Google has expanded Google Assistant support to a plethora of smart home hardware today. The expansion follows a similar move for smart home entertainment devices in April this year.
“These new device types help build out a more complete solution for smart home media and gaming devices. By implementing these types and traits on your entertainment devices, you can enable users to fully access device and media controls from any Assistant surface,” wrote Google’s Toni Klopfenstein in a blog post.
“The available channels should be shared as a list, per user or device, during SYNC via the availableChannels attribute. This list should comprise of all top or popular channels that the user or device is subscribed to. To ensure a low query latency, we recommend that you keep the channel list small (to 30 channels or less),” reads the guideline for developers.
