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Re: Home Theater - Programmable remotes

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Originally posted by copper
Just got a new home theater system. Now I have remotes coming out the ying yang...

I have been reading up on the Logitech Harmony programmable remotes. They seem like an excellent tool.

Anyone have experience with them, or comments about them?

Jim
hi Jim,
my now ex-flatmate had a harmony remote and it was brillant. He picked it up on a trip to Dubai.

it plugs into your computer with a USB cable and has drivers for the setup on a cd. you program in your make and model of all your home theatre setup and you're away laughing.

we had it set up with all inputs/ outputs going thru my old kenwood receiver.
for normal tv, press the tv button and: it turned on the tv and switched to 'AV1', turned on the video player, turned on the stereo and set it to 'video 1'
for dvd, press the dvd button: turned on the tv, changed to 'AV2', turned off the video (if not off already), turned on the dvd player and turned on the stereo and changed it to 'Video 3 digital', etc, etc.

i could even program it for simple things like a button to change the stereo to 'monitor' to play my computer through it.
And then when you're all done, 'off' turned off all 4 things at once.

It had an onscreen display with help menu's, etc. man, I miss it!
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