A new Control Family device driver has been released supporting the Harmony Hub and related Harmony remotes. Using this driver will give you direct control of the Activities and Devices that have been defined on the Hub.  myServer connects to the Harmony Hub on the local network.  Internet is not required.

 

The Harmony Hub driver is part of the Control Family. 

 

The native myServer Harmony Hub driver has been released. It is a member of the Control Family so you will create the primary serial devices in Family Manager and then the individual device control files are defined inside the driver itself. Similar to how the GlobalCache driver works.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/harmony-hub

At this point in time the driver is capable of sending one-way commands to devices. A future enhancement may allow for myServer to receive button presses from the remote. The Harmony Hub device is connected as a TCP networked device that uses a standard TCP connection.

Installation:

Within the Harmony smartphone configuration app, go into Harmony Setup / Add and Edit Device and Activities / Remote & Hub /  Enable XMPP connectivity.

Once the driver is installed go into Family Manager and add a new Control Family device. You just have to enter the Hub's IP address and select the Default IP Port.

When the driver loads it will connect to all the defined Hubs. There is no limit to how many Hubs can be used. Development was done using a Harmony Elite Hub and remote.

Command builder will show you all the available supported commands.  Within modern.tablets.sample template is a sample scene that you can use in your apps for exercising the Hub(s).

There is an event in the Harmony driver that should fire whenever an activity is run on the hub. Look for messages in the Harmony event log like "OnActivityChanged, <<activity id>>". If you are seeing those events then if you create a system Macro called Harmony.<<activityid>> e.g. Harmony.12345 then that macro will automatically be called when the event happens.

Here are some screen shots from the sample app showing the app browsing the Hub and executing the functions.

This is the Hub Browser's home page. Notice that you can select Activities or Devices or the Global Power Off Hub Activity.

Harmony Browser Home

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Select Activities and you can browse all the defined activities on the Hub. Clicking on the Activity name will run that activity on the hub.
Note: You can run that same Activity from a Macro by issuing the command Control|<<id>>~Activity~<<activity name>>

Harmony Activities

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Here we have browsed to the Devices on the Hub. One entry for every Device defined. Click on a Device to see it's command groups.

Harmony Devices

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Harmony breaks its Device commands into logical groups. Select the command group you want to execute.

Harmony Device Command Groups

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Now we're at the Function level for the selected device and command group. Click on the command to execute that Function on the hub.
NOTE: You can also execute the function directly in a Macro using the command Control|<<id>>~Send~<<device name>>~<<device function>>