[Logitech Harmony 550 Remote Software 19
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I am running the Hubitat module with the Harmony Hub drivers. Presently I am able to use the Harmony remote home automation buttons to control a dimmer. I am doing this with a Hub variable that is connected to a virtual dimmer... and the virtual dimmer is mirrored to my light.
However, the one case that I use that the cracks (not breaks) the process is in the morning. I have a routine set up that when I wake up it slowly brightens the room. At the end of this process my virtual dimmer (and light) is on and set to 100. The harmony driver has the values set as off and 0. I can fix this by pushing (on the remote) the approriate button and the the rocker button. this will sync the remote and the virtual dimmer/light to all having the same value.
Last night my Home Control buttons were working. This morning they were not working. This occurred on both of my harmony hubs. I checked to logs and when i push one of the buttons on the remote I get the following error messages:
Please explain the process you followed to enable the use of the Harmony Remote Home Control Buttons with Hubitat. Specifically, I am curious if you were using the SmartThings Virtual Button 'hack' that was originally used to get these working with Hubitat. Since the ST 'hack' relied on the old SmartThings/Harmony Hub Groovy integration, it would not surprise me if this Groovy integration has finally been shut down by Samsung.
Personally, I simply use the Harmony Hub remote's Home Control buttons with my Philips Hue and Lutron Caseta lighting systems, as these integrations with Harmony are still functional. Both of these work very nicely with the Home Control buttons without any need for Hubitat in the middle.
Probably not the new you wants to hear, unfortunately. Even if Samsung has not shut down the Harmony Hub legacy Groovy integration, they will soon. Logitech actually recently released an upgraded Harmony Hub mobile phone app that is supposed to support the "new" SmartThings platform. This has come as a surprise to everyone. I am not sure if this new integration might afford a new opportunity to use the SmartThings virtual device 'hack' once again, or not...
I do not have Philips Hue or Lutron Caseta (trying not to create complexity of an ever growing number of hubs). All of my lights are connected to smartthings or hubitat while I am in the process of moving them all over to hubitat. Until this the only thing that I was going to have left on Smartthings was a samsung washer (which the functionality does not demand to have it connected).
I might try homebridge connection to harmony... but that would create more dependency on homekit (which except for the MYq I was looking to get rid of). Would be nice if homebridge would send its accessories to hubitat.
It looks like Smartthings changed something in their third party security/login process. The screens during the login were very different and it exposed all of my smartthings device to Harmony without asking what to expose.
You can now do all of your harmony/smartthings integrations straight from the harmony app on your phone. It used to be that to login into smartthings from harmony you had to use the pc/mac app and plug your harmony hub into the pc/mac. Now you can do that login directly from the phone app!!!!!!
I have multiple harmony hubs and ran into a slight issue that I was able to resolve. Which ever hub I last re-login to smartthings from was the only hub that would work. I noticed that there was a option to remove two factor authentication option during login. Once I had selected that (and re-login with both hubs) they both were able to operate smoothly.
I have gotten my harmony hubs integrated with hubitat using your driver. I have just recently overcome the new issues with the upgraded smartthings 3rd party app security upgrade (impacts harmony working with smartthings on the home control buttons).
Not sure how to move forward on this. What I am trying to do is sync the button level between hubitat and harmony when I use a hubitat rule to control the device vice pushing the button on the remote.
@user4652 - I have just updated the Logitech Harmony Hub Parent driver in my GitHub repo. The manual push and hold commands are now properly supported on the parent device page. Please give it a test and let me know if this has resolved the issue you reported. Also - please be aware, if you're a long-time user of this code, that a few months ago I made a breaking change to the Parent Device driver. The driver now uses Hubitat's built-in Generic Component Switch child driver instead of my old custom one.
With HUBIthings I think I can solve my problem (not elegantly). HUBithings allows me to share the virtual hub in Smartthings that the harmony button is tied to. So I can change the value of the dimmer through HUBIthings.... Then I THINK (not sure yet) that when I push the button Harmony will then update the value from Smartthings... so sure be able to make my two dimmers (Hubitat controlling the physical device... and Harmony button) equal each other when they are out of sync.
