Thought I would share this from over on our FB group  put simply, so that Play and Pause can trigger your lights to turn on and off, for example when watching a movie.

 

 

That’s awesome. I have been holding off on Harmony for a long time due to this issue.

I have a dimmable RGB strip and some standard down lights in my cinema just controlled by a standard light switch. Any locally recommended smart switches that I can use to make these compatible to the Harmony? 

Smart switches with AU compliance seems to have been difficult for some reason.

I gave up and went LIFX downlights instead quite some time ago which makes it easy to integrate schedules and scenes now.

20 minutes ago, Marc said:

Smart switches with AU compliance seems to have been difficult for some reason.

I gave up and went LIFX downlights instead quite some time ago which makes it easy to integrate schedules and scenes now.

Well down lights are not the end of the world. But the dimmable driver for the RBG down light switch was dam expensive. It would be a real shame if I couldn’t convert that to a smart switch.

On 21/06/2020 at 8:53 AM, Dbuns said:

That’s awesome. I have been holding off on Harmony for a long time due to this issue.

I have a dimmable RGB strip and some standard down lights in my cinema just controlled by a standard light switch. Any locally recommended smart switches that I can use to make these compatible to the Harmony? 

I can share my experience with this as I just automated the downlights, the AV system and my motorized screen in the lounge area/cinema room. 

Essentially got a google-enabled Wi-Fi switch (plenty of Aus certified ones now, to be safe I got the Deta brand from Bunnings).

Had the control app connected to Google Assistant as is my Logitech Harmony app.

Created a 'routine' in Google Assistant which is essentially an orchestration script which turns off the lights,  triggers the Logitech to start a sequence for AV including rolling down the screen, turns on a small cooling fan on the top of the Denon receiver .

All these voice activated with a single trigger ' command, in my case it's just - Hey Google followed by"show time"  Love it 

 

But the video above has just given me tonnes of ideas with Harmony Span, gonna look into it

 

Edited June 24, 20205 yr by eyesofra

3 hours ago, eyesofra said:

I can share my experience with this as I just automated the downlights, the AV system and my motorized screen in the lounge area/cinema room. 

Essentially got a google-enabled Wi-Fi switch (plenty of Aus certified ones now, to be safe I got the Deta brand from Bunnings).

Had the control app connected to Google Assistant as is my Logitech Harmony app.

Created a 'routine' in Google Assistant which is essentially an orchestration script which turns off the lights,  triggers the Logitech to start a sequence for AV including rolling down the screen, turns on a small cooling fan on the top of the Denon receiver .

All these voice activated with a single trigger ' command, in my case it's just - Hey Google followed by"show time"  Love it 

 

But the video above has just given me tonnes of ideas with Harmony Span, gonna look into it

 

It’s so awesome what can be down with automation now. Thanks for the info on WiFi switches. I’ll check them out for sure. 
looks like the Harmony remote should be able to replicate what my LED strip lights remote can do. So I should be good on that front. With a WiFi switch readily available that’s even better that replacing the down lights?