Harmony Ultimate, Harmony Smart Control, Harmony Link

[ddiehl]

Just curious if any of these issues have been addressed, or if there is any indication that any of these are being considered by the powers that be..

[towboy123 Logi Legend]

Other than the encouragement I got to start this thread no.

[ddiehl]

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towboy123 wrote:

Other than the encouragement I got to start this thread no.

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Pretty much what I suspected.. This product was not even close to being ready for  release. This has been been a huge disapointment since day one.. It's a real drag having to log in, then wait 20 seconds almost everytime just to change the volume, or channel.

Looks like it's time to try and unload this thing on Ebay..

Sorry, but I tried to remain patient in hopes of an app update, or at least SOMETHING from a Logitech Rep acknowledging that they are on it,  but I don't think they are even paying any attention to the Link anymore.. They can't even be bothered to respond to tech support emails..

Really had high hopes for this..

[KazeOne]

ddiehl 

I could not agree with you more, this product should have never been released in its current state, it is by no means remotely closed to being a decent product for the market and the market it is geared towards.... so far I have gotten 10 of my Home Theater buddies who either bought or was thinking about buying to return this and not even bother with it as it just doesnt meet the needs of mid to high end theater enthusiast that use tablets for monitoring and controlling home functions. Im putting mine up on ebay until Logitech gets their act together on this product. 

[tlwafer]

I don't want the link to dump into other apps I want to have a setting to send IR or WIFI commands to a device. All of my devices that take wifi commands should be configured for WIFI and those that don't  can take IR. The perfect bridge function unit the universal WIFI remote.

[rlanza1054]

This is in regards to your volume issue on the TV.

Why on earth are you using a MUTE to turn off the TV volume.

Most new TV's these days have a setting in the Audio setup area to  use a 'Fixed Volume' and or both a 'Turn off TV Speakers'.

When you setup a TV with a Home Theater system,  you have the audio coming from your Cable or Satillite Box to your Home Threater with a Fiber Optic cable.

You hook up your TV with an HMDI cable.  You should NOT be hooking up from your TV's Fiber Optic out to your Home Theater.

If you do it that why, you will loose your 5.1 (6.1 or whatever signal) Dolby Signal.  Your TV only passes through a Stereo Signal out the Fiber Optic of a TV.  It strips out the Dobly stuff.

For ture Dobly, you need to go directly from the source such as the cable box, and on some cable boxes, you need to specifically state that you are going out via Dobly and not HDMI with the audio.  This true on the Scientic Atlanta 8300HD Boxes.  So boxes will send out audio to both outputs (HDMI and the Fiber Optic) at the same time.  That particular box that I just mention will only send audio out one or the other but not both.

In the setup that I just stated, then you keep the speakers turned off permamentally.  There is no reason to use the TV speakers when you have a Home Theater system.

As for me, I have a Home Theater system but at night I don't want to bother the neighbors so I switch to sending out via the HDMI of the cable box to the TV and then from the TV I connected to the old Stereo RCA audio outputs to a set of tiny speakers next to my bed.   Sort of like the cheap powered speakers you use on a computer.

But in all of this, I have the TV's audio set to 'Fixed Audio' and have the Internal TV speakers turned off.

Of course, this is all easy to setup on a regular Harmony remote (in my case, in my bedroom I havea Harmony 720 that can handle 15 devices).

I am totally upset that this Harmony Link only has 8 devices and that is only imposed on us, it's has nothing to do with the device itself.  They should open the Harmony Link to more than 8 devices.

Rob

[rlanza1054]

Suggestion:

Please open the Harmony Link up to more than just 8 devices, it's just to small amount for my needs and you don't offer another model that has more devices.

 I havea Harmony 720 that can handle 15 devices.

I am totally upset that this Harmony Link only has 8 devices and that is only imposed on us, it's has nothing to do with the device itself.  They should open the Harmony Link to more than 8 devices.

My device list:

TV

DVD (Home Theater with 5 disc DVD player)

XBox 360

VCR (disconnected now)

HDMI switch

Fiber Optic Switch

X-10 Home Automation (for Lights)

Air Conditioner

AiWIA (Stereo System which I use to power my bed speakers)

Wii Game System (disconnected now, I loaned it out)

Thanks!

Rob

[towboy123 Logi Legend]

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rlanza1054 wrote:

This is in regards to your volume issue on the TV.

Why on earth are you using a MUTE to turn off the TV volume.

Most new TV's these days have a setting in the Audio setup area to  use a 'Fixed Volume' and or both a 'Turn off TV Speakers'. AS long as it does not leave a mute icon on the TV it is faster to do it this way especially when toggling the TV speakers between Activities

When you setup a TV with a Home Theater system,  you have the audio coming from your Cable or Satillite Box to your Home Threater with a Fiber Optic cable.

You hook up your TV with an HMDI cable.  You should NOT be hooking up from your TV's Fiber Optic out to your Home Theater.  This is true only on some TVs most new TV will Pass DD or DTS

If you do it that why, you will loose your 5.1 (6.1 or whatever signal) Dolby Signal.  Your TV only passes through a Stereo Signal out the Fiber Optic of a TV.  It strips out the Dobly stuff.

For ture Dobly, you need to go directly from the source such as the cable box, and on some cable boxes, you need to specifically state that you are going out via Dobly and not HDMI with the audio.  This true on the Scientic Atlanta 8300HD Boxes.  So boxes will send out audio to both outputs (HDMI and the Fiber Optic) at the same time.  That particular box that I just mention will only send audio out one or the other but not both.

In the setup that I just stated, then you keep the speakers turned off permamentally.  There is no reason to use the TV speakers when you have a Home Theater system.

As for me, I have a Home Theater system but at night I don't want to bother the neighbors so I switch to sending out via the HDMI of the cable box to the TV and then from the TV I connected to the old Stereo RCA audio outputs to a set of tiny speakers next to my bed.   Sort of like the cheap powered speakers you use on a computer.

But in all of this, I have the TV's audio set to 'Fixed Audio' and have the Internal TV speakers turned off.

Of course, this is all easy to setup on a regular Harmony remote (in my case, in my bedroom I havea Harmony 720 that can handle 15 devices).

I am totally upset that this Harmony Link only has 8 devices and that is only imposed on us, it's has nothing to do with the device itself.  They should open the Harmony Link to more than 8 devices.

Rob

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[gadgetguy1974]

My suggestion is that the App/Harmony Link be able to indepedently map commands to one of the 2 different IR Blasters plugged into the Harmony link.  This function, which is found on the Harmony 900, is essential to allow independent control over multiple devices by the same manufacturer (e.g., 2 of the same LG Televisions and 2 of the same DirecTV receivers in the same home theater setup).

Thank you

[towboy123 Logi Legend]

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gadgetguy1974 wrote:

My suggestion is that the App/Harmony Link be able to indepedently map commands to one of the 2 different IR Blasters plugged into the Harmony link.  This function, which is found on the Harmony 900, is essential to allow independent control over multiple devices by the same manufacturer (e.g., 2 of the same LG Televisions and 2 of the same DirecTV receivers in the same home theater setup).

Thank you

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