Official Logitech Harmony One thread - Page 79

How do I leave a device on when I go away from it, but still turn it off when I hit the power to turn everything off?

There's probably a more elegant solution, but maybe you could have it "on" in every activity--or at least in the ones you want to leave it on for?

Under "Activity options" for the Activity you are switching TO, change "Turn off unused devices" to "Leave On"

Thanks for all answers to my newbie question before.

I have one more question:

I've watched a demo from Logitech of the "Watch DVD" activity and they conveniently left out the part where you have to insert the DVD into the player.
I also found a post from Logitech forum saying like: put the DVD into the player, turn it off then launch the "Watch DVD" activity.

Is this really what everybody does?

I launch the Watch DVD activity then put the DVD into the player.

Don't know what you mean by "conveniently left out"?

You can set it up any way you want. You could have the activity not turn on the DVD player at all. (Awaiting you to inset a DVD>) Or you could set the activity to turn on thre DVD player and automatically send the Play command. (Thus resuming or starting an already inserted DVD.)

I'm sure other possibilities could be suggested depending on the specific DVD Player. I don't think Logitech could possibly cover all possible "Watch DVD" scenarios in one demo. Of course anyone watching the demo would need to recognize that at some point in time a human had to put the DVD in the player. lol

I use my PS3 as a DVD/BD player. Currently I am unable to turn my PS3 On or Off with IR. This due to the fact that the normal method of controlling the PS3 is Blu-tooth. (Soon to change this On/Off deficiency.)

Not sure what you mean. Here's what I do to watch a DVD/Blu-Ray. With all equipment turned off I push the watch Blu-Ray activity button. My system turns on, the tray ejects, I put in the DVD/BD and push the eject button (to load the disc) on my player then enjoy the movie.

My Blu-Ray player doesn't have arms or legs, so a human must insert the disc.

My H-One made me blueberry pancakes this morning.

So that's what you call your spouse? Which one is better looking? The H-One is pretty sexy. LOL

Yeah, I really know how to push her buttons.

[sorry]

My point is that I expect to be able to create an activity to do the followings:

Turn on the DVD player
Turn on the TV
Switch TV input to DVD
Turn on the AV receiver
Switch AV receiver input to DVD
Eject DVD tray
Wait 15 sec (for me to insert DVD disc)
Close DVD tray
Play the DVD

Based on everyone's response, I guess the activity macro cannot do that??

Should be able to do that. Are you saying pushing the play button yourself is a hardship?

+1

On my BD player once you push the open/close button it will automatically start playing the disc. So to watch a movie, I follow these *labor intensive* steps:

1) Push Watch Blu-Ray on H1
2) Wait for equipment to power up (TV, receiver, BD player, switch inputs, etc.) and tray to open.
3) Set disc into player tray
4) Push open/close button on player
5) Enjoy movie

Step 4 is too much to handle? Then just push the tray close..most players will accept that method too. Personally, I would NOT want the H1 to just wait 15 seconds then close the tray. What if you get interrupted? What if you can't decide what disc you want to play in 15 seconds? What if you don't keep the remote aimed at the equipment? Seems like many pitfalls for zero gain.

If you can't get up the energy to push the open/close button on your DVD player, then maybe you should reconsider watching a movie at all..it can be an exhausting experience. Popping the popcorn, getting sodas or candy is even more work! OMG! No more movies for me!

With the mounting pressure my nerves would be shot after 15 seconds.

Iwas hoping there was a better way. It seem like it would be nice instead of going into every activity, being able to select devices you wanted to leave on, but still shut off at the end of the day.

You guys are BRUTAL!

To be honest, I enjoy hitting buttons that's why on my first post I asked if H1 gives me access to all buttons.

But I thought the whole point of using activity based remote like H1 was to be lazy, isn't that why you guys like it ?

Again, thanks for all the feedback.

Yep, I've given up hope that they will ever arrive for my S2ST Tivo as Harmony seems to have only given certain TiVo boxes the thumbs icons.

Hi all,

I recently purchased a Harmony One remote control. Setup was rather easy. I'm using it to control my Panasonic TX-32LX70F television. I created activities to watch tv and dvd's...these work fine...the control turns on my tv, receiver and satellite receiver/dvd and switches the devices to the correct input.

When trying to control my tv individually, I noticed that I'm not able to switch it on or off, using the Harmony. On the original remote, I usually have to press the power button for a number of seconds before the tv switches on. I've read through this forum and some others as well. Apparently, this is a common issue with Panasonic televisions and I could ask Logitech support to add a power duration for my device.

I checked the settings in the Harmony software and noticed that this duration setting is already available for my tv. Duration for power on and off was set to 2000 ms. I increased this to 5000 (max setting), but this didn't resolve my issue. Strange thing is that when I use the activities, the remote is able to switch my television on and off...could it be that the remote uses different commands for the activity than for the individual control of the device?

I'd sure appreciate some help from you guys!

