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Useful for users who only wish to track alarms or only track devices from specific google home units.
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/components/device_tracker.googlehome/

The googlehome component allows you to connect to your Google Home device using an unofficial Google Home API.

This component will provide:

  • device_tracker platform to track nearby bluetooth devices;
  • sensor platform to track the alarms and the timers.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To integrate the googlehome component in Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
googlehome:
  devices:
    - host: IP_ADDRESS

{% configuration %} devices: description: A list of Google Home devices. required: true type: list keys: host: description: The IP address of the Google Home device. required: true type: string rssi_threshold: description: The threshold for the RSSI signal of the device. required: false default: -70 type: integer device_types: description: Device types that will be tracked see device types, by default all types are tracked. required: false type: list track_alarms: description: Setting to tell the component to track the alarms of the device. required: false type: boolean default: false track_devices: description: Setting to tell the component to track nearby devices. required: false type: boolean default: true {% endconfiguration %}

{% linkable_title Device types %}

Device type Description
1 Classic - BR/EDR devices
2 Low Energy - LE-only
3 Dual Mode - BR/EDR/LE

{% linkable_title Notes %}

Devices will appear in the format device_tracker.<home hub ip>_<device mac address>. Note that dots are removed from the IP and BT MAC addresses.