great, even greater with a custom remote script
583564
I was usure if this device would serve my midi needs but it exceeded it in every way. The default remote script that is used in Ableton is a bit linear, search online for the Launchpad95 remote script for Ableton. When applied, it turns the Launchpad S into a full production studio. The features are also derived from the Push, so it definitely increases the value.
3592022
I opened this remote and had it working for my Samsung TV, Xbox One, and Yamaha receiver in under 10 minutes. Instructions are clear and online support for getting programming quotes is extremely easy and straightforward.

Would highly recommend for multi-device use. It is 'non-technological wife approved' as well!!!
3277925
This thing is great! Bought it to replace our Harmony 1100 remote. The app is nice and customizable. I was even able to pull in all my remotes and activities from my Harmony 1100! I was up and running with the Home Hub connected to all my devices in 20 minutes. Can't wait to get more things in the house to control with this.
4505789
I was able to install my SlingBox PRO-HD to work with U-Verse within four hours. The net result is excellent, making it well worth the effort of a surprisingly bumpy installation.

- The physical installation is very easy and the cables that come with the SlingBox are nicely packaged and coded

- The SlingBox software installation was much harder than it needed to be. The down-loadable installer doesn't work with Chrome at all. It claims to work with IE, but the messages requiring a response would often get hidden, making it annoyingly impossible to complete the install. When I switched over to Firefox, everything worked perfectly, and the installation was done in 3 minutes.

- SlingBox did recognize the U-Verse system, and its Motorola gateway (I have the Motorola VIP-1200). This enabled me to start receiving U-Verse programming on my PC immediately, using my home WiFi network.

- The placement of the remote IR cable onto the VIP-1200 was easy enough. I ended up using two of the cable heads to get optimal coverage of the sensor.

- The SlingBox software offered me the correct definition of the emulated remote channel changer, and I was able to start using it immediately. It does feel a little strange at first, but it is an ingenious emulation that lets you control almost all of the functions on the VIP-1200.

- Getting through all of this and getting the SlingBox to work inside my house took about 90 minutes.

- I am a little disappointed that the system does not import the AT&T U-Verse Programming Guide directly. (It declares that this feature is only available on cable or satellite systems). However, using the emulated channel changer, I am able to scroll through the AT&T channel lineup as if I was sitting in front of the TV. I can also control all of the DVR functions perfectly well with the emulation buttons, and access previously recorded content, and even delete programs that are no longer required.

- Then I went on to configure network access, by sitting at Starbucks and attaching to an AT&T WiFi hot spot. This was the hardest part of the installation process. The SlingBox configuration utility demands a Username and Password for the in-home router. My in-home router is a U-Verse branded 2Wire 3800 HGV-B, which doesn't seem to have a username, although the password is provided on an external label. The lack of a username caused the SlingBox configuration utility to reject my attempts to use it.

- By going to the 2Wire website, I found some helpful notes on authorizing SlingBox traffic to pass through the 2Wire firewall using a pin-holing technique. With this, I was able to configure my in-home router directly, and I didn't need the deficient SlingBox utility to help me anymore.

- Now, I was able to start watching my home TV content inside the comfort of the Starbucks store. The U-Verse uplink in my home is capped at 1.5Mbps, but this does not seem to harm the overall picture quality.

- Total installation time was about four hours. It could have been less than two hours with a better software installation package, but I am looking forward to enjoying the product now.
2693813
Okay, this was somewhat pricey for a multi-component remote control, but if you're using a decent A/V system these days, you need more than the run of the mill controller.  This device is amazingly flexible, and, given that it adapts when you correct it after programming it, as far as the functionality goes, I don't know what else you could ask for.  It's not a simple matter to program a whole bunch of disparate devices, but the routine that is built into this setup is about as easy as you could make it I think.  I guess that if I had one complaint, I'd just wish for a slightly larger LCD display, but otherwise, this is easily the best "universal" remote that I've ever worked with.
2476876
This product really does let you remotely retrieve and delete files remotely over the Internet if your laptop is ever stolen.

I have had the opportunity to test it and it performed flawlessly and exactly as advertised.

After installing the software, I had a friend pretend to be a laptop thief. I told him to take my laptop anywhere he wanted for several hours.

I logged into the Laptop Cop user interface and created a remote file retrieval and deletion request which basically sat out on the Internet until my friend stopped at a coffee shop and used their wireless connection to check his email.

As soon as he did that, the software received the retrieval and deletion commands I had created earlier and silently and invisibly Laptop Cop retrieved the files I had requested and deleted the files I had told it to delete.

All of this happened right under the "thief's" nose and he had no idea.

