Version 24 of the Sense mobile app brings you long-awaited support for Google Assistant and Google Home.
For those of you who use Google Assistant — whether via the app or on the litany of Google Assistant-connected devices — a Sense "Action" is now available. This "Action" is very similar to the Sense "Skill" available for Amazon Alexa, allowing you to communicate with Sense by voice to find out things like how much energy your home is using, how much solar your home is producing, whether a device is currently on or off, and when a device last turned on or off.
You can enable the Sense Action in one of three ways:
Go directly to the Sense Action directory listing to enable the Action: sense.com/connect/google.
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Open the Sense mobile app (v24) and go to Settings > My Home > Connected Devices, and select Google Assistant. Tap the “Open Google Assistant” link to enable.
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Navigate to your Google Assistant app, search for “Sense” under Actions, and tap “Try It.”
Once enabled, you can say things like:
"Ok, Google, ask Sense how much energy my home is using"
"Hey, Google, talk to Sense about my solar production"
"Hey, Google, ask Sense if my oven is on"
"Ok, Google, ask Sense when did my Dryer turn off"
very cool thanks for the integration it would be nice to be able to say: OK Google ask sense how much energy my home used today or this week or this year…
it would also be cool to say: OK Google ask sense what my largest energy-consuming devices is today.
It works on my Google home i can ask how much power I am using and it tells me but I would like the sense home screen to pop up on the Google home screen like my nest thermostat does and Phillips hue.
Yes I can, so long as both the Home and Sense apps are installed on the phone used to activate the assistant. My problem was that I’m the secondary user on our Home device, and I didn’t have the Home app on my phone. In that situation, my phone was the only device in the list.
My Google tells me “Sense isn’t responding, try again soon”. Is this connecting server side, or over my wlan? Do they need to see each other on the wlan?
It would be nice to ask “how much energy did I produce today” to find out the solar production… Also like the first person said " how much energy did I used today"
Sense has quit working with google. Receive google assistant error message stating …“can’t find what you’re looking for” when trying to reestablish a link to Sense. Was working in the past. A little crude with query formatting when it was working.
Hi, just got a new sense device, I could not get it to connect with Google home, saw the update about the team investigating it, by when can we expect the integration to return?
When can we expect the Google Assistant integration to be back up and running. Just installed my Sense device yesterday. Love the product already but this would really boost my love for this product in some huge ways.
Hey Ryan,
I was wondering if this integration was ever restored, as I know google made many changes recently. can you please let us know if you made any progress on rolling out the google assistance features?