Cheers,
Joris

It looks like your choices in device mode are "power on", "power off" and "power toggle"? Have you tried all three? If the TV is powering on properly in Activity mode, you shouldn't be having this problem.

Have you tried "more options"--->"adjust power settings"?

Joris,

I'm likely confused, but is it possible that what you refer to as "duration" is actually "delay?"

Joris,

I'm making a large assumption here that your Panasonic LCD will have similar IR commands to the UK plasma 70 series which I own.

Powering on my plasma is the same - you need to hold the power toggle on the remote for about a second. The harmony remote only sends a short command so it doesn't power on.

There are discrete Power On and Power Off commands in the harmony database that work fine for my TV and someone has mentioned that they are in the DB for your model. Again the harmony only sends a short command but the TV reacts to these fine.

You mentioned that asking H1 support for a duration. This is a fix that other UK owners have mentioned in the past. The duration you need adding to the power toggle is the duration of the command being sent and only support can alter this. The power delay setting in the software is an amount of time after the power command has been sent before the TV has come on and is ready to receive more commands. I think you're altering this delay which is why it's not doing anything.

You could try learning the power toggle command in RAW mode as this will learn longer commands.

Also you mention that when you are watching TV only you aren't using an activity. It would be worth setting an activity up for this and only including the TV device in that activity. Ideally anything you do, you do via an activity.

Finally when you say the TV won't power on/off when in device mode, are you pressing the power button on the top left of the remote? If so then that may be the problem. The power button on a Harmony remote is specifcally to power off all devices used in the current activity. To power the TV on/off in device mode you would need to have the power toggle or the separate power on / off commands assigned to a soft button on the LCD screen and use that.

Hope some of this helps

Phil

Thanks to all for your suggestions!

The good news is that I managed to get it working somehow. The last thing I changed was the number of retries and I hope this may have done the trick. It was mentioned as a suggestion somewhere in the help pages as a solution for problems when a device isn't responding correctly to a command.

Some responses to your questions:

- cherry ghost: I do have all three options and tried all three of them, but non worked. I noticed the power indicator on the tv flickered a couple of times, but it didn't wake up. I did mess around quite a bit with the power settings. That's where I noticed an option to enter a "Power Duration". That was set to 2000 ms for both PowerOn and PowerOff. Changing this didn't seem to affect anything.

- SaltiDawg: I'm actually referring to Duration and not Delay...I went to some other screens where I could change delays, but as I gathered from a number of forums...that's not the place to be, so I left those values unchanged.

- Phil: I wasn't pressing the button at the top left of the remote. I did mess about trying to learn the command to the remote, but all to no avail. The software clearly mentions Power Duration and not delay...delay settings were located on another screen.

Main thing is that it's working now! I still need some time to get used to all of this, but I'm pretty happy with my purchase...The remote has a good look-and-feel to it and seems to be able to control all of my devices. Now it's just a matter of setting up the right activities for the stuff I usually do. Meanwhile, I'm also messing about with an MCE remote to control my HTPC (MediaPortal). Once that's set up, I will also replace this with the Harmony.

Thanks again for your help!

Cheers,
Joris

Is it common for these H1's to all of a sudden mess up?
Ours has been working perfectly for over a month since we first got it.

Last night, my husband pressed the info button to see what he was watching, and the screen turned to component 2. He couldn't get back to HDMI 1, which is how the TV is connected and set up to do.

He did wind up getting it back after a while, but is it common for something like this to happen?

This thing is amazing, I have only got to use it sparingly since I got it on friday, but wow. It is way better then I thought it would be, and I even had high expectations. The graphics from the 1st pages link are sweet too. My g/f thinks I went over the top with this, but that's just because she can't get over the fact that there is a touch screen, lol.

It was so easy to set up too, I was very surprised. I read a bunch of reviews and how so many people had so much trouble setting the remote up, but I can't see how. It gives you a step by step guide.

This remote is just so awesome!

I just pulled the trigger on the Harmony One tonight. Hopefully I should have it by the end of the week. I will be using it with my Sony KDS60A3000, HK 254 AVR, SA 8300 HDDVR and possibly my PS3 through one of the available options. I can't wait to get it and get started. Its just too complicated when my wife has to call me so she and her friends can play rock band when I am not there. Hopefully this will make it all easy. Anyways I will probably be back to ask questions soon.

For some reason I can't get my SA 8300 HDDVR to turn on as an activity.

I've tried having it set to turn on before, and after the tv

I've tried adjust the repeat I guess, from 2-5

I've also tried to adjust the other delay option from 3000 to 5000 MS

The power toggle button works fine, and using help fixes the problem, I assume it's a delay problem but I can't get it to turn on or off as an activity.

I also tried adding the power option under activities for the PVR since it was missing, I also tried searching the the PVR a couple of different ways when adding it.

I'm assuming it must be one of the settings on the page with something like four different delays, can anyone recommend delay times for each?

Can you get this remote to do picture in picture, or like my Grand Wega has split screen?

I've been contemplating on it but dont want to lose my split picture.