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X2 & Home Assistant integration

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In case you're wondering, YES... I now have my X2 controlling dozens of devices through Home Assistant. The process is a little convoluted (detailed elsewhere on this forum and on the relevant reddit groups) but it DOES work... you can trigger devices and scenes from soft or hard buttons on the X2 to do things in Home Assistant if you work through the process patiently.

So far I have it controlling my most important lights and shades (lutron) via Home Assistant MQTT which was a must-have for me.

I also have some HA actions that I now can trigger via soft buttons on the X2 directly too... which has solved some tricky issues for me as well.

And those HA actions can be put into sequences/macros including startup/shutdown sequences right within the X2 programming app once you have them implemented right.
 
What about HA->X2? As in...can Home Assistant tell the X2 to "activate" an activity?

I ask because that is how I currently do things with my Harmony. I have scripts in HA which actually handle all the power on and input switching for activities...then tell the harmony to switch to activity...in harmony the activity is setup to not do any power or input switching stuff..just source navigation and volume control. Everything else is handled via HA. But I need to be able to tell the X2 what activity to switch to.
 
rafaelsmith said:
What about HA->X2? As in...can Home Assistant tell the X2 to "activate" an activity?

I ask because that is how I currently do things with my Harmony. I have scripts in HA which actually handle all the power on and input switching for activities...then tell the harmony to switch to activity...in harmony the activity is setup to not do any power or input switching stuff..just source navigation and volume control. Everything else is handled via HA. But I need to be able to tell the X2 what activity to switch to.
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supposed to be doable that way, but haven't tried it. don't really have the need for HA to control my av setup.
 
josh said:
supposed to be doable that way, but haven't tried it. don't really have the need for HA to control my av setup.
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In the case of Harmony...the Harmony hub shows up as a Remote entity in HA....with Activity attributes.....so its simply a matter of issuing Remote: Turn on with the appropriate activity id. Hopefully X2 is the same.

I have HA setup so I can start my activities either using the Harmony remote or via Alexa voice command...but in either case its HA that handles most of the work...my Harmony activities are pretty dumb and the Harmony remote only does navigation and volume.

i.e: my Watch Kaleidescape HA script has:
- action: remote.turn_on
target:
entity_id: remote.theaterhub
data:
activity: Kaleidescape
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