Monitor for automated emails to send commands.
This repo enables you to command your Amazon firestick or other device thru email, if you tie into https://ifttt.com/discover you can use your Google home to command your Amazon firestick or other device.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install oauth2client
You will need to create credentials for this program to access gmail, see https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/about-auth for details.
Update gmail_monitor.sh replacing ENTER_CLIENT_ID_HERE, and ENTER_SECRET_HERE with credentials.
Once you have credentials setup use the generate_refresh_token.py (modified for gmail version of https://github.com/googleads/googleads-python-lib/blob/master/examples/dfp/authentication/generate_refresh_token.py) to create tokens and create a file called .meta. Copy the token output of generate_refresh_token.py to the first line of .meta and the refresh token to the second line.
Now you will need to setup an action script, gmail_monitor.sh assumes automated emails (from yourself) will be in format aut0m8:action args:3nd and after parsing email action.sh args will be called. For example, aut0m8:firestick trolls:3nd will call firestick.sh "trolls" (if you have firestick.sh call https://github.com/jpward/firestick_text_input then you can use email to start shows on Amazon firestick.)
If you setup https://ifttt.com/discover to send emails from your Google home now you can command Google assistant to play shows on your Amazon firestick.
High level diagram of components and data flow
Repos providing functionality above:
- Firestick control - https://github.com/jpward/firestick_text_input - example
- Open garage door - https://github.com/jpward/gdoor_server - example
- Play music from youtube over chromecast - https://github.com/jpward/yt-2-chromecast - example
- Play error message over chromecast - https://github.com/jpward/text-2-chromecast - example