Controling harmony ultimate HUB from Indigo

I have been following this thread on the vera forum:

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/ ... 28.60.html

It discusses how to control the Harmony ultimate hub from the vera controller. And in post 69 there is a description and something called HarmonyHubControl binary.
I am not a programmer and have very little knowledge about this, but I would very much like to see Indigo controlling my harmony ultimate hub. Can someone say anything about this file and how one could go about to get this working with Indigo?

If there is anybody else that would like to start develop a plugin for harmony ultimate this can maybe be a good starting point.

Håvard

I managed to install pyharmony libraries according to this post http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Harmony-Hub-Based-Remotes/Ultimate-Hub-API/td-p/1049607/page/4 and managed to get indigo to run a shell script to change an activity. It was very kludgy and not exactly swift but that was probably down to me not having a clue what I was doing. One of the issues is that some of the libraries are for python 2.6 so you can't run the scripts directly from within Indigo ( I don't think). There isn't a full list of commands available but all I was interested in was changing activities. I notice that you can now control Nest Thermostats and Remote Buddy from your Harmony Remote.

Colin

As I understand it Colin you used terminal to execute your activity? How do you control it from Indigo? Is this solution stable?

Is there a workaround to get this to run natively from Indigo? Any Python/Indigo experts that could get this to work?

Håvard

Hi Håvard
Be aware that this was very much a bodge together since there isn't a published API to start from. All I have managed to do is to execute a shell script from an action group which communicates with the harmony scripts.

Colin

Seems like Logitech is opening up some form of API, whether it would end up being public is anyones guess. I suppose that if the Harmony could be programmed to trigger an action group in Indigo then that would be a benefit.
http://www.myharmony.com/discover/harmony-api/

I have created virtual on/off devices for each activity using a RaspberryPi with Domoticz installed as the backend. It supports two way device state updates and has been working very reliable for the past weeks. If anybody is interested I can write up a howto.


Best regards,
Andreas

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I took a slightly different approach.

HarmonyPY has been working for me... I found it through http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Harmony-H ... 607/page/4 (Post # 37 to be precise). I'm hoping someone that knows how to create a plugin can package it as an indigo plugin.

As for now, I have it polling my Harmony Hub and putting the current activity into a variable via shell script.

I took a slightly different approach.

HarmonyPY has been working for me... I found it through http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Harmony-H ... 607/page/4 (Post # 37 to be precise). I'm hoping someone that knows how to create a plugin can package it as an indigo plugin.

As for now, I have it polling my Harmony Hub and putting the current activity into a variable via shell script.

This is very interesting. I am using the Vera bridge plugin to control the harmony plugin that runs there. This is a extra device that adds complexity.

Can you share a bit on how you manage to get it to work? Setting it up. And how you get the current activity to a variable?

Regards

A plugin for this would be awesome, particularly if it allowed feedback to indigo for actions that aren't media related (as in lights, heating, etc) and also could show current States on the remote control

Is there anyone with the know how that is interested in starting developing this as a plug in? I wish I could do it. But I don't even know where or how to start...

Regards

So I have decided to try to create a harmony control plug in. I only have experience with some simple scripting so no promises.
I have tried to read up on http://wiki.indigodomo.com/doku.php?id= ... ugin_guide, but some of it goes over my head.
In the documentation it is referred to a IndigoPluginTester. Anyone know where I can find this application?

I am trying to package the HarmonyPY found at https://github.com/rkitover/pyharmony . Anyone that has any advice on how to start?
I have created the package and the info.plist file and I am now a bit stuck on how to implement the files from pyharmony and tie this together with indigo.

Hope someone with some plugin knowledge can help me a bit . Is there any other available plugins that is very similar to what this should look like?

regards

Can't help on the plugin front, but would be happy to test on my three harmony hubs. I thought about having a go at this but got as far as installing the prerequisite libraries and getting Indigo to run a shell script to change an activity.

Colin

Just a heads up, but that PyHarmony class uses some classes which are not available in Python 2.5 -- so your plugin may not run unless you are using Yosemite. Specifically the "requests" and "SleekXMPP" library both have a 2.6+ requirement (at least in the latest repositories for them... might could find an older version to work).

Adam

Hi Colin.
I am maybe realizing that this could be a bit difficult for a first plugin . I am thinking of making it work as a script first. Can you share a bit on how you have set it up?

Håvard

Did anyone see this announcement from Logitech? http://blog.logitech.com/2015/01/14/harmony-api/

Looks like they're committing to creating some sort of API. Would be great if it was open enough that an Indigo Plugin could be created that would allow us to create triggers based on the Harmony!