Convert IR code to z wave command

[superhuynh]

I use Philips pronto remote that I put a lot of time setting it up so that wife can easily use. In the home theater i have a bunch of x10 dimmers to control lighting. However, it is time to move from x10 and I am installing wifi and z wave dimmers controllable by smartthings. However, i still want the ability to have my Pronto remote send an ir code to turn on a smartthing device. So i am looking for an ir to smartthing device. Everything I have googled have been smartthing to ir (ie Harmony home hub) not the other way around. basically i am looking for the smartthing or z wave equivalence of the IR543 for x10.

Changing out of the Pronto remote is not an option.

[ErnieG]

Maybe something along the lines of what is discussed below. That is an old thread and that particular solution may or may not still work.

Harmony / Eventghost

One of my goals is to have my harmony remote control smartthings. Since Harmony won’t release the API, I’ve been thinking of other ways to accomplish this. I have an idea that might work, but I wanted to see if anyone else has tried this before. I was thinking of setting up a laptop with eventghost (and a flirc IR receiver) and creating a Smartthings activity on the harmony. Then when eventghost receives a command from the remote, have it connect via http to a REST url. In my head, this will work, but I have never used eventghost and am basing my ideas off of what I have read about eventghost online. Has anyone else tried this?

[superhuynh]

Thanks for the reply, but I am pretty sure that required the use of a harmony remote (he mentioned Harmony API). I need ability to accept (not send) a generic IR signal and turn that to a trigger for Smartthings. It did bring up FLIRC which is not a bad idea.

[ErnieG]

It did not require a Harmony remote. The setup was to capture ir commands. A harmony remote happened to be used but it could have been any ir remote.