Then change change the reference to your machine. My machine is called “Mother”
192.168.1.101 Mother
Where 192.168.1.101 is the ip address of your machine
Did this and now it works.
I have played a little with it and can get the system to make announcements to the Chromecast but I couldn’t get the system to turn on a light. It did say:
Dimmer:Porch light off in the room: Porch, what else?
I’m trying to set this up on a Raspberry PI3, and was having no luck getting the conciergeserver to recognize the Google Home device due to the server being stuck on 127.0.1.1 loopback . Just configuring a static IP wasn’t sufficient, and as you have explained, updating the hosts file with the static IP & hostname did the trick!
@Richard - good stuff to include in the setup or diagnostic info.
I’ve upgraded my debian system to 9 and now I get the loopback address. I’ve still have a static ip address and the ip address is still in the hosts file.