My Homeseer computer is in my basement furnace room. I have an extra flirc so that is no issue. What I am trying to figure out is whether I can accomplish this with my equipment. I want to use my harmony remote to cause an event in homeseer to start. (No Banner seen?- check your Forum Settings - User Settings, Account, Tick 'Show Signature')
#Flirc harmony touch Pc#
The plugin must be installed on a Windows PC (tested on Win7 & Win10 only).Īs always, it can be downloaded from my site (click on my banner below). If you do not have a PC near the equipment which you use to operate via IR, the FLIRC USB dongle works well using a USB to Ethernet server which could be linked to your Homeseer Server.
Whilst I had a specific application for this plugin, you can also use it on its own to trigger Homeseer events etc from Windows shortcuts on any PC on your home network. This effectively would replicate pressing the same Windows key combination for as long as the IR codes were received. Using keys such as volume up and down on the Sony AV Amplifier profile (which sends repetitive IR commands) would also allow the capability in the plugin to ramp devices such as dimming lights. This was then added to all my activities which allowed allocation to unused Harmony Normal/Home Automation buttons and activity macros. I selected a Sony AV Amplifier as my new device (as it has lots of buttons) and renamed it ‘Homeseer Control’.
Therefore (for example) programming the FLIRC to send ALT+SHIFT+1 when pressing keypad '1' from this new device would be picked up by my plugin and trigger Homeseer events etc. I would then program up the FLIRC to send these keyboard shortcuts via the Harmony using IR codes by adding a new device to the Harmony profile. My design was to continually monitor my Media PC for certain key combinations (shortcuts) using a new remote Homeseer plugin.
#Flirc harmony touch full#
Plugging this into my Media PC, one of the FLIRC profiles is to emulate a full Windows Keyboard. Having thought about this, I came up with an idea of using a FLIRC USB Dongle (Available from Amazon USA & Amazon UK) which allows control of any Media Centre or PC with any IR remote. This was limiting and wanted the option to be able to progressive dim/brighten lights from the remote and be able to trigger different Homeseer events etc depending on the device/activity being used.ĮDIT: If you already have a Windows PC which is connected as a Harmony device on your hub, a FLIRC is NOT required, however you will be limited to the number of Homeseer triggers that can be achieved.
#Flirc harmony touch software#
My friends just roll their eyes at me and deliberately turn my light switches on manually to mess with my automations.Having purchased a Harmony Elite & hub on Amazon Black Friday deals, I was disappointed to find out that it was not easy to control Homeseer directly from the remote and the only option (I found) was to use the HA-Bridge software and emulating Philips Hue lamps. I'm like "why is your light not just turning on when I enter a room?", and "how come I can't turn on your TV, Xbox, AVR, shut the blinds, turn the lights on the room to a different pattern and colour, and turn off the doorbell chime just by saying "Alexa, Game time"?
Going to other people's houses now is like when you had one of the first touchscreen phones for a few months and you had to use a friend's phone to do something for a minute and you spent 90 seconds prodding the screen before remembering most people didn't have touchscreens yet. I've got one that uses geolocation and local network connection to HA to detect if I'm coming in the front door, and if I've been out for more than five minutes then it'll trigger an automation to welcome me home, turn on the lights, turn on the AVR, start the Nvidia Shield, run Plex, and then go to music and play tracks tracks randomly from my library (the Plex server actually runs off of the same server as my HA instance) Luckily I'm single so I can do what the hell I like with regards to automations. Yeah, while the voice assistants are great, and Nabu Casa makes linking then to HA easy, I'd much rather have entirely local voice control.
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