I'll second this. I have a Harmony 880 and I love it. Even my wife's
grandmother can use it. If it ever gets in a strange state where the
remote is confused as to the status of the whole system just hit the "off"
button and start from scratch.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff Allison wrote:
> On 11/14/2008 10:10 AM, Mike DiTullio wrote:
>
> In answer to the original post, I have a Harmony One and it works great
> with my setup, including the TiVO.
>
> Re the comments below, yes, the Harmony needs to know what state your
> devices are in. This is the tradeoff for an activity-based remote. For
> me it's well worth it. I'd much rather press "Watch TiVO" and have
> everything come on and be set to the proper inputs than have to power on
> the TV, power on the receiver, set the receiver to the TiVO intput, and
> press the TiVO button. This happens with one press with the Harmony. If
> your devices do get out of sync you just press "Help" and the remote
> will sort through the devices and get things back in sync.
>
> If you are in the habit of manually controlling devices, an
> activity-based remote is probably not a good solution. My devices are in
> a cabinet, so I use the remote 99.9% of the time. Works great for me.
>
> - Jeff
>
>> I bought one and returned it because for it to work the Harmony has to be
>> the ONLY remote you EVER use. I can't stress EVER enough. You can't use the
>> oem remotes in combo and you can't walk up to your receiver and turn it on
>> manually. The Harmony has to be use for every single function because the
>> only way it can work is if it knows the state of every single item in your
>> entertainment system. So if you manually turn on your receiver to listen to
>> music when you go to use the Harmony it assumes that all components are in
>> the state it (the harmony) left them. It doesn't know your receiver is on
>> and set to cd input. So when you hit the tivo "environment" button, it will
>> assume the receiver is off, send an on/off command - which because your
>> receiver is already on will turn it off - and then attempt to change the
>> inputs.
>
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-Jason
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