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I don't remember what project I purchased this particular size for but suffice it to say they make mounting so many things so easy and their easy removal is a plus.  Just be careful if they've been up a while because they can become brittle which makes removing them a challenge after you inadvertently pull off just the tab.  And hold onto the hook you're removing.  If you don't you probably won't make that mistake a second time.
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Like others, I experienced some cut outs -- once I figured out the brilliance of the design it all made sense.  It automagically handles dual inputs with priority: line 1 interrupts line 2.  So If you have iTunes AirPort Express in line 2 and your PC in line 1 and you fire up a YouTube video on your computer, guess what happens?  The right thing.  It's "Do What I Mean" functionality.  The ability to gang them together and double the output means you can mix and match and get the output power you need irrespective of room size or speakers.  The auto-power off feature is especially nice -- stop the music, the thing turns off.  Yes, it means like a 2 second delay when you first start the music but it is super convenient.  Then there is the support for A and B speakers, which means I can feed, say, the kitchen and the dining room have have, the other, or both on.

Seems to me like someone said: OK, take a house, the prototypical local and "piped throughout" music sources, hugely different room sizes, some reasonably smart, energy conscious users that want lots of clean power and a classy look -- let's make the *perfect* product for them.

I've ended up buying half a dozen and could not be happier.
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I'll make this easy - the Harmony Remotes are the most brilliantly designed piece of consumer electronics I have fiddled with in a long, long time.  I have a system of slghtly above average complexity - a 60" projection TV, Onkyo Home Theater receiver, Nintendo Gamecube, PC-based MP3 server (home built), and a combo DVD/VCR.  The web-based configuration pretty much nailed all the settings, and the wizard is a great example of someone that did their homework when it came to figuring out all the possible "use cases" for my set up.  Its probably not going to be perfect, though, unless you are using all very common components; you will probably have to tweak some of the settings.  For example, after selecting the model number of my JVC combo VCR/DVD player, the standard functions worked fine, but the navigation between menus on DVDs was flakey and inconsistent - I went on the harmony web site, tweaked the settings by learning the missing commands, and voila - it works perfectly now.

OK, so why do some people give such seemingly contradictory negative reviews (definitely the minority of reviews)?  I have a theory - the Harmony has no idea of what your little kids, guests, or even pets might do to the settings on your AV equipment.  The Harmony can only remember the state it left things in.  If your 5-year old (or your mother in law) walks up and picks up the TV remote (or goes to the front of the TV) and fiddles with the video inputs, it will throw the Harmony off (the Harmony will think it is set to "S-video" for example, but it might have been changed by your curious 4-year old to "Satellite" or something.)

But this is actually where the Harmony really shines, in my opinon - and shows how brilliant the design is.  When things get out of whack, all you have to do it press the "Help" button on the remote, and it will start walking through settings and asking questions in order to determine where the problem is.  In over a year of using the Harmony 659, I have yet to encounter a situation where this did not resolve the problem immediately.  In fact, I used to get calls at my office from my wife, frantically trying to put in a video for the kids, but not being able to get it to display on the TV (I have it set up to display DVDs via the  component connections, but VCR via the S-Video).  I'm not kidding, this would happen twice a week - and I would have to walk her through all the settings on the various remotes until things were fixed.  With the Harmony, this is no longer an issue - in fact, I have not had a single call in over a year about the A/V setup - that is worth the $100 alone!  :-)

I'll provide an example from just this moment - I was programming a new component on the remote while my kids were watching a video.  After programming the device, it assumes everything is turned off (which the system was not).  My 5-year old picked up the remote, pointed it at the TV, and pushed the "off" button.  Nothing happened (because the Harmony thinks things are  already off.  So, I just picked up the remote, hit the "help" button, and it send a command.  The receiver turned off, but not the DVD player.  The remote displayed a message that said "Did that fix the problem?"  When I selected "No" it then asked if the DVD was off.  When I selected "No" it turned it off and then asked "Did that fix the problem?" again.  I selected "Yes" and now the remote and the system are back in synch.  Very cool

