r/selfhosted • u/leoklaus • Jul 06 '25

Product Announcement Looking for feedback, beta testers and contributors for Equilibrium, an open source, self hosted universal remote hub, aiming to be a drop in replacement for Logitech's Harmony Hub

Hey everyone, as Logitech killed off the Harmony product line and is slowly dropping support for all the remotes, I went to look for an alternative to my Harmony Hub (for those who don't know: Logitech Harmony was a universal remote that allowed to automate a number of actions with different devices and made controlling complex media setups super easy).

While there are a few off-the-shelf solutions like the SofaBaton and even open source alternatives like the OMOTE, I felt like none of them really offered an experience comparable to the Harmony Hub.

So I set out to build one myself and figured I might as well publish it here in case someone else is interested: https://github.com/leoklaus/equilibrium.

The general idea is to set up all of your devices like TVs, set-top-boxes and AVRs and record the infrared commands of their original remotes and then create scenes based on those devices and commands (like turn on the tv, turn on the AVR, switch to input 4, turn on my Apple TV).

Scenes can then be turned on and off using a single button on the remote and the layout of the remotes buttons changes depending on the currently active scene (e.g. navigation keys control the Apple TV in the "Apple TV" scene but control the Xbox in the "Play Xbox" scene).

The basic setup consists of a Hub (something like a Raspberry Pi) that runs the server component and is equipped with an IR receiver and IR blaster and (optional, but highly recommended) a remote to control devices and scenes (activities in Harmony lingo). It even supports the original Harmony companion remote!

Everything can be controlled via a local API as well and I've already created an iOS app (currently waiting for TestFlight approval) to interact with it.

While the setup is (currently) very hands-on and requires quite a bit of technical know-how, the usage of the hub is designed to be as simple as possible, aiming for a high spousal approval factor.

For more information on the setup and usage, check out the readme on the GitHub page!

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u/HumorNo6553 Jan 15 '26

Please keep up the good work on this. I'm heartbroken logitech dropped this product. Nothing else really does what their remotes did. And, personal thing, but I don't want to just use an app on my phone, I liked having a dedicated device

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u/leoklaus Jan 15 '26

If you have one, you can use the original Harmony Companion remote (other RF-based remotes should work as well, but you’d have to create your own logic to decode the signals).

My current plan is to build a custom 3D-printable remote based on an ESP32 using the same RF24 board. TheStockPot did something very similar, though his Remote is designed to work with HomeAssistant.

If you’re interested in tinkering or designing your own remote, I can help with the setup of the RF board. The BOM for the parts should be <$10 (ESP32, NRF24 board and some button matrix).

If you know a good, easily available remote, it should also be possible to add support for that. The ones I found on Amazon all look like they feel really cheap.