Logitech Hub Install



Learn how to setup logitech harmony hub effectively to control your home devices in an effective way. As we know Logitech harmony hub is a smart device hub with logitech universal remote to control our home device simply and smartly. Unfortunately, there are so many issues will come when you not setup logitech harmony hub correctly. Here in this post, I am going to show you the step by step procedures to install and setup logitech harmony hub and can avoid all issues related with installation problem.

  1. Logitech G HUB install in Windows 10 and Mac: The Logitech G HUB software can be downloaded from the Internet. It is easy to download the software in Windows 10. All you need to do is select the operating system you want to download it in and then download the software just like any other.
  2. The Harmony Hub cannot connect to 5GHz Wi-Fi networks. It can only connect to a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks. Does Harmony Hub Need Line of Sight? The Harmony Hub accepts commands using RF (radio frequency). This means you do not need a direct line of sight to control the hub with a smartphone, tablet, or one of the RF-enabled Harmony remote controls.

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As we know logitech harmony hub is a small portable device where you can fix anywhere at your home to control multiple device with your smartphone or tablet PC configured with this pretty small hub device.

Inside the logitech hub product box, you wil get

  • A portable small hub
  • IR Mini blaster for extension
  • Adapter to connect with Power outlet


How To Setup Logitech Harmony Hub

Setting up a logitech harmony hub complete guide.

Requirements For Setup a Logitech harmony control hub

DeviceLogitech Harmony Hub
AppLogitech harmony App
Download For Android
Download For iOS
Internet AccessWi-Fi: Supports 802.11g/n, WPA Personal, WPA2-AES and 64/128-bit WEP encryption
For Online Setup
[Optional]
Windows OS [10,8,7]/
Mac OS
Remote ControlLogitech Harmony With Display
Other Requirements
[Available with Hub]
IR Blaster
AC Adapter
USB Cable

Hardware SetUp

Placement of Logitech Harmony Hub

This is the first step you need to consider. You should have an ideal place where need to place the logitech harmony hub.

It is better to place the logitech harmony hub device near where there is a power outlet. Because you can charge it without carrying to another place.

I think your entertainment section on home whether it is a hall, room whatever it may be, place the logitech harmony control hub around there with a charging outlet near. Then connect the power cord with the hub in a port provided, then connect with power outlet for charging. If your logitech hub have sufficient charge on it, then need not to charge it.

Connect Mini IR Blaster to Logitech harmony hub

This is the second step. Mini IR blaster is a small device extended with a cable where using which control commands are passed between device and remote control or your logitech harmony mobile application.

There are two connection port available on a harmony hub device to connect two IR blaster or IR emitter extension. One is enough for you to control 5-8 devices.

Anyway connect IR blaster in to the port provided, and place the IR blaster small device some distance from the hub. Make sure that the IR emitter should not covered by any other substances or placed in a closed place.

When IR blaster placed in an open area, then Remote control and IR mobile app can send IR signals easily between device and infrared emitter.

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Here ending the basic hardware installation of Logitech harmony Hub.


Set Up Your Logitech Harmony Hub with WiFi and Mobile Application

For programming or setting up our logitech harmony remote app with logitech hub, we need to do it Via a wifi connection established between our smartphone and the hub.

Turn on WiFi and connect Harmony smart control hub and smartphone to the wifi network. This is an important step.

Follow the steps

  • Download and install harmony hub app on your smartphone and open the app then create an account
  • Then tap on continue button on welcome screen of the mobile app
  • Then you can see setup remote button, Tap on it
  • Now tap on continue button
  • Just wait upto 30 seconds
  • Now press the Pair/Reset button you can see in the back side of the harmony hub device
  • Now pairing procedures begin
  • Harmony app will search the hub and after finding the hub, you will get a page to setup screen [Make sure both harmony app and the hub should connected with the same WiFi network, otherwise searching hub will fail]
  • when prompted enter the name of the harmony hub and continue, then wait for harmony app to connect to the hub

Now it is ready your mobile application to use with Logitech harmony hub device by adding various activities like watch tv etc.

Read:- Logitech Harmony 650 Vs 665 – Comparison

Add Devices To Control

Next step is to add various devices where you want to control with logitech harmony hub and the Logitech universal remote control application.

When you open logitech harmony app, you can see there a button “add my TV” click on it to add your tv.

what are needed to add your tv and assign to logitech harmony app to control?

When prompted, you need to enter your TV brand name and the TV model number. enter them in the field provided and tap on add button to add.

Now you need to test whether your TV working fine with the command sent from your Logitech mobile app. For this, just tap on power button, and if your TV has turned on, you can confirm that you have successfully added your TV to the remote control application.

Logitech app will asks you after testing procedure if your tv has added?, you can tap on the “Yes” button to complete the setup, otherwise tap “No” so that the remote control app itself go for a various steps to find out the problem when adding devices and will fix if detects any issue.

Automatic diagnosing and fixing is the issue is one of the good feature logitech remote app have.

