My first guide so if not everything is clear, let me know 
My tablet screen broke a few days ago (a bottle of tequila fell on it) but the device itself works just hunky dory. Together with the fact that I really want to get a Chromecast Audio (but I am too cheap and I'm guessing that the two current versions will be merged into one as a Chromecast 3): enter the Poor Man's Chromecast Audio.
What it does: voice activate music on a remote device through Google Now
Example: (speaking to my phone) OK Google - Nexus play Artic Monkeys
- the tablet starts playing Artic Monkeys
Example: (speaking to my phone) OK Google - Nexus play the wolves
- the tablet starts playing the wolves (by Ben Howard)
Prerequisites
Instructions
I'll be using remote (where you insert the command - in my case the phone) and player (which plays the music - in my case the tablet)
Using this as a template it's possible to add other commands (example: change #4 to react to "note containing stop" and #10 to "Media Control cmd Stop"), seeing how it is mostly the same thing over and over, I won't put all the ones I have here (unless someone asks for them).
Things which I have added:
Even though I am sure you can use this with other applications (and not just audio), I currently don't use anything except for Google Play Music but check out http://joaoapps.com/autoshare/intents/ for more possibilities
My tablet screen broke a few days ago (a bottle of tequila fell on it) but the device itself works just hunky dory. Together with the fact that I really want to get a Chromecast Audio (but I am too cheap and I'm guessing that the two current versions will be merged into one as a Chromecast 3): enter the Poor Man's Chromecast Audio.
What it does: voice activate music on a remote device through Google Now
Example: (speaking to my phone) OK Google - Nexus play Artic Monkeys
- the tablet starts playing Artic Monkeys
Example: (speaking to my phone) OK Google - Nexus play the wolves
- the tablet starts playing the wolves (by Ben Howard)
Prerequisites
- Tasker (duh)
- Google Play Music (should work with other media players as well - given some minor adjustments, check out the end of this post)
- Pushbullet
- Autovoice - paid Tasker plugin, there is a lite version but the price definitely worth it (also the dev is a really helpful guy)
- Autoshare - same as above
- Extra Android device (mine is a tablet which didn't accept any touch screen input, so I needed an USB mouse + keyboard as well)
Instructions
I'll be using remote (where you insert the command - in my case the phone) and player (which plays the music - in my case the tablet)
Remote- profile - AutoVoice Recognized"
Code:Command: "nexus (?<tabletaction>.+) (regex)" - task - 1 Push a Notification with the message "%tabletaction"
Player - Received a push: If I received a note containing the text "play" from anyone (my girlfriend uses it as well, if only you use it, ofc change this)
- Variable Set: %pushbullet to %CLIP
- Say: OK, I'll %pushbullet
- Test Variable: Type: length Data: %pushbullet Store result in: %length
- Variable Set: Name %cutoff to %length-5
- Variable Section: Name $pushbullet from 6 Length %cutoff
- Autoshare
Code:
Package: com.google.android.music Class: com.google.android.music.VoiceActionsActivity App: Google Play Music Action: Search and play Query: %pushbullet
Using this as a template it's possible to add other commands (example: change #4 to react to "note containing stop" and #10 to "Media Control cmd Stop"), seeing how it is mostly the same thing over and over, I won't put all the ones I have here (unless someone asks for them).
Things which I have added:
- volume control
- media control (stop, skip to next)
- turn tablet off
Even though I am sure you can use this with other applications (and not just audio), I currently don't use anything except for Google Play Music but check out http://joaoapps.com/autoshare/intents/ for more possibilities
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