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I got the email on Thursday that my order had been shipped and I received it on Saturday. Not bad. Now that I've got it hooked up all I can say is...

Wow. It's just like the BT remote. I had to do a tiny bit of remapping and a significant amount of mapping the commands but now every command is available to me with my Harmony 890. I have the slo-mo buttons mapped to Replay and Skip, got Audio and Subtitle on the screen along with the color buttons (which I'll likely never use,) and even found a use for the Guide button (Triangle.)

I've used the Nyko for many months now and it worked rather well, but this is so much better. Even though I'm using my 890 in RF mode, which means the signal goes RF from remote to wireless extender, IR from wireless extender to IR2BT, and then BT from IR2BT to the PS3, there's absolutely no lag. With the Nyko there was a third or half second lag. Gone. Great job Bruce!

If anyone's interested here's how I assigned a few of the buttons...
Audio, Subtitle and the color buttons are on the screen
Square(Menu) is Menu
Circle is Exit
Triangle is Guide (although I now have discreet Audio and Subtitle buttons I won't need this as much)
X of cours is OK
I've always used Ch + and Ch - for the chapter skip buttons so I assigned
Frame Reverse to Replay and
Frame Advance to Skip

Will this only work with Harmony Remotes?

I'm still trying to figure out and reconfigure some of the customized button settings. I watched the YouTube video on setting up the Logitech [in my case the 880]. I found with those settings, for some reason, when I hit the OK button on the Harmony remote it would bring up Info on the screen while watching a Blu-Ray DVD [time left data, sound format, etc] instead of acting as an Enter button. I'm not sure why that happened, but I went back into the Harmony software and changed the OK button to Enter. Now it seems to be working OK for me. Does this sound right to you?

Also, I find that if the Harmony remote has a good line of sight with the IR2BT, it works much better then if not. I thought that the line of sight wasn't that critical. Is that right.

In addition, my son wants to know if their is a setting for the PS3 Button [like the PS3 Button on the Playstation remote] for the Harmony remote for the IR2BT? I think that I read something about that somewhere, but can't remember where.

Also, what is the best way to turn on and off the PS3 by itself with the Harmony 880 when all is set up?

Thanks from a new owner of the IR2BT!

Mitch

Any universal with support for a PS2 remote should work.
Just may require more effort.
Basically the IR2BT takes in PS2 remote calls, and sends them to bluetooth.

Harmony has explicit support for the IR2BT

Most everyone sets OK to "X"
IR2BT, like all IR devices MUST HAVE line of sight to remote

The PS3 button maps to "PowerToggle" in the harmony software. I have mine mapped to the "exit" hard button

Turn on by using the activity
turn off by pressing the "off" power button. May take 5-10 seconds before the PS3 power light starts to flash

I setup the ir2bt on Wednesday but used it last night for a long extended period of time all I can see WOW what a great product. My wife doesn't even know I have the ir2bt box she thinks the Harmony just controls the PS3. This little box responds very well to all my buttons pushes on my Harmony One. Bruce this is a great product, but you need to produce more of these I have at least 3 people waiting to purchase one these from you.

There are problems with getting the shutdown macros to work on other remotes like manuy of the URC models.

Good point. The PS3 lacks a discreet off command. You would have to build a macro to do this.

Here's a post I made in another thread describing the button mappings I'm using on my Harmony 880 remote with the IR2BT to make it easier to use the same "Watch Blu-Ray" activity for PS3 web browsing as well:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...9#post13990859

--Bob

my order shipped (713)

Rec'd my order on Monday. Monday night it took about 30 minutes to setup and program Pronto 7500 to control unit. 100% Perfect. This is the best device to come along in awhile. It works as designed and makes the PS3 a viable option for home theater integration.
Now if Sony would wave a magic wand and let the PS3 Bitstream Lossless audio to my Denon 5308CI I can get rid of my BD30 and use the PS3 all the time.

I have NO IDEA why you think bitstreaming is necessary for anything

pcm=potato
bitstream=patato

I guess if you have "no idea" then there is no reason to discuss it any further is there? It is my personal preference. I have 3 subs controlled by the 5308CI and it hits harder with bitstreaming and just sounds better to me. Is that OK with you? Maybe when you upgrade to an AVR that decodes the new formats you can do your own taste test.

I'm sorry - but the whole attribute about having lossless
Audio is the results are the same - no mater where the
decode is done. If you think there is then you are trying
to change the laws of physics or in this case laws of
Mathematics.

I know what I hear and feel. I do not need fancy talk or technical reasons to change my taste. The Denon 5308ci allows me the opportunities to fine tune and test many configurations and bitstreaming affords me the very best base response out of my equipment. This thread is about the IR2BT, lets stay on track shall we?

Order #791 out the door. I'm getting the PS3 for my birthday today so it's perfect timing.

Hey guys, I'm confused.... The Nyko "PlayStation 3 Blu Wave Remote" is only $9.99, while the IR2BT is around $60.

What's so special about the IR2BT, and why is it worth $50 more than the Nyko?

Thanks!

It is WORTH a lot more than $50 more.

Do your research.

let's call the whole thing off.

That's what I'm doing...

The IR2BT translates all of the BlueTooth commands the remote uses, while the BluWave just emulates the controller. There are things the controller can't do directly, such as the PS button (needed for power on/off), audio, angle, and subtitle buttons, the colored buttons, both menu buttons, etc.

Also, keep in mind that the IR2BT is being produced by a very small company and not in mass quantities like Nyko. If Nyko or Sony were to produce something like it, it would probably be a lot cheaper.

So, practically speaking, the extra functionality you get (that one would use if using the PS3 as a dedicated DVD player) would be to turn it on and off? Other than that the Nyko can do everything else for DVD playing, such as FF, REW, Menu, select, etc.?

Sorry, still not seeing the $10 vs $60 value... maybe there are other things that people use that I may not be using?

You mentioned it first


And now back to our regularly scheduled program:


For anyone interested in learning more about the ir2bt device I suggest you check out their forum http://ir2bt.com/forum/ (in addtion to all the wonderful advice you will receive here )

My thoughts exactly. Maybe someone can better justify the price difference?

Or save $10 and just use the PS3 controller.

For me the ability to have ONE remote that can do it all including FULL control of the PS3 makes the $60 was worth every penny.

I think for me the problem is that I don't own the PS3 yet... therefore I'm not sure what functions might be required that the Nyko can't do. If it's just On and Off, I can live with the Nyko. If there are other things that I'm not aware of, well, that might change things.

Know what I mean?

- On/Off was enough justification for me. I use a Harmony 880 and being able to control everything was worth the price. My wife can actually look at the PS3 as a BluRay player instead of a weird looking game system.

On a side note, doesn't the Nyko automatically take controller slot #1 when using the USB port? I don't have it, but I thought I read that somewhere.

It's up to you to decide if the $60 price (and long, long wait) is worth it for you. I had the Nyko and just got the IR2BT. I'm glad I did. For me a few things I like are commands for slow reverse, slow advance, changing the audio, changing the subtitles, the colored buttons and the power functionality. When I had the Nyko I just left the PS3 on all the time but it's nice to be able to control the power now. Mostly I like having the audio and subtitle buttons so I don't have to press the triangle button and navigate that menu. There was also a bit of a lag with the Nyko, maybe a half second or so, which is gone with the IR2BT.

The Nyko works and it works well. It just doesn't work as well or offer as much as the IR2BT. If you're using a universal remote either one is better than nothing.

I received my shipping confirmation for IR2BT today as well! #761