I then was able to turn on the monitoring functions of the software and it allowed me to see everything he was doing. It was freaky - I could see every website he visited, all of the emails he sent or read, which programs he was using - in short, everything he did on my laptop in. It was truly spectacular because it was happening in real time.

The company also has a laptop recovery service which I was unable to use since my laptop wasn't really stolen so I can't comment on how well that works. I imagine getting the laptop back wouldn't be too hard because of the amount of information the product records on the thief's computer activity. It's not just one of those simple IP address-based products that basically just pings out the IP address where the laptop used to be.

To me, the ability to get my files back remotely or to delete sensitive info really is the key, as the information on my laptop is MUCH more important to me than the price of the laptop itself.

I work in security software and this is the first product I've seen in a long while that was actually fun to use and really got my heart racing with what it allowed me to do.
3888840
I keep trying to simplify my home theater system so that it doesn't require a doctorate from MIT or the faith of a saint to operate.  This remote has been the missing link. Within 5 minutes of opening the package I had control of each component:  an Xbox 360 (w/ access to Amazon video, Hulu, Netflix via Xbox Live and to my movies, photos, and music via a Win7 home network) that is piped through my Pioneer home theater receiver amplifier and out through my Toshiba Regza TV.  Logically the layout of the remote resembles a hybridization of various remotes without being unduly cluttered.  Unlike the remotes that this is replacing I expect the light color to make it more difficult to misplace among my dark furnishings.  An excellent value.
3099807
For years I have been reading about Harmony remotes and how great they were.  I got one for Xmas this year and I'm happy to report that it's a great investment. It makes operating your entertainment system a breeze.

You truly trade 4 remotes for one.  For what I do, I find this model to be enough. Receiver, Cable TV, CD, Radio, DVD, Blu-ray are all switchable at the push of a button.  The remote is programmable via the Logitech site and it's simple to use for basic tasks. I had to go back and tweak functions a few time but it made the remote even more powerful. Just for the lit buttons, this remote gets 5 stars.  Half of my old remotes had not light and was always a pain to figure out which button to push in the dark.

Everyone visiting my house can now easily use the system without having to juggle 3-4 remotes.  No more how to use the remotes classes!  I regret not getting this earlier.
807968
I've had this for about a week. For my HTPC setup, I had been using a wireless keyboard and a IR universal remote. The keyboard was too big, and I don't like having a separate remote. This seemed like it could cover everything in a single device, which it pretty much has. At first, I couldn't get it to connect reliably to the computer from more than five feet away. I moved the dongle onto a the end of a 10M long active repeater USB cable far from the computer and now everything works great. Surprisingly good reception even from outside the room.

It packs a lot of functionality into one little device. The touchpad and all the keys seem to work well, except that the mute button doesn't do anything on my Win7 system. The touchpad also is very responsive. I love that it is rechargable -- no more dealing with dead batteries.

It would be nice if the IR side had more buttons. The vol up and vol down buttons require key combinations of the function key + F2/F3 -- a little bit of a pain for something so frequently used. On the side of the device is a Page Up / Page Down button right where the pad of your thumb goes. It would be great if that were the vol button. However, the scroller on the trackpad makes a halfway decent volume adjuster for VLC. Also, the button to turn on the backlight is also a combination of function + F1; a backlight button really should be set apart from all the rest so it is easy to identify in the dark. This device also has a laser pointer which I covered with a piece of black electrical tape -- don't want the kids pointing it at each others' eyes.

I think I might try using a keyboard remapper utility to change a few of the keys to be more to my preferred layout.

