So after installing @ogiewon Logitech driver you will see all of your activities as child devices under the parent harmony device.
Use those device on/off settings to determine what lighting effects you want to do through RM. For me we ONLY watch movies on our AppleTV. So if AppleTV is turned on and the lux is below 100 the lights on the first floor turn blue. While we watch TV through UVerse and the lights turn on with normal 3000k at 60%.
Now I have a virtual switch called MovieTime that I can initiate through Alexa IF we watch a movie on any other device (U-verse and XBox) but that was designed more for the rare occasion.
There are currently no plans in the works to make this happen with my driver, as the integration you are referring to is typically cloud to cloud (e.g. Harmony to SmartThings, or Harmony to Lutron, etc...) Logitech is not accepting new integration requests (unless something has changed recently) and thus there is no way for Hubitat to create an official integration.
If you have Lutron or Philips Hue lighting, you should be able to map those devices to your smart home buttons on your remote control via their native integrations with Logitech.
Again you can use rules to do something based on the child devices of the Harmony driver suite turning on/off. Easiest way to do it and you don’t need the remote.
I have had Node-Red running for a few months now, along with InfluxDB and Grafana, all on my Windows 10 'home server'. I have been very pleased with the performance and reliability.
I wanted to just post here what I did for the logitech harmony in case there is anyone else using a simple remote setup like mine and wants to keep it that way.
Instead of making the "listen to music" activity button turn on my receiver, I made that one turn on the living room lights.
I then set one of the colored buttons below the actual home control buttons to specifically turn on the receiver.
The off will end any running activity as it normally does, as well as turn off the lights.
I am happy enough with this setup as the only functionality i no longer have is the ability to adjust the brightness of the lights, which I kinda sorta don't really need to do, and I never could have changed the color temperature with smartthings anyway
Thanks again to everyone for putting me on the right track with this.
Oh, that NodeRed thread. WOW. thanks.
That one seems to be bit out of my league. What I'd try to then do in order to work around needing to do all of that is to get the HE to talk to the MQTT I have on my Raspberry Pi.
This Node-Red/raspberry pi is what I use for my solar panel stuff so emoncms is what I use for the graphing.
does HE have an MQTT app/driver?
I could then pick up the Hubitat variables i need in Node-Red via MQTT.
Many thanks once again.
I've been messing around home automation stuff since the days of x10, and never ever has everything worked together with such finesse.
I'm really really really enjoying the Hubitat experience.
Thanks to the team for putting it together.
Hi Complete Newbie here, just received my HE and trying to get my harmony hub integration working...
Loaded driver codes etc , but log showing failure to connect as below:
Hi thanks for your reply, the harmony hub is connected via WiFi to my Google WiFi primary hub and the HE is connected via Ethernet to a network switch then to my Broadband router...
There does seem something fishy about the Google WiFi Mesh network systems. I have never used one, but it does seem that users with these systems experience more difficulty than others using more traditional network hardware.
Not sure what to try next. Perhaps some other community members with a similar setup to yours will chime in?
I'm just hopping in here quick.. Just a quick question, which I'm sure you did, but don't see it posted. Did you actually go into the harmony app and add hubitat? Do you still need to do that? When I integrated, you still had to do that. I haven't visited any of the new driver stuff because my harmony works just fine. But, I have Google mesh and did not have any problems integrating. Just a thought.
The Logitech Harmony App on your mobile phone has no Hubitat integration options that I am aware of. My Logitech Harmony Hub driver simply requires one to manually add a virtual device in Hubitat, and assign the IP Address of the Harmony Hub to the user preference settings and click save. It then connects directly to the Harmony Hub via webSockets and will automatically create a child device for each Harmony Activity. The Harmony App on the phone is not used for this integration.
That's some good feedback. Glad to hear it's working fine for your setup.
I did this while connected to the harmony hub via the computer. It's been a year or better, and I'm at work, so I can't connect, but I can certainly check and confirm when I get home. I just feel that it was something that I did for some reason. My computer is off due to bad storms last night with a power outage. If I can get my husband to press that button, I'll check my home computer to see if I can find it.
It'll be nice to be able to run commands in an event. I'm surprised I never looked into this. I haven't been able to look .. being at work and all, but I should, cuz I'm definitely not getting any work done. Could this be modified for a shutdown as well? Oh WHY can't the day be over? It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
