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I'm waiting for this before I decide what to replace my Harmony Elite with.I am still looking for a reasonably priced remote control. To be used only in the theater room to control lights - Lutron caseta, AV gear and Kaleidescape. Easy to program by me. Any such remotes available?
what price range are you thinking is reasonable? I like RTI, and have both my iphone and a T4x hard controller for my lights, kscape, Oppo and Trinnov, its very flexible.I am still looking for a reasonably priced remote control. To be used only in the theater room to control lights - Lutron caseta, AV gear and Kaleidescape. Easy to program by me. Any such remotes available?
I'm waiting for this before I decide what to replace my Harmony Elite with.
Unfolded Circle
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I was a NEEO backer and my remote was hobbled with an auto-update the night before they announced the C4 deal.Looks a bit like the neeo which was brought out by Control 4 unfortunately as now need a dealer to program it
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The NEEO was fantastic in its original state. C4 must've ruined it, because it was a fantastic remote that exceeded my Harmony Elite in every way, until they pushed an unwanted update that broke all my automations and made it impossible to re-add my projector to the device.The NEEO has been a terrible product. It's on my "worst" list of 2022, for sure. I really cross my fingers that they do better with the Halo line.
If I knew anything about code, I could probably do it, I've found an RPi applet that will control it, I just have zero clue how to make it into a Home Assistant integration.No way to bridge commands to serial somehow through Home Assistant? My Radiance is controlled via serial from my Control4.
I’m on a plane so I’ll do my best to respond.@thrillcat - great video. Thanks! After all these years, I still haven't found a good replacement for my old Pronto TSU9400. I tried the Harmony Elite years ago, and while it was easy to get going, I didn't like it compared to my Pronto, which does IR, RS232 and IP, two-way communications, and is completely customizable.
The Unfolded Circle Remote looks interesting. Some questions:
1. How does it communicate with Home Assistant? Did you have to write http GET commands for each. Command to send to HA, or it's transparent what it does under the covers?
2. How well do press-and-hold buttons work over IP? For example, if you want to press the volume down button to rapidly turn down the volume, does it work well over IP, or do you need to keep pressing the volume down button a dozen times?
From my experience, IR still works best for press-and-hold buttons.
3. Does the remote support a scripting language?
4. Any way to get and display feedback from controlled devices, like their power state?
Thanks.
I’m on a plane so I’ll do my best to respond.
The remote’s primary integration, the most complete and well thought out, is a Home Assistant integration, so all HA entities are visible and accessible from the remote’s configuration tool. A user has also written a Remote Two integration for HA so you can also trigger activities from HA and monitor battery charge status and more.
Press and Hold is not the best but they are also making improvements to it.
I don’t know enough about scripting to say, but I see a lot of discussion of Python in their discord and forum.
Yes, when configured via the remotes integrations or ha, it is full 2-way communication.
comminates very well with home assistant most commands are the automatically once you add the entity1. How does it communicate with Home Assistant? Did you have to write http GET commands for each. Command to send to HA, or it's transparent what it does under the covers?
2. How well do press-and-hold buttons work over IP? For example, if you want to press the volume down button to rapidly turn down the volume, does it work well over IP, or do you need to keep pressing the volume down button a dozen times?
From my experience, IR still works best for press-and-hold buttons.
3. Does the remote support a scripting language?
4. Any way to get and display feedback from controlled devices, like their power state?
The Lumagen IR codes supplied in the newest update do not work.I love mine as well.
I would love to be able to IP control for Kaleidescape. what I could do through home assistant is more limited as I couldnt figure out how to get remote entity so i used scripts
I have anthem avm70 - I had to create scripts in home assistant for volume and mute as regular home assistant one needed to select a volume and not just up and down. did the same for mute as didnt have toggle mute. mute and unmute were separate
shield - integration is decently and improves with every update
Kaleidescape
I have sony projector but don;t really use remote as I have it set up so it automatically goes on when my processor goes on
i dont have a lumagen but most recent update has ir codes for it
comminates very well with home assistant most commands are the automatically once you add the entity
just added press and hold buttons today but with my brief testing seems to work ok. i think there was some trouble early on
there is feedback for power state of devices with their own integration and with home assistant. i have a page with my theater lights and i can see their state