How to fix: "No help topic for 'preview'" error when using gactions?

Question

I've been trying to follow a tutorial on building your first action for google home:

https://medium.com/google-cloud/building-your-first-action-for-google-home-in-30-minutes-ec6c65b7bd32

I was able to deploy my application to the google cloud, but once I try to deploy my action.json test file I receive an error message that says: "No help topic for 'preview'."

./gactions preview --action_package action.json --invocation_name "three doors" --preview_mins 1234

No help topic for 'preview'

I've followed the suggestions from:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46591266/golang-runtime-panic-when-using-gaction-on-linux-to-update-google-home-assistant

But updating gactions didn't work either as there were no new updates.

I'm running ubuntu-18.04.2 Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64

{
  "versionLabel": "1.0",
  "agentInfo": {
    "languageCode": "en-US",
    "projectId": "three-doors-3124",
    "voiceName": "male_1"
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "description": "Launch intent",
      "initialTrigger": {
        "intent": "assistant.intent.action.MAIN"
      },
      "httpExecution": {
        "url": "https://us-central1-three-doors-3124.cloudfunctions.net/three_doors"
      }
    }
  ],
 "locale": "en"
}

I'm not sure how to fix this problem, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

That post is from 2017, and a lot of the development environment and setup has changed since then. I'd recommend going to the codelabs as they will provide good up to date starting guides.