Harmony Remote, Dim lights with Pause button

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Hi, I have tried in several ways, but I do not come to the solution.

I have:

-Harmony remote logitech,

-Home Assistant docker on a qnap

-Philips Hue

And I try to do this:

When I press the pause button on the remote, I would like the dim lights to come on, when I press play, on the remote, I wish they would go out.

Where should I look to understand how to do it?

Thanks

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Try with an up?

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What you want is not possible. Harmony does not push events from the remote to HA.

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Unless I’m missing something obvious this should be simple.

Add the emulated_roku integration to HA and set up an automation to turn on and off the lights.

Add the emulated_roku device to Harmony and set up a sequence rather than command on the play and pause buttons of the activity to do the play or pause function as normal and also trigger whichever button in the emulated_roku automation that you assigned to turn on or off the lights.

I use mine like this to control various lights, a fan and direct select apps on a FireTV Stick.

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everything you wrote here is anything but simple for new users…

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If they can get the Harmony integration working OK I’d choose to disagree like I did with you saying it was impossible :slight_smile:

Only pulling your leg but I remember it being pretty basic cut and paste from the guides, change to your entity names type stuff.

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Thanks to both, I finally chose to install kodi and do everything from there. Thanks for the time you have dedicated to me!

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Good to hear :+1:

When you’re in the mood for taking things further, I’d still recommend you look at emulated_roku, you can use your Harmony to trigger literally anything in Home Assistant either as a button press or part of an Activity routine. Was a game changer for me when released a few years back,set up might look a bit daunting but it really isn’t once you actually try it. If you want any help just ask.