Use ${intensity.percent} with Harmony Hub

[raleph]

It would be great to be able to use ${intensity.percent} with Harmony Hub buttons.
I have buttons like "Ventilator 1", "Ventilator 2", etc. in the hub to kind of "dim" my fan.
When I set up a ON command in HA-bridge like

[{"device":"123456","button":"Ventilator 1"}]

it works fine.
But when I set up a dim command using

[{"device":"123456","button":"Ventilator ${intensity.percent}"}]

I get error Failed communicating with Harmony Hub in the logs. It looks like ${intensity.percent} does not get replaced by the respective value.
Am I doing something wrong here or is this just not implemented (yet)?

[bwssytems]

Currently, the ${intensity variables are not used in the harmony items as they seemed to be pretty static. Yet you found a way to use that! The use case though is when you say 'Alexa, set ventilator to 2' and that would pick the correct one. Is this what you are after?

[raleph]

By saying 'Alexa, set ventilator to 2' I intend to initiate button "Ventilator 2" thus choosing intensity level 2 of of my fan.

[bwssytems]

But, this doesn't seem much different than "Alexa, turn on ventilator 2"

[raleph]

Sorry, there might be a misunderstanding. I have just one fan.
The fan can be set to three levels of intensity by pressing button 1, 2 or 3 on it's remote. I have set up the three buttons in Harmony and would like to call them via the ${intensity.percent} variable as described above.
The same approach could be used to switch channels 1-9 on a tv for example.

[bwssytems]

Ok, I understand now. But, you could have the name of the device as Ventilator Level Two and that would be Alexa, Turn on Ventilator Level 2

[kf-nz]

If at all possible, I'd like to second this as a feature request - was actually just going to make my own thread before I glanced through the history.

My use case is similar - I have a Fujitsu split system in my Harmony Hub that doesn't return state requests. So I've created buttons spanning 18 - 30 representing degrees Celsius.

It'd be great to have this functionality as a dim setting so I don't have to build a button the Echo can see, but rather can just select the temperature.

I've done similar using the emulated_hue component in HASS which I'm hoping to replace with ha-bridge.

[bwssytems]

So I assume this is something you would want on a device level and not an activity?

[raleph]

Yes, I think it makes most sense on device level.