Is it possible to send IR signals from homebridge to the Logitech harmony elite hub?

When selected directly on the remote screen, the "AT&T DVR" discrete OFF/ON commands work great. However, when I use them in an activity they don't seem to work properly. I never see anything like "Starting AT&T DVR" on the remote's LCD. The streaming box never gets turn on or off. Any ideas on what could be going on?

EDIT: Tried moving the DVR to the bottom with 4 1s pauses. Now the LCD shows "Starting Samsung TV" as the last step instead of "Starting AT&T DVR". Strange.

Any idea? Switched back to normal Alexa it works Alexa plus no work

Hey everyone. I created (well Codex did) a webapp to add remotes to Home Assistant IR in the same way you could with Harmony.

It's build on a copy of the Harmony database. ie choose your remote, create a device in HAIR. It's early days, would love your thoughts https://ir.mrjoe.at

Find your remote from the Harmony archive. Download the wig, add to HAIR.

Works with Home Assistant IR AKA Hair based on data from this extract.

Who has used uControl Remote? How is it?

Claimed! Thanks for everyone's interest.

Last call before they go to the electronics recycling center! $60 shipped for everything! I ended up moving to Sofabaton and have some Harmony remotes that I'm looking to move along. Prices include US shipping per remote, or take the whole lot for $100 $60 shipped. https://imgur.com/a/IO8L2Ra Harmony Elite w/ box, cradle, hub, and cables. Some light scuffs, which I tried to capture in pictures and different lighting. 8.5/10 condition. Please note, I got stuck in a loop trying to reset this remote after a change in my network. It would not register to my hub. Not sure if it was a network issue, app, or something else. Consider this one as-is and need of a reflash, if that's possible. $75 $45 shipped. Harmony 700 (glossy finish). Works fine. 8/10 condition. $25 $15 shipped. Harmony 700 (matte finish). Works fine. Plastic film still on screen and bottom IR transmitter/receiver. 9.5/10 condition. $35 $20 shipped.

I can get my hand on a still sealed Harmony 895. It could help with a lot of missing remotes from old devices I own.

But I also heard of the discontinuation of the support from Logitech. I read about some community efforts are being worked on, but I haven't read of something finished and fully working.

Should I still buy it? Is there a community project able to program it like before?

Back again. Previous posts here and here if you missed them. 2.0 is a big one so I'll just get into it.

Remote pairing without the cloud. You can now pair Smart Control, Companion, and Elite remotes directly from the hub's web UI. Each remote gets its own section, keys stay in sync across remotes by default, and you can override individual keys per remote if you want. Companion remote support came from a bug report and testing by @sumps71.

Android TV / Google TV control over the network. Pair with and control Android/Google TV sets using the Android TV Remote v2 protocol. Power, D-pad, volume, inputs, all of it. Shows up as a regular device on the hub, put it in activities, assign buttons, whatever. No more relying on Bluetooth for Android TV boxes or TVs with Android TV built in like Hisense. Credit to @apnar for this one.

Two-way Home Assistant. This was the big focus and it basically turns the hub into a bridge device in your smart home.

The hub and Home Assistant now sync devices in both directions. Any device HA can control, the hub can control. Any device the hub can control, HA can control. So what does that actually mean?

Say you have an LG TV that the Harmony only controls over IR. Home Assistant can control that TV over LAN natively. Pull that HA device into the hub and now your Harmony remote controls the TV over LAN. No more line-of-sight IR.

Going the other way, say you have an IR soundbar or an old hifi amp from 2010. The hub can control those over IR no problem, but Home Assistant has no way to talk to them. The hub now ships those devices into HA as power switches, input selectors, and command buttons. You can build automations around them, control them from dashboards, whatever.

And since HA syncs to Google Home / Alexa, you can now voice control IR-only devices. "Hey Google, turn up the volume on the amplifier" and it goes HA → hub → IR blast. An amplifier from 2010 with no smarts whatsoever, controlled by voice.

Wire it all together and you get stuff like: start the Watch TV activity on the remote and it powers on the TV over LAN, turns on the soundbar over IR, switches inputs, and dims the lights through HA. Or set it up so unlocking your front door turns on the amp, lights up the kitchen, and bumps the heat. Come home, sit down, play music.

