Official Logitech Harmony One thread - Page 296

barrysb is correct, it shows your Yamaha is "On" and which input its supposed to be on, you wouldn't want your receiver to be off yet on the correct input.

What I was getting stuck on is, under both columns I see "Oppo Oppo 93", "Yamaha Yamaha 3800"... etc and wondering why the device name (manufacturer) showed twice. I checked with my 880's setup pages and it's the same there as well. Kind of a useless nit-pick, but thanks guys for the responses.

Next problem: I can't for the life of me remember how to setup an activity for listening to XM Radio. In my latest attempt I used "Listen to FM" as my manual activity selection which worked okay as far as getting my receiver to go to the XM input, but I can't select specific XM radio stations. I think this is because, when I try to setup a custom button for the XM stations, there is no choice for "XM1, XM2... etc. The hard buttons for channel up, down and presetNext, presetPrev and others don't change the XM stations. So my question is, exactly which activity do I need to set up? Letting the s/w Automatically setup the activity didn't give me any way to set XM presets. The Automatic Setup sequence was: "Listen to music" and then I was asked if I use my TV to control the volume, which tells me the s/w was trying to setup the "Digital cable or satellite TV music channels" which is wrong.

Maybe I have to add my XM tuner as a device?

I searched this thread extensively and didn't find the answer.

Sorry it took so long to check back in, but it looks like you came up with a unique solution with the HDMI switch.

Any device you want to control with your remote has to be added to your remote configuration. After the device has been added, test it to make sure the commands work as expected. Then create activities for it and customize the buttons to your liking.

Out of topic but this thread gets a lot of views

I need a power surge protector for my HDTV and other devices including harmony cradle

I need one with 12 outlets

I saw on amazon belkin has one for $20

Can you guys recommend one for me , one thats less than $50


Also is it better to use a big 12 outlet surge or 2 small 8 outlets surge

I guess I'm doing a really bad job of explaining what I'm trying to accomplish. Let me ask it another way: After I press the Play XM activity, my favorite XM channels do not appear on the touch-screen section of the remote. How do I get them to appear? I used the closest activity I could find, which was Listen to FM Radio and then went on to set it up manually.

The equipment involved here is: XM Mini-tuner plugged into XM Home Dock and Yamaha RX-V3800 XM ready receiver. There are no controls, buttons...etc on the Mini-tuner which means the receiver controls which XM stations will be played.

Why don't you call Logitech and ask them for help if you're still in the warranty period, They're very good. Or try their forum.

Anyone here with a Vizio M420nv television who can help me with H1 setup? How did you handle that the H1 software does not have a choice for Hdmi3 for this TV? I added it in the list of available inputs, but when choosing the input it will go to Hdmi3 is not a choice. The H1 would work perfectly except for this problem. Help please.

Tommy

Is anybody using a powermid with the harmony one

How does it work, is it the best ir extender ?

Works fine. It's certainly one of the cheapest. I'd say one of the "best" is probably Hot Link Pro. Logitech would say their own Harmony IR Extender is the best.

So which of these is the one i need to buy?

http://amzn.com/B00023KG4U

http://amzn.com/B00023KG40

http://amzn.com/B004KNOH8O

The middle one includes both transmitter and receiver and is a bit cheaper with shipping than the last one. Buy the top one in addition to the set if you have more than one room you need your remote to work from.

So with the middle one

I just put one pyramid in the cabinet where the tv & other devices are and the other pyramid somewhere in the same room?

Do i need to add the pyramid in the harmony software


Does the pyramid have to be in front of the devices or can i put in the back of the tv shelf

No, you don't add it to the harmony software. It would be helpful to know what you are trying to accomplish. Think of the pyramid as a lamp whose IR "light" must fall on your devices. So no, it cannot be hidden away. Also, the receiving pyramid must be line-of-sight with your remote. Think of your remote as a flashlight which you must shine on the receiving pyramid.

