Description:
The MeiHarmonyHub plug-in allows you to monitor and control Logitech Harmony Hubs in HomeSeer. MeiHarmonyHub allows you to customize the plugin to suite your needs with real time updates from the hub when activities are changed.
Price:
$39.95
Features:
Details:
MeiHarmonyHub gives you the option to control and/or monitor your Logitech Harmony Hub. There are currently 5 basic devices the plug-in creates:
There are a few options that can be changed to alter the behavior of the plug-in.
Main:
Hubs:
Devices:
This page allows you to set up certain settings for each Entertainment Device that has a HomeSeer device created.
Logging:
There are currently 2 options for logging for the plug-in.
Features that are in the R&D stage
The MeiHarmonyHub plug-in allows you to monitor and control Logitech Harmony Hubs in HomeSeer. MeiHarmonyHub allows you to customize the plugin to suite your needs with real time updates from the hub when activities are changed.
Price:
$39.95
Features:
- Network discovery of all hubs on your network (Beta!)
- Monitor which activity is currently active on your Logitech Harmony Hub
- Change the activity from within Homeseer
- Send commands to any of your entertainment devices stored in your hub (TV, Receiver, etc.)
- Supports both Windows and Linux installs of HomeSeer!
- Trigger HomeSeer Events based on when an Activity Starts or when it's completed it's start sequence
- There are 3 states that the Harmony Hub tracks: Activity is Starting, Activity has Started, Activity Changed (in that order). The first two are provided as Triggers in the HomeSeer Event Engine.
- Activity is Starting - This is when the activity has just started. This is great for triggering any light scenes you want to kick off with an activity. Some activities can take longer than others to start, so this way HomeSeer events can be kicked off at the start instead of after the activity has started.
- Activity has Started - This is when the activity has completed it's start up sequence. This is before the Hub actually internally changes the activity to the just started activity.
- Activity Changed - This is when the activity has changed in the Hub. This is when the plugin actually updates the HomeSeer Activity Device, so creating a trigger for this is basically looking for when the Activity Device changes.
- There are 3 states that the Harmony Hub tracks: Activity is Starting, Activity has Started, Activity Changed (in that order). The first two are provided as Triggers in the HomeSeer Event Engine.
- Trigger HomeSeer Events based on when the Hub Starts to power off or when it's completed it's power off sequence
- There are 3 states that the Harmony Hub tracks in regards to powering off: Power off is Starting, Power Off has completed, Activity Changed (in that order). The first two are provided as Triggers in the HomeSeer Event Engine.
- Power Off is Starting - This is when the power off sequence has just started.
- Power Off has Completed - This is when the hub has completed the Power Off sequence. This is before the Hub actually internally changes the activity to "PowerOff".
- Activity Changed - This is when the activity has changed in the Hub to PowerOff. This is when the plugin actually updates the HomeSeer Activity Device, so creating a trigger for this is basically looking for when the Hub has powered off and the hub has set that to it's active activity.
- There are 3 states that the Harmony Hub tracks in regards to powering off: Power off is Starting, Power Off has completed, Activity Changed (in that order). The first two are provided as Triggers in the HomeSeer Event Engine.
- Event Actions - there are a few Event Actions mainly for convenience (as most can be done using built in actions).
- Start Activity - Start an activity on the Hub.
- Send Device Command - Send a command to a Device.
- Send Device a string of commands - This is an advanced feature (See Here: https://forums.homeseer.com/showthre...01#post1356301)
- Set Sleep timer - Set the sleep timer to any number of minutes.
- Cancel Sleep timer - Cancel the sleep timer if one is active.
Details:
MeiHarmonyHub gives you the option to control and/or monitor your Logitech Harmony Hub. There are currently 5 basic devices the plug-in creates:
- Main Root Device
- This is the main root device. This device current provides no functionality, but is reserved for future functionality such as update notifications when a new version of the plugin is available.
- Harmony hub root device and connection status/control
- This is the main root device for a Harmony Hub and is always created. This Device is used to show the current connection state of the plugin with the Harmony Hub
- This device also allows you to manually disconnect or reconnect the plugin to the Hub.
- Activities
- This device is used to show the the currently active Activity on the Hub.
- This is an optional device. You must check the "Use Activity?" checkmark in the Hub options to have this device created for your Hub.
- Device
- One of these devices is created for each entertainment device that is on your Harmony Hub (Even if it's not used in an activity).
- This device allows you to send commands to the Device as if it were from the Hub.
- This is an option device. You must Check the "Use Devices" checkbox in the Hub options to have this device created for your Hub.
- Sleep Timer
- This device tracks and lets you set the sleep timer on your harmony hub.
- By default the device has buttons for 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minute sleep timers as well as Cancel. New buttons can be added in the Status Graphics page for the device where the value is the number of minutes for the sleep timer.
- This is an option device. You must Check the "Use Sleep Timer" checkbox in the Hub options to have this device created for your Hub.
