This is interesting David and I am hoping you will have the time to enlighten me and maybe some other folks. !WakeupMyRemote|{{clientname}}! does not wake up the remote. I also tried it without the exclamation points. It will wake up with WakeupMyRemote|Chris. The remote is named "smartremote," not Chris. Command builder seems to want the remote name, not the client name. And speaking of clientname I can't find that variable in MyServer. But if it's there it does not seem to have a value of Chris. I did see a variable "harmony_active_device_chris" with a value of 1,
I'm puzzled and would really like to be able to wrap my head around all this.
Thx, Chris
Hi Chris I'd bet a dollar that during your initial setup you changed the name on the remote itself from "remoteX" to "Chris". This value and the unique name in myServer are independent of each other.
The reason why {{clientname}} isn't working in Command Builder is because this isn't like other variables. It can't be manually adjusted and points to the client name of the device you are currently working with. When you try to use {{clientname}} through Command Builder it doesn't know that you want to control the remote and issues the command "WakeupMyRemote|dashboard-fx-XXXX" (where XXXX is a dynamically assigned string), which is literally the computer/tablet/etc you are accessing myServer from. When you invoke the command from the remote itself it will issue "WakeupMyRemote|Chris"
From a practical perspective if you only have one remote there's no reason why you can't use "WakeupMyRemote|Chris", though this will make things complicated if you ever add a second client. I have 5 smartremotes so I have to do it the way I do if I want this to work for all of them.
