I have the harmony 880 upstairs and an MX downstairs. The harmony is colorful and my wife pretty much knows how to use it. However, the MX is much more straightforward.
The harmony is convoluted and complicated. They try to force you to use "activities" which work great when you start from scratch, but if you want to go from watching a DVD to listening to SB or something like going from listening to SB to watching cable TV, you are pretty screwed. MX has a "punchthrough" functionality which means you can use your volume buttons to control the amp when you have SB active. Very intuitive. The harmony only lets you do this when you are in "activity" mode. To get into activity mode, an on/off macro goes off, so if everything isn't off, then you are all messed up. So... on the harmony, i reprogrammed certain functions with "ir learn" to control things in normal "device mode" the way i want them controlled. If I had known i would need to jump through these hoops, I would have purchased a second MX. Now my wife is pretty good with what I have programmed into the harmony. however, she picks up the SB stock controller to adjust the music. I think this is interesting b/c she hates all the remotes and favors the universal. Also b/c she will only use what is easiest. Another note - on the harmony, why are things like "power toggle" for the SB on page 3 of the LCD? This is absurd for logitech to be so moronic. I probably need to get back in there and do some more reprogramming, but it is kind of like cleaning your closet... -- roll - gybe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ roll - gybe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8975 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52757 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
