@Pbrain The “Sky/Virgin integration” is called an Harmony Elite remote control…
I have one at home and it works perfectly, controlling all my AV devices with one remote/mobile app.
“Harmony -> Smartthings” integration works pretty well, controlling smarrthings devices from the remote (dim the light automatically when I start the BluRay player) etc… this is a great device.
On the other hands, the “Smartthings -> Harmony” integration is quite limited. “Adding” harmony activities as a “Thing” in the smartthings app only gives you a very limited control (on/off).
Harmony ST and echo are used daily in my house. My wife loves the new touch screen remote. Controlls my whole house and keeps all sonos favorites and cable favorites. I would like to connect to Samsung tv because I don’t like the volume up down integration from harmony…alexa tell harmony to turn volume up. Sounds weird. I’d like to see some other case uses for this jntegration as its true that most people use there cable boxes for most changes but I can see some value here. Although harmony will most likely have the same or similar to offer we’ll see.
Actually, I do have the harmony remote and Hub (and Echo for that matter) and although I have the Harmony integrated with ST…I haven’t yet discovered the merits of doing so.By default I try and pair everything with ST…sometimes to realise it’s actually unnecessary…
Agree, I only paired my ST lights with the Harmony(Harmony -> ST) so that the lights can be controlled for scene set up when I start watching movies etc… There is not much more to it really…
I don’t see the point of having the Harmony activities as a things (ST->Harmony) other than for a Good Night routine where ST switch off all lights and TV/AV if still on (I haven’t tried that as yet).
The app fails to discover my UE48JU7500. I can see my tv in Hubs logs, it pops up as “device:MediaRenderer” and “device:RemoteControlReceiver” with networkAddress:0A00020A (10.0.2.10 - my tv ip) and its Mac Address but the App doesn’t find it. I’m very disappointed
I am very happy to report that I manage, in the Uk, to connect my 43KU6510 TV to the hub without any problem, first time. The TV is now a thing on my hub and all command work as advertised (at last)…
For the notifications, I haven’t figure how to for now. But when I was connecting the TV a black like with message and button to allow the connection to the hub appeared. This is consistent with the way notifications were displayed in the demo video and CES. Now I just need to find out how I can send a notification to the TV, perhaps via CoRE…
If anyone had any idea ??? Suggestions welcomed…
At least it’s a (big) step in the right direction…
Well, I can perfectly control kodi through Smartthings (there’s a specific thread on that) and I will search for some IFTTT services which might run on my Samsung Smart TV. I am just not very hopeful because the J-series doesn’t run a very flexible operating system, hence apps availability is reduced. Thanks for the swift reply.
From what I know, for the moment, the KS series “works” only in America and only with an extra USB dongle. With that dongle the TV became a SmartThings hub.
So you can not link a TV from KS model directly to a ST hub.
