Hi All. Been using my new R3 for a week now and it’s great. Added all my devices as Entities and have 3 Activities that turn all my devices on and off exactly as planned in 3 individual groups but I want those 3 activities in a single group so that all my devices don’t have to turn off and on again for the next activity to run.
My issue is that I can’t move an Activity Group from the Configurator to my Remote. I got to ‘Activities & Macros’ section of the Web Configurator then click the + to add an Activity Group, add my 3 activities and configure my settings. But when I go to ‘Customise your remote’ then ‘add group’ the activity group that I have in the ‘Activities & Macros’ section doesn’t show, even when I search. I only have the option to click on ‘new’, then name it and add my 3 activities but then there are no options to configure it as that newly created activity group doesn’t show in the ‘Activities & Macros’ section of the Web Configurator. It does then appear on the remote with my 3 activities but as it doesn’t show in the Web Configurator it doesn’t have any of the ‘remove delays after turn on commands’ or ‘turn off unused entities’ logic configured so turns all devices off and on again.
I can also hold down the ‘home’ button on the remote then ‘add group’ but that just gives me the option to create a new group by selecting my activities without the configurable logic which is how I added my 3 individual activities but those groups also don’t show up in the ‘Activities & Macros’ section of the Configurator either.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
You’re mixing up activity groups and “normal” groups.
Actvity groups are just virtual groups to group actviites that can’t be on at the same time. No need to add them anywhere in the ui.
The groups you can add in the customize you remote section are a completly separate thing and only used for organizing and can also contain entities or macros.
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You ere expecting it to work differently than it actually works. In Customize your remote use Add entities to add your individual activities. As you have all of those entities in an Activity Group the Activity Group functionality will just work. Add group has nothing to do with Activity Groups. So for me i have a room with multiple activities using the same equipment in an Activity Group. I use the Add group function to add a group of IR devices for that same equipment to kind of recreate the Harmony “Devices” functionality.
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In customize you must create a page and call it activities, then edit content of this page and add your activities.
Nice would be a 2nd page named devices, edit content and add your devices/entities without activities.
Now you can swipe left/right and switch between activity or devices page.
Ralf
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Thanks for the quick advice.
Ok, so I have a page of my devices on the remote and have a page of Activities on the remote - Watch Sky, Watch Apple TV, Watch Blu-ray.
When I click on ‘Watch Sky’ everything comes on as planned and remote controls every fine. If I then turn off ‘Watch Sky’ everything turns off perfectly.
My issue is I want to go from ‘Watch Sky’ to ‘Watch Blu-ray’ without my TV and AV Reveiver both turning off.
So how/where do I add the logic for that?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that you create a group in Activities & macros / Activity groups.
Add your activities to this group and that’s it. You don’t need to add it elsewhere on the remote.
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Make sure all of those activities are in the same activity group, and then review the options within that activity group. From memory i think i set an option to always switch off unused devices. Also check the on and off sequences within each activity to make sure that they are correct for each activity.
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Yes, that links back to my original query as that option to ‘always switch off unused devices’ is only available to add in the ‘Activity Group’ section of ‘Activities & Macros’ section of the Web Configurator and when I create an Activity Group there I have no way of moving that Activity Group across to my Remote.
As I said, you don’t have to move it anywhere.
You create the Activity group in the web configurator and that’s it. Done.
The configurator is running on the remote so your group is there when you create it.
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So I have created the Activity Group in the Configurator with my 3 activities added but that group then doesn’t appear on my remote.
That is correct. It doesn’t need to appear on the remote to work.
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Appreciate the help but unfortunately it still turns off the devices from the previous activity that I want to remain on with the new activity starts. Doesn’t seem to be a link between the Activity Group created in the Configurator and the Activities on my remote.
Frustrating but this is the only issue I have had with it. The remote looks and feels superb, the docks work great, screen and button configuration is really good and really convenient wireless charging, very pleased with it so far.
When creating a new activity group, it is recommended to reboot the remote.
What type of commands (IR, IP etc.) are you using to poweron/off your devices. E.g. if you are using IR you will need separate POWER_ON and POWER_OFF commands as toggle commands do not work.
Have a look here for details: https://support.unfoldedcircle.com/hc/en-us/articles/13215168236188-Activity-groups
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Can you post a screenshot of your Activity Group and the page in the remote customisation containing the activities being used? The web configurator is just a web front end to the remote so both your Activities and Activity Groups are both on the remote.
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It was indeed one of the IR commands on my AV receiver wasn’t named POWER_OFF. Always follow the protocol, my bad and apologies for my terminology, I understand that the configurator is the front end of the remote.
Really pleased that I’ve found a long term replacement for my Harmony.
Appreciate all your help.