Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Just Picked Up A Harmony One Remote Control...

In a word, awesome. I had 6 remotes in the theater, and the Harmony One was able to handle all of their functions no problem (even the remote control lights!). Setting it up was really easy. You just on their website and choose your devices by make and model number. It had the codes for all of my components.

It also has "activities", so let say you want to "Play a CD" (which is one of the buttons on the LCD screen). It automatically turns on the AVR, sets the AVR to the channel you have your CD plugged into, and turns on the CD player. Then, the LCD screen switches over to another screen dedicated for controlling both the AVR and CD Player (and you can change the LCD buttons as you like).

Then, lets say you want to watch TV. You press the "Watch TV" button. The remote already knows that the AVR is on, so it leaves it on and changes the input to TV, it turns off the CD Player, and turns on the projector. I was a little worried if that would work because the projector is behind me, but it seems to always get the IR signal.

For the lack of clutter I gained in the theater alone it's probably, the best $199 I spent.

I got one several months ago and I am very happy with it. I sent the Harmony 880 I was using in the living room to the kids room, so they are pretty happy also. There are quite a few folks on this board using the Harmony remotes.

I'm a fan also, I've had the 659 for some time now.

I've got the One!

Steve, what model do you have? With my Sanyo Projector I have to aim my current remote at the projector, does the Harmony act this way also?

I have the Panasonic PT-AE900U Projector. With the Panasonic remote, I did have to aim it at least in the vicinity of the projector. With the Harmony One, I just aim it forward at my AVR.

I don't know about the Harmony One, but I have the 890 (it was 220$, one-day special at my local Future Shop) which is RF-based and comes with 4 dual-repeater for IR devices. With that, you would just have to stick one somewhere pointing towards the projector.

I quite like mine. It took me forever to program to my liking (14-20 hours!) even for cross-purpose activities such as watching Hockey and listening to music at the same time and all the minor adjustments I like to do to be easily accessible through the 8 visual buttons (on the LCD screens).

The Harmony One is IR based, and there is no RF option. I didn't need it because all of my equipment (except for the projector and the remote lighting) is in front of me. But for both the projector and the lighting, I do not have to aim the remote in their direction.

I've spent a couple of hours customizing it. The most time has been spent finding icons for my favorite TV channels and uploading them to the remote:

Congrats on your Harmony, they're sweet remotes. I know I couldn't live without mine.

BTW! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!