any other remotes to look for apart from harmony one?

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basically wanting to know if there are any other remotes at all to consider apart from this?

want to control
AV reciever
WMC
HTPC turn on (if possible)
TV (just on or off really)
LED system (will probably need it to be able to learn commands directly from other remote)
 
I have/use the harmony 900...

Which I find was well worth buying the extra price to have RF and the four coloured buttons.

I use my harmony 900 to control these items..
1) AV amp
2) Pioneer TV
3) Pioneer DVD-R recorder
4) SkyHD box
5) Playstation 3 (with Harmony Adapter for Playstation 3)
6) Main Room Light
7) Logitech Z-5500 PC speakers
8) It is also setup to control my HTPC but I no really use it (As am always using my wireless Keyboard & Mouse)
 
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chaparral said:
Or You maybe interested in the Harmony one replacement

The Logitech Harmony Touch ;)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Ha...SDB0/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1354050018&sr=8-9
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Hmm that one seems to be twice the price for less buttons! Not that Iwwill use the numbers anyway

chaparral said:
I have/use the harmony 900...

Which I find was well worth buying the extra price to have RF and the four coloured buttons.

I use my harmony 900 to control these items..
1) AV amp
2) Pioneer TV
3) Pioneer DVD-R recorder
4) SkyHD box
5) Playstation 3 (with Harmony Adapter for Playstation 3)
6) Main Room Light
7) Logitech Z-5500 PC speakers
8) It is also setup to control my HTPC but I no really use it (As am always using my wireless Keyboard & Mouse)
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How do you make use of rf? My sofa is infront of the tv and all my av kit. Would it be useful

Also, can EVERY button on this control be remapped?
And
Can it learn commands from another remote?
 
I think the Harmony remotes are still the best you can get, easy to set up via their web site and all your settings are saved via your user account, im on my 3rd Harmony remote over a good few years and I can just log into my account and download all the remote settings to the new remote ...easy

You can also just log back into your account and fine tune your remote settings to your liking.

Ive got my TV, AV Amp, Sky HD, Xbox 360, Bluray player, WD TV Live all controlled by the remote, even my mother in law can control every thing with just the touch of a button, no messing 1 remote.
 
I don't see that you have much option other than Harmony. They are the cheapest semi-macro driven remotes you can buy. Harmonys aren't perfect, but for the money they do a reasonable job, and if you've never used a fully programmable remote like a Pronto, Nevo or RTI then you won't really know what your missing.
 
So is the discontinued one the best to go for our the touch? The 1100 apparently doesn't have macros
 
Note, this won't be used for controlling media centre just tv/amp settings, ampvolume and turning everything (pc inc) on and off
 
Love my Harmony One, only complaint is the lack of colour buttons but you can have these on the touch screen.
 
lucid said:
You might find that you can get the PC out of standby but I'm not sure that a standard PC power supply allows you to switch on via IR.
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this depends on the case/IR controller.
i have a case with a built in LCD display with IR controller.

And instead of pluging the power switch into the motherboard, you plug it into the IR controller which then has a cable to plug into the motherboard, allowing it to control the power directly using the IR
 
Cycrow said:
this depends on the case/IR controller.
i have a case with a built in LCD display with IR controller.

And instead of pluging the power switch into the motherboard, you plug it into the IR controller which then has a cable to plug into the motherboard, allowing it to control the power directly using the IR
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pretty funky!

i need to buy an ir receiver as yet
 
i keep getting drawn to the 1100 (probably cause it looks amazing)
are there any serious draw backs to this compared to say the harmony one?

it does seem to have some, particulalry macros
 
the 1100 doesn't do macros, which is abit annoying, as the 1000 did.
But other than that, its a pretty decent remote.

it doesn't do RF, but you can buy the RF extender separately

The touch screen buttons are abit slower than hard buttons, so typing numbers might be abit slower althou i've never really had a problem with it
 
I never use numbers really. Usually scroll down WMC (which I will actually do with my mx air mouse)

The range of buttons on it seems perfect,
D pad
Volume for av receiver
The lcd for activities

I'm trying to think how important macros would be to me, having obviously not had the option before

(buying a ir light switch too)
 
Macros are the whole point of a remote system. Otherwise it's just a glorified £10 universal remote.

If you plan to invest a chunk of change in a remote then you really want it to be an activity driven device. Otherwise you end up just manually controlling all the gear with an expensive remote that makes the job harder than the equipment's own remotes.

Activity driven system control looks something like this:

"Power on" - macro to switch all equipment on and ensures that all devices are actually on rather than toggled off

"Watch TV" - macro switches amp to correct AV channel, puts TV in to tuner mode or selects the PVR, and possibly selects your favourite station too. Then jumps to a page that gives you just the controls you need to operate in that particular activity

"Watch movie" - macro switches amp to correct AV channel for the media centre, switches the TV to the correct AV channel, and possibly makes the media player front end load, Then jumps to a page that gives you just the controls you need to operate in that particular activity.

"Play games" - as above, but selecting the games console

"Listen to music" - as above, but possibly switches off the TV if not required.

"Power off" - switches all off to a known state to avoid devices toggling on/off

Behind all this you'll have some common control for volume and for lighting. There will also be punch through commands for say audio processing so you don't have to leave the activity page to change audio mode when playing music or gaming​


The beauty of macros is that it doesn't matter if all your gear runs through the amp or not. A macro can be programmed to mimic exactly the way your system is set up.
 
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