There are a few options that can be changed to alter the behavior of the plug-in.
Main:
- Max Connection Attempts - This sets the number of times the plugin will attempt to connect to a Hub before it gives up. This setting is defaulted to 0 which means the plugin will keep trying to connect to the Hub until it can make a connection.
- Time Between Connection Attempts - This is the Amount of time (in ms) between connection attempts. This can be any value greater than 0 (zero), however it defaults to 500 (ms).
- Request Timeout - The amount of time before a request to the hub Times out (this includes heartbeat checks to the hub)
- Heartbeat Interval - How often to send a heartbeat to the hub in Milliseconds (defaults to 30 seconds and should only be changed in extreme cases)
- Maximum Missed Heartbeats - The number of consecutively missed heartbeats before the plugin considers the hub disconnected.
- Update Activity Device - This allows you to set when the activity device is updated with teh value from the hub: When an activity is starting, when an activity has finished starting, and when the hub updates it's internal activity ID. Default is the last option.
- Device Polling - This sets the interval of how often the plugin will check the hub for new Entertainment Devices and Activities on the hub. This is defaulted to 1 Day, but can be set to any value with 0 (zero) disabling the polling all together.
Hubs:
- Run Discovery (Beta 3.1.0.7+)
- Adding Harmony Hubs By IP - Currently the only way to add a hub is by it's IP. In the future automatic discovery of hubs may be implemented, but is currently on hold. It is strongly recommended that any Hubs you have either have a static IP, or that you assign them a static DHCP address based on their MAC address.
- Hub Management- This is the list of Logitech Harmony Hubs the plug-in knows about. Each Hub has a set of options for each one:
- Enabled? - Checking this will tell the plug-in to create devices for this Hub. If you uncheck this box, the plug-in will not delete the devices in HomeSeer. That is left up to the user to do. If the devices are left, they will not be updated during polling of devices is this box is unchecked. Also, if this box is unchecked and the plugin is connected to that hub it will stay connected, but will not attempt to reconnect if the plugin is restarted.
- Use Activity? - If this box is checked, the plugin will create and update the Activity Device. This box can be unchecked at anytime and updating of the HomeSeer device will stop, however it can still be used to change the activity on the Hub. Note that there is no performance benefit to disabling this after the device is created to save on CPU cycles. The plugin does not poll the Hub for updates, instead, the Hub notifies the plugin when an activity changes.
- Use Devices? - Checking this box will have the plugin create HomeSeer devices for all the Entertainment Devices on your Hub.
- Use Sleep Timer? - Checking this box will have the plugin create a HomeSeer device for controlling and monitoring the sleep timer on your hub.
Devices:
This page allows you to set up certain settings for each Entertainment Device that has a HomeSeer device created.
- Select a Hub - This allows you to select the hub with the Entertainment device you wish to work with.
- Select a Device - This allows you to select the Entertainment Device you wish to work with. Note that this does not show up until you select a hub.
- Command - Device settings selected:
- This sets the defaults for all commands for this device
- Repeat - This allows you to tell the plugin to repeat all commands for this device a certain number of times. It defaults to 1.
- Repeat Delay (ms) - This allows you to set the amount of time between each Repeat above. This defaults to 500, but note that this is not used if the above is 1.
- Inter-command delay (ms) - This allows you to set a minimum amount of time between commands send to this device. This is good if you don't want to plugin to send too many requests to a given device too fast.
- Command - Command Selected
- This sets the values for a specific command
- Enabled? - Checking this allows you to set overrides for the selected command
- Repeat - This allows you to tell the plugin to repeat all commands for this command a certain number of times. It defaults to 1.
- Repeat Delay (ms) - This allows you to set the amount of time between each Repeat above. This defaults to 500, but note that this is not used if the above is 1.
Logging:
There are currently 2 options for logging for the plug-in.
- Enable Debug Logging - Enabling this option will create a log file in \logs\MeiHarmonyHub.log in the HomeSeer install directory. This should only be turned on for sending debug information to the Developer upon request.
- HomeSeer logging Level - This sets the level of logging that goes to the HomeSeer logs. For most cases, Error or Off should be adequate.
Features that are in the R&D stage
- Controlling Home Automation Devices controlled via the Harmony Hub
- The Harmony Hub can control Home Automation devices such as the Nest Thermostat, Ecobee thermostat, Philips Hue, etc. In addition, with the Harmony Hub Extender installed, z-wave and zigbee devices can be controlled by the hub.
- There has been some limited success using the plugin to not only control, but monitor these devices in near real time without polling (testing so far limited to Philips Hue and a Zigbee bulb controlled via the Hub extender).
- There are no promises, but early signs point to being able to create HomeSeer Devices for these Home Automation devices controlled by the Hub and allow HomeSeer to control and Monitor them.
- Due to the scope of this addition, it may be in R&D for a while and may not ever make it into the plugin at all.
- I am open to any other additions that anyone wants to request. You can make feature requests here: https://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=194097
Comment