# Return the ability to get information with Google Assistant **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [October 29, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772 "2023-10-29T15:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmbowman06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cmbowman06](https://community.tempest.earth/u/cmbowman06)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/1 "2023-10-29T15:20:58Z")
You used to be able to ask a Google assistant device for weather information. Google made a change that broke that. The function needs to be returned/recreated. ---
**Author:** ![bandl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@bandl](https://community.tempest.earth/u/bandl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/2 "2023-10-30T11:48:37Z")
Some of the limitations on this are that there are only [specific Google-specified devices](https://developers.home.google.com/cloud-to-cloud/supported-devices) that can integrate with the assistant. [Sensor](https://developers.home.google.com/cloud-to-cloud/guides/sensor) is the closest, allowing it to return temperature & humidity, but there’s nothing else - no rain, no wind, no forecast, etc. It’s unfortunate 😕 ---
**Author:** ![cmbowman06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cmbowman06](https://community.tempest.earth/u/cmbowman06)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/3 "2023-10-30T13:45:21Z")
The unfortunate thing is that Tempest solar a device claiming it worked with Google Assistant devices. I used that promise when purchasing the device. I am just asking then to fulfill the promise. I would be happy with just wind and temperature. ---
**Author:** ![sunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/sunny/32/16368_2.png) [@sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/u/sunny)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/4 "2023-10-30T13:58:19Z")
Does google’s sensor actually specify what the sensor measures? It looks pretty general to me and it sounds like it could report a numerical value. But I didn’t look very good. ---
**Author:** ![bandl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@bandl](https://community.tempest.earth/u/bandl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/5 "2023-10-30T14:21:16Z")
There’s a list of [supported sensor types](https://developers.home.google.com/cloud-to-cloud/traits/sensorstate#supported-sensors) - a weather station just doesn’t seem to have been considered. Perhaps Weatherflow as a company can help lobby to provide a more relevant sensor type (or perhaps there’s some other way to integrate that I’m missing). That said - integration with a particular smart home solution is something that isn’t completely within Weatherflow’s control - it was definitely true at the time they said it, but this change was outside of their control. ---
**Author:** ![sunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/sunny/32/16368_2.png) [@sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/u/sunny)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/6 "2023-10-30T14:27:34Z")
too bad. We should push google to add weatherstations to the list of devices. Surely if such an obscure device like a yoghurt maker is on the list, a weather station should have been on that list. edit… there is a form for that [Google Issue Tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/305280450) ---
**Author:** ![sunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/sunny/32/16368_2.png) [@sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/u/sunny)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/7 "2023-10-30T14:38:12Z")
> [@sunny](#): > > there is a form for that [Google Issue Tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/305280450) I just used that form. Feel free to add to it. ---
**Author:** ![bandl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@bandl](https://community.tempest.earth/u/bandl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/8 "2023-10-30T14:57:32Z")
Thanks! BTW, you may want to update the title in buganizer from ‘[Your Title Here]’ to something like ‘Weather Station’ - it may help it get looked at more quickly. For what it’s worth, there’s also a somewhat similar request in [Google Issue Tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/182882556) , from 2021 😕 ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/9 "2023-10-30T17:35:18Z")
> [@bandl](#): > > There’s a list of [supported sensor types](https://developers.home.google.com/cloud-to-cloud/traits/sensorstate#supported-sensors) - a weather station just doesn’t seem to have been considered. For what it’s worth, Apple’s HomeKit also lacks support for many weather station sensors. Apple has recently published WeatherKit, but the overviews that I’ve seen made it seem like it was a conduit for the former Dark Sky forecast data and not for publishing current PWS sensor observations… ---
**Author:** ![cew0719](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/cew0719/32/14925_2.png) [@cew0719](https://community.tempest.earth/u/cew0719)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/10 "2023-11-04T18:23:29Z")
Weatherflow is still showing Google Assistant as being supported, so they’re still misleading with this. One of the main reasons I purchased this expensive device was the Google integration. Now it is gone. They also promised SmartThings integration (was listed on the side of the box mine came in), but that never happened, either. I really loathe being mislead. ---
**Author:** ![sunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/sunny/32/16368_2.png) [@sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/u/sunny)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:19am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/11 "2023-11-05T10:19:28Z")
they have a 60(!) day no-questions asked return policy. 60 days to discover that the integrations you want are problematic. Of course they should remove the google-integration from their advertisement. ---
**Author:** ![cew0719](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/cew0719/32/14925_2.png) [@cew0719](https://community.tempest.earth/u/cew0719)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/12 "2023-11-05T13:16:48Z")
LoL It takes much longer than 60 days to learn that the integrations promised are never going to be done. When I’d ask, it was always, “it’s being worked on, just be patient”. ---
**Author:** ![captainjackfan53](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/captainjackfan53/32/16096_2.png) [@captainjackfan53](https://community.tempest.earth/u/captainjackfan53)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/13 "2023-11-09T20:58:52Z")
That would be nice to have! I know Alexa has that option but I would like to see google incorporate it. ---
**Author:** ![xelysianplainsx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/35a633/32.png) [@xelysianplainsx](https://community.tempest.earth/u/xelysianplainsx)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/14 "2023-12-14T19:41:52Z")
The ability to ask Google’s assistant what the weather is at our exact location is the main reason I bought this product. I’m also an investor in the company. Why is it that an important feature like this was allowed to be interrupted with no apparent plan to fix it? I understand Google made some changes on their end but the problem seems to be that weatherflow hasn’t responded with an update on their end yet. The Google integration feature was already weak to begin with, with how clunky and limited it was, but to have it removed completely is not appreciated. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![saint.questi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/saint.questi/32/16206_2.png) [@saint.questi](https://community.tempest.earth/u/saint.questi)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/15 "2023-12-24T17:10:44Z")
Has there been any updates upon this issue?? ---
**Author:** ![user313](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/user313/32/13394_2.png) [@user313](https://community.tempest.earth/u/user313)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/return-the-ability-to-get-information-with-google-assistant/22772/16 "2023-12-29T16:08:09Z")
I agree, Amazon’s smart speakers immediately respond to Weatherflow inquiries. I don’t understand why Google backpedaled in removing communication with Tempest and their smart speakers. It’s a valuable feature that should be strengthened, not weakened.