So, the bottom line is that my 5-year old can now walk into the family room, grab the harmony by himself, and push the "watch a movie" button, stick in a video, and he is all set.  It used to take assistance from an adult to turn on the TV, turn on the VCR, turn on the receiver, and then set everything to the right input, etc.  In fact, my wife said to me recently "I wish you had gotten one of these a long time ago!"
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Turns on/off lights. Adjusts thermostat up or down. Ive not had the opportunity to verbally switch mode (heat/cool) but, she responds appropriately to my request for temperature adjustments. For namingZ-Wave components, be sure you keep it simple and distinct. Alexa will have difficulty discerning homonyms. Sky panel never fails as well as the iphone app. She will NOT unlock doors nor disarm the system. Prevents some intruder form ordering a system shutdown. I like it although Im looking forward to greater integration with my home video--read, fire stick. BTW. We own an Echo Dot. Nice addition to the security nexus.
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Purchased this unit a month or so back and combined the unit with Roomie Remote Apps. I find the combination works well and I have not problems.

Setup and configuration were easy and straightforward. The one issue that I did have was not with the GC IP2IR or with Roomie Remote, but with my router. I have a Fios router and needed to adjust the setting "Enable Multicast" by assigned IP address on my network. This took a little bit of effort to find the proper tables in my router setting, but the support at Roomie Remote was great and therefore I never needed to contact Global Cache. The unit works well without any problems. I would suggest you go to Global Cache website and download the iHelp tool for PCs (there is a MAC version from a 3rd party) that is needed to verify and update your firmware (Mine was up to date). I will also say that SmartHome the seller did follow-up on the sale to make sure everything was ok.

I would recommend this product for those needing a remote control solution for your media center. Some IP networking technical knowledge is needed, but the support forums are powerful tools and will help you get everything set-up and functioning.
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I purchased this "all in one" system for my daughter's college dorm room.  It plays CDs, receives AM/FM stations and has an auxiliary jack for her XM Satellite radio receiver.  Compact, looks "kewl" with its see through cd turntable, and delivers enough sound to wake the dead.
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A lot of people are using these to automate their homes, keep track of their schedules, and generally rule their lives. We use it to provide background music, give us weather updates, and play trivia. Maybe when we get around to buying some home automation gear we will find it more useful. It's neat. It's fun. But that's about it.
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Works great with the proper command. I would love to ask what the temp is set at and to put sensi on/off schedule.
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We own a Roomba 650 and two Neato XV-21; one for each floor of our three story rowhome.  And now we also own a Braava 380T.  Our home is 3000SF, and consists of tile, lots of wood flooring and persian rugs.  It is an ideal testing environment for testing these machines.  Concerning the Roomba 650 and Neato XV-21, either is excellent and will vacuum your carpet or hard floors of debris.  I prefer the Neato because its quieter.  But neither the Roomba or Neato washes the floor.  Enter the Braava.  This is an outstanding hard floor cleaner.  It really works.  I suggest the 380T simply because it has the pro-clean cleaning system.  Fill it up with hot water, attach a pad to the 380T, put a northstar cube on a chair or counter in the space you want cleaned, turn it on, and well it will clean the floor remarkably well.  Each of our floors is about 900 SF.  We bought an extra North star cube and we put one at each end of the floor, but frankly I think one cube would be OK for the whole floor.  The Braava patiently cleans the entire floor, washes it with the wet pad that is replenished from the pro-clean resovoir, in about an hour.  This is a small unit, and it is very easy to charge and move from room to room.  You can set the charger on a counter in a laundry room counter or practically anywhere.  It charges quickly - about half an hour.  The pro clean system is easy to fill (about 2 oz of hot water), the pads are easy to attach and remove.  The North start cubes run on C batteries and last a long time.  the North Star cube shoots and invisible beam on the ceiling that the Braava detects and uses to center its cleaning path around the room.  Overall, it is a remarkably easy to use and very effective cleaning system.  Well built.  Quiet  too.  Makes hardly any noise.  We have not had to clean our floors since buying this.  Cleans all of our hard floors without a problem.  Wood shines and tile gleams.  You can't go wrong buying one of the these.  But do get the 380T, since you want the pro-clean system.
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This is a nice product.  Ease of installation and setup are great for a home oriented technology product.  The user interface is powerful and easy to navigate, but doesn't make you feel like it's dumbed down -- it is easily the equivalent of the interface on the corporate IT-oriented NAS units I manage at work.

