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                        <title>Volume of Google Assistant</title>
                        <link>https://thecorpora.com/community/google-assistance/volume-of-google-assistant/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hello, I touched by chance the volume on configQBO, bringing then it back at maximum. From that moment on, I can hear well the initial message from Q.Bo about interactive mode but after that...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, I touched by chance the volume on configQBO, bringing then it back at maximum. From that moment on, I can hear well the initial message from Q.Bo about interactive mode but after that Google Assistant volume is very low.</p><p>Volume control of Debian is at 100%.</p><p>Obviously I turn it off and on again, but nothing changed, still GA volume is very low.</p><p>Any idea of what happened? Any suggestion?</p><p>Thanks!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>HOWTO: Get started with the Google Assistant on your Q.bo Robot </title>
                        <link>https://thecorpora.com/community/google-assistance/howto-get-started-with-the-google-assistant-on-your-q-bo-robot-in-progress/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Configure a Developer Project and Account SettingsConfigure an Actions Console projectA Google Cloud Platform project, managed by the Actions Console, gives your device access to the Google ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><span style="font-weight: 400">Configure a Developer Project and Account Settings</span></h1><h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Configure an Actions Console project</span></h2><p><span style="font-weight: 400">A Google Cloud Platform project, managed by the Actions Console, gives your device access to the Google Assistant API. The project tracks quota usage and gives you valuable metrics for the requests made from your device.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">To enable access to the Google Assistant API, do the following:</span></p><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Open the Actions Console.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://console.actions.google.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400">GO TO THE ACTIONS CONSOLE</span></a></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Click on </span><strong>Add/import project</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">To create a new project, type a name in the </span><strong>Project name</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> box and click </span><strong>CREATE PROJECT</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">If you already have an existing Google Cloud Platform project, you can select that project and import it instead.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Click the </span><strong>Device registration</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> box.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable the Google Assistant API by accessing to your google cloud panel</span><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Choose yourproject (see the </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/terms-of-service"><span style="font-weight: 400">Terms of Service</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">).</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">On left Panel Go toAPis And Services</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Library</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Search for “Assistant”</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable The API </span></li></ol></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/embeddedassistant.googleapis.com/overview"><span style="font-weight: 400">ENABLE THE API</span></a></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Click </span><strong>Enable</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li></ol><h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Set activity controls for your account</span></h2><p><span style="font-weight: 400">In order to use the Google Assistant, you must share certain activity data with Google. The Google Assistant needs this data to function properly; this is not specific to the SDK.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Open the </span><a href="https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols"><span style="font-weight: 400">Activity Controls page</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> for the Google account that you want to use with the Assistant. You can use any Google account, it does not need to be your developer account.</span></p><p><strong>Ensure the following toggle switches are enabled (blue)</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">:</span></p><ul><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Web &amp; App Activity</span><ul><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">In addition, be sure to select the </span><strong>Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> checkbox.</span></li></ul></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Device Information</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Voice &amp; Audio Activity</span></li></ul><p> </p><h1><span style="font-weight: 400">Register the Device Model</span></h1><p><span style="font-weight: 400">In order for the Google Assistant to respond to commands appropriate to your device and the given context, the Assistant needs information about your particular device. You provide this information, which includes fields like device type and manufacturer, as a device model. You can think of this model as a general class of device - like a light, speaker, or toy robot.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">This information is then accessible to the Google Assistant and is associated with your Actions Console project. No other projects have access to your model and device information.</span></p><h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Use the registration UI</span></h2><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Use the registration UI in the Actions Console to register a device model.</span></p><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Open the </span><a href="https://console.actions.google.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Actions Console</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Select the project you created previously.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Select the </span><strong>Device registration</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> tab (under </span><strong>ADVANCED OPTIONS</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">) from the left navbar.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Click the </span><strong>REGISTER MODEL</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> button.</span></li></ol><h3><span style="font-weight: 400">Create model</span></h3><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Fill out all of the fields for your device.