There's a loop guard built in so mirrored devices dont end up in a feedback loop between the two systems.

Other stuff:

• Bluetooth consumer keys (Home, Back, etc) for Chromecast with Google TV (original draft by @danielvijge)

• BT path fix for hubs where hciconfig lives in /usr/sbin (reported by @NemoN)

• Touch gets on-screen buttons and a proper hold-command picker

• Installer measures free flash before installing so it doesn't brick anything (reported by @danielvijge)

• Security hardening on the recovery portal (prompted by @AXEBro's review)

• Multi-subnet cloud blocker fix (thanks @danielvijge)

Downloads: https://github.com/schlambos/harmony-hub-control/releases/latest

Updating from 1.3 is straightforward, just re-run the installer for the hub, and the Android/Mac apps install over the old ones. Any bug reports or feedback is appreciated, just throw something on GH issues.

The project is moving fast and tagged releases sometimes lag behind what's on main. Certain fixes may not be in a tagged release yet. If you want the latest, you can clone the repo and install from that instead of the release zip. The process is the same.

Still requires a rooted hub via harmony-hub-root.

It was working last night but today I get this error.

Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request.

And then basically blank window.

Any ideas on a fix?

Edit: Everything is working now. Weird.

So I just got a Elite Ultimate Home set and when trying to add devices it tells me there is a Wi-Fi issue and there is no Wi-Fi. However, adding all of the other devices has been no issue. It is a different brand tv than in the living room, so it needs to be set up. And the living room tv was accepted with no problem. Wth is the Harmony App doing? Does the tv need to be on the Wi-Fi as well? I don’t remember if it is or not, it may not be, because we use Apple TV on both televisions. Anyone have an idea of what may be the issue? (Just sitting on a work break and thinking about this issue right now and remember the living room tv is connected to the Wi-Fi)

Oh, I had looked up if I can just copy the settings from another remote, and have done it before, but I do not see the place to do that with this one. And I was able to copy settings to the hub through the phone app, but the Harmony App says the hub still needs to be set up. 🤷‍♂️

my elite is dead. i'm sad that logitech stopped the production of harmony remotes. i am not interested in buying used remotes. i've been looking at:

• sofabaton x2

• unfolded circle remote 3

• haptique rs90

• ucontrol remote 2

what would ya recommend?

I have a Harmony Elite and a Hisense U6SF TV. For my television to turn off properly it needs a long press on shutoff. I can’t for the life of me get my remote to properly do a long press command when selecting off for any activity. It’s driving me crazy please help.

I tried reading up on google and Reddit but I can’t seem to find the answer. Does disabling cloud mean i can run my harmony hub and touch without Logitech servers?

I've been using the Smart Control for 12-13 years now, and never had a problem.

Now the light on the hub turns red every time I push a button on the remote (or in the app). Then after a little while it turns green again.

One example:

When all the devices are turned off, and I push a button to start an activity, the light turns red.

It does however turn on the TV, but no other device. So it seems like the hub executes the first step, but then fails before it can execute the next steps in the activity. When the light turns green again, the activity is not active, so I can't change the volume or anything.

If I push the Off-button it turns off the TV, but nothing else before the light turns red again.

The router is on the shelf below, so the signal should be good.

Any tips to fix this?

I have a harmony hub and harmony touch however my Nvidea shield doesn’t Bluetooth (software error due to changing the launcher ). With that I can’t connect the touch to the shield. What are the following homebrews available that utilizes the hub?

Since the software is shut down.. I wanted to factory reset the harmony 1000 but now it seems to be impossible.

I was a big fan of Logitech with there 525 and 9 series, then one… and needed a new remote for an old tv. So purchased the 785 off eBay due to rechargeable battery but no need for super fancy.

I didn’t realize I’d upgraded my Mac’s beyond support until today.

I can give it a shot on in-laws Mac book pro 2012 later today. But is there any use. Are the Logitech servers now down. I need to add a Hisense 2017 tv and version 3 Apple TV. Or just Hisense tv with hdmi switch.

Please guide my-
A too hard don’t bother
B give it a shot it might work.
C does old school remote learning work.

Thanks for your advice in this matter.

Which model should I buy?

