Google Assistant with Västtrafik departures
A Google Home Mini recently made it into the collection of gadgets I use on a daily basis for casting music, setting count down timers, reminders, recipes etc. However the capabilities the software behind it, Google Assistant, expand way beyond that. We saw how it, one day soon, could be making calls and booking appointments for you during the Google IO 18 keynote. Additionally, it is expected to be the catalyst for driver experience, as brilliantly demonstrated by Volvo Cars in the promotional video of their next generation infotainment system. It runs native Android just like your smartphone! There is so much potential in this technology I had to try it out myself and this is my take on it!
I re-used my older VasttraPi code and made Google Assistant talk to a Python web server so to fetch bus and tram departures from Västtrafik which is the local transportation company, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Read more about the project on my blog: https://platis.solutions/blog/2018/07...
Reproduce this by following a a step-by-step tutorial on Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/id/Crea...
Check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/platisd/vasttrafik...