Today we are going to teach you a huge trick: how to install Google Assistant on Windows, MacOS and Linux; although these last two systems differ in the file that we will download for them.
In this manner we will have almost the complete Google AssistantAlthough the power to broadcast music on other smart devices is not yet available, we can activate persistent conversation or turn on the home lights as long as we have one of those smart bulbs.
Google Assistant download
First we download Google Assistant thanks to work of a developer who has made a port for these 3 systems. The steps are the same since we have to obtain a token from Google to certify Google Assistant on our PC, either Windows, MacOS and Linux:
- Google Assistant: Download on Windows, MacOS and Linux
How to activate Google Assistant on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Now we are going to carry out several steps that may take us a few minutes to create a project in Actions Google and use it to receive a token with which we can create an identification screen with which we will log in with the Google account that we will use; logically we have to use the one with which we are going to use the Google Assistant; and by the way do not miss how to transfer files quickly with 2 mobiles together.
Remember You have all the steps in the video that we have uploaded to our YouTube channel that you can accompany with these steps below.
So we will:
- Let's go to Action Console
- Will click on «New Project»
- Now in pop-up window we will name the project. For example "GoogleAssistant My PC"
- In the next window we must place ourselves at the bottom until we see "Are you looking for device registration" and click on «Click here»
- Now we wait a few seconds, at the window We will see «Register Model». We click
- In the next window we fill in the name of the device, the manufacturer (it does not have to be reliable) and the type of device to "Light"
- Click on Register Model
- Now we will see a button in blue that we have to press to download «Download OUath 2.0 credentials»
- This file we have to know where it is because we will use it later
Now we will go to the Google Cloud console to resume the project:
- Going CloudConsole
- We press up to the right next to Google Cloud Platform
- We select «All» in the next window and we will see the projects that we have active
If for whatever reason we have already configured another Google Assistant on another PC, we have to choose the new project chosen to configure it.
- Now, On the next screen, click on the side menu: «APIs & Services»
- Now click on "Enable APIs and Services"
- On the next screen we have to click on the search engine and search for "Google Assistant"
- We click on it and on the next we activate it from "Enable" when selecting it
- It takes a few seconds to activate
- We go to the menu again and We give on «Credentials» or Configure consent screen
- We select «External» and «Create»
- On the next screen we enter our Google account email in User support email
- We go down further down and we put the same email in «Developer contact information»
- We give "Save and Continue"
- Now it's time to press about "Add users"
- In the field of adding users we have to add the account or accounts that we want to be able to authenticate
- We keep
Now already We only have to open Google Assistant from the PC and configure the last steps:
- After pressing the two actions that indicate us we are going to settings in the upper left part, the cogwheel button
- En Key File Path in «Authentication», we give to «Browse» and we look for the file that we had previously downloaded
- We give «Save»
- A window appears where click on «Automatically set a path»
- We relaunch the wizard
- The browser will be launched so that we identify ourselves with a Google account
- We give him to continue in the next window even if he warns us
- We give "Allow" in the following
- We already have the token, we copy it with the button for it
- And the we paste in the Google Assistant window
- Click Submit
- Ready!
Now it remains that select the Spanish language and enjoy Google Assistant on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is true that music streaming is not going, but the rest of the functionalities do.
