The “talk to me…” line was from the movie “Margin Call”.
I have no experience writing code, but I can follow directions and use templates. After initial installation, HASS discovered and connected to Vera/Micasaverde, I also linked HA Bridge, Hue, Echo, and Google Home. It would not discover Harmony Hub, so I added the settings into configuration.yaml and I now one “Remote” card with one switch on the home tab.
Had HASS autodiscovered Harmony Hub, would the Harmony Hub activities automatically show up on the home tab? (I did find the devices in the harmony.xxx.conf.)
Next, I would like to create groups to organize Harmony Hub activities/device, Vera devices/scenes, Hue, and other functions. The syntax confuses me. I have not been able to find templates that I can follow to bring get things set. I’ve spent some time reading various guides and examples, but it is not sinking in. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
You need to specify where you’re stuck. We don’t know what it is you’re having a problem with. You start off by talking about the auto discovery piece and then say you’re confused on organizing.
The component documentation is usually pretty good. What particular aspect do you not understand? Yaml? Where to put things??
On Harmony Hub: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/remote.harmony/, the syntax is unclear on how to list all the activities. Related to it, I was wondering if the activities would automatically appear (like Hue and Vera) if HASS did auto discover Harmony Hub.
When HASS auto discovered Vera and Hue, all of the scenes and devices appeared on the Home tab. When I had to manually add Harmony Hub, only one card containing one switch appeared on the Home tab. Even though the config file listed all the Harmony Hub activities and devices, they did not automatically appear on the Home Tab. The question was whether they (activities, for example) are supposed to automatically appear on the Home tab like Hue and Vera devices? I was also wondering, had HASS auto discovered the HH, would it had made a difference?
Since the HH activities do not appear on the Home tab, what is the proper syntax to add the activities and devices?
The dev-state is seen in the dev tools when you open up the side panel and is down the bottom left and looks like < >
Have a look in there - it will show you everything that is connected in HA and you can then display those entities in a group or on a card in Lovelace.
That dev panel as well as the template one will get you out of trouble more times than you can count!
I would like to have a list of activities from which to select under the AV group, such as “watch tv”, “watch chromecast”, etc. I also want to add some device controls like volume up, mute, etc. How do I go about doing that?
Also, under configuration.yaml, I have the following:
How do I list all the activities and add device control for the home tab, similar to the groups? The Harmony guide is not clear to me and I have looked at many different examples, but haven’t come up with anything.
Lastly, how do I show a friendly name for each activity or device control? I have not found any examples.
I did look at the dev state. None of the devices and activities are listed there. They are in the harmony config file, but do not appear in <>. Does this indicate a problem or misconfiguration?
I am clear about getting the device ID and names from the harmony config file, but I am asking for the proper syntax to use in the configuration.yaml and group.yaml files to get the activities and devices appear.
After restart, HH config file was automatically created with all of my devices and activities
None of the activities and devices, with the exception of one entry “remote.harmony” appears in <>
If I understand correctly, all of the HH activities and devices in the HH config file should appear in <> automatically? If yes, any suggestions on troubleshooting? Thanks.