How I've setup my smart home with Google Home at it's center and various IFTTT enabled devices.

SmartHome.md

Google Home

These commands can be issued via Google Home. It is implied that Google Home is triggered with "Okay Google" before a command e.g. "What's the news on BBC" is issued.

• Entertainment:

  • News:

    • What's the news on BBC
      Plays BBC Broadcast (Setup News Source in Google Home Config)
    • What's the news on CNN
      Play CNN Broadcast (Setup News Source in Google Home Config)

  • Music / Radio:

    • Play 100.4 on TuneIn
      Plays Energy Zürich Live Radio via TuneIn (no setup required)

• Smart Home Control:

  • Lights:

    • Enable the light / Disable the light
      Controller: Proto Pi + Microbot Push + IFTTT
    • Enable the spotlight / Disable the spotlight
      Controller: LifX + IFTTT

  • Devices:

    • Enable the PS4 / Disable the PS4
      Controller: myStrom Switch + IFTTT
    • Enable the printer / Disable the printer
      Controller: myStrom Switch + IFTTT

Fully autonomous

The devices here act fully autonomous and don't need human input to do their job.

• Cleaning:

  • iRobot Vaccum Cleaner (from ca. 2008)
    Launches itself based on a weekly schedule (M/T/W/T/F 10:00 AM). It's charging dock is powered from 09:00 AM to 15:00 PM via a myStrom Switch.

• Announcements:

  • Google Home
    Google Home can by default only be used as a trigger on IFTTT and not as a receiver, e.g. to announce new emails, a visitor etc. Therefor I've included a raspberry pi running ultrahook and a google-home-utility program which uses the Google Homes Chromecast ability to announce things. So I can, via IFTTT or local REST call, trigger the Google Home to say things.

Smart Buttons

Smart Buttons are used to subsitute Google Home when triggering an action that should not produce noise.