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---
layout: page
title: "Google Hangouts"
description: "Hangouts chatbot support"
date: 2018-08-18 20:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
logo: hangouts.png
ha_category: Hub
ha_release: 0.77
---

This component allows you to send messages to [Google Hangouts](https://hangouts.google.com) 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.

## {% linkable_title Setup the component via the frontend %}

Menu: *Configuration* -> *Integrations*
  
Configure the integration:
* Enter your **Google Mail Address** and **Password**
* If you secured your account with 2-factor authentication you will be asked for a 2-factor authentication token.

**BEST PRACTICE:** You can't write messages to yourself or get notifications in a group, if "you" write the message. The best way is to create a new Google Hangouts account for this integration.

**IMPORTANT:** If you secured your account with 2-factor authentication: Only verification by app or SMS are supported. There is no support for verification by prompt on your phone.

**IMPORTANT 2:** If you are sure your email and password is correct, but the component says the login is invalid. Wait a few hours and try it again, it might be, that google asks for a captcha which we can't support. Google does not provide official support for using bots with Google Hangouts, that's why we have to work around this.

The authentication token will be generated and stored internally.

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

```
{% configuration %}
intents:
  description: "Intents that the hangouts component should understand."
  required: false
  type: map
  default: empty
  keys:
    '`<INTENT NAME>`':
      description: "Single intent entry."
      required: true
      type: map
      keys:
        sentences:
          description: "Sentences that should trigger this intent."
          required: true
          type: list
        conversations:
          description: "A list of conversations that triggers this intent. If no conversation are given, every conversations triggers the intent."
          required: false
          type: [map]
          default: empty
          keys:
            id:
              description: "Specifies the id of the conversation. *The conversation id can be obtained from the `hangouts.conversations` entity.*"
              required: true
              type: string
error_suppressed_conversations:
  description: "A list of conversations that won't get a message if the intent is not known."
  required: false
  type: [map]
  default: empty
  keys:
    id:
      description: "Specifies the id of the conversation. *The conversation id can be obtained from the `hangouts.conversations` entity.*"
      required: true
      type: string
{% endconfiguration %}

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.

## {% linkable_title Adding sentences %}

```yaml
# 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 {% raw %}{{ states.hangouts.conversations.state }}{% endraw %} conversations

```

This configuration will:
- Toggle the light in the given location in a specific conversation.
- Return the conversations the bot know.

## {% linkable_title 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

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
hangouts:
  intents:
    ColorLight:
      sentences:
        - Change the lights to [the color] {color}
{% raw %}
intent_script:
  ColorLight:
    speech:
      text: Changed the lights to {{ color }}.
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      data_template:
        rgb_color:
          - "{% if color == 'red' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"
          - "{% if color == 'green' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"
          - "{% if color == 'blue' %}255{% else %}0{% endif %}"
{% endraw %}
```

## {% linkable_title Services %}

### {% linkable_title Service `hangouts.update` %}

Updates the list of conversations.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description                                      |
|------------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------|
|                        |          |                                                  |

### {% linkable_title Service `hangouts.send_message` %}

Sends a message to the given conversations.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description                                      |
|------------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------|
| target                 | List of targets with id or name. [Required] | [{"id": "UgxrXzVrARmjx_C6AZx4AaABAagBo-6UCw"}, {"name": "Test Conversation"}] |
| message                | List of message segments, only the "text" field is required in every segment. [Required] | [{"text":"test", "is_bold": false, "is_italic": false, "is_strikethrough": false, "is_underline": false, "parse_str": false, "link_target": "http://google.com"}, ...] |