Logitech Harmony 650 Remote (Silver)
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Manufacturer: LogitechRelease Date: 2011-03-24
Model: 915-000114
Color: Silver
Product features:
- Replaces up to 5 other remotes, reducing complexity and clutter in your living room.
- Supports 5000+ brands, including devices you own today and add tomorrow.
- Simple online setup using your PC, live customer support available.
- Bright color screen shows your favorite-channel icons plus commands for easy navigation.
- One-click activity buttons like "Watch a DVD" automatically switch the right devices to the right settings.
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Customer Review: Great remote, compared to Harmony One, a few other notes, using with PS3
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the important info about this remote is out there, I just want to contribute a few notes:
-For those comparing this remote to the higher-end ones (particularly the Harmony One): The Harmony One looks nicer (though is a fingerprint magnet), is rechargeable when left in its cradle (the 650 uses disposable or possibly separately rechargeable AAs), and controls up to 15 components/devices while the 650 controls only 5. That's it. Really. To me, the recharging is a hassle and needing to leave the remote in its cradle, which takes up space somewhere, is annoying (also, if the cradle goes kaput, as it seems some people's have, your remote will die and you're in real trouble without a way to recharge it). And I don't have that many devices. So the 650 is perfect and I lose NOTHING - really. I know that's hard to swallow for those who want the best and sleekest of everything, but you may TRULY not need it here and, if you agree with me about the recharging hassle - and risk! - the Harmony One is actually a "downgrade". Really.
-Then, just to be clear and succinct about what you can do with this remote: The remote has many physical buttons and then has fully customizable "buttons"/commands that you can set to come up on the color LCD. Every single one of these buttons, physical and not, is very nearly completely customizable (e.g. if you wanted, the "fast forward" button on the remote could instead eject your CD/DVD). Both what a button does and which of your components each individual button will talk to can change depending on what "activity" you're doing (e.g. "watching a movie", "playing music") - thus all the buttons are in a sense *contextual* (e.g. if you wanted that "fast forward" button to eject a DVD when you're "watching movies", you could still set it to fast forward music when you're "listening to a CD", whereas if you always want the "channel up" button to turn the channel on your TV, you can have it do so regardless of the activity).
-I found the software to have a slight learning curve, but it didn't take me long to figure it out - I don't think you need to be particularly "computer literate" at all to use it, contrary to another reviewer - and, on reflection, it's hard to imagine a better way for it to be set up. When you're using the software, just think to yourself "Assume everything about this remote is completely customizable. If I wanted to change what the "menu" button does when I'm playing on my XBox, where would I go to change that? If I wanted to change how long the backlight stays on on the remote, where would I change that?" and, trust me, you'll find what you need in short order.
Finally, two technical notes:
-I have over-the-air television (i.e. I use an antenna, do not pay for cable) and, on my TV, the new digital (often HD) channels are designated as e.g. 5-1, 5-2, 11-1, 28-3, etc. (on some TVs it's "5.1", "28.3", etc.). I wanted to use the Harmony 650's "favorite channels" feature (in which, when you start the "watch TV" activity, the LCD screen displays color icons of your favorite channels so that you can go to any of them with the press of one button - to access this feature, click on "settings" on the "watch TV" activity set up window). However, when setting that up, the software did not recognize "-" or "." as valid parts of a channel number. After some searching online, I found the remedy for this. On my original remote, you created the "-" when entering a channel you wanted by pushing a certain button. All I had to do was teach the Harmony a new command, which I called "-", by clicking on "customize buttons" and then on "learn command", and then lining up the front of my old remote with the back end of the Harmony, and then pushing the appropriate button on my old remote. If that sounds hard, trust me it really isn't. Then I entered the favorite channels as "5-1" etc. and had no problems.
-I also use the remote with an adapter to control my Playstation 3, and this leads to a possibly unique issue. The remote and adapter work just fine together, but deciding what you want the customizable commands on the LCD screen to be is then a little challenging, since the buttons on a PS3 controller are themselves contextual depending on what you're doing. E.g. When listening to music, the "square" button changes the on-screen visualization of the music, but when doing something else (e.g. playing a game) the square button does something else entirely. Yet, I want to set up the remote so that someone unfamiliar with the PS3 controller can still change the music visualization if they want, without having to know that it's the "square" button that does that. So, I set up a user-friendly command on the LCD called "change visualization" and instructed the Harmony send the "square" command when that button is pressed. Great. However, for the times when *I'm* using the remote, I also wanted to have a command on the LCD for just the plain old "square" - since I know what it does in different contexts on the PS3. But when I tried setting these up and syncing the remote with the new customizations, I'd always lose some of these commands - some of the spots on the LCD where I knew I put commands were just blank. So I figured it out:
***Within one activity, you can't have two customized "buttons" on the LCD send the same *actual command* to the same component.***
Nevertheless, that may not pose a problem to anyone else since, as I explained, the PS3 buttons are themselves contextual, but the buttons and the commands they send on a typical remote aren't (e.g. the "menu" button always brings up the menu, nothing else). Therefore, outside of the PS3, I don't know how likely it is that you'd ever want to have two different customized buttons on the LCD sending identical commands to the same device.
Hope all of that helps!
Description of Logitech Harmony 650 Remote (Silver)
Logitech Harmony 650 Remote is the remote that?s simple to set up and use. Its color screen shows the commands you need for the devices you?re using, and can even provide help if you need it.Digital Cameras and Photo Categories
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