The only disappointment -- like others have mentioned -- is that the transcoding is not as slick as it could be for certain filetypes.  However, with a file format it is happy with, I can stream to my Chromecast, PS3 and computers in high-def with no pausing for buffering. I get the best performance with MKV files.  I'm hoping that updates from both Synology and Plex will help with transcoding efficiency in the near future.

As far as regular data storage.goes, I have no complaints.  It is fast and easy to setup.  The disk and volume controls are easy to understand.  You don't need to know what RAID is, just let it do the work.  I have multiple computers in my house using it as their main data drive, and have two Dropbox accounts syncing to it as well.  Other family members easily access their information without needing any NAS or network knowledge.  You can setup each user to have their own private storage folders, as well as making common access folders.

It is a quiet unit -- it is currently sitting next to my home theater setup, and it is virtually silent.  I wish you could turn off the front LEDs as they're a little distracting while watching a movie, but that's nothing a little electrical tape won't fix....

Overall, I highly recommend this unit for home (or small business) use.  It is small and powerful, and doesn't take an "IT Guy" to understand it.
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I have this hooked up to my desktop, router, switch, two monitors, and sound system.  It works like a champ - easy to use and set up.
I like how it gives the time remaining on battery, current load, and is quiet.  Well done.
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Having the ability to remotely control the temperature of your home is mind blowing, welcome to the new world where homes become smart, this is awesome!
You do have to go in deep in the settings and select what kind of furnace your unit has, I struggled for a while because I didn't know what ours was so I couldn't get it to blow cool air until I asked a friend who knows about A/C units and told me that I had to tell the thermostat that our furnace is electric and it wasn't until then when I finally got it to work properly. Cool air, blessed be!
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If you are looking for a smart home hub, this is not for you. It will control objects, but its definitely not smart. You can turn in lights and turn them off, but cant schedule anything. However, the speaker is great and delivers rich, room filling sound.
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Note that Amazon is mixing all "One For All" reviews together so be sure you are reading review for the device you are interested in.

Powerful and fast it's like using direct input on the devices... very solid performance so far.

Uses 3 AAA cells so is operating at higher voltage than most remotes, seems to give it a real boost in power.

Programmed it with much less stress than any remotes in the past.  You DO have to do the multi finger, two handed button presses still but buttons are large enough to hit the ones you want first time.

My first device, a Samsung LCD TV started working with this remote after I installed the batteries and I was just feeling the buttons and happened to have it pointed that direction.

You can program this in many ways;

~ Let it find the code for a device with it's own full search

~ Find the code under limited search by brand (quicker)

~ Punch in the code from the provided list

~ Have it learn from another remote with proper settings, just point both IR lenses at each other and follow the instructions.

THEN, even if some feature will not operate with a button push, you can ADD a custom setting to what you already have saved, a really nice feature.

You can also set "Macro" feature and activate multiple devices at the same time...  After programming you just have to press the macro button and then the numbered button that you assigned for use.  Just be sure to point the remote at your devices long enough for the remote to run all you programmed as it does not trigger all devices instantaneously and will do one at a time.  Nothing bad, just takes an extra second or two to complete your request.

I ran into only one slight odd problem in setting this up with one of the TVs in the house....  one was working fine except for the "sleep" time setting button and when I went to set a custom "learn from old remote" it would not let me save to the OneForAll "sleep" button and I had to  assign it to another unused button (swap key).

Turned out that they had selected the sleep button as one needed for programming so could not be assigned.  A bit odd I thought but still got it done, just have to remember what button you saved to.

Lighting is nice to have, we all memorize our buttons at some point and don't need to look at the remote to work it.  But, now and then it's helpful and it's even bright enough to use to see the time on a bedside clock, see a water bottle etc.  One minute timer in case you get it turned on under a pillow or between couch cushions etc. but as long as you are still pressing buttons it will stay lit.

The button to activate the LED lighting is "glow in the dark" which is a nice touch.

