Harmony Hub device integration

[louislau]

I got a harmony hub , I wonder if it is possible to have “devices” integrated with the hub, as currently only “activities” is integrated

thanks.

[janw (Jan)]

You mean controlling Harmony devices from SmartThings? Not possible - at least not with the stock Smart App. The Harmony API seems to support addressing individual devices but SmartThing’s app apparently doesn’t implement it. You might be able to do it yourself by combining these two (e.g.):

GitHub - maddox/harmony-api: 🗼 A simple server allowing you to query/control...

[OBSOLETE] URI Switch -- Device Handler for controlling items via HTTP calls

I’ve switched from X10 to ZWave but still have a handful of X10 devices that needed control. I installed Home Genie on a Raspberry Pi which gives me control of my devices via an HTTP call and I wanted a way to control this with SmartThings. With the help of @tguerena we’ve come up with URI Switch. URI Switch is a Device Handler that when attached to a Virtual Switch, kicks off a URL (External or Internal) when an On/Off command is sent Please refer to the following for instructions and usage information http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=URI_Switch While this was created for sending ON / OFF commands for my X10 devices, the ON / OFF commands could be a call to anything that takes a URI to control. Please let us know how this works for you and let us know what we can add…

[rontalley]

Gave this a go a while back. Worked.

The sad thing is, I really only needed to control volume. That was fixed with Echo Skill. Even when I got the Echo Skill, I found it so much easier to pick up the remote and change the volume!

The Activity Based Harmony interaction is really the selling point of the Harmony Remotes anyway. Its the ability to click a button and have everything automated from that one click, including setting ST modes, turning off lights or whatever.

Was a rabbit hole for me.

YMMV

[louislau]

this would be awesome, but I have a fairly new user here. is there a step by step guide on how to get this up and running?

[janw (Jan)]

Unfortunately no - I don’t need this, so the above i just a theoretical possibility (which will work if you put enough effort into it)

You will need a computer (a Raspberry Pi would be enough) that runs node.js to host the harmony-api service. The manual on Github explains how to run it. You will then need to run the URI Switch Smart App mentioned above to make calls to the API. Not going to be totally trivial, sorry!