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Both are excellent and incredibly feature-rich. And while the Ultimate provides an excellent touch screen interface, if you just want a simpler remote, or you want to use your smart phone to control your system, then you can save over $200 and pick up the Harmony Smart Control or just the $99 Ultimate Hub. Not to mention accolades from your friends. For $349, it may be the one component in your system that brings you the most satisfaction. It's a very simple system to set up, and it's even easier to program. Delays all seemed to work properly, and everything snapped into place fairly easily. I didn't have any issues with IR emitter levels. Harmony's IR-based systems are finicky, but with the Harmony Ultimate and Smart Control, Logitech seems to have really nailed it. When things aren't quite happening the way you want, you can usually adjust the sequence and delays to get it into ship shape. After some tweaking and re-ordering, I got things to work much more reliably than with any other control system I had tried. It's a bit more convoluted, and I needed to mess with the order in which things came up as well as the input delays, but that's what I like about Harmony-you can customize those things when you need to. I liked it so much I grabbed a Harmony Smart Control to use in my 2-channel living room system. Once I had everything properly set up to use the right inputs the system just worked. The Haptic touchscreen is really amazing and not to be missed.īut when I pressed the button everything worked. The only issue was that the emitters use a 1/16' connector instead of the more popular 3.5mm, so they don't fit any of my existing extenders, and I needed to adapt my existing system to use the smaller cable. What's really cool is that I was able to extend one of the two included IR emitters to the theater room, allowing it to control the Epson projector. I'm also controlling a Carada Masquerade screen with built-in masking system.

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In my theater I'm controlling a Denon AVR-5308CI receiver, an Oppo BDP-103 DVD player, a DISH Hopper with Sling, an Xbox 360 and an Epson Pro Cinema 6010UB projector.

The many setup screens of the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote

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You connect the hub wirelessly to your home network, assign your devices, create your activities, download that info to the remote via USB, test it all out, and it's ready to go. Similar to Netflix streaming, it uses the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in so it will only work on browsers like Safari and Internet Explorer. The capacitance touch screen of the Logitech Ultimate Remote lets you swipe, and it also has Haptic feedback I could have been up and running in far less time, but I'm pretty particular about how I want my theater room to respond to commands. But let me back up, because it only took me about an hour to configure everything just the way I wanted it. With the Harmony Ultimate, I'm back to pressing a single button to activate everything I need. To get me up and running I had rigged an IR receiver and transmitter and was using all of my individual remotes as needed. See, my gear is remotely located in a closet, so a good control system is pretty important to me. Bottom line is that, while I can't complain too much, I was 'slumming it' in the area of remote controls. Now, I lost my remote control system in a lightning storm, along with just about anything that used Ethernet or HDMI.It was a mess. You get this beautifully-shaped device, but it also has a new 2.4' color touch screen that lets you press and swipe.and it has vibrating haptic feedback for the buttons, so you know your command was recognized.

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This new WiFi-meets-cloud-based software is their best yet, and it's only fitting that the company revamped its remotes as well to bring them up to speed with the expectations of our smart-phone-toting society. Reliable? Not so much back then, but then Logitech added RF capabilities and IR repeaters, and things got much better. Then you tell it what inputs you use for what, and you're off to the races. You just added your devices and set up activities based on the gear you use. They controlled everything, and they did it without you having to program every single button. But the strength of the Harmony brand of remotes was always the extensive database of AV equipment. Harmony busted onto the scene several years ago and was bought up by Logitech who then advanced the ergonomic design of the products and made them look a lot cooler. This is the Logitech Harmony Ultimate and the Harmony Smart Control. With a few minor exceptions, there hasn't been much movement in the residential remote control market.

We haven't reviewed a remote control in quite a while, and there's a good reason for that.

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