Harmony Remote

Third party integrations
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Hi,

I’ve just installed HA and started to configure it. I’ve a noob question… can I use my Harmony Ultimate Remote to trigger HA automations? I mean, defining the automation in HA and showing it in the remote.

(my goal is having a activity at the remote to start hyperion service at rpi and switch on/off a tp-link smart plug)

Thanks!!!

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The Harmony component can read the current activity, so you can easily write an automation based on the current activity.

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I have a harmony hub and what i was able to do was turn on the emulated hue component and then create scenes and scripts that are then treated as hue bulbs. you can then assign them to activities or buttons on the remote.

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What I need is a new activity… because my hardware is not compatible (tp-link hs100 & stop a rpi service) with Logitech Harmony and I cannot create an activity from Logitech software

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I’ve just read your post shire210… could you please point me to more info? I’ve tried ha-bridge but no idea how to configure it

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How do you get harmony to see the emulated hue items?

Also, just a thought… I think there is a way to have the harmony learn IR commands… so maybe it would be possible to make a new device in harmony… https://support.myharmony.com/en-us/adding-a-device-thats-not-found-in-the-harmony-database

So… need some way to make new IR commands that can control home assistant with some IR receiver attached to the HASS server, teach harmony these commands, then you can change what buttons do and control home assistant with buttons of your choice.

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Here is the emulated hue componenet

I didn’t want everything showing up, so I turned off Expose by default

  expose_by_default: false```

Then in my customize file, I turned on each individual scene/script that I wanted to be recognized

``` scene.good_night:
       emulated_hue: true
       emulated_hue_name: "Good Night"```

After that was complete, I went into the harmony app to Menu> Harmony Setup> Add/Edit Devices & Activities> Devices> Add Device> Home Control> Phillips Hue

After that is complete you can create a new activity where each "bulb" is listed as a device

<img src="//community-assets.home-assistant.io/original/2X/b/b75fd50a3c89f3bde6d3d65f99ab4407869bfa89.png" width="281" height="500">

Hopefully that is enough to help you get started.
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Tried…with no luck.
I’ve edited my config file and added emulated_hue and also added scene at customize section.

The problem is I have a “real” Hue, so I cannot add another Device at Harmony Setup

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Are your hue bulbs in HA? You can unlink the “real” hue bridge and still access the hue bulbs when you add the emulated hue component. Not sure if that will work for you, but could be an option.

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Unlinking the “real” hue made the job.
Now I’ve linked with the emulated one… now time to configure it :+1:

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I really got to get around to doing this. So many things to do, but never have motivation to do them after work!