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post #9871 of 10744
3/24/12 at 11:52am
Best way to control a PS3, Logitech adapter? If so, what kind of price should i expect?
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post #9872 of 10744
3/24/12 at 11:59am
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Best way to control a PS3, Logitech adapter? If so, what kind of price should i expect?

Yes, $50.
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post #9873 of 10744
3/24/12 at 12:03pm
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Best way to control a PS3, Logitech adapter? If so, what kind of price should i expect?

I've been using the Logitech adapter for a year now. No regrets!
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post #9874 of 10744
3/25/12 at 10:19am
Anyone notice the slow loading of everything Logitech? I added some functionality to an activity and it needed two efforts to work. Also, tried to set up a slideshow and that's not working at all.
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post #9875 of 10744
3/25/12 at 12:40pm
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1398964

Looks cool. But no physical buttons next to the LCD display for the programmable "soft button" functions. That's my one main gripe with the H1. Hard to tell which soft button you're selecting when holding the remote at arm's length pointed horizontally at your equipment.
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post #9876 of 10744
3/25/12 at 1:23pm
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Looks cool. But no physical buttons next to the LCD display for the programmable "soft button" functions. That's my one main gripe with the H1. Hard to tell which soft button you're selecting when holding the remote at arm's length pointed horizontally at your equipment.

You shouldn't have to hold it horizontally. Mine works fine vertically.
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post #9877 of 10744
3/25/12 at 2:05pm
Wow, you guys were dead right, I've noticed a drop in the sensitivity and response time where even without changing the sensitivity of the screen from medium, it seems the remote takes a little more movement to wake it up!
Hmm... Do I get a swollen battery next as part of the overall experience???
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post #9878 of 10744
3/25/12 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by badgerpilot View Post


You shouldn't have to hold it horizontally. Mine works fine vertically.

Trying that now - thanks.

I have had some difficulties controlling devices in the past, especially a cable STB that lies on the floor *under* a cabinet.

If anything it seems to work *better* vertically so far. Thanks again.
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post #9879 of 10744
3/25/12 at 4:34pm
Wow. trying to update the One, it seems Logitech has some issues again... I'm guessing their bandwidth is about 3. Not 3Kbps, just the number 3.
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post #9880 of 10744
3/25/12 at 6:08pm
Got my One remote and I can not get the OK button to work on my u-verse box. I even tried to learn and it still doesn't work. Any ideas?
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post #9881 of 10744
3/26/12 at 12:09pm
Noobish question here. I just got the Harmony One yesterday, and spent 90% of my time with it simply trying to get it to update its settings -- I was getting very inconsistent behavior with the Logitech configuration software, I believe due to their servers having issues.

Anyhow, in the 10 minutes or so I actually was able to play with it, I found it to behave as expected with one big exception. When I run one of the activity options I'd set up, I noticed that the physical buttons on the remote didn't control the device I expected them to based on the activity in question. Example: When I select the "Watch a DVD" activity, everything was set up and switched over as expected, but as soon as the DVD (BD) player was on and my TV and AVR were set to the correct inputs, I was expecting the physical buttons to control my BD/DVD player, but they didn't. When I select the "Watch TV" activity, I want the physical buttons to control my Satellite DVR box once the inputs are all switched. As it is now, I have to go to the touch screen and select the device I want after the activity has completed. This seems unnecessary to me. How can this be configured in the Activities to behave the way I'm describing?

Thanks.
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post #9882 of 10744
3/26/12 at 12:14pm
Customize your activities and map the physical and LCD buttons to any devices/commands you want. You may want to first run the setup wizard again and confirm you answered all the questions correctly. You are correct that you shouldn't need to use device mode.
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post #9883 of 10744
3/26/12 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by mdavej View Post

Customize your activities and map the physical and LCD buttons to any devices/commands you want. You may want to first run the setup wizard again and confirm you answered all the questions correctly. You are correct that you shouldn't need to use device mode.

I get it now. Thanks, mdavej. There is simply too much control with this thing!
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post #9884 of 10744
3/26/12 at 6:34pm
I have the Harmony One and use it with my DirecTv DVR. The DVR got a software upgrade a few months back and since then the remote started doing something annoying that it hadn't done before. When I am on the List of recorded shows that I could watch and some other show (or live TV) is playing in the small window and I hit "pause" to pause the window show, it doesn't pause it, it starts playing whatever show I had highlighted in the list. This is new behavior since the upgrade.

I figured that if I plugged my remote in and updated it through the Harmony software, the problem would be solved. Finally got around to that today and it wasn't solved. Is anyone else experiencing this or have any guidance for me?
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post #9885 of 10744
3/26/12 at 6:38pm
It's not your remote. DirecTV removed that functionality in the last update. You'll notice your original remote behaves the same way. Thank DirecTV for that. They must have hired Logitech's former "VP of awesome feature removal for no apparent reason". Seems to be a trend with a lot of companies these days.
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post #9886 of 10744
3/26/12 at 11:24pm
Just learning the ins and outs of my remote. I have one quick question.

