![]() ![]() ![]() In my case, I had many activities and favorites already duplicated, so I chose to “forgot all” and recreated the groups. Check your Groups folder and figure out what takes longer. Smart home devices can easily be discovered automatically by Alexa, however, groups need to be recreated by you. But wait!Ĭaution! Forgetting all scenes will also remove smart home devices and groups. If you see (too) many old Harmony activities and favorites, you have the option to “Forget All”, when scrolling to the bottom. In case you linked any of those skills earlier, let’s get you back to the start, so you can start with a fresh installation. Open in a browser and navigate to Smart Home scenes. Back to the Start Alexa Smart Home Scenes (Browser) Open your Harmony app and make sure what you find, is what you want to integrate with Alexa. Setting up Harmony for Alexaįirst, we need to make sure that all the activities and favorite channels we want to speech-enable are already setup in the Logitech Harmony app. We won’t see scenes in our smart home configuration and we won’t be able to rename the “ask Harmony to” commands to our liking via Alexa Routines. I’d always recommend using onboard tools whenever possible, but in this case, we are stuck. Unfortunately, the red skill is not a smart home skill. because they add another layer of complexity and require an additional cloud service to be up and running 24/7 to mediate between Alexa and Harmony. ![]() As mentioned in previous posts I am not a big fan of 3rd party services like Yonomi, IFTTT, Stringify etc. Since we will install a second hub, we will also install the red skill for that. Your Harmony activities and favorite channels will appear under the Smart Home Scenes in the Alexa app, so you will be able to add the activities and favorites to Alexa routines, which we will do in the “candlelight dinner” routine. It also has the advantage to be categorized as “smart home” skill in Alexa terms. It sure is a matter of taste, but as speech recognition veteran I prefer the efficient, snappy blue skill to keep the commands short. Note, if for whatever reason the control goes back to Alexa and you would like to control Harmony, just turn on the activity which is already running to reconnect. The same happens, when you do not ask Alexa any Harmony related commands for 30 minutes. When you turn an activity off or ask Alexa to play some music, the control is handed back to Alexa. The magic is implemented by handing commands, like volume to Harmony, as soon as you start a Harmony activity. This does not sound like a big deal, but if you think of commands like “Alexa, volume up”, how is Alexa supposed to know, which volume to increase, TV or Echo? Last summer Logitech fell in love with Harmony, or was it the other way around? So they put in much more effort and created a blue skill, which simplifies controlling Harmony by simply omitting “ask Harmony to”. ![]()
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