[mythtv-users] recent information for programming harmony remotes?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Aug 27 11:55:25 UTC 2013


On Aug 27, 2013, at 7:02, "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:

> On 13-08-26 06:49 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2013, at 17:46, Michael <mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/25/2013 10:44 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I found programming the harmony remotes to be way more complicated in
>>>>> most of these guides than it has to be.
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder if that's because they are trying to get more out of the harmony remote than just making it do what any $10 All-for-One remote can do, since the Harmony remotes are supposed to be so much more capable.
>>> 
>>> The harmony has a lot of functionality above and beyond your $10 all for one.  I won't ever be able to get the all-in-one to turn on my projector, lower the screen, dim the lights, turn on all my components, and properly set the right inputs.
>> 
>> Sure are.  You just can't hope to do it all with a single button.
> 
> But the "single button" *is* it's value.  By your argument, I can do all of that without a remote even.
> 
> Raymond, I'm starting to feel like you have a bias against Harmony remotes and are doing as much as you can to minimize their functionality/value.  Yes, they are expensive.  Perhaps too expensive for their value.  But I'm not looking to debate their value, thanks.

Nope.  I've had five of them over the years, and still have three in active use.  The other two have dead buttons and are sitting in a closet somewhere.

My only issue with them is their awful configuration program (webpage). The IR aspect of this is simple.  Select a profile with a bunch of buttons.  Find someone's existing lircd.conf and lircrc for that remote.  The trouble is that you're asking what to do beyond that, and because of their garbage configuration page that does not let you do things like share activities, this is something every MythTV Harmony user is going to have to painstakingly program on their own.  It's not particularly difficult once you understand their configuration page, but it is mighty tedious, and unavoidable.


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