All in all, this was an excellent purchase. Well worth the money.
1865259
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to receive." With apologies to Sir Walter Scott, I changed his deceive to my receive for this review. I'm a tinkerer, and my goal was to get an RF remote for controlling my TV and media center, instead of the (Logitech) IR remote I had. Solved a blockage problem with the coffee table. In addition, I thought it would be really neat to be able to tell Alexa on my Amazon Dot to turn on DirecTV, or my SONOS system, or watch a movie, and, yes, dim the lamps in the media room too, using my Insteon hub (ISY 994i) system. Let me state up front that it all works perfectly, but there is a tangled web of apps, settings, devices and so on that must be properly configured. It was fun to sort all that out. First, I paired (via Bluetooth I presume) the remote to the included Logitech hub that issues IR commands to my media devices. I then set up a WiFi connection from the hub to my router. Then I used the wonderful Logitech website to define the devices I have (Panasonic TV, Panasonic Blueray, DirecTV box, Yamaha receiver, SONOS devices), and the activities I wanted to do (Watch DirecTV, Watch a Blueray, etc.). In my case, I was able to copy all that over from my existing Logitech IR remote. You can also define up to 30 favorite TV stations, complete with icons that show up on the remote as buttons. I then downloaded the Harmony app to my iPhone, which makes it a remote too, via WiFi, and helps with the configuration steps. Then, in the Alexa app on the iphone, I downloaded and configured the Harmony Skill, so that the Alexa Dot could command the Harmony remote to initiate its activities. Everyone following all this? Well, as I said, it's a tangled web of remotes, hubs, Dots, iPhones, routers, etc., woven together with software  and configuration items in apps, skills, websites, etc.
How could I not give it five stars...
3605217
I love this thing!  I got two of them for my Fire TV remotes.  Yes, it makes the remote a little wide, and the remote will "give" a little once in a while if you are holding it just right and click one of the top buttons. However, it is sooo worth it.  I hated having to control the playback with one remote and then reach over for the other remote to control the sound and inputs.  I also love the flexibility of the programming.  It is very straight forward for my office TV, however our family room TV is hooked up through a TiVo and a receiver.  I programmed the power button to match the power on the TiVo remote, and I programmed the rest of the buttons to match buttons on my receiver remote.  Since my receiver uses multiple buttons for Inputs rather than one button, I programmed the SideClick's Input/Source, A and B buttons to control the Receiver remote's HDMI1, HDMI2 and HDMI3 buttons.  The one suggestion for future versions would be to add a Mute button.  I didn't have a need for the Channel Up and Down buttons for the family room setup, so I programmed the Mute button to those.
4309498
This little device is amazing.

For a long time I've admired the Harmony remotes, and several years ago tried (I think it was a model 600) to make it work, but it just didn't seem to have the ease-of-use with all the buttons and the screen etc etc.

Recently built a 'false-wall' home theater, hiding speakers behind an acoustically transparent screen and putting all the equipment (receiver, blu-ray, roku, and soon a tablo) behind out of sight. The remote on the smart control is thin, and feels great in your hand. Yes it does not have backlighting, but the small CR battery lasts a long time (or so I'm told).

I rely on wired Ethernet everywhere for TV (and Sonos for music) as wireless is just too variable. Turned out that during the easy setup steps I configured the Smart Control as a wired system. I then had the problem of being able to switch the receiver and turn on the Roku (the main device I'm using until the Tablo gets setup); the Roku turned on fine but none of the controls worked.

After doing a fair amount of searching the Logitech forums, I ended up doing the following which worked: unplugged the Roku, deleted the Roku 3 from the My Harmony application on my laptop, then plugged in the Roku and set it up as a Wifi connection. Then go back into the My Harmony app and add the Roku 3 + receiver combination again.

Voila - everything works swimmingly.

After a little while I went into the Roku settings and went back to Ethernet, everything still works.

The BluRay and Receiver (I have a new Denon AVR-X2100W) both work really well with the remote. The IR range is great.

Update June 27 2015: A few weeks ago the Roku wasn't being controlled by the Harmony Smart Control. We weren't watching that often (this is for the basement 'movie night' HT rather than the TV upstairs), so it wasn't that inconvenient to have the extra Roku 3 remote driving the Roku. And then today the receiver no longer was operable.

I had to dig out the Harmony 'puck', figure out that I had to download the Harmony software to my PC (had to reinstall Windows in the interim and lost the program), and 're-sync' to the puck after it recognized it via mini-USB cable adapter. Plugged it back in and everything worked as it did at the beginning.

Sure is nice to have the My Harmony software after login to remember the original settings - otherwise I would have had to start all over again. While setup could be a bit easier this ability to save my own parameters from the remote to the cloud is really great.
3795687
I really like this remote.  Set-up, using my computer and the Logitech website made get it set-up a breeze.  I was extremely pleased at how easy the process was, and the fact that everything worked perfectly the first time.  Plus, Logitech seems to have thought of all the little "extras" that you may run into, and have incorporated all the functionality of whatever remote you're replacing into the screen-base interface.  I especially like the ability to place station icons on the screen for quick channel selection.

