Why I buy this one ?
- Easy Internet-based setup
- Dedicated on-screen activity buttons
- Color LCD touch screen
- Contoured backlit buttons
- Can learn IR codes from existing remote controls

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"Skeptic at first - fan for life.", My wife first suggested the idea of getting a universal remote. Her exact words were "I don't watch TV when you're out of town on business, because I don't know how." She offered to buy me this remote for my birthday, but I declined (in hopes of getting something better.)

A few weeks later, I caved, and bought the remote for her, just before I had another business trip planned.

Being used to Tivo's remote for the last handful of years, I was a bit scared to give up that level of comfort (both in functionality, and look/feel.) I was surprised when I took the Harmony One out of the package, and compared the two. The remote is similar in weight and feel to the Tivo remote.

I came into my office, installed the software that came with the Harmony One. It worked on my Vista Home Premium 64-bit, with no issues.

The software is brilliant. My last universal remote (Philips Pronto Neo, years and years ago) was a nightmare to program. The Harmony One was so easy. You simply tell the remote the model numbers of your gear (most of which are right on the front of the device itself.), and it goes out to the internet and finds the codes for you device for you.

Once your devices are programmed, you can set up psuedo-macro commands. You tell the remote what devices you need for specific functions. ie; when I watch TV, my TV goes on Input 1, my Tivo goes on, my receiver goes on Input 2. I'm not sure what the number of "Activities" you can set is, but I've got 4 set up. (Watch TV, Watch DVD, Watch HD DVD, and Play XBox360.) When you want to do one of those things, you just press the button on the touch screen. The remote does all the hard work for you.

The only downfall that I've found with the remote is that it doesn't control Bluetooth devices. So no Wii or PS3 being controlled by the remote. There are Bluetooth to IR adaptors that will make the remote work with those devices, but I've yet to try it.

If you're skeptical (as I was, at first) about universal remotes, this is the remote for you. Easy to program, and easy to use. The battery is rechargable, and it comes with a dock that does the charging. This makes it virtually impossible to have dead batteries in your remote.

The remote is so easy, my wife can watch TV and even DVDs when I'm not home. That says something about the effectiveness of the Harmony One remote. Absolutely worth the money. And, at last check, it's $75 cheaper on Amazon than it is at Best Buy.


"Good Remote, with a few nuances", I got this remote as a Christmas gift to myself. At first glance, it's nice. There's really nothing notably "wrong" with this remote, but there are a few subtle things that I wish were better.
Pros: can control anything, and I mean anything. The software makes it easy to set this remote up, and if there is anything on your OEM remote that this one doesn't do, then it will learn the command, and you can assign it to a custom button on the touchscreen. Plus, the software remembers the learned command, and you can use that command throughout the remote. The buttons are laid out intuitively, and it is aesthetically pleasing.
cons: the remote takes a long time to update from the software...up to 4 or 5 minutes. Doesn't sound like very long, but when you are just changing one or two things (tweaking) the remote, you would expect it to update more quickly, but it doesn't. Also, if you are using one of the macros, and something doesn't turn on, you have to go through a help wizzard to get it turned on. Sure, you can go straight to the device and turn it on, but then the remote thinks you turned it off, so when you power everything off, it won't power that device off, so (once again) you'll have to go into devices and power it off yourself. Again, nothing big, but it defeats the purpose of macros. This only seems to happen on my av receiver, which has somewhat of a narrow IR reception range.
All in all, I would definitely recommend this one. Plus, i got it when it was only 169, so even better!!!

"Upgrade your 880", I owned an 880 however the buttons began sticking and gave me a reason to upgrade. The Harmony One is top notch. If you own an old Harmony, it is $$$$$ well spent.

"This is the best thing since sliced bread!", I just purchased this to replace 4 other remotes for my entertainment system. The set-up was very easy and I even made custom program to change the optical input on my reciever when watching a DVD. When I'm done watching the DVD and switch to another function, the remote automatically tells the receiver to switch back to Optical 1. I don't know how I got by for so long without one of these! Buy one now!

