This is a very quick and dirty Bash script to automatically pull relevant local authentication tokens for Google Home and load them into Home Assistant on a timer.
Based on great work by Rithvik Vibhu on figuring out the API and writing a script to retrieve the Google Master and Access tokens.
- A linux machine with support for cronjobs (does not have to be the Home Assistant host)
- Get_tokens.py
- The script needs to be configured etiher with your Google credentials (username / (application) password), or with a master key override set. The latter can be done after running the script once.
- The latest release of grpcurl
- Google Foyer proto files (preserve the folder structure)
- Edit the variables in the script as needed, the paths to the downloaded files (see above), and whether or not you want to use health checks via healthchecks.io
- Add your long-lived API token for the Home Assistant API (generated on your profile)
- Specify the paths to the files downloaded in the previous step
- Specify array of devices you want to retrieve the access tokens for (run the grpcurl command from the script manually if you are unsure)
- Optionally configure (or disable) healthchecks via healthchecks.io
- Verify that the script runs properly and succesfully pushes the data to Home Assistant
- Set the script to run on a Cronjob (tokens are invalidated after 1 hour)
The script will push the tokens for the specified devices as attributes to an entity input_text.google_tokens in Home Assistant. These attributes can now be retrieved via templating within Home Assistant. For example, here is the command_line sensor I am using to retrieve the timestamp of the next alarm from my Google Home device.
platform: command_line
command: "curl --insecure --header \"cast-local-authorization-token: {{ state_attr('input_text.google_tokens', 'token_my-google-home') }}\" https://my-google-home:8443/setup/assistant/alarms"
name: Next Alarm
value_template: >
{% set alarms = value_json.alarm|sort(attribute='fire_time') %}
{% if alarms[0] is defined %}
{{ alarms[0].fire_time }}
{% else %}
None
{% endif %}
If health checks are used, the healthchecksio custom component could be used to monitor the status of the script from within Home Assistant.