in the future the portal could be updated to allow for finer control. 

4 hours ago, zmarty said:

I don't get how that would solve my problem. My query to set lights brightness to X% would still affect both the real lights and the blinds that are exposed as "lights". 

Google added a separate device type for shades/blinds in their Google Home API earlier this year. It would be great if Universal Devices team would add support for it. 

When you use the plural "blinds" google thinks they are smarter than you, and will attempt to set everything with a similar definition to 20%. I don't use my GH devices for HA anymore. GH suck making guesses for everything and are hard to deal with. I got tired of having outdoor and all other lights turned on from other vocal commands.

Alexa understands devices with more than one word. For GH "turn on red bedroom lights" means every device in the house that has Red in the name. I have many, even 13 outside bulbs.

Try "set the blind to 20%" I hope you only have one.