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">See the device model JSON </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/reference/device-registration/model-and-instance-schemas.html#device_model_json"><span style="font-weight: 400">reference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> for more information on these fields.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">When you are finished, click </span><strong>REGISTER MODEL</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li></ol><h3><span style="font-weight: 400">Download credentials file</span></h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400">The </span><span style="font-weight: 400">credentials.json</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> file must be located on the device. Later, you will run an authorization tool and reference this file in order to authorize the Google Assistant SDK sample to make Google Assistant queries. Do not rename this file.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Download this file and transfer it to the device. Click </span><strong>NEXT</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></p><p><em><span style="font-weight: 400">For the Raspberry Pi only:</span></em></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Make sure this file is located in </span><span style="font-weight: 400">/home/pi</span><span style="font-weight: 400">. If you want to upload the file to the device, do the following:</span></p><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Open a new terminal window. Run the following command in this new terminal:</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Note:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> Do </span><strong>not</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> run the following command in an SSH session connected to the device. This command transfers the JSON file from a directory on your development machine to the device. An SSH session cannot access your local directories.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">scp ~/Downloads/credentials.json pi@</span><strong>raspberry-pi-ip-address</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">:/home/pi/</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">password: </span><strong>password-for-device</strong></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Close this terminal window.</span></li></ol><h3><span style="font-weight: 400">Specify traits</span></h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Later, you will specify the different abilities that your device supports on this screen. But for now, click the </span><strong>SKIP</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> button.</span></p><h3><span style="font-weight: 400">Edit the model</span></h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400">If you need to edit the model, click its row in the list. Make sure to click </span><strong>SAVE</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> after any edits.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">To download the credentials file again, click the ellipses. You can delete the model from this menu as well.</span></p><h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Generate credentials</span></h2><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Open Terminal in Raspbian</span></p><p> </p><ol><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">google-oauthlib-tool --scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/assistant-sdk-prototype \</span><span style="font-weight: 400"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400">          --scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gcm \</span><span style="font-weight: 400"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400">          --save --headless --client-secrets </span><strong>/home/pi/</strong><span style="font-weight: 400">credentials.json</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">You should see a URL displayed in the terminal:</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Please visit this URL to authorize this application: https://...</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Copy the URL and paste it into a browser (this can be done on any machine). The page will ask you to sign in to your Google account. Sign into the Google account that created the developer project in the previous </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/guides/library/python/embed/config-dev-project-and-account.html#config-dev-project"><span style="font-weight: 400">step</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Note:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400"> To use other accounts, first </span><a href="https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/granting-changing-revoking-access"><span style="font-weight: 400">add those accounts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> to your Actions Console project as Owners.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">After you approve the permission request from the API, a code will appear in your browser, such as "4/XXXX". Copy and paste this code into the terminal:</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enter the authorization code:</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">If authorization was successful, you will see a response similar to the following:</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">credentials saved: /path/to/.config/google-oauthlib-tool/credentials.json</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">If instead you see </span><span style="font-weight: 400">InvalidGrantError</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, then an invalid code was entered. Try again, taking care to copy and paste the entire code.</span></li></ol><p><span style="font-weight: 400">Restart and Enjoy with GA in Qbo</span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Beta testing documentation</title>
                        <link>https://thecorpora.com/community/google-assistance/beta-testing-documentation/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hello,I&#039;m trying to follow the steps on the beta testing documentation, but, after having got access to q.bo one via VNC (it worked out, I suggest to generate the QR code with at least a 8 i...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p><p>I'm trying to follow the steps on the beta testing documentation, but, after having got access to q.bo one via VNC (it worked out, I suggest to generate the QR code with at least a 8 inches display ;-) I'm a bi tlost in following the steps in Google Cloud Platform. Is it maybe related to an older version? I have already some project (I tried DiagFlow before), I created a pretty new one for the test but I don't find how to register a device... even the online help is working so fine...</p><p>Do you have any hint?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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