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Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default
(www.androidauthority.com)
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What phone functions are you interested in? In theory if you can control it from HA you can control it from Assist. Sometimes it requires a bit more elbow grease though. I don't use timers much, so I haven't tried that. I don't see why you couldn't create a custom sentence and intent for it though.