Well all of my tv devices are on the bottom shelf , there not close doors but the bottom shelf os below sitting level, way low

So sometimes when i press a button nothing happens, this gets annoying only when im using activities and have to use the help button

I would like to not have to point the remote at the devices

$30 seems worth it to me

So with this pyramid i shoould put the antenna one in front of the devices? Thats easy ill just push them back in the shelf


Now the other pyramid where should i put this one anywhere in the room ?
Its for the same room

Put the other one where you're likely to be aiming most of the time. It can probably pick up fairly well from wide angles, but you'll have to experiment. The arrangement of the IR LEDs on the One gives it a pretty broad beam. I think the powermid also comes with a small blaster, so depending on the coverage, you may be able to get by with just that.

I posted my predicament on their forum and got some help from someone who mentioned that whatever I was able to do with my 880 I can do with the H1, so there's hope. I'm well within the phone support window, so I think a phone call is in the near future.

I know that I can't use the Watch TV activity since I receive the XM stations through its own tuner and antenna, so I can only use the "customize buttons" option as opposed to setting up "Favorite channels..."

Is there a way to shorten the time when the remote turns on the devices to when it stops sending and you can use to to change the channels or anything else. Regardless of what delay settings I use it takes what seems like 2 minutes for the remote to stop sending and allow me to control the TV and other devices. Turning on the TV takes 5 minutes, about 1.5 minutes for the TV and receiver to turn on and then 3.5 minutes for the remote to finish the start up procedures and allow me to use it.

When I power off the system after watching a Bluray and in the Morning or the next time I turn on the TV and press the Watch TV activity it turns on the Bluray. I've checked the settings several times and I do not see what I did wrong. If I just press Watch TV any other time everything starts up correctly. Any suggestions?

Something is incorrectly configured. Does this happen with all activities? It sounds like you have duplicate commands defined as part of the power on stage.

Use the software, select an activity and click on Troubleshoot and see if the settings seem correct.

Look for a system setting in the Bluray player an TV related to HDMI control and turn it off. When the setting is on, turning on the device will cause other HDMI connected devices to also turn on.

Heres a tip/trick whatever

If you have a cable box from comcast or another cable box provider

Now heres how you can skip all the commercials from a show your watching just by pressing one button on the harmony one

Comcast has the 30 second skip button but thats not enough, you have to press it a few times to skip all the commercials

Now you can add the 30 second skip forward as a sequence on the harmony but the limit of sequences is 5

So my fuzzy math tells me 5 30 second skips is 2 minutes & 30 seconds

And thats not enough, i think 8 30 second skip forwards is perfect , it usually 90% of the time lands right where the show continuous

To get 8 sequences in harmony, you have to learn the 30 second skip forward raw
So you need the original comcast remote

When your learning the 30skipforward button raw , you have to press the button twice very fast , so that it will register twice if you press the button on the harmony

Now after learning the button raw

Go create a sequence and add the new created 60 second skipforward button four times

And thats it , like i said most commercial breaks usually last four minutes, if you skipforward too much use the 15 second skipback that comcast provides

If you dont know how to create a sequence on the harmony one google it


Another one i added

Mydvr

Usually if you press mydvr button on the comcast remote it takes you to a menu and not your recorded shows

So if you want to go straight to your recordings

Create a sequence like this

Comcast / mydvr
Comcast / select



And use the menu button on the harmony one

Add the original menu button options to the touch screen menu

Hopefully i didn't miss anything

Got a new one recently and I'm having to charge it every 2 days or so. Doesn't sound normal.
Or is it?
What's you guys experience?

how often do you use it? Sync-ing with PC drains the battery a lot. For my personal regular day-to-day usage, it takes about 4 days (involving watching 8 movies) for the battery to drain. I don't change my volume up or down once the movie started though.

I know what you mean. My 880 did the same tasks and the change lasted well over a week. Now, 2 days.

With typical use mine usually goes a week between the charges. The worst case I had was 5 days. When I'm programming it, though, it drains the battery very fast! I had to charge it twice one Sunday when I was trying a lot of things!

If anybody needs a backup/spare harmony remote

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...bles-_-na-_-na

No screen & only controls 4 devices

Only $16

Silly question but the people who dont charge there remote every-night

Do you leave the charging cradle plugged in all those days?

And i dont see a switch to turn the light off

My charging cradle is not connected to the mains when not charging the remote