This way you can add other devices such as receiver, home theater, streaming devices etc and control them easily.


Adding activities

Activities makes so easy for you to control your device. you can switch between activities and can control devices very effectively. when you are using the remote app with another device and want to watch tv, then you can switch to Turn on your smart Tv with a just a single tap on “Watch TV” activity set up on your remote control application.

So, in short, what is activity? It is a command that sen to the logitech remote hub to do a particular task in just a single tap on the activity button that we have assigned before.

what activities you can set on logitech harmony app with logitech hub?

  • Watch Tv
  • Play music
  • play video game
  • Party time
  • Movie Night
  • Diner Time
  • Watch Cable
  • watch Apple Tv
  • Mood Music
  • Good Morning etc

very funny, is it?

Note:- You can store unlimited activities on a logtech universal remote app

How To use the Harmony Remote Control With Logitech Harmony control hub

When you buy a logitech harmony hub, you will get a remote control along with it. The remote control is equipped with a display where you can use as like a logitech harmony mobile application. The interface you can see on the remote app is as like the interface you can see in the remote display.

Follow the above methods that we have done for a remote app in your remote control to use it with logitech harmony hub.

How To Configure remote control Or Remote App With Logitech smart control Online with Personal computer [Windows/Mac]

It is an optional way to configure, anyway i recommend you to use configuration via a wifi network.

If you want to setup a logitech harmony control hub with remote control or mobile application online? it is possible by using a windows or mac personal computer.

What we are doing here is, installing MyHarmony software application on your personal computer. There are separate versions available for both windows and Mac based computers.

Download and install the harmony software on your personal computer.

Download logitech harmony software

Then open the software and login with the harmony account. If not have account then create one.

You can program logitech harmony remote control, logitech hub, app by connecting them with the personal computer Via a data cable.

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When connecting your remote or hub, the software will identify the device and will start showing various functions that you can do with the software like adding devices, adding activities etc under settings section where we have done before.

On device section, go to settings, find the


Activities Features

Switch between activities:- You can easily switch between activities that you have assigned. G to the home, and there are a list of activities that you have created. Tap on any one were you can switch to that activity.

Guesture control Available:- when you have selected an activities, there are a lot of guesture control options available to control such as swipe up, swipe left, swipe right, tap, double tap, long tap etc. all these guesture controls are cutomisable. You can allocate the control options that you wanted in setting up a guesture control.

Conclusion

Hope you have learned the logitech harmony smart control hub setup and configuration with mobile app and remote control from this simple explained article. This is the step by step procedures. There are a lot of possibilities available with the logitech smart hub and app. You will learn slowly when you well versed with the device and application. I will write more about this topic in another article like the problem fixing, logitech hub firmware update etc.

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Learn how to setup logitech harmony hub effectively to control your home devices in an effective way. As we know Logitech harmony hub is a smart device hub with logitech universal remote to control our home device simply and smartly. Unfortunately, there are so many issues will come when you not setup logitech harmony hub correctly. Here in this post, I am going to show you the step by step procedures to install and setup logitech harmony hub and can avoid all issues related with installation problem.

Installer

As we know logitech harmony hub is a small portable device where you can fix anywhere at your home to control multiple device with your smartphone or tablet PC configured with this pretty small hub device.

Inside the logitech hub product box, you wil get

  • A portable small hub
  • IR Mini blaster for extension
  • Adapter to connect with Power outlet


How To Setup Logitech Harmony Hub

Setting up a logitech harmony hub complete guide.

Requirements For Setup a Logitech harmony control hub

DeviceLogitech Harmony Hub
AppLogitech harmony App
Download For Android
Download For iOS
Internet AccessWi-Fi: Supports 802.11g/n, WPA Personal, WPA2-AES and 64/128-bit WEP encryption
For Online Setup
[Optional]
Windows OS [10,8,7]/
Mac OS
Remote ControlLogitech Harmony With Display
Other Requirements
[Available with Hub]
IR Blaster
AC Adapter
USB Cable

Hardware SetUp

Placement of Logitech Harmony Hub

This is the first step you need to consider. You should have an ideal place where need to place the logitech harmony hub.

It is better to place the logitech harmony hub device near where there is a power outlet. Because you can charge it without carrying to another place.

I think your entertainment section on home whether it is a hall, room whatever it may be, place the logitech harmony control hub around there with a charging outlet near. Then connect the power cord with the hub in a port provided, then connect with power outlet for charging. If your logitech hub have sufficient charge on it, then need not to charge it.

Connect Mini IR Blaster to Logitech harmony hub

This is the second step. Mini IR blaster is a small device extended with a cable where using which control commands are passed between device and remote control or your logitech harmony mobile application.

There are two connection port available on a harmony hub device to connect two IR blaster or IR emitter extension. One is enough for you to control 5-8 devices.

Anyway connect IR blaster in to the port provided, and place the IR blaster small device some distance from the hub. Make sure that the IR emitter should not covered by any other substances or placed in a closed place.

