My last post was about DVR and how DVR changed the way we watch TV. Today I am going to write my experience with the Harmony One universal remote. Every house today has a TV and some has a DVD player and a cable or a satellite box. Having so many devices in the house brings as many remotes on your table as well. It gets annoying when you have to switch between remotes when you have to watch a movie on your DVD player. You have to use two remotes, one for your TV and the other for your DVD player. Well it is easy for me to figure out which remote to use with which device but still sometimes it was annoying me also so I got a universal remote from Logitech called Harmony One.
This device is little expensive for a remote but it is amazing. You will have to spend some time programming this device when you buy it. The software that comes with the device is straightforward and will guide you step by step on how to program your remote. The remote connects to your computer through a USB interface. One you program your remote with the devices you are going to use, it remembers your settings. You can re-program the remote if you buy a new device or when you sell an old one. The software has almost every manufacturer and device you can imagine and Logitech keeps updating the list with new devices.
Now when you have to use the remote, all you need to do on its small touch screen is what you want to do, Watch TV? Watch Movie? Etc. and the remote will turn on the devices that need to be turned on for the task you specified. When you turn the volume up, the TV volume goes up and when you want to pause the movie and click pause on the remote, your DVD player responds with the command. Another good thing about the remote is that is has an inclinometer. When the remote is sitting on the table, its lights turn off and as soon as you hold the remote, its inclinometer senses motion and turns the light on so you can see the keys on the remote in dark.
Now you can put all your remotes on the side and just have one remote to control all our devices and keep your table clear of clutter and you don't have to explain your wife which remote to use every time she wants to watch a movie on the DVD player.
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I like these remotes, I have two of them.
ReplyDeleteOne negative side of these Logitech Harmony remotes is that the software they come with to program them is limited to being linked to only one remote.
If you have more than one remote, you have to awkwardly create a second account and attach the second remote to that account. Very unfortunate.
To go back and forth programming the two remotes you have to log out, log in, etc.