Hey,
I’m just getting started with HA, watched and read several tutorials to setup everything and get the first automations running. Now I need something special, maybe someone can point me to the best approach.
I used the harmony integration to get my hub into HA, which works great. I can switch activities from HA and it reacts to when I switch activities with the remote.
Now I want to be able to start an activity using alexa. I’m currently using the HA matter hub to be able to push certain HA entities to alexa but for the Harmony hub, I have only one select and one remote entity which are not supported (yet).
So I guess I’d have to create some kind of virtual device in HA which acts as a simple on/off switch to the outside but starts a given activity in HA. But then I would need to add more logic to keep the state of this virtual device in sync every time I switch the activity using my remote instead of alexa.
Is there any better approach? How would I do this the best way and what are the key words in HA I need for it to get started?