Has anyone connected devices in harmony to ST

[kojak35 (kojak)]

I love using ST to start my harmony activities, but has anyone been able to hack the harmony hub so we can connect devices to ST instead of just activities? I would really like to have the ability to setup commands in ST that work with echo as a button or switch so that I can pause or play using voice command. I know some people have setup harmony activities for a pause or play command only, but I am not really happy with that functionality. I would instead like devices to be included in the ST integration so that all buttons are available to ST and can be assigned as a switch or button. I can’t believe that no one has been able to unlock harmony devices to be used with ST.

[dshokouhi]

The harmony API only allows for activity control, this is an ongoing issue and the only way to get around it is to create activities. The best course of action is to take it up with Logitech themselves. Everyone has been asking about this.

[destructure00 (Chris)]

If you want to stay within ST, you can use GitHub - joejarvis64/j64.Harmony: Harmony Remote Control. His approach requires an internal server, but his instructions are pretty clear and he’s on the boards here. See link below.

[OBSOLETE] j64Harmony - Amazon Echo + Harmony Hub Integration

I’ve written an app that will allow you to control a Harmony Hub via the Amazon Echo. Yes, you can currently do this by setting up different activities in the harmony hub to control channels and such. That all works OK, but I found it a little difficult to setup activities to control the volume and more importantly I really wanted to learn a little more about writing LAN connected smart apps and device types. So, I set out to build a few new device types that allow you to toggle the mute button on/off, change the channel, pause the DVR and of course to automatically “surf” channels for you. Here is a screen shot of the various devices in the mobile app. [image] I used simple device types (switches) in this app so that it would be easily integrated with the Amazon Echo. This lets …

There’s also an Alexa skill that someone developed called alexaHarmonyApp that connects Alexa directly to the Harmony hub, bypassing ST completely. It requires quite a bit of setup and code tweaking to personalize it. I was able to get the framework set up in one evening, but I spent about a week hacking away at the code to get all of my commands working correctly. I can give Harmony individual commands like “volume up 5” or play, pause, etc. It requires an internal node.js server running in your local network to receive a command from the Alexa skill and pass on to the Harmony hub, as well as a self-signed SSL certificate. You also need to sign up for a service like noip.com or similar to get a FQDN that points to your external IP address, and enable port forwarding in your router and open the same port in the firewall of your internal server. Kind of a PITA but once it’s set up it is very nice to be able to do individual commands by voice rather than just full routines.