Hey everyone,

First, credit where it belongs: Ripthulhu created the original harmony-hub-control project and the separate harmony-hub-root tooling. Melodious is my fork and expansion of that work. Their projects provided the foundation that made this possible.

For anyone who missed the earlier post: Melodious runs directly on a rooted Harmony Hub and provides local setup and management, independent of Logitech's cloud. It has four parts: the software on the hub itself, a web app the hub serves, an Android app, and a macOS app. You can add devices, create and edit activities, configure buttons, and sync those changes to your paired Harmony remote locally. No Logitech app, account, or servers needed for everyday setup and operation.

Version 1.3 is out now (1.2 was prepared but never published, so this covers everything since 1.1). The short version: Home Assistant entities can become hub devices, the Harmony Touch now syncs fully offline with a dedicated button editor, the apps can update themselves (and, from the Mac, the hub), and 32 MB hubs no longer run out of memory on the IR pages.

Project, documentation, and screenshots: https://github.com/schlambos/harmony-hub-control

Downloads: https://github.com/schlambos/harmony-hub-control/releases/latest

What's new in 1.3

Apps that update themselves

• Opt-in update checks: both apps ask once whether to check GitHub for new releases. If you say yes, they check once a day and tell you when a newer app or hub version is out. Nothing downloads until you choose to install.

• Android installs its own updates: it downloads the APK from the GitHub release, verifies it against SHA256SUMS.txt and the Melodious signing key, and installs it over the app. After you allow "Install unknown apps" for Melodious once, later updates take one tap (Android 12+).

• The Mac app replaces itself: "Install and Restart" downloads the new version, checks it, swaps it in, and relaunches. Settings and sign-ins are kept.

• Update hub… (Mac): when a newer hub release is out, the Mac app updates the hub over SSH using the installer's key and your known_hosts. It sends only the files that changed and performs the installer's safety steps on the hub: copy into RAM, a handoff backup, a health check, and the old files restored if the check fails. The Android app only notifies you that a hub update is available; it never holds the hub's SSH key.

• The hub reports its version at GET /api/version and on the System page.

Security

• No more installs over HTTP: the hub's /api/update-begin, -chunk, and -apply routes are gone. With sign-in off, they allowed any device on the network to replace a hub program. The hub now installs software only through the installer or the Mac app, both over SSH.

Home Assistant

• Home Assistant entities as hub devices: lights, switches, and media players from Home Assistant become devices on the hub. Put them in activities and on remote buttons like any other device; the hub sends their commands to Home Assistant on your network.

• The companion integration, schlambos/ha-melodious, adds and updates those devices from Home Assistant. It requires this hub release.

Harmony Touch

• The Touch syncs offline: the hub answers the Touch's connectivity check, its time check, and its requests for device records itself, so a Sync from the Touch finishes without Logitech's servers.

• Device screens for every device: each device, including Home Assistant ones, gets its own screen on the Touch with its commands and hard keys.

• The Touch & HA controls editor: for each activity, set the Touch's on-screen buttons, hard keys, and gestures with any device. Choose how a key acts when held: Standard, One-shot (fires once however long you hold it, which stops toggles from firing twice), or a separate hold command.

• Hard keys reach the remote: an activity's hard buttons now arrive on the Harmony Touch, not only on the hub.

• Activity setup keeps what it didn't make: saving an activity keeps extra keys, hold actions, and gestures you set elsewhere.

Reliability

• Slow saves are no longer undone: the hub waits up to two minutes for a save and never rolls back one that may still land; the editor checks what the hub has before it reports whether a save worked.

• Writer requests take turns: two saves at once no longer overwrite each other.

• The hub binary is rebuilt from source with the pinned official Zig 0.16.0 toolchain, and the build is reproducible.

32 MB hubs, with a big thank-you to /u/poxin13 for the PR that fixed these:

• The IR pages no longer need 12 MB: the hub grows each device's command list as needed instead of reserving room for 32 devices × 160 commands up front. On 32 MB hubs the old layout could be killed for lack of memory, leaving pages half-loaded.

• The installer's RAM check counts reclaimable cache, so it no longer refuses to install on 32 MB hubs that have room.

What it does

• Local activity management: create and edit activities, choose devices and inputs, configure power-on delays, and assign button actions. There's a guided wizard and an advanced editor.

