Google Home Integration using Amazon Echo Approach?

[Jnetto]

I'm wondering if the Amazon Echo integration with CQC could also be used by the Google Home device which uses Google Assistant.

While reading the document "The Amazon Echo with CQC" written Oct 11, 2015 it seemed to me that this approach might work with Google Home as well. I've read that Google bought the company API.AI but I haven't verified this statement yet. I'm assuming Google will continue with the approach developed by API.AI. Their approach also involves intents which are similar to the intents used by Amazon Echo. Intents map to actions which contain pairs of targets and values. If requests can be generated in the same format as expected by the CQC Echo code, could the Echo configuration file also be used to map Google Home intents to CQC actions?

Is the Amazon Echo integration available in version 5.0.1?

[Dean Roddey]

We can look at it at some point here. The Echo support is there in 5.x, and also in 4.8.

[Jnetto]

I've done a little more investigation regarding integrating Google Home with CQC using the Echo configuration file. I created a Java app that sends a HTTP PUT request containing JSON data to the CQC Web Server. The WS is returning the following:

    CQCWebSrvC, CQCWebSrvC_EchoHandler.cpp.791, Status/App Status
    Key=ABCDEF, Intent=CQCRunIntent, Phrase=Cable, Value=turnOn
    CQCWebSrvC, CQCWebSrvC_EchoHandler.cpp.926, Status/App Status
    CQC doesn't know how to run 'Cable'. Please try again

My EchCfg.txt file is located in the \CQCData\Server\Data\Echo directory and contains:

Code:

EchoConfig
MyKey=ABCDEF
EndEchoConfig

RunMap
EndRunMap

SetMap
Action=\User\Google_Home\TurnOnCable
Cable, Watch Cable
EndAction
EndSetMap

QueryMap
EndQueryMap

The global action is in the file \CQCData\DataServer\GlobalActs\User\Google_Home\TurnOnCable.CQCGAct

Since I don't have an Echo to command to load the configuration file, I killed the Web Server and let it get started again. Does this cause the configuration file to be loaded?

Do you have any suggestions for trouble shooting this further?

[Dean Roddey]

You either used the wrong intent or put the action in the wrong place. Really it's the former. You should use a Set type intent for that. That is a more natural syntax (even though you aren't speaking it necessarily) and that also will make it search in the SetMap, whereas your use of the Run intent makes it search in the RunMap.

[Jnetto]

Doh! Obvious error. After moving the action to the RunMap the action is now being executed. 

Now it's on to learning how to get Google Assistant to send a command to the CQC Web Server.