Hi,
is there anyone here who uses Google Assistant? AntennaPod 2.2.0 beta introduces experimental support for Google Assistant and it would be good to get some feedback about how/if it works on real-world device configurations. You can say things like:
Hey Google, open the queue in AntennaPod
or
Hey Google, search for Politics in AntennaPod
It would be great if someone could try it and report back their findings 
I tried both and they work!
The queue opened, and I was able to search for politics in my episodes.
Pixel 5, Australian English user 
Both works well, with searching, I was expecting to search for podcasts instead of episodes
Nice, thanks for testing! In German, I can only search. Opening specific screens does not work. Maybe I just donât know the exact words it wants me to say.
It would also be interesting to hear if it also works for more non-english languages. So if there are more people here who use Assistant, please do test and report back 
Curious also: does Google âtalkâ back to you with the results? Or do you have to check your screen? And does it support âpause/play AntennaPodâ?
Would it be possible to specify what youâd want to search for? Like âsearch for podcast xxxxâ or âsearch for xxxx in episodesâ
Hello,
tested in Italian and both work. When using these commands, Google says âOpening antennapodâ and it open the screen with the results. Iâve also tested searches with one or more words âsoftwareâ and âsoftware liberoâ and they worked fine.
I was expecting the search results were from the podcast database (e.g. a âfree softwareâ podcast) but it returns the episodes from the already subscribed podcast. Not an issue, just reporting. Iâm not an user of any google assistant service, so this behaviour may be exactly what you want.
Iâve tried to open other screens of AntennaPod. Iâve said âopen Download in AntennaPodâ but it opened a âdownloadâ search and not the correct screen.
Yeah, thatâs what happens for me too. I wonder if there is something wrong in AntennaPod or if the Assistant supports that specific feature only in English. Googleâs documentation is not too helpful there. Search is based on the get-thing api and opening specific screens is based on the open-app-feature api. According to the website, both are only available in English, which is wrong apparently.
This works for me. I used beta antennapod and android 10. Is there a way to stop and start podcasts?
AntennaPod follows all the requirements needed to do that. I am not sure if it just doesnât work in German, if I say the wrong terms, or if it does not work at all. Google lists some example queries here: Google ă˘ăˇăšăżăłăă¨ăĄăăŁă˘ă˘ă㪠| Android media | Android Developers
Iâve installed Antennapod 2.2.1 on my mobile and on my linked Google Nest Iâm unable to jup into Antennapod anyhow.
Stupid question: how is the speech intent to make it work ?
Try using Google Assistant directly on your phone. I donât know how this works with linked devices.
Do you mean the technical details? It uses the get-thing API, which sends an android.intent.action.VIEW intent with the url https://antennapod.org/deeplink/search?query=Test (that page is never actually queried, so it does not need to be a valid website).
Maybe itâs a maybe maximal stupid question (I own this device since 1 day) but what Iâve to say to hear a podcast from my Antennapod.
I say âHey Google, play podcastâ and it plays a randomized podcast from Spotify. My expectation is something different and I guess there must be a linking to Antennapod, but how ?
I donât use Assistant myself, so I have never seen that screen. My guess would be that Google needs to add you to that list. If you find a way to register an app (via manifest, etc) let me know
According to this website, the following call should work: Google ě´ěě¤í´í¸ ë° ëŻ¸ëě´ ěą | Android ę°ë°ě | Android Developers
âPlay (podcast) on (app name).â
Can you try if that works for you @hannes_a?
@keunes sorry, it doesnât work.
This Google Assistant  | Google Developers is the documentation if someone is interested.
I guess the shortcuts are missing Push dynamic shortcuts to Assistant  | App Actions  | Google Developers
I can successfully open AntennaPod using Assistant, by saying âHey Google, Open AntennaPodâ.
However there is no way to then get it to play/resume. I tried all sorts of phrases but couldnât get it to continue from where I left off in my Podcast list.
Also, when opening AntennaPod via Assistant, I expected my Bluetooth headsetâs play button to pick up the app in focus and therefore continue whichever podcast was playing previously, but I have to manually press play on the phone first in order to âinitialiseâ the bluetooth controls with that app.
This bug should be fixed in the next release. It is being tested in beta right now. See this release notes AntennaPod 2.4 release notes - #3 by keunes
