Product Description: Access your entire Home Entertainment system with just one button. Everyone from the kids to the babysitter can now enjoy the full home theater experience. Simply select an activity, and your Harmony universal remote will send the right commands so you don't have to juggle remotes or remember a sequence of buttons. There's even a handy Help button to guide you through simple troubleshooting and get you back in control. The Harmony universal remote is the world's only remote with Smart State Technology activity control. Just press one of the Activity buttons, such as Watch TV or Listen to Music, and your Harmony universal remote automatically sets up your entertainment system.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - If you have older components you may be in for disappointment
This could have been a great gadget except it didn't recognize my 5 year old Sony A/V receiver. Even in "learning mode" this new dog couldn't learn old tricks.
Rating: - Perfect!
Got this on sale for 50$ at amazon. Wow, took me 30 minutes from out of the box, installing the PC software, to having all my remotes programmed. It even programed my obscure remotes for signal switches and the new Digital TV converters! I went from 8 remotes to one.
Note: This replaced a 8 in one learning remote. That remote took me 2 hours to program.
Cons: As noted, you must make your selection with the remote pointed at the screen for about 2 seconds as the remote turns each device on one by one.
Rating: - Good hardware, crap software
Its a very nice remote, esp for $50 shipped. Like other have said about harmony remote software which is one unifided program; it sucks. Have to have an internet connection to program your remote? Crappy web interface, slow, clunky, no real customization. In my case an older tv which is in the database doesnt work that well. Power button on remote doesnt work, there is a power toggle in the lcd scroll area, not very convienent. I also read somewhere else the remote is haunted, the backlight will come on sometimes when I walk in kinda cool. All in all I like it, but the software for programming ... Read More
Rating: - It really does what it says.
I have never owned a universal remote before (other than the ones from the cable company), and let me tell this is an amazing little thing. The "activities"-based control is a great example of good design--instead of telling it which device you want to control, you just tell it what you want to do and it figures out how. Want to watch TV? It turns on the TV and the cable box, picks the correct input on the TV, and allows you to adjust the TV volume and the cable box's channel. Want to watch a DVD? It turns on the TV and the DVD player, and the controls work similarly with them. Instead of pushing ... Read More
Rating: - logitech harmony 550 review
had the product for a few months. quite happy with it.
successfully replaced the remotes for the following:
* jvc dvd player
* samsung tv
* onkyo receiver
* sharp vcr
* motorola cable box
also use it to set tv/receiver/power on-off modes for:
* apple tv
* sony ps2
product exceeded my expectations. has very fine tuning capability.
my samsung tv has a crappy reaction time to its own remote so once
in a while the modes do not change directly, and i have to use a
few additional steps on the remote. but it passed the ... Read More
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