Program a button on the Logitech Harmony remote to trigger a routine?

[JDRoberts]

It can be done, but maybe not quite the way you’re envisioning.

First, you probably already know this, but in order to have smartthings work with harmony, you have to have a harmony home hub.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Smartphone-Entertainment-Automation/dp/B00N3RFC4Q

So assuming you have the hub set up…

1. You can set up a virtual switch so that it will trigger a routine. It’s the same way you would set up a virtual switch so that echo can run a routine:

[DEPRECATED] 2015 Voice Assistant Run Routine FAQ--see 2017 FAQ instead

On October 1, 2016, Amazon added the ability to turn on a " routine" from Alexa. If you want to use that method, see the official support article. https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/210204906-Amazon-Alexa-SmartThings-Routines Note that the official method will not allow you to use echo to run any routine that includes a lock or a Smart Home Monitor armed state change or another device class that Alexa does not know. The method described below in this FAQ will, but it does require that you create a virtual switch. Although at present echo can only request that smartthings turn devices on, off or dim, by using a virtual switch, you can tell echo to turn that switch on or off, and then have all kinds of things happen in smartthings. For example, if you want to have echo tu…

.2. Then you can have a harmony activity turn on that virtual switch just like it would turn on any light switch.

.3. The last question is how do you kick off that harmony activity? It’s going to depend on The specific model of remote that you have.

If you have the harmony home companion button remote, it has four buttons reserved for home automation devices, and you could make one of those the virtual switch that runs the routine.

If you have one of the Harmony remotes that has a screen, you would have to scroll down and select the appropriate routine.

One more note "you said “run a routine” but “routine” has a specific meaning on the SmartThings platform. From the description of what you want to have happen, I think smartlighting automations might work better. But you could still trigger them all from a virtual switch coming on so that’s fine. Or you could use core, again starting everything with a virtual switch.