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My experience with the Harmony remote was that it was a very brittle solution. It took tons of setup, and would regularly strand me in some intermediate state w
by ianferrel 2y ago
My experience with the Harmony remote was that it was a very brittle solution. It took tons of setup, and would regularly strand me in some intermediate state where some components were enabled and switched properly and some weren't.
Add to that the fact that
1. Some devices have separate "turn on" and "turn off" signals and some only hav a "power toggle"
2. My receiver had buttons that did not exist in Logitech's database. My attempts to have the remote learn them was only partially successful (like, it learned some of them properly and others never worked)
3. My screen was a projector that refused to turn on again until a 1-2 minute cooldown after it had been turned off (I assume to avoid heat stress on the bulb)
It was a right mess. When it worked it was great. The 5% of time it failed hard I had to dig out the individual remotes because the projector's cooldown made Harmony's attempt to fix things not work at all.
- m463 2y ago> strand me in some intermediate state this was exactly what I found. IR is fundamentally flawed because it is one-way. It is like UDP across a modem.