I see the tutorial on getting Harmony Hub activities to appear in Hubitat. Is there a how-to for getting Hubitat devices to appear in my Harmony Hub?
As far as I know, this goes only one way for Harmony. There is no way that I am aware to see Hubitat devices in Harmony.
What are you trying to achieve? Since Harmony is exposed to Hubitat, there may be ways to do what you are looking for within Hubitat. Ex.: When activity X starts (in Harmony), turn on scene Y (in Hubitat). When activity X ends (in Harmony), torn off scene Y (in Hubitat).
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What exactly are you trying to do? Control Hubitat devices using the Harmony remote?
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There are older Harmony remotes (850/950?) that have a Z-wave radio built in. Not sure if it would function as a secondary controller tho.
In any event @ogiewon has done a great job with the integration, and IIRC you can map HE devices to the Harmony remote, but not sure which of Logitech's 347 remote models support this
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The only way to have Smart Home devices show up within Logitech's Harmony platform, is via an official Logitech integration (e.g. SmartThings, Lutron, Philips Hue.) Unfortunately, Logitech stopped accepting new official integrations many years ago. And now that they have stopped production of Harmony remotes, we're all just on borrowed time before they eventually shut down their cloud servers.
Using my community Harmony integration for Hubitat, it is possible to use the Smart Home buttons on those Harmony Hub remotes that have them. The process is described in my Harmony Integration thread. Our goal was to allow the Smart Home buttons to be used in Hubitat as a Button Controller device. This allows for easy use in all of the Hubitat's standard Apps.
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Yes. The same way I could when I had my SmartThings Hub. It seems that to get the same functionality, I'll have to reproduce all my Harmony touch screen menus in Hubitat. Basically reinventing the wheel.
Yes. Because as @ogiewon mentioned, Logitech hasn't accepted any new Harmony integrations for 4 or 5 years. And now that they have discontinued the Harmony line of remotes, these devices are on life-support .......
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What type of devices are you trying to control within the Logitech Harmony ecosystem? If you're using Lutron Caseta, Lutron RadioRA2, LIFX, or Philips Hue lighting systems - you can still directly integrate those systems with Logitech and have those devices show up for control from your remote control. Ecobee is also supported directly by Logitech for Thermostats.
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My home theater. Projector, receiver, Kodi running on my server, and z-wave lights. I was using SmartThings and had everything being controlled with my Harmony Hub and a tablet. I switched to Hubitat because the z-wave 3-way dimmer and accessory switches wouldn't link properly. Now I feel like I have to go back to school just get this like it was. The lights are working great though!
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Hopefully you can get things solidly under one tent somehow (Hubitat or otherwise), but I'd recommend moving away from Harmony before the rug gets totally pulled out from under you... Harmony's a dead man walkin'.
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I'm not sure what harmony device you have and what your ultimate plans are but I have a harmony elite with a hub extender that allows control of z-wave and zigbee devices. They are hard to find but here are a couple available from ebay:
Maybe these will help with your efforts.
Hi - do you actually have one of the Harmony Z-wave devices communicating with your Hubitat? I have an older Monster AVL300, which I recently learned may be a rebranded Harmony 890 Pro. It would be useful to use this thing as a button controller.
- Can you actually connect it to Hubitat, and if so, via what protocol?
- If you are connecting it to Hubitat via zwave, doesn't that bring your zwave network down to the zwave version on the remote, which is at least 15 years old? What advantages of newer zwave do you lose?
ETA: The Harmony 890/Monster AVL300 use what is called an "RF Wireless Extender" which connects to the remote via Zwave. It cannot connect wirelessly via Lan; it is not a Harmony Hub. The programming of the extender is updated via a wired connection to a local computer connected via the internet to Logitech's servers.
I have my z-wave devices connected to hubitat and discovered by Harmony. Then you can program buttons on the harmony to control zigbee and zwave devices is has discovered. Hubitat and Harmony control them independently but both are capable of controlling them. I also have the harmony integrated into hubitat.
It sounded like you wanted the ability to control your devices via your remote. With this hub extender that is possible.
Thank you!
I will try it and report back!
I think the Harmony 890/Monster AVL300, both with RF Wireless Extender, function differently than the Harmony devices with a hub.
I don't seem to have a "Discovered by Harmony/Monster" option. The AVL300 has some Zwave functionality in the remote. I don't see any way to "discover" devices. The only option is to put devices in pairing mode and pair them with the remote. But it is my understanding that a device can only be paired with one hub. So I think the AVL300 may essentially be a very early Z-wave hub.
In your Hubitat Elevation Hub's web page, select the "Devices" section, and then click the "+ Add Virtual Device" button in the top right corner**. In the window that appears, please fill in the "Device Name", "Device Label", and "Device Network Id" fields.
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For some reason I just saw this.
- For which device are you suggesting I fill in the "Device Network ID?"
- If for the Harmony AVL300 remote itself, or the extender, where do I obtain that info?
For the AVL300 neither the remote or the extender are on wifi or LAN. To program them, you plug them into a computer, put them min programming mode, and update them. - Is "Device Network ID" a Z-Wave field?
It would be awesome if I could use the AVL300 remote as a Hubitat remote...but even if that is not possible, it would be awesome to be able to control AV equipment from both the AVL300 and the Hubitat.
I had my home devices controlled via my Elite remote through SmarthThings hub, however, I have since bricked it 
I'm trying to figure out now how to do the same through my Hubitat hub. It seems the Harmony Driver only connects 'Activities'. I don't believe I need the 'Extender' as I already have the Elite associated hub.
I have read the following Zigbee-related Logitech support article, but still don't understand how to integrate Hubitat, if I can at all. Thoughts?
Home Hub Extender (myharmony.com)
As for a remote replacement... Is it possible to connect Hubitat devices with SofaBaton X1S?
See my earlier answer in this thread, as nothing has changed.
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Thanks. I had to read that twice I guess to understand it 
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