Right now, I can use my Vera to control a Harmony activity (e.g. turn tv on, turn receiver on, select inputs, etc…) but I want it to go the other way as well. Can the Harmony Extender control Vera scenes? Specifically, I want to be able to put my media room into “Movie Mode” (dim all the lights) from my Harmony Ultimate remote. Thanks!
You have a couple of options here but firstly can you tell me what you are using as a media player? is it Kodi? and if it is Kodi is it running on a PC?
The harmony plugin polls your harmony hub at an interval of your choosing.
If you create a movie scene on harmony you could have Vera act on that. Just set harmony plugin polling to 5 seconds.
Another option would be to run an HA bridge on a pi or always on pc.
You can then add Vera devices to harmony, they show as hue bulbs.
There is an active thread on here about the ha bridge.
I’m running OpenELEC on small media center PC, so yeah kodi plugins would work.
Hmm, polling the Harmony Hub might work.
So it sounds like the Harmony Extender wouldn’t see or be able to execute the Vera Scenes? Thanks for your help!
Sorry I see what you meant now about the extender.
You could maybe see individual Zwave devices if you add it as a secondary on your Vera network.
Harmony could even use it in it’s scenes.
But it wouldn’t work to operate Vera scenes.
Specifically, I want to be able to put my media room into "Movie Mode" (dim all the lights) from my Harmony Ultimate remote. Thanks!The way i do this is ... I have kodi remote plugin and harmony plugin installed on my Vera. Then i just those those inputs as triggers to activate scenes using PLEG. For example.... [b]When its night[/b] and [b]KodiPlaying[/b](input from kodi remote) and [b]MediaPlayerLivingRoom[/b](input from harmony plugin) then Dim lights to 20%, then I have setup another condition for when I have stopped or paused kodi to turn lights back on. Works Flawlessly!!! Im not sure if you use PLEG or not but im sure you could just use the triggers for scenes if not.
Otherwise another option is Blog - SmartHome
I have not tired this as my way is working fine for me but it looks good.
I have been successful at mapping some Vera scenes to my Harmony remote. This was an unexpected result of my efforts of getting my Amazon Echo to manipulate devices through my Harmony Hub.
I am running the Harmony Hub Control app on a Vera Lite and the HA bridge on a separate PC. I created some activities on my Harmony remote/application to control some of my video/audio devices with the intent of using the Echo to control these. As an example, one activity is to watch my Hopper. So I have an activity defined on the Harmony Hub/app to Turn on the Hopper via IP (another awesome feature), turn on TV to proper input, and turn on Audio to appropriate channel. I have mapped this activity to a button on the Harmony Device in Vera that was installed as part of the Harmony Hub Control app. I then created the appropriate URLs in the HA Bridge that turn on and off this activity via the HA bridge and therefore my Echo. Awesome and works well.
I noted the above to help further explain how I defined a scene to work with the Harmony remote control/hub. In the mean time I have created other HA Bridge devices to turn on/off my living room light and to turn of/off my Vera Security. These again can be controlled via the Amazon Echo. I have created URLs that map to the device for the light and I have create URLs that control a Scene for turning on and off the security. (HOME or AWAY).
As a result of these URLs being created in the HA Bridge, my Harmony remote control App can see these defined devices. Therefore, I can map these devices to the buttons on my remote and can now control Vera scenes and devices using my Harmony remote or Harmony android app…
Hopefully this was a solution that you were looking for and the above explanation was not too confusing.