[mythtv-users] MyHarmony & FE - alternatives to IR?

Daniel Di Giacomo lists at dadigi.com
Mon Oct 23 05:48:01 UTC 2017



> Am 23.10.2017 um 01:54 schrieb Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 21 October 2017 at 05:58, Daniel Di Giacomo <lists at dadigi.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 20.10.2017 um 20:36 schrieb David Engel <david at istwok.net>:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:05:23PM -0500, Brent Haag wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---- On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:40:20 +0100 David Engel <david at istwok.net>
>>>>> wrote ----
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:59:15AM +0100, Tim Draper wrote:
>>>>>>> Is there a way to use the myharmony system with a frontend without
>>>>> using IR?
>>>>>>> while myharmony does (apparently) have bluetooth, I've been
>>>>> un-sucessful getting it working with my main FE
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> basically i have IR on my NUC (DN2820FYKH) but it doesn't always turn
>>>>> on - possibly the dog got in the way at the wrong moment, or the NUC
>>>>> doesn't see it so things can get out of sync which whats powered on or off.
>>>>> It's very rare the TV or AVR doesnt turn on and 9/10 seems to be the NUC
>>>>> with the issue.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Myharmony software doesn't seem to be aware of the NUC2820 bluetooth
>>>>> and i cant find much info on getting them paired.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> how are you folks connecting to FE's?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you mean with a Harmony hub or with a Harmony remote with
>>>>>> bluettoth?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If the former, I have one and it works great.  The trick is you have
>>>>>> to configure your MythTV PC as a Windows PC in order to get a decent
>>>>>> offering of keys to map to remote buttons.  If you configure it as a
>>>>>> generic bluetooth device, you get a pitiful offering of keys.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you mean with a Harmony remote that does bluetooth directly, I'm
>>>>>> not sure how that works.  Look to see if it too offer a choice of a
>>>>>> Windows PC.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> David
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> David Engel
>>>>>> david at istwok.net
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> 
>>>>> thats got it. not sure what i was searching for before, but bluetooth is
>>>>> now working and controlling the FE
>>>>> I've just got to figure out how the 2820NUC handles wake-on-bluetooth now.
>>>>> and yes, it was the Harmony Hub i'm using.
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks for the info
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Is there a way for the Harmony hub to do IP based commands? That would be
>>>> so much slicker.
>>> 
>>> It might, but probably only for very specific products.  The Harmony
>>> Hubs are pretty good with what they support.  The problem is you're
>>> totally at their mercy as to what they support.  If you have equipment
>>> that they don't support, you're out of luck.  I suspect MythTV is too
>>> much of a niche product that it won't ever get IP or any other direct
>>> support.
>>> 
>>> David
>>> -- 
>>> David Engel
>>> david at istwok.net
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>> 
>> You can have a look at FHEM home automation software: https://fhem.de/commandref.html#harmony
>> But might be a bit of an overkill for your issue.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I dont think this is what the Op was talking about, I think he was asking can the Harmony Hub do IP network control to the Mythtv frontend which is no it cant, while it could theres nothing developed to do it.
> 
> When Logitech Announced developer access to the hub I requested access but never got a reply, I guess its only really for companies... and doesn't appear to be full featured
> 
> https://www.myharmony.com/en-us/harmony-api
> 
> I'm using IR & Bluetooth for Harmony and Bluetooth is a thousand times better then IR, although that being said finding cheap linux compatible bluetooth dongles is hit and miss :(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anthony
> 
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It’s just the way I use to wakeonlan my frontends when I start any mythtv-action with harmony hub (which I understood he wanted to).
When the frontend is up I use Harmony Smart keyboard via bluetooth.
Quite a special solution though...

Regards
Daniel 

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