"Great Remote", It's an awesome remote, works with my TV, STB, and VMCE perfectly. However, the key presses are a bit slow even with the Inter-key Delay set to 0. Also, software needs improvement.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Harmony One universal remote control", I like the fact that this unit has a removable, rechargeable, battery. Unlike a lot of products, if the battery fails it will be easy and cheap to replace.

I found that the initial setup pretty straightforward. It took perhaps 45 minutes for the first attempt. I then had to go back a couple of times to make minor adjustments. Editing the settings is simple.

The default settings for controlling the various components work very well. I found that all of the common commands are available as a push button. Less frequently used commands are accessed using soft keys on the touch screen.

My biggest dislike is the feel of the unit. It has an ergonomic shape that positions your hand for pushing the most commonly used buttons. But the numeric keypad is located too low on the unit so it is difficult to push the numbers while holding the unit in one hand and the touch screen is located too high for one handed use. I end up using two hands to push the numeric keys or to use the touch screen. The vol and channel up/down keys are better located so channel surfing one handed works OK. The keys are a bit on the small side and have a very short throw with a noticeable click to them.

I don't much care for the very shiny finish on the unit. It makes it look a bit cheap, which at nearly $200 it is not. At that price this is a luxury item for me and is a bit hard to justify buying. But it did allow me to get four remote controls off of my coffee table. Cheaper universal remotes that I have tried in the past where not worth the trouble. This one does do what they claim.

"Solid, as far as universal remotes go", I was a very early user of this product and have been fairly pleased with it now that I've gotten used to a few minor glitches.

Setup is a bit complicated--you need to connect it to your computer via an included USB cable and identify all of your electronic components by Model Number, as well as what port they're all hooked into (e.g. my directTV DVR is in my TV's HDMI port #1 and XBox 360 is in HDMI port #2). Once that's done, the remote works as advertised--a nice touch screen lets you "Watch TiVo" or "Play XBox" with one click--adjusting the TV, audio system, and various components. It *does* take a while (5 seconds?) for it to send all of the commands to the various devices and, if you're not pointing the remote at the device when it's sending the message, your device might miss the message. In that case, the Harmony One remote has a useful "Help" button, which almost always is able to correct the problem fairly quickly.

My one complaint here has to do with the design: too many important buttons are accessible via the touch screen. For example, I use the "List" button and the "Blue" button for my DirectTV DVR very frequently ("List" shows me all of my DVR-recorded shows and "Blue" lets me cycle through other channels while watching a program). Because these are only accessible via the densely packed touch screen, I regularly hit incorrect buttons, which puts my TV into a funny state. It's very annoying and so it's therefore more work to press these buttons...

My remote also seems to have a bug in that it regularly loses the time (the remote has a clock on it which is frequently wrong for me). Not a big deal, though, since it's purely a cosmetic feature.

Overall, this Harmony One is a solid device with a few minor quirks.

"Can't program individual buttons", My wife and daughter love this remote. I've lived with the softkeys of the Marantz 'remote of the gods' for more years than I can remember. The coolest thing about that remote was that every single button on the remote could be programmed for an individual device, plus 4 pages with 10 softkeys per page.

It took a lot of time to program each button on the old Marantz. It took even more time to program each macro. But when you had it almost set up right, you knew what little things you still had to reprogram and you could do just that.

But once you were done, you were the only one who knew how to use the thing, unless you engaged in continual spousal training.

I'm convinced that remote was designed by a man who wanted a great excuse to hog the remote.

The H1, like all the Harmony task-based remotes, auto-programs its macros according to tasks you give it. you can also give it more advanced tasks, like switching your receiver's DSP input from coax to optical when going from DVR box to DVD player, and vice versa. You can program those steps right into the "watch a DVD" or "watch TV" macros. With the Marantz, you could program dozens of macros into the thing, but except for macros 1, 2, 3 and 4, only you knew the supersecret locations of the macros and how to run them. Plus, who besides you knew that the big '1' button powered up the whole system for TV, and the big '4' button powered it all down, with '2' and '3' serving to switch between dvd and TV?

