This is a tutorial how you can control your devices by using your voice in your own language…. All this can be also triggered by Google Now.

Requirements:

  • An android phone
  • Tasker
  • AutoVoice

Setup Tasker:

Step 1: Check your global variables

Be sure before you start, that you have setup your tasker correctly, by creating global variables. See also how to configure Tasker for Home Assistant

Step 2: Check your tasks to control your devices

In previous tutorials, was explained how to create seperate tasks to control your devices in Tasker. Be sure that you have created such tasks. It is explained here

Step 3: Configure your autovoice plugin:

  • Open de app: AutoVoice
  • Activate Google Now integration, if you want integration with Google Now
  • Set your language: General settings > Default Recognize Settings > Language Settings > Language (Also Language Code)

Don’t forget to enable in your android settings, the accessibility for Autovoice

Step 4: Create your profile and task

Example 1: task to turn off/turn on task

Let’s assume you already created a task called HA - LivingTop On and HA - LivingTop Off in step 2.

Your profile:
  • Create a new profile
    • Choose Event > Plugin > Autovoice Recognize
    • Choose Advanced
    • Checkmark Regex
    • As command filter use: turn (?<state>.+) my (?<device>.+)
Your task:

Work with if-else function

I prefer to use just the If statement instead of the if-else statement, because I can collapse my code…

Example 1: Turn Living Top Lights On or Off

  • If %state ~R on AND %device ~R living lights (turn on living lights), use match regex!
    • Perform Task: HA - LivingTop On (See step 2)

  • End if

  • If %state ~R off AND %device ~R living lights (turn off living lights), use match regex!
    • Perform Task: HA - LivingTop Off (See step 2)
  • End if

Also it can be shorter, if you want: just by using eg: Perform Task: HA - LivingTop Off and checkmark the if-statement, and put there: If %state ~R off AND %device ~R living lights. So in that case, you only use 1 action, instead of 3…

Example 2: Dim lights task

Your profile:
  • Create a new profile
    • Choose Event > Plugin > Autovoice Recognize
    • Choose Advanced
    • Checkmark Regex
    • As command filter use: dim (?<device>.+) to (?<level>.+)%
Your task:
  • Variable set: %percent to round(255/100*%level) (Enable Do Maths!)
  • If %device ~R living lights (use match regex!)
    • Variable set: %service to light/turn_on
    • HTTP Post:
      • Service port: %HASS_SERVICE%service%HASS_PSW
      • In data / file: {“entity_id”:”%HASS_TOPLIGHT”,”brightness”:”%percent”}
      • content/type: application/JSON
  • End if

Other Commands

Above a little example to turn on or turn off things, but you can create also other profiles likes:

  • dim (?<device>.+) to (?<percentage>.+)%
  • activate (?<scene>.+) mode
  • ….

The beauty of this, is that I can use Google now, so I can use Google AI to recognize my speech, and when I say a command by saying OK Google, it will also send it to my tasker autovoice…