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Using Google Assistant to control and read from my LAN devices

More notes for backup and a bad memory - -
These notes will be upgraded at random times
This first hack is WORKING but not yet tidy, , , ,

Objective - Say "OK Google" then a verbal command to control IFTTT linked to the Maker Channel to send GET http requests
to CGI scripts running on linux devices on my home and garden LAN
Then use the Raspberry Pi to perform actions on other LAN devices, Arduinos etc.

NEW!!
I can now run local bash scripts etc by speaking a command and using Google AIY code as in the cardboard kit.
That code is much easier than the full Google Assistant code for a novice like me to use !
So there is now no need for IFTTT to gain verbal control of you LAN devices - SEE BELOW!

Google Assistant with wake word "OK Google" or "Hey Google" runs on a raspberry Pi with USB microphone and TV speaker or on-board headphone socket to amplifier and speaker.
It is much the same as an Echo Dot but much easier to hack!

The cardboard Google AIY kit given away with the MagPi magazine can only respond to a wake word with a hack (it is designed to use a button).
I find that the hack has a random delay after responding to the wake word and becoming live for a verbal command.
The Google Assistant with built in wake word responds without delay.

I have yet to test the camera.

the key line is - 

    actor.add_keyword(
        _('read the data'), SpeakShellCommandOutput(
            say, "/home/pi/test/bashread.sh",
            _('there is no data')))

/home/pi/test/bashread.sh   is -

#!/bin/bash
read VAR1  < data.txt
echo $VAR1

and data.txt in the same folder contains -
44

I say "OK Google,  read the data"
She says "44"

I think that the speech is created locally  - it sounds a bit "robot"
So now we can use bash etc to do anything following a verbal command.

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