Short background story
We currently offer a Conversational Action for hundreds of users. We developed this Action in the last three years as a "job" for one of our customers. As we recently found out, we will be affected by the sunset of conversational actions.
Of course we are now looking into how (and even if) we can continue to provide our service to our users. At the moment it seems like the only option would be to create a „Smart Home” Action from scratch.
Our old system components (Dialogflow, WebApp, Conv. Action) will be deprecated and render useless once the sunset is completed.
The suggested „App Actions” wont be feasible as well, as they seem to only be available for Android Apps (no iOS Support - correct me if I'm wrong).
While researching on possible approaches and reading through the docs in order to be able to communicate to our customer, how or if we even will be able to support / continue development on the system, we encountered some questions that seem to not be answered thoroughly in the docs, docs, docs, docs.
So we are hoping to find some folks who already created a Smart Home Action with a "3rd party" Smart Home device -- and could answer some of our questions:
We already found out the following (for those who wonder):
Our top 2 questions probably are the most relevant for us in order to decide if we even can continue our Google Assistant journey.
We appreciate any answer to any of our question!
Thanks in advance and good luck in migrating your conversational actions!
Conversational actions are being discontinued on June 13, 2023. At the moment, the best way for you to keep using your actions after June 13, 2023 is to download your Conversational Actions via the Actions SDK to create your own back-up of the project. News and announcements about the common to-dos for migrating your actions are available on LINK. Please check out the FAQ & Support section of the above link as they contain to-dos on some major concerns among the developer community regarding this transition.