My Onkyo receiver has only 5 HDMI inputs, while I have 6 sources. My short term solution is a 5x1 monoprice switcher. So I'll have 2 sources coming from the monoprice going to 1 onkyo input.

If I select a source on the harmony, will it switch both the monoprice switcher and select the proper onkyo source with one button press?
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post #9887 of 10744
3/27/12 at 5:39am
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Just learning the ins and outs of my remote. I have one quick question.

My Onkyo receiver has only 5 HDMI inputs, while I have 6 sources. My short term solution is a 5x1 monoprice switcher. So I'll have 2 sources coming from the monoprice going to 1 onkyo input.

If I select a source on the harmony, will it switch both the monoprice switcher and select the proper onkyo source with one button press?

Add the switcher as a device, then manually add it to all of your activities that require it. Finally, rerun the wizard for each activity. The wizard will ask you what input the switcher needs to be set to for each activity. Once configured, the remote will automatically keep track of the switcher for you.
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post #9888 of 10744
3/27/12 at 11:20am
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Originally Posted by mdavej View Post

It's not your remote. DirecTV removed that functionality in the last update. You'll notice your original remote behaves the same way. Thank DirecTV for that. They must have hired Logitech's former "VP of awesome feature removal for no apparent reason". Seems to be a trend with a lot of companies these days.

Oh, heck. Thanks. I didn't think to check the original remote.
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post #9889 of 10744
3/27/12 at 11:59am
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Originally Posted by mdavej View Post

It's not your remote. DirecTV removed that functionality in the last update. You'll notice your original remote behaves the same way. Thank DirecTV for that. They must have hired Logitech's former "VP of awesome feature removal for no apparent reason". Seems to be a trend with a lot of companies these days.

I think the words you are looking for are "feature enhancement"
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post #9890 of 10744
3/27/12 at 8:52pm
In automotive jargon it is known as "decontenting."
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post #9891 of 10744
3/29/12 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by oman321 View Post

OK, I'll explain further since you keep it on the same input.

You'll need to set the tv device up again. A couple clicks into setting up the tv device the software will ask you how you select inputs. You will need to select the option that says I press a button to bring up the menus and then scroll to select input. Option 3 I believe.

The next screen should then list the inputs, which you will need to re-name to match all of your available scenes.

The next screen should ask if your device skips unused inputs, say no.

The next screen is where you instruct the button presses you need:

Option 1: Remote button displays source inputs menu

Select command that brings up the scene menu

Option 2: Remote button cycles through source inputs

Button that moves you from one item to the next, probably down

Options 3: Remote button confirms the source input

Button that selects scene, ok or enter perhaps.

Next screen should be no

Then the next selection should be
Stays on whatever it was on when it was turned off.

After this it should be whatever your tv is setup as. Continue to go thru the wizard and finish the setup.

You then need to redo your activities, to have the input selection on each activity be the scene selection instead. So you will indicate that you do switch inputs when going thru the activity, this should now be your scene selections.

When you switch activities the harmony will believe it is switching your inputs and keep track of the last input/scene the tv was on and will change accordingly when switching activities.

This makes sense in my mind and should hopefully work out for you. Let me know if you try it and how you make out. We can go from there.

Hi oman, tried this out and it ALMOST works but it seems to get confused on what scene to actually go to, based on if I switch to/from various combos of TV, XBox and Blu ray.

In other words, I don't think it's actually looking for scene "Cinema" when I change activities to Blu ray, I think it's just doing a calculated number of "press down" based on where it THINKS the scene is currently on.

Making progress though, I'll keep messing around with it. Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

Again thank you so much for taking the time to provide such detailed help!
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post #9892 of 10744
3/29/12 at 3:10pm
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In other words, I don't think it's actually looking for scene "Cinema" when I change activities to Blu ray, I think it's just doing a calculated number of "press down" based on where it THINKS the scene is currently on.

Cool, glad your giving it a whirl... Yes, that should be how it is treating it. Lets just imagine that these are still your inputs. The harmony will know if you left you tv on input 1 or input 2 or 3. Unless of course you indicate in the software that the tv always starts with input 1.

If your tv remembers what mode it's on and you have told the software that it remembers the last input it was on, then yes the harmony should be bringing up the menu and trying to cycle down the number of presses needed to get to the mode you want.

If the menu pops up and the first option is cinema and always starts with cinema then you need to indicate that tv doesn't remember the last input and that it will always default to a particular input. You would indicate cinema as the input it starts off with.

