Comments on: Thoughts on Logitech Harmony One universal remote

I recently purchased a Logitech Harmony One universal remote. To my surprise it has solved the "remote juggle" that I used to do by being, well, universal. Here are some thoughts on setting up and using it.

[jskyler]

I have had this remote since it first came out and truly love it. As the reviewer stated, it's the first universal remote that really let me throw the other remotes away!

One comment regarding needing to dig through the menus when something goes "wrong". The remote's Help button actually will help correct problems such as a device failing to power on. What's really amazing is, unlike macros recorded with many other remotes, it does this not by powering everything on and then trying again. It only sends the "power on" or "power off" commands one at a time to each device until you've corrected the problem. So when my DVR doesn't power on, it takes one click of the Help button to get it back. No need to dig through any menus!

Agree on the software application. This is the worst part of the package and hopefully Logitech will upgrade this software soon as it's aesthetically unappealing and also not all that easy to use.

[Renegade Knight]

My Harmony Didn't work. The setup revaled some logic problems that I could not force the simplified interface to correct. The result was I knew before I even used it that it wasn't going to do the job. That said it almost did one job right but it was missing some buttons we used and trying to force it to show me those buttons so it would work right was not easy. About then our DVD player died and the PS3 replacment uses Blue Tooth so all incentive to fixe the button problem, correct the misconfiguration built into how it thinks and make this thing work died. It doesn't work with a PS3 and now it's a POS that had potential but failed to live up to it in the short time it had to impress me before it was rendered obsolete by Bluetooth.

[sactoheath]

I'm glad you enjoyed my video review. Alas, no commission from either company, but hey, I have the remote.

But here's what I'm really looking for from Logitech or any other company. I want a mobile pad that I can push a button on that scans the room I'm in for all electronic devices, then automatically draws the remote for that device on the mobile pad. That would require everything to have bluetooth or RFID or some other technology embedded...but it would take all the USB, download, config out of the picture.