Google Assistant SDK in Home Assistant
google_assistant_sdk
part of Home Assistant since 2023.1
Google Assistant SDK is an official Home Assistant integration for Notifications and Voice. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Quality scale
- Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
- Installations
- 12,364 (1.8 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Notifications, Voice
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Notifications
- Maintained by
- @tronikos
- Python packages
gassist-text==0.1.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Google Assistant SDK.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
0 open issues and 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Google Assistant SDK in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.4.0.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.4.0 Bug fix #166649
- fixed in 2025.10.2 Bug fix #153735
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration