New Plugin for Logitech Harmony Hub
just ordered it 
it became quite affordable, got one for €85 at ebay.
Do you think it will be possible to use the “home automation” buttons on the physical remote with pimatic to control e.g. 433Mhz devices? Those buttons are usually quite restricted to be used only with supported devices like the Philips Hue…
need to look into this. Maybe the Buttons could be mapped to scenes which do nothing, I think the API at least receives these updates from the Hub. Howerver for this I need to extend the plugin.
In general sure you can think about faking a device.
A bit cumbersome but you could do it like:
Press button --> Send IR --> Pimatic LIRC --> Trigger Action
Wouldn’t it be possible to do pretend to have e.g. a Philips Hue and do it like this:
Turn on Hue with remote -> rule “if hue is turned on turn on 433Mhz switch” is executed -> tadaaa… light is switched on
Or won’t pimatic listen to the remote for a signal to the Hue as this is not a supported use case usually? I know that this works for 433Mhz remotes - shouldn’t it also work with WiFi or BT devices?
no it would not work. Maybe you could run extra software on the pi which acts as a hue bridge and fakes bulbs. If you then have the fake bulbs in pimatic you can react on them being turned off or on.
@GuybrushMR80 just installed it with the hamony companion and works like charm! really great! thanks so much to @thex for this plugin!
only get one error (but i recognised no malfunction at the moment):
error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: Uncaught, unspecified “error” event. (XMPP authentication failure)
at Client.emit (events.js:144:17)
at Client._handleAuthState (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/lib/Client.js:298:10)
at Client._handleStanza (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/lib/Client.js:234:12)
at Client.onStanza (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/lib/Client.js:222:8)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Connection.emit (events.js:169:7)
at Connection.onStanza (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-core/lib/Connection.js:369:10)
at StreamParser.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-core/lib/Connection.js:226:10)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at StreamParser.emit (events.js:169:7)
at SaxLtx.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-core/lib/StreamParser.js:58:14)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at SaxLtx.emit (events.js:169:7)
at SaxLtx._handleTagOpening (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/ltx/lib/parsers/ltx.js:28:22)
at SaxLtx.write (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/ltx/lib/parsers/ltx.js:105:26)
at StreamParser.write (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-core/lib/StreamParser.js:123:17)
at Connection.onData (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-harmonyhub/node_modules/harmonyhubjs-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-client/node_modules/node-xmpp-core/lib/Connection.js:305:17)
at emitOne (events.js:82:20)
at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
at Socket.emit (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/startup.coffee:63:24)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:153:18)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:111:10)
at TCP.onread (net.js:531:20)
This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
I think in the latest version of the lib I use there was a change in the error handling, have to take a look at it next week. When do you get the exemption?
@thex hey. I think I’ve read a blog where a guy implemented the “listener”-feature. So the case “if volume of device has been increased” should be possible without actually having a real device for that. that would spare us extra services like LIRC.
but maybe I just missunderstood the article. anyway it would be awesome if that could be approached!
fully agree! That would allow us to basically control our home with our TV remote
@thex said in New Plugin for Logitech Harmony Hub:
I think in the latest version of the lib I use there was a change in the error handling, have to take a look at it next week. When do you get the exemption?
it’s strange… didn’t get the message since yesterday. but will keep you up to date, if it comes back.
@thex: could you give me your source for the api? I really want to know if “listening” to comand changes is possible.
@thex thanks. seems there is currently no way to achieve this by the harmony API.
@Partovic is there a more “generic” way by setting up a fake device? Is there any smart home device supported by both the logitech harmony hub and pimatic auto discovery? I think that would be a good starting point…
EDIT: Here’s the list of supported devices: https://support.myharmony.com/en-ie/compatibility?utm_source=logitech.com&utm_medium=pdp&utm_campaign=compatibility lookup
EDIT2: IFTTT could be the backdoor we’re looking for…
https://support.myharmony.com/en-ie/harmony-experience-with-ifttt?utm_source=support.myharmony.com&utm_medium=compatibility lookup&utm_campaign=support article - s-m-4068
played around with the API but there doesn’t seem to be a way to get the remote keys pressed 
the only thing we could potentially do directly with the api is requesting the currently active activity.
@merphun @Partovic
I got a bit frustrated that it looks like I can’t implement the remote-button reading so to cheer my self up a little bit I implemented a rudimentary scene/activities support for the plugin.
I just published the update to NPM would be great if you play with it and give some feedback as I don’t use the harmony activities at all.
@thex Well, that doesn’t make your plugin less cool or useless. Controlling scenes is quite a big use case for us Thanks for your afford. I will test your updates as soon as I can.
@GuybrushMR80 yeah i thougt about the emulating thing too. Hue would be a possible device. But I dont know if that would make it better / easier. According to it, I think using LIRC would still be the best and cleanest alternative.
@thex your Activity Feature works successfuly discovered a “Activities” device which includes All my Set activies. Including Power Off! Pretty cool for my dashbutton mounted next to the entrance door in my flat 
One Click Can Switch Off All my lights and my harmony devices too right now. Good work!
@thex: Great work! Works perfect for me. Now I can tell my house to go into evening tv mode…heureka!
Thanks
Mike
Would be cool to have a CurrentActivity Variable to access in rules. Something like when Activity of HarmonyBridge changes to "FireTV+Beamer" then lower Leinwand.
This should be realizeable doesn’t it?
Edit: At least, according to this https://github.com/maddox/harmony-api
Should be possible but I think I need to pull this as the client doesn’t get notified on changes. So there would be a delay as you should not pull this every second or so.
The implementation of the “Activities” is amazing!!! Works perfect. Thank you so much @thex 
