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+title: "Our Google Assistant skill is live!"
+description: "The Google Assistant integration for Home Assistant Cloud is now available to all."
+date: 2018-04-24 00:01:00
+date_formatted: "April 24, 2018"
+author: Paulus Schoutsen
+author_twitter: balloob
+comments: true
+categories: Announcement
+og_image: /images/blog/2018-04-google-assistant/google-assistant-home-assistant.png
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+<p class='img'>
+  <img
+    src='/images/blog/2018-04-google-assistant/google-assistant-home-assistant.png'
+    alt='Home Assistant logo and the Works with the Google Assistant badge'
+  />
+</p>
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+Guess what? Yep, our Google Assistant Smart Home skill is live! It's a mouthful but it means that you can now control your Home Assistant devices via any Google Assistant enabled device by simply saying things like "Ok Google, turn on the lights".
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+To get started:
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+ - [Enable Home Assistant Cloud](/cloud/#enabling-the-cloud)
+ - Install our skill for Google Assistant. As of this writing, the link is not live yet: you can find it by opening the Google Home app -> Home Control, tap on the blue + at the bottom right and find Hass.io in the list.
+ - Optional: [Tweak the devices](/cloud/google_assistant/) that are getting exposed to Google Assistant.
+
+Things to note:
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+ - The skill is called Hass.io, but will work with normal Home Assistant too. The name was necessary to avoid confusion between Home Assistant, Google Assistant and Google Home.
+ - Works with Home Assistant 0.65 or later.
+ - All message handling is done local and is [open source](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/google_assistant/trait.py).
+ - If you have an Android device with Google Assistant, you can control your devices too.
+ - Home Assistant 0.68 will introduce a button to the Cloud config panel to trigger a sync of available devices.
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+Home Assistant Cloud is still in open beta and free to use. Open beta period has been extended to June 1. Many thanks to [Quadflight] for providing the Raspberry Pis that Google used for physical testing and thanks to [Arsaboo] for helping with testing.
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+[Quadflight]: https://github.com/quadflight
+[Arsaboo]: https://github.com/arsaboo