Trigger Scenes with Play and Pause on Harmony Remote

[andrew77]

Hi Guys;

 

I know I can add scenes into a sub menu on the Harmony remote but I have to push many buttons on it to get to the scene to trigger it.

 

I'm wondering if I can press play on the harmony and have a scene trigger.

And press pause and have a different scene trigger.

 

Clearly not a must have but pretty cool if its possible.

 

Drew

[Jimbo.Automates]

What are you using to integrate the ISY and Harmony?

 

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[andrew77]

I have an IR set up that lets me keep all my AV gear in a media Closet.

 

I have IR receivers in the tv rooms and IR blasters hooked up to everything in the closet.

Including the ISY994i/IR

 

(If you're asking about the set up because you want to do this yourself I can go into more detail)

 

If you have an idea how to program Let me know 

 

Drew

[Jimbo.Automates]

If you include the ISY in the current activity you should be able to program any button on the remote to run any command you have available on the ISY.

 

I was asking just to know how you have it setup. I use my ISYHelper running on an RPi to integrate Harmony and Alexa with the ISY so it is all different, and cannot do what you are asking.

 

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[mapeter]

It has been a while since I programmed my Harmony remote, but it will work with the IR on the ISY.  Like Jimbo states, the Harmony has a "Lighting Controller" device that as the stock 40 IR codes for the ISY.  I have buttons on the the touchscreen of my remote for "Movie Lights", "Family Rm On" and "Family Rm Off".  These buttons simply have the Harmony fire IR001, IR002 and IR003.

I don't think the Harmony allow you to associate additional commands to the Play and Pause buttons.  But you could have the lights adjust when you start a activity.

Another option is to have the ISY learn the Play and Pause IR codes for your device and then write a program to trigger a scene when it receives the IR codes.

[andrew77]

 

Another option is to have the ISY learn the Play and Pause IR codes for your device and then write a program to trigger a scene when it receives the IR codes.

 

I think this is exactly what I'm hoping for.

 

My next question is how do I teach the ISY to recognize those codes?

 

Drew

[mapeter]

Check out the information on the wiki at this link.

[andrew77]

I've tried learning the play and pause codes to the ISY by pointing my Harmony at the ISY and pressing the buttons. 

I've also tried making the Play and Pause actual screen buttons as opposed to the hard Play and Pause.

 

I can't get the ISY to recognize either of these. If I press the Mute button it tells me its the treble. 

If I press the mute again it says its volume or something like that.

This lets me know the ISY is receiving if not recognizing signals.

 

I downloaded the Philips IR codes zip files but have no clue what I could do with that.

(I was really hoping for a PLAY code and drag and drop but that probably wishful at this point)

 

Any thoughts what I'm doing wrong?

 

Drew

[mapeter]

I have noticed similar situations on the past.  Each press of a remote button sends a different code.  I do not know if it is some type of encoding or rolling of codes.

You are probably not doing anything wrong, but there is probably no solution.

[andrew77]

Maybe the best solution is putting PLAY and PAUSE 'buttons' on the screen of the Harmony and just pressing the appropriate one when I press the play or pause button.

 

Thanks for the help.

I'll keep poking around to see if I can find a solution but I won't lose sleep over it.

 

Drew

[Mancavesupreme]

Hey Andrew77,

 

I see what your trying to do and I think it would be pretty sweet if we can find a way to accomplish this but for right now I just run programs based on which IR code the ISY receives from my harmony. So for instance my remote has 4 misc buttons on the bottom colored green, yellow, red and blue. I simply go in to my harmony setup program and make sure that the ISY is part of the activity first. Then I simple program the remote to blast IR code 01 when red is pressed short and IR code 02 when red is pressed long. Then on my ISY I create a program that if IR code 01 is sensed to turn off the lights in the living room and if IR code 02 is sensed to dim the lights on only 40%.

 

I just purchased the harmony Ultimate and still getting things figured out but it really cool to see all the potential things you can do with the harmony and ISY. The best part about this all is Harmony's recent integration with Alexa skills, so now you can tie an activity directly to Alexa and have a voice command to turn the activity on and off with out having to use other programs like IFTTT.