Harmony 880. Works well for me

 

We just had canned lights installed in our TV room, along with a Lutron dimmer with remote. The cool part is that you can program your dimmer to the universal remote and even add it to the macro--the lights will dim when you get ready to watch a movie. I know, geeky.

 

^^
no not geeky, romantic

 

[quote name='Kyras' date='Jan 6 2009, 08:31 PM']I just ordered the Harmony One from Amazon.com.

 

^^ Awesome Now you will wonder how you ever lived without one!

 

Glad you like it. And here's a tip I discovered by accident: hook it up to your computer now and then and fire up the software (or the other way around; however it works) to see what happens.

I wouldn't have discovered that Logitech put out a firmware upgrade for the remote (Logitech nags about the desktop software, though) if I hadn't upgraded a DVD player and had to reprogram the remote accordingly. And the firmware upgrade made a huge difference in the functionality -- it's much better now. Presumably your new one has that upgrade already, but keep checking. HPH

 

All these raves about the Harmony One is motivating me to actually open up my gift from Santa. It's still in the box.

 

Logitech Harmony makes cheaper remotes, some under $100 that work the same way as the Harmony One, except that all of them have small buttons and even smaller labels on or near the buttons.

So, if I do get a Harmony, it will be the model that Carmen and Patty have.

 

Go for it, Carmen.! I followed the directions and the only glitch I had was when my computer connection dropped out, twice.

 

Ok I finally started to unbox santa's gift. Question for you Harmony One users. If I have selected the activity "Watch TV" which I understand is simply a macro that executes multiple commands (i.e. Power on TV, CATV box, Receiver), and then decide to do another activity, say, "Watch DVD", do I have to shut everything down 1st? The last remote of this type that I had (Marantz RC5200) also executed macros. However, in moving from one activity to the next, the macro executed would not be appropriate if I am already doing something (i.e. watching TV). What would happen if I decided to "Watch a DVD" after "Watching TV" is it would excute the sequence, but power on, would actually be power off, since the TV was already on. I don't know if this is making sense or not. If not, ask and I'll clarify. Ken are you out there?