When IR blaster placed in an open area, then Remote control and IR mobile app can send IR signals easily between device and infrared emitter.

Here ending the basic hardware installation of Logitech harmony Hub.


Set Up Your Logitech Harmony Hub with WiFi and Mobile Application

For programming or setting up our logitech harmony remote app with logitech hub, we need to do it Via a wifi connection established between our smartphone and the hub.

Turn on WiFi and connect Harmony smart control hub and smartphone to the wifi network. This is an important step.

Follow the steps

  • Download and install harmony hub app on your smartphone and open the app then create an account
  • Then tap on continue button on welcome screen of the mobile app
  • Then you can see setup remote button, Tap on it
  • Now tap on continue button
  • Just wait upto 30 seconds
  • Now press the Pair/Reset button you can see in the back side of the harmony hub device
  • Now pairing procedures begin
  • Harmony app will search the hub and after finding the hub, you will get a page to setup screen [Make sure both harmony app and the hub should connected with the same WiFi network, otherwise searching hub will fail]
  • when prompted enter the name of the harmony hub and continue, then wait for harmony app to connect to the hub

Now it is ready your mobile application to use with Logitech harmony hub device by adding various activities like watch tv etc.

Read:- Logitech Harmony 650 Vs 665 – Comparison

Add Devices To Control

Next step is to add various devices where you want to control with logitech harmony hub and the Logitech universal remote control application.

When you open logitech harmony app, you can see there a button “add my TV” click on it to add your tv.

what are needed to add your tv and assign to logitech harmony app to control?

When prompted, you need to enter your TV brand name and the TV model number. enter them in the field provided and tap on add button to add.

Now you need to test whether your TV working fine with the command sent from your Logitech mobile app. For this, just tap on power button, and if your TV has turned on, you can confirm that you have successfully added your TV to the remote control application.

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Logitech app will asks you after testing procedure if your tv has added?, you can tap on the “Yes” button to complete the setup, otherwise tap “No” so that the remote control app itself go for a various steps to find out the problem when adding devices and will fix if detects any issue.

Automatic diagnosing and fixing is the issue is one of the good feature logitech remote app have.

This way you can add other devices such as receiver, home theater, streaming devices etc and control them easily.


Adding activities

Activities makes so easy for you to control your device. you can switch between activities and can control devices very effectively. when you are using the remote app with another device and want to watch tv, then you can switch to Turn on your smart Tv with a just a single tap on “Watch TV” activity set up on your remote control application.

So, in short, what is activity? It is a command that sen to the logitech remote hub to do a particular task in just a single tap on the activity button that we have assigned before.

what activities you can set on logitech harmony app with logitech hub?

  • Watch Tv
  • Play music
  • play video game
  • Party time
  • Movie Night
  • Diner Time
  • Watch Cable
  • watch Apple Tv
  • Mood Music
  • Good Morning etc

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very funny, is it?

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Note:- You can store unlimited activities on a logtech universal remote app

How To use the Harmony Remote Control With Logitech Harmony control hub

When you buy a logitech harmony hub, you will get a remote control along with it. The remote control is equipped with a display where you can use as like a logitech harmony mobile application. The interface you can see on the remote app is as like the interface you can see in the remote display.

Follow the above methods that we have done for a remote app in your remote control to use it with logitech harmony hub.

How To Configure remote control Or Remote App With Logitech smart control Online with Personal computer [Windows/Mac]

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It is an optional way to configure, anyway i recommend you to use configuration via a wifi network.

If you want to setup a logitech harmony control hub with remote control or mobile application online? it is possible by using a windows or mac personal computer.

What we are doing here is, installing MyHarmony software application on your personal computer. There are separate versions available for both windows and Mac based computers.

Download and install the harmony software on your personal computer.

Download logitech harmony software

Then open the software and login with the harmony account. If not have account then create one.

You can program logitech harmony remote control, logitech hub, app by connecting them with the personal computer Via a data cable.

When connecting your remote or hub, the software will identify the device and will start showing various functions that you can do with the software like adding devices, adding activities etc under settings section where we have done before.

On device section, go to settings, find the

Logitech Hub Installer


Activities Features

Switch between activities:- You can easily switch between activities that you have assigned. G to the home, and there are a list of activities that you have created. Tap on any one were you can switch to that activity.

Guesture control Available:- when you have selected an activities, there are a lot of guesture control options available to control such as swipe up, swipe left, swipe right, tap, double tap, long tap etc. all these guesture controls are cutomisable. You can allocate the control options that you wanted in setting up a guesture control.

Conclusion

Hope you have learned the logitech harmony smart control hub setup and configuration with mobile app and remote control from this simple explained article. This is the step by step procedures. There are a lot of possibilities available with the logitech smart hub and app. You will learn slowly when you well versed with the device and application. I will write more about this topic in another article like the problem fixing, logitech hub firmware update etc.

Like this post, please share on social media.

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