The link has been broken for a couple days Official Harmony integration down? (June 2024)
@lmullineux , Just wanted to say thanks.
Legacy Harmony/ST broke for me this week (June 2024).
In case it helps anyone else, I was able to restore the functionality that I use (Harmony => ST) by:
- Enroll and install the Harmony Bridge Simple V2 driver
- Configure my Harmony Hub IP in the ST phone app (my hub appeared as a âSlim Devices, Inc.â device on my network)
- Toggle Activity Devices Enabled to On
- Create Routines driven by the On/Off state of the activities to control the relevant ST devices
Thanks again.
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Hi, i am getting a error here when adding the Harmony driver, it says edge driver not supported. I am using the Smartthings V2 2015 hub is this the reason why or should it work with this also ? Thanks in advance
Is it just this edge driver? Or all edge drivers that donât work?
Hi it seems to be other drivers too, this is exact message: BadRequestError: Hub (Home Hub) does not support edge drivers
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Iâm having a different issue so hopefully this is a SmartThings issue that gets resolved soon. I decided to try this edge driver due to the loss of harmony native integration with SmartThings. I can get it to install and pull the activities using tie process suggested by another user. The weird thing is it can trigger an on/off of an activity and up to doing this reach activity shows connected. After an on/off trigger all activities change to offline and no longer function.
Loving this driver! Everything works well, but I am encountering one small issue;
At random times, the âOffâ scene will turn off, then 2 minutes later back on. No other scene turns on when the âOffâ scene turns off.
Any idea why this would be, or how to overcome it so I can have a routine run when âOffâ?
Thanks,
Ryan
@rcarmichael I presume when you say scene, you mean âactivity deviceâ? and you mean âPowerOffâ when you say âOffâ
The PowerOff activity is a convenience provided by Harmony, it is not a real activity. It can be useful in automations.
I think it works like soâŚ
- When the PowerOff activity is âOffâ - this means an other activity is running.
- When the PowerOff activity is âOnâ - this means no other activity is running.
- When you turn âonâ the âPowerOffâ activity, it will stop / turn off whatever the running activity is.
- When you turn âoffâ the âPowerOffâ activity, it does nothing, and it will return to itâs on state a few seconds later.
Is this different from the behaviour you are seeing @rcarmichael?
It can be a useful convenience when writing automations, as you donât need to know what is running if you just want to turn it off, and you can also check if â somethingâ is running without having to check each activity.
I hope this all makes sense
Make sure you are using the v2 driver, make sure you have reserved your harmony IP address.
Does it still work, when it shows offline?
Hi @Imullineux, thank you for your reply.
Your presumptions are correct, the âPower Offâ Activity Device.
Confirming I am on v2 and the Harmonys IP is reserved.
The Activity Device is working as you described, BUT at random times the âPower Offâ only (which was on) turns off, and then 2 minutes later turns back on. No other Activity Device turns on (which would trigger the âPower Offâ to turn off). Iâve never ACTUALLY SEEN this happen, but as I had automations linked to this Activity Device I saw that they had activated, and looking at the logs show the âPower Offâ Activity Device toggling in the above manner.
I have since started using all the other Activity Devicesâ status in the automations instead to overcome this, but would still like to diagnose why this would happenâŚ
Any ideas?
Ryan
Ok, I think the only thing that could cause that would be a message from the Harmony hub, either saying another activity has started or a message about an activity that the driver does not recognize.
That would be really difficult to diagnose without logs from the time it happened. You can capture these with logcat, but it sounds like you would have to be really lucky if itâs not happening very often.
Hi, can I use this driver to use the Home Control buttons on my Harmony remote to control TP-Link plugs? This was working great until recently when the smartthings/harmony integration has broken.
Unfortunately no, this driver is 1 direction only (smartthings to harmony) only the official integration can do â harmony to smartthingsâ and that has stopped working
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Oh no, hopefully theyâll get this sorted quickly!
Would it be possible to use one of the other Harmony home control devices such as the LIFX smart bulbs to act as a trigger for my smart plugs?
Yes, if the lifx is supported on harmony, you could write an automation in smartthings that tracks the status of the lifx bulb with the plugs
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Yes, see discussion here.
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Excellent, thank you. Iâm assuming Iâll need a separate bulb for each device I want to control, or is there a way to use one bulb to act as a switch for multiple smart plugs and control each one independently? Will I also need to actually keep the bulb plugged in once Iâve set it up? Iâm very new to this as youâve probably already realised.
By the time Iâve bought the bulbs and figured out how to do this, smartthings will probably have fixed the connection with Harmony again!
I have never used the device buttons on my Elite to control individual plugs/switches. I used them to turn off/on virtual ST switches which then kicked off ST Routines which controlled multiple plugs/switches (you could never use the Elite device buttons to directly kick off ST Routines hence the need to use virtual switches). Iâm down to only needing one now so plan on using my currently unused LIFX build to act as a âquasiâ virtual switch. But only if I have to, Iâm giving Logitech/Harmony time to hopefully fix the broken integration.
Great thanks. I found a used like new one on Amazon which is coming tomorrow so Iâll have a play with that and see if I can work out how to do it. Iâm hoping that I can use the one LIFX bulb to create 3 virtual switches linked to 3 different Home Control buttons on the Harmony remote to control 3 smart plugs individually, but am not sure if this is possible.
If Harmony doesnât patch the integration, I plan to try setting up a DIYHue hub emulator on a spare Pi Zero W to act as a middleman between Harmony and ST much in the same way you would setup the LIFX.