You can place two activities behind each activity button (short press/long press) but I feel you should not have to think about how you actually need to press this button in order to watch TV for example.
While it’s just enough for my small scale setup I can easily imagine that it’s not enough for some people. The whole thing is based on the activities that can be selected with the 3 buttons at the top of the remote for activities such as “Watch TV”, “Listen to a CD” or “Play PS3”. My only complaint would be the low amount of activity buttons. I’ve put some of the more advanced functions behind long press so the rest of the family does not need to be bothered about them. You can program two commands for each button – one for a short press and another one for a long press. The remote is actually quite thin and light but still feels solid and nice to hold. All the essential functions are there but nothing absolutely crucial is missing. It’s a relatively simple remote that in my opinion has just the right level of complexity. There are various different remote controllers and the Smart Control remote that I got is the entry-level model.
Logitech has put up a nice video on YouTube that explains you the idea in less than 2 minutes.Īs I just explained the remote controller talks with the hub using radio frequencies. Heck, you could even be in another room and the remote still works! Your Harmony Hub could be inside the media cabinet behind closed doors and the remote still works. Maybe the coolest thing is that you don’t need to point the remote at the device because it uses RF to signal the hub. I cannot detect any lag compared to the plain simple IR remote I was using before. This might sound ineffective, but in reality it works really well. So the remote in the Logitech Smart Home Control package actually just controls the hub and it’s the hub that relays the commands onwards to various devices. That’s not all, the hub pairs with a remote controller or two over the radio frequencies. IFTTT or Amazon Echo can be used to command the hub (“if it’s 7am on a weekday and my smartphone is at home then switch on TV and set channel to CNN” or just “Alexa, turn on my TV”). The wifi is used for the smartphone app, setup, upgrades and possible home automation integration. It’s also connected to your wifi network.
#FLIRC KODI HARMONY BLUETOOTH#
In case you have devices that have Bluetooth remotes (such as PS3) the hub can handle BT as well. In case you have devices in multiple closed cabinets you can plug in two additional wired IR blasters (one extra IR blaster is supplied in the Harmony Smart Control package) to extend the signal. The hub contains an infrared blaster that can be used to control your TV, DVD players, NUC or other devices. Logitech’s current Harmony line-up of devices is more or less based on the Harmony Hub – a device size of an ice-hockey puck that ties all your devices together. After using the device for a month I just can’t imagine going back – the thing fulfills my needs near perfectly although it has its quirks. Black Friday eventually sorted it out and I bought a Logitech Harmony Smart Control for a reasonable price. I knew Logitech had some fancy products for almost $300 but I always felt that was insane money to spend on a remote controller so I kept on looking. When the remote stubbornly refused to learn the codes for my new AV receiver I finally decided it was time to replace it with something more modern. I was annoyed at the thing and the rest of the family openly frustrated. Remembering to choose the correct device at the top of the remote every time when you wanted to do something with a different device was a pain. I wasn’t able to program discrete power on and off commands for most of the devices so the command sequences would turn devices on and off seemingly at random. However, even if that remote could learn commands from other remotes and there was an option of creating command sequences, the remote was always cumbersome to use.
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