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Today I didn't have any problems anymore.
Sorry for the bad experience you're currently having Roel (from Nijmegen by any chance?). Some of the issues you're referring to can be directly linked to open Homey issues. One in particular I find interesting is the one where the Harmony app causes your remote to not work anymore.
Due to the open Homey issues it's currently extra hard to pinpoint issues and resolve them. I myself am also waiting for Homey to become (more) stable again. So don't expect anything soon. Once Homey becomes more stable again, I will pick up and go through this thread, one issue at a time. Thanks for reporting.
I do get some unreachable errors every know and then. Anyone recognize their Hub's IP-address?
A crash occurred for your app (version 0.3.1) at Apr 19, 2016 5:54 AM.
Crash report:
Error: connect EHOSTUNREACH 192.168.0.127:5222 at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11) at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:893:20) at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1061:14)
The unreachable hub above this post isn't mine by the way
I do wonder why the Harmony app is contacting my hub at that time as I have not done anything with my Homey lately. It kinda supports my theory that the Harmony app might be flooding the Hub with requests making the remote become unresponsive (another uneducated guess is that Homey conflicts with the rf frequency of the remote but this would have caused issues from the first time that Homey was connected).
The 5 seconds polling sounds like a plausible cause for the malfunction of the Harmony Hub. Guess it's not well protected against DDoS'ing I can imagine this poses an issue because you want the reading of the current activity to be near-realtime.
I'm with you in waiting for a more stable Homey. I like toying around with this stuff but ultimately I want it to work without much hassle
Tried that 2 weeks ago and then it popped up with all my activities. By now it doesn't do that and when adding the card "Start an Activitiy" I get the option to select a device. Nothing that I add in this works. Does it has to do with the bug that is described before in the thread or do I do something wrong?
Ah, missed the step to add the hub, but then have the same issue as described before that the spinning wheel keeps rolling when trying to find my hub
You'll have to wait like the rest of us then
Anyone else that has this problem?
Hub is working fine, it has a Wifi connection and is accessible by the mobile app.
Now I want to build flows, but I can not get the "start an activity" card in the "Then" field. The only card which I can use is "Activity Changed".
After deleting and reinstalling and rebooting multiple times, the issue remains...
What to do?
Trigger = in the "Apps" Section
Then = in the "Devices" Section
Thank you . I was about to write the exact same thing.
The reason there are two cards is, that you can have multiple Hubs. Each hub has it's own device card (under the "Devices" section), but when an Activity Changed it could be on any of your Hubs. Therefor we need a separate card for that (under the "Apps" section).
Looking good so far! Thanks for doing such an amazing job on this app!
One small question... would it be possible to have a generic command like 'start activity' and 'stop activity' (or 'activity on/off'), to which you don't have to assign a specific activity?
For example, flow cards like this:
If [you said anything] and [text contains "Start Activity] then [Activate Activity {"Start Activity"}, {text}]
If [you said anything] and [text contains "Stop Activity] then [Deactivate Activity {"Stop Activity"}, {text}]
So: I would say "Start Activity TV", Homey would recognize [Start Activity] and trigger the app with the activity trigger as well as the complete text, and the app would determine that there is indeed an activity called "TV" and start it
Then we wouldn't have to create multiple flow steps for every single activity in the Harmony hub.
Would anything like that be possible?
[Edit] never mind... after a reboot, it's working now. Just not when I trigger 'turn off all devices' ... is that correct?
Except one thing, I have one activity 'Watch TV' and I can enable this via a flow.
Why can't I disable it via the flow? The hub thinks the activity already is active when I manually turn the devices off.
With version 0.8.32 I am able to install without problems and I can create multiple flows (dropdown with activities now works for more than 1 card, yay!). The flows worked great! Worked, because I had to uninstall the Harmony App because the remote became unresponsive again. The hammering of the hub is unfortunately still an issue