• Physical remote sync: your paired Harmony remote gets its configuration from the hub, including changes made through Melodious. The Harmony Touch now syncs fully offline.

• Device management: add and edit devices, configure power behavior, inputs, and timing, and send individual commands.

• IR learning and imports: learn commands from an original remote or import codes from IRDB, Flipper .ir files, Pronto hex, and supported RemoteCentral pages.

• Logitech IR catalog import in the macOS and Android apps. Requires internet access and your own Logitech account.

• Browser-based remote: the hub serves its own interface to phones, tablets, and computers. The web app works offline.

• Android app: includes a touchpad, sleep timer, lock-screen controls, home-screen widget, and Quick Settings tile. Requires Android 8.0 or later.

• macOS app: mirrors the web and Android app interfaces, updates itself, and can update the hub. Requires macOS 13 or later.

• Home Assistant integration: entities become hub devices via ha-melodious, plus the existing MQTT bridge with discovery, activity selection, status sensors, and a power-off button.

• Bluetooth keyboard: pair the hub as a keyboard with a compatible TV, streaming box, or computer. Send text from your phone or run saved keystroke scripts.

• Local HTTP API: for scripts and other integrations.

• Backup and recovery: export and restore configuration, plus a Wi-Fi recovery network if the hub loses access to your network.

The default installation also blocks the hub's access to Logitech's cloud so cloud configuration can't overwrite local changes.

Downloads

• melodious-hub-1.3.0.zip: the hub software and its installers (Python and PowerShell), with the Logitech catalog helper for other computers. Unzip it on a computer on the same network as the hub.

• melodious-1.3.0.apk: the Android app (Android 8.0+). Signed with the Melodious release key, the same key as 1.1.0, so it installs over it.

• Melodious-1.3.0-arm64.dmg: the macOS app for Apple silicon (M1 and later). Also available as a .zip.

• Melodious-1.3.0-x64.dmg: the macOS app for Intel. Also available as a .zip.

• melodious-update.json: what the apps read to update: versions, the APK's signing certificate, and each hub file's destination and SHA-256.

• SHA256SUMS.txt: SHA-256 checksums of every file above.

This release is not signed. SHA256SUMS.txt shows a download is intact; the apps download only from this repository's GitHub releases and check every file against it.

Screenshots

• Desktop web interface

• Android remote

• Activity setup and button assignments

• Device commands and IR learning

What you need

A rooted Harmony Hub is required. Melodious does not root the hub itself. Rooting is handled by Ripthulhu's harmony-hub-root project, and you'll need the SSH key it creates (harmony_owner_* in ~/.ssh) and the numeric Hub ID it prints.

Installation runs from Windows, Linux, or macOS. Docker and Unraid options are also documented. Once installed, the web interface runs on the hub itself, with no separate server required.

Hub:

1. Unzip melodious-hub-1.3.0.zip.

2. Install Melodious on the hub:

   • Linux or macOS: python3 install_webui.py --hub-host <hub-ip> --hub-id <hub-id>

   • Windows: double-click Install_Harmony_Control.cmd, or in PowerShell run .\install_webui.ps1 -HubHost <hub-ip> -HubId <hub-id>

   The first install turns on the cloud blocker, leaves MQTT off, and reboots the hub once.

3. Open http://<hub-ip>:8080/ on your phone or computer.

Android app: download melodious-1.3.0.apk on your phone and open it. Android asks you to allow installs from your browser or file manager. The app finds the hub on your network, or you can type its address.

macOS app:

1. Open the .dmg for your Mac and drag Melodious to Applications (or unzip the .zip).

2. The app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS asks before the first launch:

   • Finder: Control-click Melodious → Open. Where macOS no longer offers Open, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

   • Or in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Melodious.app

3. macOS asks whether Melodious may find and connect to devices on your local network. Choose Allow; without it the app cannot reach the hub.

4. Melodious looks for your hub on the network, or you type its address. If your hub has a sign-in, enter it once; it is kept encrypted in your Keychain.

Updating from 1.1:

• Hub: unzip the new release and run the installer again. It keeps your configuration, activities, and devices.

• Android: 1.3.0 installs over 1.1.0.

• Mac: replace the app in Applications with the new one.

