Control Your Harmony Hub with Domoticz (RaspberryPi (Linux))

[Dynamic]

Bought an Harmony too! Really nice piece of equipment....

[Derik]

Yep...

Realy Nice toy, and is working perfect!!!.

Missing so far a lot of icoons ..
Wacht movie, listen music, play games..

When there are more icoons for beautiful things would be nice
For other things, Phone, home or not ...
And what ever the options are.

[drogert]

Yep, I want one!

[mbliek]

You can find icons at: https://www.iconfinder.com

[Derik]

New topic?
How to add a new icon?

I see a lot of options for me...

Only how...

[gb160]

Hi there, hoping someone can help a noob with what I'm hoping is a really stupid question.
I'm running Domoticz on a raspberry pi, I've got my lights and central heating all working and can operate my harmony hub with no issues.
i have an air conditioner operated via the harmony hub, however it only has one power button, the same o button turns it on and off.
I've got the switch setup so that it operates ok, on turns it on, off turns it off.
However I've set up a scene called bedtime that switches all my lights off in the lounge, turns the air conditioner off, and turns on the bedroom lights.
The issue is, when i go to bed, the air con gets turned on if it is currently off....if the air con is running when i hit the bedtime scene, it turns off correctly.
Im banging my head against the wall as i can't see a solution....anyone ???

[Raspberry Piet]

Hi there, hoping someone can help a noob with what I'm hoping is a really stupid question.
I'm running Domoticz on a raspberry pi, I've got my lights and central heating all working and can operate my harmony hub with no issues.
i have an air conditioner operated via the harmony hub, however it only has one power button, the same o button turns it on and off.
I've got the switch setup so that it operates ok, on turns it on, off turns it off.
However I've set up a scene called bedtime that switches all my lights off in the lounge, turns the air conditioner off, and turns on the bedroom lights.
The issue is, when i go to bed, the air con gets turned on if it is currently off....if the air con is running when i hit the bedtime scene, it turns off correctly.
Im banging my head against the wall as i can't see a solution....anyone ???

A toggle is a really bad thing for use in home automation.
You need discrete on & off infrared codes.
You can contact logitech and ask them for it or contact the manufactury of the airconditioning.
You also might look here:
http://files.remotecentral.com/library/3-1/index.html
Or make a bash/lua bedtime_script that will send IR signal only if status is on.

[gb160]

A toggle is a really bad thing for use in home automation.
You need discrete on & off infrared codes.
You can contact logitech and ask them for it or contact the manufactury of the airconditioning.
You also might look here:
http://files.remotecentral.com/library/3-1/index.html
Or make a bash/lua bedtime_script that will send IR signal only if status is on.

Many thanks for replying....and I thought that was the case,I don't think there's any chance to get the discreet codes for the device so I have been 'attempting' to use the bash method with a php script to check the current switch status, but with my limited programming skills this is proving a bit tricky !!
I didn't think it would be so difficult to do something as simple as "if device is on, do not send on command"....is this explained in more detail anywhere?

[Raspberry Piet]

A toggle is a really bad thing for use in home automation.
You need discrete on & off infrared codes.
You can contact logitech and ask them for it or contact the manufactury of the airconditioning.
You also might look here:
http://files.remotecentral.com/library/3-1/index.html
Or make a bash/lua bedtime_script that will send IR signal only if status is on.

Many thanks for replying....and I thought that was the case,I don't think there's any chance to get the discreet codes for the device so I have been 'attempting' to use the bash method with a php script to check the current switch status, but with my limited programming skills this is proving a bit tricky !!
I didn't think it would be so difficult to do something as simple as "if device is on, do not send on command"....is this explained in more detail anywhere?

