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I think you can set 'routines' now, might be able to help with sunrise actions - https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7672035?hl=en-GB...


I have explored those, but I ran into many many issues when i wanted to build routines of routines. I wanted to compose a routine from others. I couldn't simply/directly invoke a routine from others without voice interpretation, and it led to strangely phrased triggers just to get it to work. It's frustrating that I should be able to make these explicit actions in the app, but it's just very clumsy. In the ideal scenario I should be able to configure all of that through the voice interface itself. "Hey Google, create a routine that initiates from "It's dinner time" that turns on all the lights in the dining room and sets them to 50% with the 'candlelight' color"

I hate how many products need to be configured from apps nowadays. You gave me the voice assistant and I can't use the voice assistant to manage the voice assistant. I shouldn't even need an iPad or phone to set it up. Give me a minimum local processing/interpretation so I can get it online and it can begin interpreting more articulate requests.

We are so far away from zen.




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