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If I aim the harmony at the front of the room the room, the IR signal that bounces off the screen is strong enough to control my projector flawlessly without the need of an IR booster or repeater. The AE3000 has a very sensitive IR receiver.

The Grafikeye is the only device I purposely aim the remote towards the back of the room for and thats not a big deal.

The powermid emitter station actually sits IN my equipment closet (behind all my equipment). I have the computer IR receiver and the PS3 adapter sitting right in front of it.

I then use one of these for sending the IR signal to the front of the rack:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_009RX56...9.html?tp=1899

which sits on the bottom sill of the equipment rack in front (between the glass and front of the components aimed up). This is where the prisms that oman mentioned help.

As long as you have close to line of sight, i think you'll be fine with the prisms.

This is what it looks like... the emitter is the little thingy sitting just below the receiver. You can't really see the prisms too well stuck to each device (left side of the device displays for the receiver and DVR). I think it also helps having the devices closer to the emitter. If they were towards the top of the rack, I'm not sure how well it would have worked.

You should try some recovery software. I was able to recover some files, almost all of them, from a disk that was corrupt.

Yep - most photography buffs have ways to make "dead" cards talk.

Very Cool KJ.. They look sweet!! I love watching paint dry.
What will you power those guys with?
Will you set those up as side or down firing?

Brad

Those look really good!

KJ,

After the meet last weekend, I had to go through your build thread... and finally made it to the end. You sure make it look easy for a guy who can't program his remote Really though, your setup is quite impressive... it's the best back-lit AT treatment I've seen, and I love the scope screen. Definitely something for me to strive to. A personal thanks for hosting and organizing the meet... had a great time.

Great build. I really, really, like the diamond shaped carpet. It looks awesome with the brown leather.

It's not your fault, I think the Harmony programming interface is terrible.

Here is a real mans interface!

That's exactly what I'd like to have. Too bad their remotes cost so much

And this is why, years ago, I went into networking instead of programming!

I believe that was used to program just the big red launch button for the shuttle.

Kj, if you have some questions on how to do specific things with your Harmony let me know. You can ask here or in the remote area of the forum many will help to get you where you need to be. When it's finally tweaked right you will seldomly need to go into devices (rather).

I'm pretty proficient with my Harmony and I'm just getting the 1100 which I got for Christmas just right.

This is a perfect example of why I hate their interface. A very experienced user took almost 2 months to program his new remote to his liking. Oman321, I'm not picking on you, I feel the same way. It is really easy to get the harmony to do 85% of what I want in a short amount of time. It is getting it that last 15% which seems to take forever. Also every time I add or remove a component, it is like starting over

Sorry to hijack your thread KJ.

I hear ya guamguam. I have had issues with the way Logitech has been handling their Harmony line, what can I say though it was a gift and overall I love the gift. I will say that I have a very unusual setup and the Mrs. starts going a little stir crazy when she see's that I'm updating things on the remote so I have to do a little bit at a time.

I made a comment to the Mrs. about their commercials how they make seem like your average joe can do it and for the most part they can, but they will never the full functionality out of it unless they dig deep and get support from forums like this one.

Early on I made the mistake of removing a device from a couple of activities 1st and then added a new device and it totally ruined all my settings for those activities and it was like starting over. What I discovered now is that if you add the new device first to your activity and then run thru the wizard and eliminate the functions of the old device it is much better and you can simply delete that device afterwards.

From what I've heard, Logitech customer service is very helpful, they'll even create custom commands for you. Love my Harmony, it does just about everything I throw at it.... Minus putting the seat down.

The Harmony line of remotes is designed to close the gap between the "custom installer programmed remotes" and the "universal" remote that the cable company provides. It does that and does it well. While it has the ability to do many custom functions, that is not its primary intentions. This is why the average Joe can set it up rather quickly and easily. He has 4-5 devices (TV, cable/sat, DVD/BD, AVR, and maybe a game console) and is looking for one remote to handle all those functions and make it easier to control. The interface is made to cater to this group. It is NOT designed for full fledged control and they don't market it that way. You can do a lot with it, but it will take some time to figure out how.

Yes customer support is helpful and polite, but it aint what it used to be. You are now limited to 90 days of support when you buy one of their products, whereas I could talk to someone whenever I had a problem before well after my purchase. After 90 days it is $29.00 to buy a support ticket.

Also tier 1 support is nice and they are usually as helpful as they can possibly be and will add commands and do whatever else they can. If they couldn't handle something and your problem still required further assistance they would transfer you to level 2 support. Now if you need level 2 support, they tell they will call you back. Initially I was told I would get a call back in 24hours, tick, tock, tick, tock. Six days later they finally call me back.

Then the 2nd time I needed a call back from support I requested them to call my cell as I knew they would call while I was at work. Nope they call me at home of course. We exchange a couple of emails, they promise to try me back and never do. Then to add insult to injury, they send one final email saying we haven't heard from you for 120 hours, so we assume your all set....Then they send me a survey of how was their service???

You better believe I responded. I layed out how everything was handled and how I pretty much had to resolve my issues on my own. No, they never replied.

Fair warning about the 900 (& the 1100)kj. It does not do sequences litke the rest of their line up. So if you want to do multi button commands with one press you have to go about it a different way.

So if you want to press play and have the lights turn off or dim & play your movie you will have to teach the remote a new command. If you have a PS3 or Blu ray player I would teach that type of command (Play, pause, stop scenarios) to that device. When you title the command do not use characters such as & or /. This causes the remote to not learn the command even though it says it did.

I title mine "Play lights off" and teach the "play" button to that command. Once it shows in your list of commands, you now have to click custom on the bottom right of that same screen. This will bring you into the RAW mode which makes it easier for the remote to learn multiple button presses. You check off the command in question and to the right of it click learn, then use the original remotes to quckly press play and lights off (or whichever scene you want).

If you don't have the original remotes for something get a cheap $10 learning remote which you can teach from the harmony first. Sometimes the cheap learning remotes can be taught multiple button presses, which can make it easier to teach the harmony.