Remote Control Question
 

Am I the only person who thinks the TIVO Remote Control has a mind of it's own? I put mine on the arm of the sofa or on the footstool and the stupid thing just ends up on the floor every time and I spend so much time trying to find the stupid thing :rolleyes:

So now I keep reading about these Harmony Remotes and wonder if it's worth getting one of them and if so which one as there seem to be a variety of models :confused:

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The harmony remotes are good if you have a lot of devices to control as you can put away all your other remotes and just use one remote.

I've obviously got used to my harmony but i found the Tivo remote not very good for button positions etc, but i guess it could have been the other way around if i'd used the Tivo first.

There are several new models out, but the one that seems to be the most popular is the Harmony One (I have one of those and an older 885 for the bedroom setup). Be aware that there aren't any hard coloured buttons on the harmony One, but they are there on the touch sensitive screen and work fine for me there.

This could be a good place to browse to decide which one would be best for you.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/remote-controls/

When I bought, I wated for the deals to come around on Amazon and the like because they're not cheap, but they seem to be discounted regularly, so if you can, it's a case of waiting for a good deal.

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Thanks for that, I have seen the Harmony One in Curry's for £139, might get that and see how I get on with it :D

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I don't know if they charge delivery, but it's actually cheaper direct from Logitech:

http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/remotes/universal-remotes


Looking at their current range, the 'One' is the one i'd get if buying again; I love my harmony one!

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Harmony One 94.98

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/1975...JSDndJRHFcWw==

Harmony One 103.00

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/logitec...ipaqm&istBid=t

Who says shopping around doesn't pay ;-)

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Good find at dixons; I avoid pixmania as I've seen reports that they sometimes sell grey imports.

:D That's not the kind of 'shopping around' we were talking about on the other thread, unless you're suggesting that AlabasterLyn rings dixons up and threatens to take her custom elsewhere unles they sell it to her for £5! :D

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I didn't even think to look on the Logitech site as I could only fine a USA one earlier. It's odd that Dixons are charging so much less than Curry's, I thought they were both owned by the same company :confused:

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Be aware that there aren't any hard coloured buttons on the harmony One, but they are there on the touch sensitive screen and work fine for me there.

If you absolutely must have hard coloured buttons the Harmony 900 has them - but it's almost twice the cost of Harmony One:shocked:

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The pricing of Harmony remotes has always defied logic in my view (punn intended). Until recently, the One was around £160 on the logitech site and varied between around £80-120 on Amazon, depending when you bought.

Play did a few limited time offers and sold it for £70; I always seemed to miss those and paid £84 from amazon just under two years ago.

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Available here if you live near a store

http://www.richersounds.com/product/...gi-harmony-one

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I'm not really sure what you mean by 'hard coloured buttons' :confused:

Don't really want to spend any more than I have to as I am saving up to get the latest Samsung tab thing when it comes out ;)

Will the Harmony remote make my TV come on and change from HDMI1 to HDMI2 without me messing about with the TV remote I am currently using. You can tell I am not very good with technology.

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I do, we have one about 2 miles from here :D

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Happy Days :D Enjoy if you get one. I've never used one myself.

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Rather than being hard buttons, the coloured buttons on the Harmony One are on a touch screen, so you just touch the screen where the red icon is to activate a red button command.

The Harmony uses 'activities'. You'll create an activity called Tivo (You can call it what you want) and by touching that on the touch screen, it will turn anything on required for that activity and switch it to the correct input, so, one touch, switches everything on.

In my case, it switches my AV amp on and changes the input to Cab/sat, switches the TV on and changes the input to HDMI 1. I've told it i always leave Tivo on, so it leaves that as it is.

On the harmony remote, the volume buttons control my amp and all the other buttons control the Tivo box or TV. I can tell the Harmony what buttons control which function on which device. It's all programmed by connecting the harmony to the PC via USB and following the instructions in the Harmony software.

It will also act as just a remote control for each device, if you want it to, and you can switch between the two modes.

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Richer Sounds have 2 left in stock, so I have reserved one :D

The 'fun' will start when I try to get the thing to work :shocked:

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You'll be fine. it really is well set out and takes you step by step through setting it up for your equipment.

You add the Tivo as a Cisco CT8685

There's a cable forum thread here:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...te-thread.html

and the AV forums link I posted earlier has some Harmony experts on it.