Echo Dots and Harmony Hubs

[macromicroman]

Hi all.

I put this under stupid questions since it may not be a stupid question, but it is a question that I would like an answer for. I currently have an echo dot and harmony hub in my living room. The dot controls the harmony hub and does it all--turns system on and off, changes channels controls volume and will turn on the proper devices when activities are set up. I also have an Echo Dot and harmony hub in the bedroom. I was hoping to set this up to control my bedroom TV. When I tried to set this up I found out that the Echos will only connect up and control one hub at a time. My question is, does a way exist so that I can use the Living Room Echo to control the Living room and the Bedroom Echo to control the Harmony Hub in the Bedroom? If this can not be done at the present time will Harmony or Amazon ever allow this to happen?

[garbulky]

Apr 24, 2019 13:30:38 GMT -5 macromicroman said:

Hi all.

I put this under stupid questions since it may not be a stupid question, but it is a question that I would like an answer for. I currently have an echo dot and harmony hub in my living room. The dot controls the harmony hub and does it all--turns system on and off, changes channels controls volume and will turn on the proper devices when activities are set up. I also have an Echo Dot and harmony hub in the bedroom. I was hoping to set this up to control my bedroom TV. When I tried to set this up I found out that the Echos will only connect up and control one hub at a time. My question is, does a way exist so that I can use the Living Room Echo to control the Living room and the Bedroom Echo to control the Harmony Hub in the Bedroom? If this can not be done at the present time will Harmony or Amazon ever allow this to happen?

All my echo dots throughout the house control one harmony hub. However with a firetv you can pair one echo dot per fire tv. I don't know if that's any help. The new Firetv has a different remote that contains volume controls so maybe that's a workaround?

[garbulky]

Googling "multiple harmony hubs alexa" looks like somebody might have found a solution by using two separate amazon accounts. Hmmm...
www.echotalk.org/index.php?topic=1400.0
This may however strip some functionality like echo dot drop in and stuff

[macromicroman]

Thanks for the information. I may try the two accounts after I move and set up everything again.

[tasdom]

There is a secondary Harmony Skill you can add (red I think) that will allow what you are attempting.

Found it
www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Secondary-Hub/dp/B01N4DMQ5P