I bought this for my wife, who hated having to use four remotes (Satellite, Sound System, TV, Movie Server) to operate the entertainment system in the family room.  She loves it and is happy, which pretty much means I'm happy, too!  :-)

I was so pleased, I bought a second Logitech remote (Harmony 650) for the "Man Cave".
4273047
This remote is very versatile, and fairly easy to program.  Sturdy, and feels nice to use.  Has great selection of buttons and they are all ideally placed.  The backlight is very nice to have, although you must use a button to activate it.  The button label stickers are very handy and easy to apply. I am using it with my home theater setup which includes a TV, Stereo Receiver, and HTPC running Kodi via Flirc.  Since there isn't a specific code that works with Kodi/Flirc, I've had to play around, but this is something inherent to my type of setup.
487197
I asked for (and got) a Harmony 1100 remote for my birthday.  As a techie, I was expecting the unit to be programmed in a more general (and probably more complex) way, and at first was not sure I wanted to keep it.  As the flexibility of the unit gradually became apparent, allowing me to "fix" problems easily that the automatic setup left (such as the exact DSP setting I wanted on my AV receiver), I got more interested.  Over a few days, as I got familiar with how to program the unit, I got more and more adventurous.  The result was quite amazing - now at my fingertips were simple controls to do things that were way too complex for taking the time with 4 remote controls to do manually - especially for my wifh, who really had difficulty getting through the maze of hundreds of buttons to accomplish a simple task such as listening to satellite radio without turning on the TV, etc.

Now that I had convinced myself that this really did solve the mess of controlling my AV system easily, including dedicated buttons with icons for my favorite TV channels and sat radio channels (downloaded from the web and imported), I had one minor problem left... having to aim the unit carefully so everything got the IR messages.  This is a problem because of the cabinet can easily get in the way between where I happen to be and where the IR sensor is located on the 6 devices to be controlled.  I had heard that wireless was available, so I looked up this product.  Afer reading several reviews on Amazon, I realized it was exactly what I wanted, and I purchased it.

The main problem I had getting it to work was finding out where the IR sensor were located on each device.  Some of them were not at all obvious.  I finally figured it out by using a cardbard card between the unit and the remote to get the location behind the plastic panel.  Once I did that, it worked like a charm (at first, I had the wrong location for the sensor based on the incorrect diagram in the manual, and it was unreliable - once I figured out why it was working fine when I was right in front of the unit - IR was bouncing off me into the sensor at the other end of the device - I was able to correct the problem).

It works like a charm!  My wife can now listen to classical music from the sat receiver whenever she wants, or watch a favorite channel without looking it up, play a DVD movie or select one from the DVR, play a streaming movie from Netflix, listen to a CD, and play with the Wii - without me having to show her which button to press.  Even have the proper tray (CD or DVD) pop out to be loaded so she will not get confused which unit to load!  AMAZING!

If you have a remote control mess like I did, with multiple remote controls, so it is too confusing for the non-techies in your family to use, this product, combined with a Harmony remote, is a fantastic solution.  Beats the heck out of so-called universal remotes I have attempted to use in the past (which require "switching" from one unit to the other before pressing buttons).

And, of course, you can impress your friends... :)
2895856
This thing is great! I previously had to reach my arm over my coffee table to communicate with original remotes, but this remote seems to work just as well even without having a clear path to components. It has most of the buttons already built in that appear on original remotes, with the option to add buttons on the lcd screen. With some fine tuning this thing does everything I hoped it would. The software isn't as bad as some people say, unless you write that stuff and could do it better. The setup is pretty simple and walks you through it easily enough. I had to do it a few times to truly customize it the way I wanted it. My wife enjoys the ease and comfort of only having one remote as well. She found it easy to use despite being reluctant to give up the familiarity of our original remotes. I'm only sorry I didn't get it sooner.
4899526
I could be the last person to discover the advantages of a universal remote control.  Technology is way past where I thought it was.

We recently purchased a home theatre system, and faced fumbling with five remotes.  Typically, we were using a minimum of two remotes to control the cable box and audio receiver, because the cable box remote refused to play nice with the Onkyo audio system (a well known problem).  So after a couple of weeks of fumbling remotes as a channel surfer, I began to look into universal remotes.  Despite the fairly high price even when on a good sale, the strong positive reviews convinced me on the Harmony One.  I am not sorry; I am very impressed with it.  The software utility was straightforward to use and well organized. Just to see if the hype about set up was as good as advertised, I had my wife set up the remote with me looking over her shoulder. Normally, I end up with set up tasks like this, so she is not used to futzing with hardware and software.  Set up went smoothly and took about a half hour. She had no trouble understanding what was being asked. The only prompting I supplied was to provide all the device information on our five components, and tell her that for all Activities, we wanted the receiver to control audio.  Even our nine year old Panasonic VCR was in the Logitech device database. Ergonomically the One just seems to fit right in your hand. There is an accelerometer built into it, so that a little shake or fast pick up, lights up the screen and the keys.  The touch screen is very sensitive as shipped, but you can adjust the sensitivity if it bothers you. The default key assignments for the devices for all our equipment, including the cable box, was clearly well thought out by Logitech. They just make ergonomic and convenience sense, which made playing with key re-assignments unnecessary.