Comments on: Logitech Harmony 785 Universal Remote review http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/ Just another bunch of stuff pouring out of some guy's head Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:59:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mick http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Mick Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:35:35 +0000 http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-universal-remote-review/#comment-1015 Geoff and Sean, I've got similar issues. My Harmony 785 worked perfectly until I added a Topfield 7100 PVR. All the old activities work fine, but the profile for the topfield in the Logitech database doesn't work. I solved the TV input issue by only having one input into the TV that doesn't change. Everything goes into my Sony receiver and then one input into the TV. The Harmony remotes seem to like Sony products. All the controls on the Receiver and my DVD work from the Harmony remote. Geoff and Sean, I’ve got similar issues. My Harmony 785 worked perfectly until I added a Topfield 7100 PVR. All the old activities work fine, but the profile for the topfield in the Logitech database doesn’t work. I solved the TV input issue by only having one input into the TV that doesn’t change. Everything goes into my Sony receiver and then one input into the TV. The Harmony remotes seem to like Sony products. All the controls on the Receiver and my DVD work from the Harmony remote.

]]> By: Sean http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Sean Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:31:49 +0000 http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-universal-remote-review/#comment-781 My adventures with this remote <a href="/2008/04/27/logitech-harmony-785-contd/" rel="nofollow">continue...</a> My adventures with this remote continue…

]]> By: Sean http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Sean Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:53:17 +0000 http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-universal-remote-review/#comment-747 Geoff, it could be worth contacting Logitech support directly. From my reading of their support forums they seem to provide quite hands-on support for these remotes, eg. manually editing owner's configs to help them set it up. Personally, I empathise with you and dislike the feeling of lack-of-control over the settings. I would prefer, as I suspect you would, to have everything local so I could back it up and restore as needed. Suffice to say my love/hate relationship with this device continues. Geoff, it could be worth contacting Logitech support directly. From my reading of their support forums they seem to provide quite hands-on support for these remotes, eg. manually editing owner’s configs to help them set it up.

Personally, I empathise with you and dislike the feeling of lack-of-control over the settings. I would prefer, as I suspect you would, to have everything local so I could back it up and restore as needed.

Suffice to say my love/hate relationship with this device continues.

]]> By: Geoff http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Geoff Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:48:26 +0000 http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-universal-remote-review/#comment-734 I have decided to forget the activities and just use the devices, switching from one to the other as required. Still better than multiple remotes. This had been working well for me for a month or so and then I wanted to add the manual skip (30 sec jump forward across ads) function for my Panny EX85. When I reconnected my 785 to the PC, my entire config had been lost and I had to start all over again. I can see no way to back up my configuration other than trust Logitech to maintain it for me, and it seems my trust is unfounded I have decided to forget the activities and just use the devices, switching from one to the other as required. Still better than multiple remotes.
This had been working well for me for a month or so and then I wanted to add the manual skip (30 sec jump forward across ads) function for my Panny EX85.
When I reconnected my 785 to the PC, my entire config had been lost and I had to start all over again.
I can see no way to back up my configuration other than trust Logitech to maintain it for me, and it seems my trust is unfounded

]]> By: George Spence (Australia) http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-review/comment-page-1/#comment-278 George Spence (Australia) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:18:00 +0000 http://seanys.com/2007/08/23/logitech-harmony-785-universal-remote-review/#comment-278 Have just bought the 785. Same problems as Sean with video input to the TV - doesn't find correct input on my Panasonic HDTV for either Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder, or Apple TV. Spoke to Logitech twice - problems not fixed; case "escalated" to Logitech support in Canada. Agree re the nonsense/irrelevant items in the pages. Many for my HDTV do nothing, others have no relevance and they are just clutter in 13 pages of commands. Having successfully programmed a 2000 Marantz learning remote from scratch, and got various macros up and running, this Logitech attempt to make the Harmony easy to program and user-friendly is a dismal failure, in my opinion. Have just bought the 785. Same problems as Sean with video input to the TV - doesn’t find correct input on my Panasonic HDTV for either Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder, or Apple TV. Spoke to Logitech twice - problems not fixed; case “escalated” to Logitech support in Canada.
Agree re the nonsense/irrelevant items in the pages. Many for my HDTV do nothing, others have no relevance and they are just clutter in 13 pages of commands.
Having successfully programmed a 2000 Marantz learning remote from scratch, and got various macros up and running, this Logitech attempt to make the Harmony easy to program and user-friendly is a dismal failure, in my opinion.

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