<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Larry K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Costco is selling the Harmony 700 remote right now, so that caught my eye the other day. The price is $100, about the same as Amazon. I searched this forum and found that no one has posted <i>anything </i>about this remote.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyone using this remote? Is it suitable for Myth? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>I picked up the Harmony 700 yesterday, and I mostly have it working all my devices, including MythTV. I currently use the IR receiver of a PVR-250, so on the Harmony, for my mythtv device, I selected Computer, Media pc, MythTV, PVR-250. This set up the buttons I mostly needed to control myth, and the lircd.conf I already had just worked. I had to remap a few buttons and modify lircrc, but that was expected.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have one little problem that maybe the Harmony experts here can explain to me. When I choose an activity like "Watch TV", the remote makes sure all the right devices are powered on, selects the right AVR input, and just like that, all the controls work. I use the AVR to control sound, and the cable box to change channels, and the TV does nothing except look pretty. This all works great.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I choose the activity Watch Myth, again, it makes sure the AVR is on, and set to the right input. At that point, I can do volume and mute, and the AVR responds. But none of the mythtv controls work unless I enter the devices menu and manually toggle to the mythTV device. And, once I've done that, the audio controls on the AVR no longer work. </div>
<div><br></div><div>How can I set this up so that the MythTV activity works seamlessly like the watch TV activity? I would rather not have to manually select the mythtv device after executing the watch mythtv activity.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Larry</div>