Hope this helps and that im not starting to confuse ya.
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post #9893 of 10744
4/4/12 at 5:19pm
has anyone programmed their h1 to fast forward/rewind a ripped movie playing on their xbox360 using WMC. I have an original media center remote and even that will only advance the movie 30 seconds when skip is pressed and the ff/rewind buttons do nothing. if so how is it done
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post #9894 of 10744
4/12/12 at 11:53am
Hi i'm new here and hoping someone can help me. I've been trying to set up my new harmony one remote to work with my devices but having a problem. I've set my htpc up and i have an activity called XBMC. My tv turns to right input, my av reciever turns on and selects right input and htpc turns on, that all goes the way it should but when i want to shut down my htpc i press watch tv, the htpc, av reciever shut off and my tv turns to my tv input but i xbox 360 turns on for no reason. My 360 is in no way associated with my htpc activity. My 360 has its own activity, anyone understand why this would happen.




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post #9895 of 10744
4/12/12 at 12:25pm
I think "All Other Devices are Off" is the culprit. Choose Help the next time it happens until the Xbox goes back off. That should get the power toggle back in sync (until you turn on your xbox manually). The permanent fix would be to run the Xbox device setup and change the power options and choose something like this device has separate commands for on and off. If it's missing power on and power off, then delete the xbox device and add it back. The latest profile should have those discrete commands. Failing that, you'll just have to remember never to turn your xbox on or off with anything besides harmony. And if you do, you'll have to recover with the Help button.
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post #9896 of 10744
4/12/12 at 1:42pm
Well i choose help and that did not help one bit, so i removed my 360 in reinstalled but i can't see in Xbox device setup to change the power options to choose this device to have a separate commands for on and off.

When i turn my htpc system on via activity on the lcd screen the 360 does not turn on but when i shut the htpc down the 360 turns on. Its doing my head lol.
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post #9897 of 10744
4/12/12 at 2:09pm
IIRC, you pick the device, more options, adjust power settings, next, then you have a choice of one button for on and another for off. At that point pick power on and off.

You could also choose to the option of leaving it on all the time or saying it doesn't have power buttons. That would solve the current problem, but then you'd have to turn it on and off manually from now on.
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post #9898 of 10744
4/13/12 at 1:37am
I've picked the xbox360 device, clicked more options, clicked adjust power settings and clicked next but i don't see any option that tells me that i have a choice of one button for on and another for off. At that point pick power on and off as seen on the pic below.



I selected the option saying it doesn't have power buttons and solve that problem but as you said i have to turn it on and off manually from now on. Not what i really wanted but if thats my only option then i'll have to power it on manually.

While i'm here i've got afew other things i need sorting.

1. When i pressed an activity to change to a different device, lets say from watching tv to playing xbox the tv would turn off. Well i then told my tv in the settings to always stay on and that solved that problem. When i wanted to go out i'd press the watch tv activity to go back to my tv and virgin hd box and then i went to press the power button on the top of the harmony one remote but the tv don't power off. To power off i had to select power off on the touch screen. How do i bind the off to the power button on the remote.

My other problem is when i'm on my htpc in xbmc software i would click down a 2-3 times in a row to cycle down the menu but even after i stopped pressing the down it would keep moving down the menu like its having a delayed response. I'm new to this and never used a universal remote before.
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post #9899 of 10744
4/13/12 at 3:16am
I would like to control my Denon pma 1510 stereo amplifier with H1+. I will need to change inputs when choosing different activities and I am not sure whether it is able to do what I need. Input selector is digital, but inputs do not have they dedicated buttons on remote, there are only UP and DUWN buttons on the original remote and you can cycle through inputs. Thing is how will H1 know the current position? Meaning when changing to TUNER input, you can not just program it to go UP, because it depends whether current possition is LINE or CD. So question is when you programming H1 can you tell it to go to TUNER DOWN if it is on CD , and go UP if it is no LINE1? And if I change inputs directly on my amplifier by hand, I suppose H1 will have absolutely no clue what input is selected. And therefore it will not know by how many inputs it has to go UP or DOWN to select desired input. Or does it work some other way?
thank you.

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post #9900 of 10744
4/13/12 at 7:50am
Harmony can handle several input methods, including the one you describe (probably method 1 or 3 based on your description). It will remember the last selection and hence know how many ups/downs to go to the desired input. HERE is a little more info on harmony input methods.

Since you have an H1+, there are at least to ways to program it, via the myharmony.com website or via the 7.7 standalone software. I strongly recommend the latter due to many more advanced capabilities, including the ability to tweak the input methods.

Denon usually has discrete input codes even though they may not exist on the remote. However, in this case, those commands, if they exist, aren't in the harmony database.
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