Harmony - Pause movie, brighten lights?

[dan-edge]

I have a movie scene configured to set lighting for movies. What i’d like to do is raise the lights when pausing the movie from the harmony remote and then dim the lights again when resuming.. is this possible ? I’m using a roku for streaming content ….

any thoughts on how i could implement this ?

Thanks!!

[marktheknife]

Are you familiar with the community-developed Harmony driver?

[Release] Logitech Harmony Hub Driver v0.1.20230311

WARNING - v0.1.20221230 is a BREAKING code change. DO NOT UPGRADE to this new version unless you are willing to spend the time to start anew with your Hamony Hub integration with Hubitat. This new version now uses Hubitat's built-in Generic Component Switch driver, which has the benefit of allowing the Child Activitiy Switch devices to show up in the new Hubitat HomeKit integration. v0.1.20230311 Added proper support for the push() and hold() commands on the parent device page. v0.1.20221231 …

[aaiyar]

In addition to the Harmony integration that @marktheknife linked to, I want to add that there is a Roku integration as well:

[Release] Roku Connect integration App and Roku TV Device Handler

I present for your use, my new Roku TV App and Driver for Hubitat. Download from GitHub, or install it through the Hubitat Package Manager application and be kept updated on my changes as they are published. This uses a parent, and child device. The parent device Roku TV is the main device driver that controls the Roku media players, and Roku powered TVs directly as a TV capable device. The child device is a hubitat/Generic Component Switch for launching Roku apps, and tracking state of wh…

[dan-edge]

I’m using the harmony integration with activities.. but couldn’t see an obvious way to intercept the pause button being pressed… is that possible?

Will check out the roku integration to see if that would help…

thanks !

[ccoupe]

The Harmony pause button is going to pause the activity (media player). I don't think hubitat can get that button. But you can use those those bulb and outlet buttons if you work hard enough. Those seem like a natural for the OP use case.