Dish has Fixed Google Assistant on Hopper3 Receivers

[dweber]

Tonight I was attempting to voice search for a program on my Family Room Hopper3 receiver. A message popped up asking if I wanted to link my Hopper3 to Google Assistant. I agreed. It asked me to open Google Assistant on my mobile device. I opened Google Assistant on my IPhone 12 Pro Max. It displayed a pairing code which I accepted. Google Assistant on my IPhone then searched for devices for about 1.5 minutes. It found the Hopper.

Google Assistant now does the following with voice commands on my 54 remote.
1) It can access events in my calendar
2) It can control all of my Lutron Caseta lights throughout my house.
3) it can open or close my SwitchBot curtains
4) It can tell me the humidity and temperature of rooms from my SwitchBot Hub2.
5) It can answer questions.

What does not work very well is actual control of the Hopper 3 receiver.
Pause, Resume, tune to channel xx, etc. only work part of the time.

Good start Dish!!!! Keep working on it.


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[tanman]

Not at all sure if this is related but (like Alexa and Amazon) Google has laid off lots of employees, I use Alexa not GA so I don't pretend to be an expert at all.

Google Assistant will lose these 17 features in the next few weeks

Most of the actions Google is removing relate to voice commands and were 'underutilized.' If you miss them, here's what you can do.

www.zdnet.com

 

[HipKat]

Not at all sure if this is related but (like Alexa and Amazon) Google has laid off lots of employees, I use Alexa not GA so I don't pretend to be an expert at all.

Google Assistant will lose these 17 features in the next few weeks

Most of the actions Google is removing relate to voice commands and were 'underutilized.' If you miss them, here's what you can do.

www.zdnet.com

It was actually 24 total and most of them are very underused. I use GA a lot and none of the ones listed are anything I use

 

[ralfyguy]

GA has never worked for me a single time. No results no matter what I say, not even "Stop sharing information" works to start over. Not even with a new 54.3 remote. Nothing.

 

[SandFarmer]

Fixed how? No more Happy Hours with Alex-a?


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[dweber]

Fixed how? No more Happy Hours with Alex-a?


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Alexa still works well with both of my Hopper 3 and Joey 3 equipment. Alexa allows me to pause, resume, skip ahead xx amount, change channel, and turn off my Dish equipment.

Google Assistant using voice commands on my Dish remote can control my Lutron Caseta lights, SwitchBot curtains, bring up my calendar, display my Google photos, do internet searches, and answer basic questions.

What Google cannot do is control the Dish equipment. Google no longer lists Dish as a Service that works with Google. I am surprised that Dish has not taken down the bottom portion of the Google Assistant setup screen. The bottom portion of that screen generates a pairing code that in the past would allow Google Home to link to Dish. But since Google has removed Dish from their list of services “Controlling Dish through a Google Assistant Device” is no longer available.


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[ralfyguy]

How did you get this work at all?

 

[dweber]

You asked how I got this to work. I described it in post 1 which I have copied below.
I was attempting to do a voice search for a program on my Family Room Hopper3 receiver. A message popped up asking if I wanted to link my Hopper3 to Google Assistant. I agreed. It asked me to open Google Assistant on my mobile device. I opened Google Assistant on my IPhone 12 Pro Max. It displayed a pairing code which I accepted. Google Assistant on my IPhone then searched for devices for about 1.5 minutes. It found my Hopper 3. After that occurred Google Assistant works using my 53 voice remote.


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[ralfyguy]

Well, mine never understands what I'm saying.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Well, mine never understands what I'm saying.

You need to use a robot voice for it to understand.

 

[tjboston5676]

You need to use a robot voice for it to understand.

Anytime I talk to a machine I use a robot voice lol especially when reading off numbers. You need to mimic the same way they talk to you.

 

[ralfyguy]

Well, let me rephrase what I said: Technically it understands everything I say as it shows on the bottom of the screen being repeated, yet anything I say is answered with " We're having trouble processing your request. Please try again later". I cannot even start over with saying "Stop sharing information".