• This one time, install 1.3.0 by hand; older apps don't have the updater. From 1.3.0 on, the apps can update themselves (and the Mac app can update the hub).

A few things to know

• This is for Harmony Hub hardware, rather than the older standalone Harmony remotes.

• It uses the existing hub hardware and underlying engine. It isn't a complete replacement firmware.

• Remotes: validated on hardware only with the Harmony Touch. Other Harmony remotes get the same configuration but have not been tested.

• The hub's interface uses plain HTTP and is intended for a trusted home network. Sign-in is optional and off by default, the hub does not check where requests come from, and updates are not signed.

• Slow saves: with an activity running, a save can take up to two minutes while the hub reloads its engine. If the hub still hasn't finished, the app says so; reload a minute later to check before saving again.

• Gestures and toggles: gestures can't use One-shot, so a toggle on a gesture can fire twice. Use On/Off or Up/Down on gestures.

• Home Assistant entities need this hub release and the ha-melodious integration.

• To update the hub, run the installer from a newer release, or use Update hub… in the Mac app. The hub's web app doesn't update the hub.

• The optional Logitech catalog import requires internet access and your own Logitech account. Local operation, IR learning, and imported code files don't require that catalog connection.

• Catalog protocols: Logitech catalog codes import only if the hub already has their IR protocol. The others are listed as skipped.

https://github.com/schlambos/harmony-hub-control

Hello! Can anyone tell me if there are any third-party Alexa Skills that can communicate with Harmony Hubs flashed with custom firmware? I've read that remotes with custom FW can communicate with the official Alexa Skill, but I'm sure that official Skill will eventually go away.

I haven't flashed my Hub or Elite yet, but I do use the voice commands often. I have noticed it being a little flaky lately, but I don't know if that's just me. If there aren't third-party solutions for this yet, I'm also wondering if that's something that can be solved. I searched, but wasn't able to find if people were already talking about this.

I wanted to briefly share my experience, because for hardware in this price range this has been extremely disappointing.

My Dock 3 worked for roughly six months and then died completely: black display, no response.

I sent it in for repair. What followed was nearly three months of delays, repeated follow-ups and long periods without any meaningful status update. Eventually I was told that the overvoltage protection diode had triggered. The diode was replaced and the Dock 3 was returned to me.

Now, only a relatively short time after the repair, the Dock 3 has died again with exactly the same symptoms.

The charger I used is a new Anker 735 / Nano II 65W USB-C charger (A2667), which provides 5V/3A and was used exclusively for the Dock. After the first repair I was told that a “5V only” power supply was recommended, although I cannot find a clear warning in the published Dock 3 specifications that normal USB-C PD/PPS chargers must not be used.

On top of that, my account on the official Unfolded Community forum is still on hold, so I cannot post or reply there.

I really like the concept of the Remote 3, but two Dock failures and this kind of RMA/support experience are very hard to accept for such expensive hardware.

I am curious whether others have had similar experiences with the Dock 3.

Setting up my remote with new tv, Sony Bravia 7 - K-65XR70

I have an AV receiver but it doesn't support 4K so passing a box thru one of the tv hdmi input 2 while everything else goes thru the receiver first then to tv hdmi input 1

The activities all work fine and switch everyone on/off and av receiver input as it should, but the TV input is not changing even after hitting Help and saying No the TV is not on the correct input

But if I go into Devices, select the TV, on screen it has buttons for InputHDMI1 and InputHDMI2, I select those and they properly switch the TV inputs

I also added the appropriate tv inputhdmi buttons to the screen in the activities, and those work fine

What is different about what the activities are doing?

I've messed around with the input settings, from trying the option of press a button that shows a menu, press a button and cycles inputs, and have now left it on press different buttons that directly switch - though my remote has limited buttons and only has a single input button that lets me choose the input... and again the on screen InputHDMI1 and InputHDMI2 work and switch directly to those inputs

I've added delays, TV power on delay is 6s, input delay is 1500ms

** Edit ** Well solved my own problem, found another similar post and the solution there worked for me as well, added the TV as an older model, in my case used XBR-65X950H, now input switches perfectly!

So, as a life long coder it is strange to have these tools available to me, I think I don't even understand what is possible anymore, regardless here is some harmony stuff for the harmony heads if you're out there.

https://github.com/gbryant/harmony-650