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Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Allonis just created a driver to allow all Harmony Hub devices and activities to be supported within myServer / SmartRemote. The list of supported devices is now about as good as it gets!

We will work on the UI for this next but the system is working very nicely today.

Note that you can now invoke any device control commands or Harmony Activities within automation rules (turn on Playstation when motion is sensed) or Schedule (turn off the projector at 9pm) or macros (sequence of steps).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1957275162/smartremote-a-customizable-remote-control

Multiple Hubs are supported (one in each media room!)

Harmony Hub Devices shown in the SmartRemote

Harmony Activities that can be launched from the SmartRemote

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't kept up on it, but didn't Logitech discontinue the harmony hub? Is it still supported in any way? for how long?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

yes, Logitech decided to stop selling the Harmony line of remotes. But they are still providing support for them. No idea for how long. No one knows that magical answer.

That's why I suggest that the Harmony Hub support within myServer / SmartRemote is a stop gap solution until you have migrated over your system to myServer comparable drivers and can trash the Harmony Hub if (when) they stop support and you can't add any new devices.