What are the right voice commands for controlling Harmony Hub?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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I’ve got a “Family Room Harmony Hub” integration that has activities in the UI like “WATCH TV” and “WATCH SHIELD” but I can’t for the life of me seem to figure out the right voice commands to control these. Does anybody know the phrases that work?

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This is not build-in so far, but can be added by yourself.
Are you using an LLM based voice assist or not?

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Try ‘Turn on TV’, or ‘Turn on Shield’

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Thanks for the info! What is meant by build-in and is there a way to see the list of those things? How do you add it yourself?

I am using an LLM based voice assist. Home Assistant Voice PE, Ollama Conversation agent, faster-whisper for stt and piper for tts all running locally.

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These give me the reply “name, hass media unmute, parameters, area kitchen, floor downstairs” which don’t really match where the TV or Shield is, and it doesn’t turn on anything

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Built in intents can be found here: Built-in intents | Home Assistant Developer Docs

Custom sentences can be created via an automation as explained here Adding a custom sentence to trigger an automation - Home Assistant or coded in yaml: Setting up custom sentences in configuration.yaml - Home Assistant

I took the auromation approach to use voice to control my Harmony Hub.

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This works great! Thank you for the tips. For future readers, here’s a simple sample config:

- id: 'turn_shield_on'
  alias: Turn Shield On
  description: 'Turns on the Shield in the Family Room'
  mode: single
  triggers:
    - trigger: conversation
      command: Turn on the TV
  conditions: []
  actions:
    - action: remote.turn_on
      metadata: {}
      data:
        activity: WATCH SHIELD
      target:
        entity_id: remote.family_room_harmony_hub