My Rockin' Room - Page 19

Have yourself a Happy New Year Amigo!! See you on the other side.


Seth

I will predict we all go over to Seth's (ohyeah32) house in 2011 and see his new 152" plasma.



Wabo you have a great 1/1/11 and a great 1/11/11 and also a fantastic 11/1/11 and 11/11/11 this year.

Happy New Year Wabo buddy! Hope you are warm in Minnesota! Wishing you and your family all the best in 2011!

I hate when that happens.

I love my harmony. I have the 880 and my wife jokes that it saved our marriage. She would get so angry having to figure out which remote to grab to do things and I only had a fraction of the number you have. I picked mine up used for 25 bucks.

I have Harmony's and they are ok...I find depending on how many things you ask it to do say at start up, they can be slow (i.e.) My wife never holds it steady enough when she uses it, so something doesn't get turned on or set to the right setting...

I just picked up the L5 remote for ipad, ipod touch or iphone(I know you returned your ipad), so for $50 or so it seems kinda cool...you can customize it etc. link


I'll let you know how it works out...

Wabo, why not something like Control 4? It is very affordable with loads of expandibility and completely retrofit.

You can always go nevo

http://www.control4.com/residential/

It is basically a unit with flashers and an internet connection where your components are located. You can use any iDevice as a controller or purchase an HC300 which comes with a remote that has an OLED display on it.

C4 is basically a cost friendly home automation system that can be done a step at a time or just a one room solution.

You won't need your remotes every again!

You don't really have to hold it steady by any means but if you don't have RF you need to aim it in the direction of your equipment for a few seconds depending on how much you need turned on and switched. Like when I hit "Watch Media Center" it turns on my media center, receiver, projector, and switches my receiver to HDMI1 and it takes about 3 seconds to send those commands. Depending on how long your macro is, you might need to aim it for longer but you can't just hit the button and toss the remote back down unless you have everything set up with RF. I've never found it to be an issue. It will be able to control your blinds and lights as well as long as they have remotes. I set mine up to control an oscillating fan one afternoon just to see if it could.

If I were to get that beast of a display into my HT, you guys are most welcome to check it out.

Lol problem is I was using slice bread for a sail and I got hungry. Back to the shop for me remember don't start without me.

Great video waboman after seeing it go universal. Man thats alot of remotes!!

Loved the video amigo!! I've said it before, but everytime I see your setup I am totally wowed! All that McIntosh gear is sweet! And of course we can't leave out the heart of the system, the mighty AVP!

Now about them remotes, you know you almost have as many as I do. I have like 13 of them suckers! Of course the ones I use most often are for the TV, Satellite, AVP, Denon A1UDCI, Denon 2500, Sony CDP-XA20ES, Denon CDR-W1500, and the two Toshiba HD-XA2 HD DVD players.

You gents need one remote to rule them all, one remote to find them one remote to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Very well said Frank.

Hello again my friend,

Check out this site for everything relating to Universal Remotes.

There you could do some research into which brand of universal would work best with your HT system. Of course you would want to find the best brand that will work with the majority of your equipment plus the remote should be able to learn codes from your OEM remotes in case the universal does not have the proper codes.

Or you could just pay me to come and program which ever remote you do purchase.

My vote is for the harmony One.
I've had one for a year and a half and its awesome.
Does everything it's supposed to and very well engineered. It fits your hand perfectly, the buttons have a nice feel to them, and the touch screen is cool. It also has a good strong ir signal.

I'd pick it over the 1100 because you only need opne hand to use it. They have been on sale around the web for as little as $149 lately.

As for your questions, you don't have to hold it that still, you just have to point it at your system untill it is finished sending signals (which can vary in length depending on how many actions you have in a given macro).

Not sure about turning on your amps, mine auto turns on and off when my reciever gets powered on or off. And you wouldn't need any rf unless you are trying to control something that is out of direct line of sight.

+1 on the Harmony One (or the RF version). I used to be a devoted Philips Pronto Remote user, and would custom design the interface for every device, but I really missed having hard buttons for things like numbers and transport controls. It wasn't until the Harmony One that Logitec offered enough customization of their touch screen so I stuck with the touch-screen only Pronto for a while. The harmony isn't perfect, and the RF version can be a bit sluggish on screen changes when changing devices or activities, but overall it does all that I need it to. If you haven't used a modern universal, the biggest gain from making the switch for me is the ability to control devices by activity. Select "Watch TV" on the touch screen, and the volume control buttons control the preamp, the channel +/- buttons and numeric keypad control the satellite receiver, and touch screen buttons can be customized to control the TV functions, or what have you. This way you don't have to be constantly changing to each device's control, which is just about as much of a pain in the arse as picking up a new remote each time.

^^^^^^

x2 Coming from Sony RMA touch screen remotes over the last 12 years, this Harmony One is 100x easier to program and it's activities are dumb proof!

Ok if you don't reveal your choice soon I might just have to post that Anticipation video song by Carly Simon again. Looking forward to the unveiling.