It is having problems with both the TV and surround sound. The Harmony 520 is the remote I have. It's ok as a backup, but not as intuitive as the Tivo remote is. I had bought it because my old Sony S1 box remote sometimes becomes lost, and as you all know, a Tivo without a remote is nothing but a brick that consumes power and occationally changes channels for you.
TV is Samsung UN40C6300SF HT is Samsung HT-C6500, though the unit itself says something like HT-BD6500-WWT. I've gone through the learning routine trying to program the 520, and it finds a similar TV set, but those codes work in the Tivo remote already. The HT I go through the learning process using the HT remote, it sees the key inputs, but in the end says it doesn't find a match. I haven't really completed the process. Also, this HT has a BluRay disc player built in, and the typical AV reciever doesn't know anything about disc play, so I suspect it's not going to behave well, or I'll have to program it as if it's two separate devices. There's a feature between the two Samsung devices called Anynet+ which coordinates stuff like power off, input selection, volume and mute control between the two, it's pretty slick, too bad they only got it half way figured out. If I change inputs on the HT, and stop on something where the TV no longer gets an HDMI feed, the TV automatically changes input to the next input on it's list, in this case CATV. Likewise if you change the TV input from HDMI to CATV, the HT changes it's input to D-in (the audio feed from the TV), which is slick, except it often operates when I'm not wanting it to. To top that off, the only way to get to the HT menus is to change inputs to the BD/DVD input, and then stop the disc that tries to play, THEN you get the menus to change options like speaker levels. If you were doing something like playing a video game on another HDMI port to the TV, the TV is going to change inputs to the HDMI to the BD/DVD player. The Menu button on the HT remote does nothing unless you're already in the setup menus. Brilliant stuff really. Yes, that's sarcasm. :-) I'm really just cranked up that the system doesn't operate in a predicible or logical way, wouldn't you expect the menu button to bring up a menu ? I'm really wanting the Tivo remote to do all the work, until I slip a disk into the player or want to access special features of the HT anyway. The basics of turning the power on and off for both the HT and TV, as well as control volume is the basic requirement, and I think about all the Tivo remote is going to do anyway, but that covers 95% of my use anyway. Glen ________________________________ From: Wryker <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 9:40:04 AM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] More strange behavior from a S3HD box Glen I forget what Harmony remote you have but they all use the same software. I have 2 880's and one One. They control everything in my theater set-ups (including lights). If your receiver is too new and not in their software database yet, you can usually choose the model prior to yours and use that for 99% of everything since the codes would be the same. What model Samsung receiver is it? ________________________________ From: Glen Farney <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 8:14:32 AM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] More strange behavior from a S3HD box The AV power trick, I wish I knew that a long time ago, I've had a second remote by my couch position for all these years for nothing. Now I know the trick, but there's no code that works for my AV reciever. I've tried the 3 listed in the system, and the 1999 trick and ran out of codes to try, no joy I guess. Anyone got codes for recent models of Samsung home theater systems ? I was wondering if the QWERTY keyboard unit was going to work with the older models, that would be a worthwhile upgrade, too bad it's likely to be a $100 item. The Harmony remote I have doesn't seem to like the new equipment I have, it doesn't have those models in the data base yet, and of course it's a bit clunky with all the unique buttons remotes tend to have. Glen ____________ _________ _________ __ From: MegaZone ya...@megazone. org Glad the new drive has helped - and more space is definitely nice. Charter finally has enough HD channels in my area that the 250GB drive in my S3 got tight and I re-attached a 500GB eSATA drive to expand it. Thinking about doing an internal upgrade to clean things up a bit. As for the remote - maybe wait for the new QWERTY TiVo remote coming out later this year? I understand that it is programmable. The S3 Glo remote can be programmed to control both TV and Receiver power. In fact, all TiVo remotes can, even the non-programmable ones. A little secret - your do the TV setup to set the TV power like normal. But then you do it again and enter the *receiver* code, same one used for volume/mute, and the button does both with one press. Similar when programming it - I've long had my peanut control my TV & receiver. -- megaz...@megazone. org / edi...@gizmolovers. com Geek, Gweep, Technophile, me. www.GizmoLovers. com / www.MegaZone. org / www.Eyrie-Productio ns.com Hail Eris Twitter.com/ megazone / Facebook.com/ megazone / www.LinkedIn. com/in/megazone "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 432-363-4296 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------ --------- --------- ------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