Try this:

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mkdir /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash
touch /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/AC_Off.sh
chmod +x /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/AC_Off.sh
nano /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/AC_Off.sh

Put this in your AC_Off.sh script:

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#!/bin/bash
##################################################
DOMO_IP="127.0.0.1"
PORT="8080"
idx_AC="14"    #Air Conditioner idx number
##################################################
curl -s "http://$DOMO_IP:$PORT/json.htm?type=devices&rid=$idx_AC" | grep "Status" | grep "On"
    if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ; then
		   	echo "Air Conditioner is on, let's turn it off"
			curl -s "http://$DOMO_IP:$PORT/json.htm?type=command&param=switchlight&idx=$idx_AC&switchcmd=Off&level=0"
    else
			echo "Air Conditioner is allready off"
    fi

Invoke your AC_Off.sh through your domoticz bedtime scene => Edit=> Off Action: script://home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/AC_Off.sh

[markk]

I would love to be able to integrate my Harmony Hub with Domoticz but I'm running mine on a windows PC. The wiki only explains how to do it with a Pi. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[gb160]

Invoke your AC_Off.sh through your domoticz bedtime scene => Edit=> Off Action: script://home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/AC_Off.sh

Mate, thanks so much for taking the time to help me, I've followed every stage to perfection , but for some reason, the AC_Off.sh is not being triggered when i enter bedtime scene.
When i run the script from the command line, it works perfectly....if the AC is on it gets turned off, If the AC is off it stays off...but no joy if i select the scene from the gui
I feel frustrated right now because it seems like this solution is 99% complete....just need to get that script to trigger.
Is there any reason you're aware of that would stop this script triggering?
Is there any sort of log that i can view which might help?
Again...thanks for assisting me.


Update....Its working, no idea why, it just started working.Thanks
As far as the harmony control is concerned this works a treat, my only wish would be for domoticz to be updated if I switch activity via my harmony remote, like the ios app does, apart from that it works perfectly.

[markk]

I would love to be able to integrate my Harmony Hub with Domoticz but I'm running mine on a windows PC. The wiki only explains how to do it with a Pi. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Sorry to bang on about this again but I would really appreciate a pointer in the right direction on this please. The wiki gives instructions for installing on a Pi but I'm running Domoticz on windows. I'm stuck here:

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[mbliek]

Take a look here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/harmony ... rce=navbar

You need Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on you windows PC.
Don't know how to install this and how to use it with domoticz, sorry

[markk]

Take a look here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/harmony ... rce=navbar

You need Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on you windows PC.
Don't know how to install this and how to use it with domoticz, sorry

Thanks v much for the pointer.

[joske522]

Hi guys,

I'm stuck

Did everything in the wiki, but the last step gives me following error:

make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [HarmonyHubControl.o] Error 127

This happens when I execute: make HarmonyHubControl

Any ideas how I can work around this?


Thanks!

[gb160]

Hi guys,

I'm stuck

Did everything in the wiki, but the last step gives me following error:

make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [HarmonyHubControl.o] Error 127

This happens when I execute: make HarmonyHubControl

Any ideas how I can work around this?


Thanks!

I'd try the native support first...although I can't get it working on the Pi, others seem to have it working on other platforms.
http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3311

[mbliek]

Hi guys,

I'm stuck

Did everything in the wiki, but the last step gives me following error:

make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [HarmonyHubControl.o] Error 127

This happens when I execute: make HarmonyHubControl

Any ideas how I can work around this?


Thanks!

You ned to install GCC on your raspberry.
Please use google on how to do that.

[joske522]

Allright, it worked with the native support in the beta build!

Thanks guys! I tried installing the GCC first but my head started spinning and I don't really know which procedure to folluw with all the different builds and versions...

Do I need it for something else?

Thanks!

[gb160]

Allright, it worked with the native support in the beta build!

Thanks guys! I tried installing the GCC first but my head started spinning and I don't really know which procedure to folluw with all the different builds and versions...

Do I need it for something else?

Thanks!

Is this on the pi mate?...glad to hear it works for you.im having no luck with native support though seems to work ok for about two or three switches
Which beta version are you using ?
I've had to revert to the old method, it's very reliable, only drawback is that domoticz doesn't update if I switch the harmony from the remote, I can live with it though...I'd really like to get this native support working though.

[mbliek]

Allright, it worked with the native support in the beta build!

Thanks guys! I tried installing the GCC first but my head started spinning and I don't really know which procedure to folluw with all the different builds and versions...

Do I need it for something else?

Thanks!

Is this on the pi mate?...glad to hear it works for you.im having no luck with native support though seems to work ok for about two or three switches
Which beta version are you using ?
I've had to revert to the old method, it's very reliable, only drawback is that domoticz doesn't update if I switch the harmony from the remote, I can live with it though...I'd really like to get this native support working though.

Domoticz should update the switch when using the remote. Take a look at the wiki page again.

There is a script that checked every 10 min for an active activity.