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@BasPost, that is really great to hear!
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FYI
http://www.myharmony.com/products/detail/home-hub-extender/
Any news here? Still hoping for homey to logitech support.
In my opinion Logitech hub support is a must for great acceptance, only voice commands is far from ideal. It is great to use voice commands but there are numerous conditions where this is not desired or possible. While zapping or adjusting the volume during a movie with loud sound, when you are watching a movie with your family and try to find the right balans it is irritating to talk thru the sound.
When you have a party at home with music and lots of talking and want to set your light levels or music level, impossible with voice commands!
So the Harmony Hub and the Homey can work in synergy instead of comparing them as competing products.
Personally i see a big plus in controlling my lights and i want to use it for spontaneous actions but for planned actions which requires multiple commands i prefer a remote because it is quicker and it is silly to say next channel 10 times on a row when zapping.
I agree with Ronald, the use of voice control is limited. Google Now is with us quite a while now, however I haven`t seen anyone using it except when they drive car or similar. If anyone is around it feels even awkward to talk to a non human. It is a well established scientific fact that our brain is tuned for visual inputs so humans loves visual feedbacks. We always trust more the visual inputs. And this is more true since we have voice commands. How many times your gadget misinterpreted your command and done something crazy resulting more trouble than good. I will be happy to have the option to say voice command to homey when I dont have phone with me or baking and my hands are all dirty.
The guys went quite about the vertical IR characteristic of the Homey. Now I am really worried that I will also need a Harmony Hub. Extra expense and an other device on the shelf
In worst case, you can use the IFTTT channels of Homey and Harmony to work together.
https://github.com/swissmanu/harmonyhubjs-client
Making this work with Homey seems pretty trivial for someone who knows what he's doing?
Wouldn't just a 866mhz sniffer be a solution to clone signals? Or is it not that easy?
Especially for alarms that i cant hear now, I need like to 2 smoke detecters on every location, one to wake my wife, one to wake me. If I could just replace them with a nest protect or zigwave smoke detector that sends a signal to my Bellman devices
He is willing to investigate Bellman & Symfon support. I emailed him some codes my B&S broadcasts.
Hope to hear from him soon!
Now I'm fixed to the bellman devices to get me out of my sleep..
S/Bad news...
The developer wrote the following :