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Somewhere in the setup it told to make sure the ATV is updated and also it said if it's not working "hold harmony 3" from apple tv and press unpair" i did and now it works. Go to your devices on your hamony choose apple tv and then unpair. Hope this helps
This last step is unintuitive but it works. Hitting the "unpair" button causes an icon to appear on the TV screen. Looks like a remote with two ovals floating near it. After this, the logitech remote works fine.
Since the marked buttons on the remote control can only be configured/mapped for hue devices and hue scenes, I tried to find a workaround, with whom I can control all my home assistant devices with my harmony remote control.
I am able to use the emulated Roku with my harmony elite remote utilizing the top 4 colored buttons. I have not tried with the buttons that have a light or plug on them but I would think those could be used with the emulated roku commands as well.
Has anybody solved this? I have been using a SmartThings hub (gulp) linked to my Harmony hub to control my Lutron lights in my livingroom with these buttons for years. I am now using Home Assistant and would live to be able to get rid of the cloud tie of the SmartThing hub.
I was under the impression that the desktop app no longer works for the hub-based remotes, or am I mistaken? I run macOS, and the switch to full 64-bit means that the Harmony app on macOS is no longer supported. But I can try and get access to a Windows machine and see if it works.
Logitech really wants you to use the mobile app, but I find the desktop app easier for this. If you go to myharmony.com and select Download, and then Harmony Hub, you will see a link for Harmony Desktop Software.
Logitech Harmony remotes cannot connect to this emulator via Android and iOS mobile applications because they require the physical button on the hub to be pressed. The MyHarmony desktop software must be used with the original cable to connect it.
Yes, I used that same picture to try and figure it out. The only thing off from the picture was where the "left side" (when looking at the picture) of the part that holds the battery, was not sitting in its slot. I fixed that but still have the same issue. It looked exactly like the picture when I put it back together, yet it still fly's out. I mean to the point where if I don't have my hand there, the battery will shoot across the room.
@jayeff yeah, it's tough for me to tell what is or isn't missing. The picture of the motherboard removal is very blurry. I would think if something had broken in mine a piece would have been rattling in the remote or come out when I opened it. I find it tough to tell. When I look inside, nothing looks like something broke off, but who knows? thanks for your input! I may have to move away from Logitech after 14 years. This remote was great, and my fifth harmony remote, but this issue makes me not want to buy another. I like physical buttons, so I don't like the LCD ones and the 650 is the worst I have had of the 5. Fortunately , I can use the app on my phone for now.
My Harmony companion remote has always had a problem with the battery popping out. I worked around the problem by folding up a bit of scrap paper and shoving it in with the battery when closing the battery compartment. Not ideal, but functional.
This! Mine worked great until I replaced the battery, with Duracell. I tried the paper shim idea, which sort of worked. But then I read Kevin's reply. Ran out and bought both a generic from the Dollar Tree (now $1.25, but whatever) and an Eveready. Both fit & work just fine, with the Eveready being a slightly better fit. Sure wish I'd read this before I deleted/re-registered my Hub, which was (and still is) a major undertaking.
I had this too! It drove me nuts. Then one day when i replacing the battery for the umpteenth time it dawned on me - did I have the wrong size battery? I had been using a CR2032. But when I went to battery bin to find another all I could find was a CR2025. Wouldn't you know? It fits like a glove! No more battery issues at all!
Apparently Harmony hubs don't like mesh wifi SSID's much at all... sometimes I can go days with my hubs remaining connected (green light), but then I have times they disconnect multiple times a day. The only way to successfully get it to reconnect requires me to turn off my additional 2 eero's leaving only my main one powered. The logitech harmony hubs then take a couple minutes to jump back on and then I can re-power the 2 eero's. Not sure who can better fix this issue, eero or logitech... or better yet, maybe Eero can work with logitech to make this issue better for all... Thoughts?
I have been having off and on problems with my harmony hub disconnecting too for months. I have tried contacting support but at the time they weren't able to see anything that looked wrong from the eero logs.
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