New Voice Assistant Issue

2249581 said:

To make it work, you'll need to update the device name and MAC address in the "Garmin Connected" profile.

Can you explain this more for us beginners? I can get to the Garmin Connected profile and can see a Name field that says Optional and and Address field with an address in it - but where do I find my data?

Go into tasker 

Tap on the Garmin connected profile

In there tap on BT connected

Delete address that's in there

Tap search icon and find your watch, so it populates that field

When back out, tap ️ at top right

You should be five

If you click the little magnifying glass next to Name or Address on the State Edit screen, you can choose the Garmin from the list of your paired devices. Either Name or Address will work - you don't have to use both.

What did you find worked best for the %msToWait variable?

LOL thanks. I was clicking the option to show available commands, I did not think to click the search icon.

I have it set to 1500 right now. For me that seems to be the best balance between not waiting too long to retry and not retrying prematurely.

Kudos to you 2249581 this works really well! Assistant still gets confused sometimes if you get new messages when replying to current messages, and I also noticed that sometime it leaves the assistant dialog live on your phone screen and then it will not take new commands when you try to invoke it again. But thise seem to be more Google Assistant issues than watch issues.

Do you have a Tasker setup that reads your messages and prompts you for a reply from other BT devices? Something that could be used to receive and reply to messages in the car if you have BT but no Android Auto.

2249581 said:

I have it set to 1500 right now. For me that seems to be the best balance between not waiting too long to retry and not retrying prematurely.

Where did you set this? I see a Wait step (14) but it looks like the input goes from 0-59. Maybe you use 15?

Glad it works for you too. There are definitely some imperfections and hiccups, but it's a big improvement over "works half the time if you're lucky". I don't have any other Tasker projects at the moment, but I bet someone has developed something like what you're describing.