How to Use multiple Harmony Hubs
EchiSistant requires NO virtual switches to run Harmony activities. It ONLY requires the Harmony (connect) app to add the hubs to the ST environment.
After installing EchoSistant, head to the ‘Main Home Control’ page and click on Select Devices.
Add your hubs under the ‘Allow These Media Controlers’. Note, selection ORDER is very important. FIRST selected hub becomes your MAIN hub. (the additional hubs will be used with additional Profiles).
To use your MAIN hub, you can say:
Alexa turn the TV on/off IN my Home*
Or
Alexa tell my Home* to turn the TV on/off
To use a specific activity name, simply say:
Alexa, turn on/start/ switch to < activity name > IN my Home
OR
Alexa tell my Home to turn on/start/switch to < activity name >
To use a secondary hub with a Profile
Create a Message and Control Profile and select the hub under the ‘Create Groups and Control Devices’ page.
to use the secondary hub, all you need is to say:
Alexa turn the TV on/off in the Profile
OR Alexa tell the Profile to to turn on/off the TV
Note, the Profile control engine is based on parsing free text, so it has more limited capabilities than Main Skill - controling activities by name is not currently supported.
For both the MAIN hub and the PROFILE hub, when the ‘TV’ turns off, it saves the activity name, so next time when you give the command to ‘turn the TV on’, it starts the activity you last turned off.
*assumes the ‘my Home’ is the MAIN SKILL’s invocation prhrase