Logitech Harmony 880 Setup On Linux
Today I tried to re-configure our Logitech Harmony 880 remote. I hooked the Wii into the sound system and changed the input channel too. Changes needed to be made on the remote.
But I forgot how to do it so I’m documenting how to set it up again for next time.
Since linux doesn’t have the horrible application configuration software available for it you have to go to the Logitech website to configure the remote via the web. http://www.myremotesetup.com/
Create a new account or log in with your old one if you already have one and lets do the hard stuff now.
You’ll need the Concordance program which is a command line program that lets you communicate with the remote. You’ll have to go dig out a USB cable or pull the one off your camera and see if it fits. You can do that when you are building from source using the standard
./configure && make && sudo make install
but better yet see if you can find a package already created for your linux distribution.
Now you’ve got the program and a configuration ready to go from the myremotesetup.com website. You need to get it onto the device. Initiate this procedure from the website by clicking the “update my remote” link. You’ll be taken to a page that will download a Connectivity.EZHex file. You need to flash this file to the remote using the concordance program. Then you’ll download the Update.EZHex file which will also have to be flashed – this is the actual configuration you built. See the below CLI output – note that you have to interact with the website and the CLI at the same time. Concordance just acts as a communication wedge between the website and the device.
If you setup your USB connection better than me you won’t have to use the root user to flash the device.
[root@boat Download]# concordance Connectivity.EZHex Concordance 0.21 Copyright 2007 Kevin Timmerman and Phil Dibowitz This software is distributed under the GPLv3. Requesting Identity: 100% done Contacting website: done Success! [root@boat Download]# concordance Update.EZHex Concordance 0.21 Copyright 2007 Kevin Timmerman and Phil Dibowitz This software is distributed under the GPLv3. Requesting Identity: 100% done Invalidating Flash: done Erasing Flash: 100% done Writing Config: 100% 436 KiB done Verifying Config: 100% 436 KiB done Resetting Remote: 100% done Setting Time: done Contacting website: done Success! [root@boat Download]#