[EDGE DEVICE] Simple Harmony Bridge **Alpha Testing**

Thanks a lot. I just read your message after sorting it out. Thanks for such a wonderful driver.

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See my above post, there’s a mistake in my code that translates the commands, for most devices commands it makes no difference, but for numbers on some devices it does

I will fix next time I work on the driver

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I for some reason cant see the devicelist anymore on the desktop smartthings website. On my phone with the smartthings app, i only see the start of the devicelist, cant view more of it…
Tried changing ip and back, no luck.

Toggle on ā€˜config on connect’ in settings

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Is anyone’s else’s playing up at all?
I could be watching YouTube or anything and it’ll just come out of it and go back to nvidia shield home screen. Constantly doing it every 10mins or so.

I’m not sure what you mean by this…

Come out of what? YouTube? Why do you think that is anything to do with this harmony driver?

Sorry, I’m just not sure what you are trying to say

If you can explain, I will try my best to help

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I know I’m not really making sense but I had this issue a while back when you first published this driver but haven’t had it for ages since your newer drivers.

So I could be watching YouTube and it’ll exit out of it as if I’ve pressed the home button. The remote will sometimes freeze as well and not respond. The hub light is still green when this happens so not sure what the issue is, I only know I had this issue very early on when I first started using this driver. Could just be a coincidence.
Overall still loving this driver btw and without it I’d likely be ditching these Harmony hubs. :+1:

@jjmucker

I very much doubt the driver is causing that, it doesn’t manage state of anything. My guess would be something to do with your Nvidia shield, and maybe the apps crashing?

What makes you think this is anything to do with harmony or st?

Do you have an activity that represents watching YouTube? Does that also turn off when the app closes?

Have you turned on the sent rec’d logging? That would tell you if the message was coming from the driver

Yeah maybe just a coincidence then. It’s just it happened the last time when I first installed the driver. Never did it before and didn’t do it again once you updated the driver to run 2 hubs.

Most likely my end and I’ll keep my eye on it. No idea why the remote would just become unresponsive though. Like sometimes it’ll stop working, and then a few seconds later it’ll do all the commands I pressed very fast.

@jjmucker

What type of remote? Harmony or Nvidia shield?

It could be the shield is running out of resources (e.g memory) causing YouTube to crash and remote messages not to be precessed - but I’m guessing.

The harmony remote.

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Could well be what I said then…

I suspect if you send commands from the remote to other devices it will work just fine. Sounds like an issue with the shield

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I’ve came to the conclusion that it’s a wifi channel issue on my network. Maybe.
I cannot use channel 1 on my 2.4 wifi for whatever reason with my Harmony hubs. They just won’t connect and the red light on the hub stays a solid red. I need to use channel 11 and I think this is causing me issues with one of my hubs.

EVening! I have been fiddling around with smartthings recently and realised that your driver potentially solves a couple of scenarios I would like to automate. Thank you for your work and support! I am having a teething issue in setup though. WHen running through the setup, the initial activity list I get back seems sort of… odd. I can see one activity listed in the device list field - but i can’t read the full field to enable me to copy the activity/action command lists. AM I missing something monumentally dim? Allowing the addition of activity devices toggle results in them being added just fine - but how do I get at the list to customise things??? I can’t even see the history annoyingly.

HELP!!!

MrSpax

Hi @mrspax

First of all, welcome!

The list you are seeing that you cannot fully open, is to be used get access for device automation mainly, i.e sending instructions directly to devices ( regardless of the current activity) by using automations. This is cumbersome to use in the smartthings mobile app, because you cannot easily select lines to copy, and scrolling the full list is difficult. You can view the full list in the history tab of the app. It is better to use my.smartthings.com to get the values to copy & paste

Give that a try, if the list is missing from history turn on config on connect in settings for 5 minutes and it should reload the config list

Thank you for the super quick response and the kind welcome!

I understand what you are saying. Issue (to me at least) seems to be more involved. There is no history data available for the driver. I am looking at the browser portal and same issue on pc, Android and iOS browsers. Is there some kind of setting needed to see the history maybe? I am sure it has picked the activities up as it has added them as dummy switches when I used that functionality. I should say that I have left it for a couple of hours after selecting the ā€˜get config on connect’ toggle.

I must be missing something simple… :grimacing::grimacing:

Here’s the driver details too. You can see it’s picked up an activity, but I can’t’get at it’ in the app or web interface.

Weird that the history isn’t populating, but I have seen delays before.

If you use this tool, you should be able to see the value of the device list field in full ( without the need for history) [EDGE][RELEASE] Simple Device Info Viewer

Load that tool (following the instructions on the link), find your harmony bridge device and then click the clipboard button. You will then be able to navigate to deviceList field and see the full contents.

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This is VERY helpful. I too was having difficulty getting this data to populate again.

Thank you for the driver and all your help.

Getting closer… :slight_smile:

Managed to get the list - thanks for that tip. I noticed the history had also updated overnight.

But…

I’m now having issues with the driver not accepting the input of the command. When inputting it in the UI, I get a network error and the Harmony COmmand field remains not assigned. I can;t assign a command in the settings or in a routine/scene either. Settings field remains greyed out and the routines/scenes creation process only allows me to trigger the virtual toggle.

Am I missing something here?!?!