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I followed the awesome advice here to get instantaneous syncing of my Harmony activity virtual switches in ST as Harmony starts activities:

Instant status updates for Harmony activity switches in ST

I’ve seen lots of complaints about how long the Harmony switches in ST take to update when using the physical remote to turn stuff on or off. Just found a really simple way to get instant state updates. Go back and add all of the ST switches to your Harmony hub as Home Control devices, then turn each corresponding one on when your activity starts and back off when it ends. Bam, instant Harmony status updates. Step by step below. This starts with the assumption that you’ve already added your Harmony hub(s) to SmartThings. Open the Harmony app on your phone (as far as I’m aware, the phone app is the only way to add/edit Home Control devices) If you have multiple hubs, connect to your target hub. These steps have to be repeated for each hub. Add your SmartThings switches to Harmony…

But even though the switches themselves updated, the “Harmony Hub” device itself did not update its currentActivity until either the next refresh cycle or a manual refresh. I wrote this simple piston to force it to stay in sync with the activity start/end.