[mythtv-users] Setting up a Logitech Harmony Smart Control remote with mythtv

[Tim Draper]

i've been running the smart control for a few years and it's been reasonably good. biggest issue was IR was a touch intermittent with it turned the NUC on - sometimes it wouldnt.

I moved over to BT a month ago and has overall been a better experience. Far more reliable, but it IS different than IR in how it works with the nuc.
first up, bluetooth will only wake the machine up if it's in S3 (and probably S4, but i dont use that). IR would wake the nuc up from power-off state.

because of that, you'll need to run a script to set USB devices to allow wakeup.
also, for all my current/historic kit, you'll ned to redetect your outputs. Turns out my issues are from an Onkyo AVR of a certain era where it wont reliably allow the pc to detect monitor/edid, so the PC either needs a restart, or xrandr script to force redetection (which i've never got it 100%).

aside from the S3 resume issues that seem to be my kit than anything else bluetooth has been an equivelent functionality experience to IR, if a bit easier as i didnt need to mess around with lirc configs.
It definately feels more responsive, and it has been more reliable and i'd definately recommend it over IR.