I like my Harmony 880 remote, but I disagree that it in any way solves problems with devices which don't have discrete on/off codes. It keeps track, but in my experience, often ends up "out-of-sync" with the devices which don't have discrete codes.
Larry
On 6/1/06, radish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jmpage2 Wrote:
> The problem is that even though you can do a discrete on/off sequence
> for the Squeezebox, 90% of components don't have them (like my TV, DVD
> player, Cable Box, etc).
>
> So unfortunately I think most users will resort to leaving everything
> off or on and having a macro just to power their stuff up or down.
That's what makes the Harmony remotes special - it tracks the state of
each component and switches them on and off as needed, whether or not
you have discreet codes. So if I go from Watch TV to Watch DVD it knows
to switch the cable box off and the DVD player on, and flip the inputs
on the video switcher and amp. I don't have discreet codes for any of
those actions, but it knows what to do - and that's without me
programming any macros.
If you DO have discreet codes things can work a little more smoothly
(if a device gets it's state out of sync with what the remote thinks it
is then you can get in a mess) but in 99% of cases it works fine
without.
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