Amazon Echo Harmony Hub

Configuration
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Hi,

I have received my Amazon Echo yesterday and I would like to control my Harmony Hub via voice.
I’m using the emulated hue component for accessing Home Assistant. For the Harmony Hub I’m using the newly integrate remote component (since 0.34).

The problem is, the Alexa app is not seeing the Harmony Hub. Via the Home Assistant Webinterface I can control my Harmony:

emulated_hue:
type: alexa
expose_by_default: true

remote:

  • platform: harmony
    name: Fernsehen
    host: 192.168.178.56
    activity: 11249396
  • platform: harmony
    name: FireTV
    host: 192.168.178.56
    activity: 11249969
  • platform: harmony
    name: Chromecast
    host: 192.168.178.56
    activity: 11776070
  • platform: harmony
    name: PowerOff
    host: 192.168.178.56
    activity: -1

Is it possible, that the emulated hue only provides switches to Alexa?
Is there any possibility to voice control the Harmony Hub?

Thanks for your help!
Tobias

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I was looking for this answer also. Here is what I ended up doing (most likely not perfect but it is working). Need to change friendly names. Hopefully this helps.

configuration.yaml

    remote:
      - platform: harmony
        name: Harmony
        host: 192.168.0.92
      - platform: harmony
        name: Watchkodi
        host: 192.168.0.92
        activity: 23483239
      - platform: harmony
        name: WatchChromecast
        host: 192.168.0.92
        activity: 23483470
      - platform: harmony
        name: PlayPS4
        host: 192.168.0.92
        activity: 23483324
      - platform: harmony
        name: Playxbox
        host: 192.168.0.92
        activity: 23482943
      - platform: harmony
        name: PowerOff
        host: 192.168.0.92
        activity: -1

customize.yaml

  remote.watchkodi:
    emulated_hue: true
    emulated_hue_name: "Watch a movie"
  remote.watchchromecast:
    emulated_hue: true
    emulated_hue_name: "Watch Chromecast"
  remote.poweroff:
    emulated_hue: true
    emulated_hue_name: "Power Off"
  remote.playxbox:
    emulated_hue: true
    emulated_hue_name: "Play Xbox"
  remote.playps4:
    emulated_hue: true
    emulated_hue_name: "Play Playstation"
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