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emulates philips hue api to other home automation gateways
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Not working with Harmony? #29

Closed Nomar383 closed 9 years ago

Nomar383 commented 9 years ago

I have the bridge setup as a docker on my unraid server. It has been working great with the echo, but I can't seem to get the Harmony Hub to see the bridge. Do you have to do something different to get the Harmony to work?

Nomar383 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I might have misunderstood the harmony hub support. I have the echo->Bridge->Vera->Harmony working perfectly actually.

I'm actually trying to use the home automation buttons on the harmony remote. So Harmony->Bidge->Vera to turn lights on and off.

There is another project that emulates the hue bridge to accomplish this and I thought the functionality might have been added here as well.

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, Adam Tart notifications@github.com wrote:

The Bridge interacts with other services via RESTful requests. This means that you can make the bridge send an HTTP request (i.e., URL) to another service or device on your network -- for example, you can create a device in the Bridge called "Harmony" where triggering ON sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/on and triggering OFF sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/off.

Unfortunately, the Harmony Hub is not quite so simple: you cannot just send an HTTP request to it. Instead, you must authenticate to it using Logitech's authentication service and then interact with it through its own API (which follows an XML-like format).

The simplest thing to do would be to have three pieces to your set-up: (1) The Amazon Echo HA Bridge which sends HTTP requests to (2) a separate, simple HTTP server which accepts HTTP requests and performs more complicated logic, such as triggering commands on (3) a separate process which has all of the complexity of interacting with the Harmony Hub. (Technically 2 and 3 can be the same service, if you're willing to write it yourself instead of stringing together already-written such services.)

For an example with detailed steps, you should check out Reddit user svideo's write up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/377onm/extending_amazon_echo_voice_control_to_existing/

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134669036 .

-Kalen

adamtart commented 9 years ago

Ah, interesting. Mind if I ask (1) how did you get the echo->bridge->vera->harmony chain working? I wonder if it would be better to use Vera than my own unreliable middleware I wrote myself. And (2) what is the other hue bridge emulator project? I'd be curious to check it out. Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Kalen Hansen notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I might have misunderstood the harmony hub support. I have the echo->Bridge->Vera->Harmony working perfectly actually.

I'm actually trying to use the home automation buttons on the harmony remote. So Harmony->Bidge->Vera to turn lights on and off.

There is another project that emulates the hue bridge to accomplish this and I thought the functionality might have been added here as well.

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, Adam Tart notifications@github.com wrote:

The Bridge interacts with other services via RESTful requests. This means that you can make the bridge send an HTTP request (i.e., URL) to another service or device on your network -- for example, you can create a device in the Bridge called "Harmony" where triggering ON sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/on and triggering OFF sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/off.

Unfortunately, the Harmony Hub is not quite so simple: you cannot just send an HTTP request to it. Instead, you must authenticate to it using Logitech's authentication service and then interact with it through its own API (which follows an XML-like format).

The simplest thing to do would be to have three pieces to your set-up: (1) The Amazon Echo HA Bridge which sends HTTP requests to (2) a separate, simple HTTP server which accepts HTTP requests and performs more complicated logic, such as triggering commands on (3) a separate process which has all of the complexity of interacting with the Harmony Hub. (Technically 2 and 3 can be the same service, if you're willing to write it yourself instead of stringing together already-written such services.)

For an example with detailed steps, you should check out Reddit user svideo's write up here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/377onm/extending_amazon_echo_voice_control_to_existing/

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub < https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134669036

.

-Kalen

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134700802 .

Nomar383 commented 9 years ago

There is a harmony hub plugin for Vera. I just send commands to that plugin like you would send a command to a light switch and I am able to start activities and turn everything off.

This is the repo I was looking at that was specifically designed to work with the harmony to take advantage of the remote buttons: https://github.com/falk0069/hue-upnp

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, Adam Tart notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah, interesting. Mind if I ask (1) how did you get the echo->bridge->vera->harmony chain working? I wonder if it would be better to use Vera than my own unreliable middleware I wrote myself. And (2) what is the other hue bridge emulator project? I'd be curious to check it out. Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Kalen Hansen <notifications@github.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','notifications@github.com');> wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I might have misunderstood the harmony hub support. I have the echo->Bridge->Vera->Harmony working perfectly actually.

I'm actually trying to use the home automation buttons on the harmony remote. So Harmony->Bidge->Vera to turn lights on and off.

There is another project that emulates the hue bridge to accomplish this and I thought the functionality might have been added here as well.

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, Adam Tart <notifications@github.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','notifications@github.com');> wrote:

The Bridge interacts with other services via RESTful requests. This means that you can make the bridge send an HTTP request (i.e., URL) to another service or device on your network -- for example, you can create a device in the Bridge called "Harmony" where triggering ON sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/on and triggering OFF sends a request like http://192.168.1.42:8000/off.

Unfortunately, the Harmony Hub is not quite so simple: you cannot just send an HTTP request to it. Instead, you must authenticate to it using Logitech's authentication service and then interact with it through its own API (which follows an XML-like format).

The simplest thing to do would be to have three pieces to your set-up: (1) The Amazon Echo HA Bridge which sends HTTP requests to (2) a separate, simple HTTP server which accepts HTTP requests and performs more complicated logic, such as triggering commands on (3) a separate process which has all of the complexity of interacting with the Harmony Hub. (Technically 2 and 3 can be the same service, if you're willing to write it yourself instead of stringing together already-written such services.)

For an example with detailed steps, you should check out Reddit user svideo's write up here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/377onm/extending_amazon_echo_voice_control_to_existing/

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <

https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134669036

.

-Kalen

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub < https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134700802

.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge/issues/29#issuecomment-134718088 .

-Kalen

Nomar383 commented 9 years ago

I actually used the previously linked repo to get the harmony remote buttons working, so I guess I'll just run 2 different hue emulators since they don't appear to conflict.