Google Actions changed from home control to Smart Home

[gwiersma]

Instance Type (hosted/ docker/ other): Docker
User ID (if using hosted service):
Steps to reproduce issue:

• Step 1: Setup Google action (Smart Home)
• Step 2 Setup gBridge on Docker
• Step 3: Try to link gBridge to Google Home

Expected behaviour: Account linking works as described in the documentation
Actual behaviour: I have gBridge running on docker behind a Reverse Proxy. I am able to login but when i try to add the gbridge app to Google home, i receive the following error:

The request by Google Home was Malformed. Please try again in a few minutes. If this problem persists, please contact the team of Kappelt gBridge. Unkown Response Type Requesed! 

When setting up the Google action, i saw that home control is not one of the options anymore. Instead it has become Smart Home. When setting up the account linking, i have to sepcify the Token URL (oauth endpoint for token exchange). I currently use the /bridge/gapi/auth url as value. Does any one have a idea?

[lowlander07]

Ran into the same problem. For 'Smart Home' Google does not support the OAuth implicit code flow anymore.

[jaburges]

so is this DOA then now?

[werty1st]

i tried to implement something of this: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/passport#code-grant-pkce
but it looks like the gBridge is developed in laravel 5.5 and I don't know (if possible) how to upgrade it to at least laravel 6. 😞

[peterkappelt]

Hey guys, sorry for your inconvenience. I had to cancel development of the non-enterprise gBridge platform since it was not profitable. The code here hasn't been touched in a while and is probably outdated.

Migrating the authentication from the implicit code to authorization code flow or alike shouldn't be too hard.

• Find the authentication part in gBridge
• Redirect to the authorization URL of Google, with grant_type being set to authorization_code
• Create a new endpoint in laravel/ gBridge for the callback of Google authorization
• In this endpoint: check for errors, parse the returned auth code, call the "token" api endpoint of Google using this auth code, continue using the returned token (rather than the token directly returned by implicit flow)

Sorry that I can't provide more support

[lowlander07]

Hi all,
I'm trying to implement something as well. But Docker, PHP, etc. are all new for me. So some learning to do.
But I make some progress. Just finished point 2 of Peter's list. Thanks for that Peter.

[nayneyT]

Hi everybody.

If you use use NodeRed as part of your home assistant setup then I suggest you take a look at https://github.com/mikejac/node-red-contrib-google-smarthome and https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-google-smarthome

It's an absolute shame that this project died.

[Suryaobulareddy2932]

@lowlander07

Do you have any luck on this as @peterkappelt mentioned. If yes, please help me out

My mail id is suryaobulareddy@gmail.com

[lowlander07]

@lowlander07

Do you have any luck on this as @peterkappelt mentioned. If yes, please help me out

My mail id is suryaobulareddy@gmail.com

Hi, yes I got it implemented and working. It's probably not the best code, but it works for me.

[MrMarcel66]

@lowlander07
Can you share your solution with us please!
I'm using gBridge for a while and i was very happy with this project.
Too bad the project is dead i found it the best solution.

regards Marcel.

[lowlander07]

Hi Marcel, Yes, the modified code is in here: https://github.com/lowlander07/gBridge Hope you can use it as well. Regards, Bert Op di 31 jan. 2023 om 23:42 schreef MrMarcel66 ***@***.***>:

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[MrMarcel66]

Hi Bert, thanks for sharing.
I see if i can use the code, i'm not a programmer so fingers crossed. I'm using the gbridge docker setup. I was already moving from domoticz to homeassistant. But i have to stay on domoticz because the gbridge solution gives me more voice options, like using a pin for random devices and change switch devices to lights and when saying switch all lights off not all your switches wil turn off for example.
Regards,
Marcel.