Best universal remote you've used?

[MaxDepth]

I purchased the Harmony 700 during a Black Friday sale. It does everything I want. I even have it programmed for the computer connected to my TV. Although for any text entry, I use the our Logitech diNovo Mini or as my wife calls it "the clutch." (Because it looks like a small purse with the case closed).

The diNovo Mini is the original form factor and not the Chrome-centric diNovo. It has survived the first three years of my twins, so I can call that battle tested.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Years [and years] ago the wife bought me the Harmony 2000 for the home theater. I had looked forward to using it, but when it came time to setup I was greatly disappointed in that to do the setup you had to go online, using a web interface.

Talk about cuckolding the customer. It sat there and never got implemented. To this day we still use the individual remotes from every component. Maybe things have changed, but that Harmony completely killed my willingness to consider another boutique universal remote.

Before the Harmony I used a Home Theater Master MX600 and while it took some time to build the macros it WORKED, without the need to be online, etc. Have things changed a decade later?

 

[poofyhairguy]

Years [and years] ago the wife bought me the Harmony 2000 for the home theater. I had looked forward to using it, but when it came time to setup I was greatly disappointed in that to do the setup you had to go online, using a web interface.

Talk about cuckolding the customer. It sat there and never got implemented. To this day we still use the individual remotes from every component. Maybe things have changed, but that Harmony completely killed my willingness to consider another boutique universal remote.

Yeah, unless you are willing to spend the time to program it a Harmony is useless. I mean MAYBE the auto setup can work for you, but for me it never has.

 

[npaladin-2000]

Yeah, unless you are willing to spend the time to program it a Harmony is useless. I mean MAYBE the auto setup can work for you, but for me it never has.

Well yeah, all the codes need to be downloaded. That's why a Harmony is never out of date. I guarantee it would take less time to set up a Harmony then to program and create macros on any other remote. Just tell it what the model is of each device, how it's connected, and which devices control volume and channels (if any...i don't actually use a Watch TV activity anymore).

Now, on the off chance you have a device no one has ever used before and have to teach the Harmony all the IR commands, THAT can be a long and painful process. But you only ever have to do it once, and then it gets uploaded so everyone can use it too.

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[BarkingGhostar]

I do not mind working on the setup, but Harmony, at least for the 2000 model, was strictly online. I had to be online, logged into their site in order to use the f-ing software. That's BS.