Even a gadget freak like me can draw the line at multiple thousands of dollars for a TV. I intend to go on using my good ol' Panasonic Superflat 36 incher until the day it dies. I'm much more about the sound than the picture. My receiver is the third big Marantz that has driven my 5 KEF Reference satellites. No puny little eggs here: the speakers mounted at the corners of my 5.i system were each over $600 when new. The center channel was more. I want that room to sound good.

When the Panny gives up the ghost I'll be able to use those fancy HDMI thingies on the back of the receiver with a real live Blu-Ray player and HD DirecTV, and either a really good projector and screen or a very large direct view HDTV. For now, it's DVD and standard def.

The H1 works very well for almost all of it--except for one major hole that irks me in my system.

When I want to control basic TV functions like subtitles, the up-down-left-right buttons on the Harmony 1 work fine--but the center 'select' button does not work. If the remote were programmable like the old Marantz, you could just make that center button memorize its function in TV mode. But with Harmony you're stuck with whatever the Mother Ship does. And Logitech has decided to place the 'select' button up in the touchscreen and call it 'action.' So every time you want to do something that ought to be intuitive, you have to search the screen for that action button before you can do it. And since this type of action requires multiple presses of that button, that means multiple chances for error on the touchscreen. You might accidentally press the page turn softkey or the "activities" softkey, both of which will then require you to page back to the screen you need just to press that damn action button.

It's annoying in the extreme, and though it doesn't ruin the experience it makes it unpleasant.

I'm sure I'll put up with it until I switch TVs. If it happens with a different TV I'll be back to reduce my rating from 4 stars to 3. The thing is supposed to work, isn't it?

Of course, with a function list as deep as a Marantz home theater receiver, you can't expect the H1 to be able to completely mimic the remote that came with the device. Thankfully Marantz has placed most of the receiver's functions in onscreen menus, which the H1 navigates with ease. And unlike with the Panny, with the Marantz receiver the "select" button actually "selects" what you click on, thank God.

It also does a very good job of mimicking the DirecTV DVR remotes. I still prefer tactile buttons for red, yellow, blue and green. But there's nothing that can be done about that with a universal remote. This one goes about the solution quite elegantly, with full color buttons on the touchscreen. Way to go, Logitech. The other buttons do what you hope and expect them to do. As remote control technology advances, a lexicon is slowly developing for remote functions that hopefully soon will become more of an 'industry standard' cross-platform programming language. If and when that develops more fully, universal remotes like the H1 will become even more powerful devices that will mesh more completely with the equipment they're designed to control.





"Finally A Good Universal Remote!", I have had bad experiences with all universal remotes I have purchased. Either one or two of my devices never worked with the remotes. Both the expensive and cheap ones. I just saw this advertise and decided to try it.
So far I am very happy. I received it yesterday. Easy set up. I thought it wasn't going to be. The only issue I had is the software disc that came with it didn't work for Mac OS X Leopard. I just downloaded the software and drivers from the Logitech website. Once that was done, it is very easy to set up the remote. Just put in your brand and model numbers of the devices you want it to control.
Once set up was done it worked great with my TV, Bluray DVD Player, cable box, and puts the TV on the right input for my Wii. I love the touch screen and how easy it is to switch between devices. I also love that is rechargeable. The older ones I have tried with touch screen went through batteries like crazy. I also love it is easily updated through the computer and changed if need be. Very good if you are not that tech savvy. The only thing is I wish it was a little cheaper. But well worth it now that I don't have to have three remotes on the coffee table.

"Harmony One", Feels great in your hand. Easy to use once you get it set up. Support was great in helping with set up. Support is local and I am told has no time limit. Easy to twik settings because the program is online. Web based program allows for support to help with issues by making changes to your specific program from their end.

I bought and additional Harmony One for my bedroom set up.

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