Note that each button does not have it's own LED light, the lights are pretty much central to the OneForAll and some buttons only get the glow from the light source..  not a problem as you can still see all the buttons just fine.  The printing that tells what some functions are below many buttons on the face of the remote can't be read well, but hey, it will be memorized in a week anyway.

I uploaded a photo of what it looks like with the back lights turned on if you are wondering about that... photos are now moved to the bottom of the reviews

Update 6/2014;

Still working great and is still the best universal remote we ever had.  Still on same pair of batteries as well,  used every day.
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This is one of 3 key boards I purchased at the same time for to use in vastly different locations. The Logitech K400, one of two, for the living room proper, and the Logitech K310 Washable for the kitchen counter, viewably` adjacent to the living room; both being used for a computer in the living room in which we use to watch TV online. The third key board is the Favi FE01-BL Mini Wireless, we use exclusively in the bed room, sized to fit in the palm of your hand.
All being customized key boards, they by design have one or two minor key placement issues. The K400, being reviewed here, has a smaller right shift key, as other reviews have mentioned, and I have had a key stick on me a few times when I first started to use it; but has subsequently worked out its kink and is now working flawlessly. The smaller size is something you definitely have to get use to or at least be conscience of while using; something I'm glad to deal with in that is comes with the territory of having a key board that is both mobile and fully functional, having the key pad, for curser use, right there. I have had no connectivity problems using it as far away as forty unobstructed feet. The overall size floats around` the living room from coach to recliner to forgetting you have left it in your lap; and is easier to find than your lost TV remote. Fully meets all the aspects I bought it. I am delighted with the K400 and would highly recommend it!
I also recommend  the Logitech Washable K310. It is a standard layout mimicking a very basic cheaply priced key board. However, this gives it grace in how you feel comfortable using it in the kitchen of all places next to your mixing bowl, messy cutting board and potential spills...and child's play. It may not be the easiest thing to keep wiped down on a daily basis; but is fully amerceable, unplugged from the computer, in the kitchen sink...and allowing it to air dry for about an estimated 8 hours before use. I have had it for several months now and have been just wiping it off occasionally; I'm not as messy as I thought. Worth the price and the ease of mind!
The Favi (FE01-BL) Mini key board (of which there are different versions) is even more difficult to get use to having such small keys; but then again I have an EXTREMELY difficult time texting on my cell phone too. Using it for a computer we also primarily watch TV on, not document computing, it is extremely useful. Having to type in a movie or YouTube title is simple enough using the peck method, of which I normally abhor using. The lighted key board is great and a must for evening use. Again, like the K400, the Favi Mini has an incorporated key pad, though somewhat difficult to get use to being so small with relatively little travel distance, it functions well, not great, for momentary and occasional use; it's weak point. We accompany the Favi Mini with a cheap cordless laser mouse for real navigation and sound adjusting. I did a lot of research on the Favi Mini, and it ended up in the top three of a rather poor pickings for its type (size & function) but it does all that you would want such a small key board to do. I would buy it again; but would only recommend it to someone who likes to peck; otherwise I would recommend the K400 for use in the bed room too in that it's size and rounded corners would seamlessly float' in and on the bed (it's durably made!).
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This is a great product!  It performs as advertised and I am very pleased with my purchase. It is a great improvement over my standard TV speakers. Having said that, it's performance is definitely enhanced by being hooked up to my existing subwoofer. And be sure, if you already have a great surround sound system, this product will not produce sound of quality as good. It will however, remove the clutter of the many wires and speaker space needed in your room. And only ONE controller for the TV, Speaker and DVD player. All in all, a great tradeoff! And oh, by the way, Amazon's price was so much cheaper than any place else, don't bother looking anywhere else!  Larry
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This is a great choice for a desktop at home. Once I hooked it up to a monitor and connected a mouse and keyboard, all has worked well. The Chrome OS has been more resistant to viruses that kids seem to pick up by clicking on certain sites. It boots in seconds and doesn't make a sound.

One thing I love is everyone can have their own password sign on that will bring up their bookmarks and favorites. We use this in the kitchen and everyone has an account they can click to get their experience setup in seconds.