Logitech Harmony 676 Universal Remote Control by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech Harmony 676 Universal Remote Control
Digital camera Review: 2nd one and still a fan
Summary: 5 Stars
I am completely happy with this remote. I have issues everytime I try to update it, but if I plug in the remote and reboot my computer before starting, it works perfectly. It was this problem that caused Logitech to send me this 2nd replacement remote. Turns out it's my Dell Dimension running XP home causing the problem.
We currently have it controlling a JVC home theater receiver, Dell LCD HDTV, DirecTV HDDVR, very old Panasonic VCR, and Impact Acoustics Fiber Optic Digital Audio Switch (that I was forced to buy non-Amazon since they don't sell a powered unit), and Playstation 3 (sets up all non-ps3 equip for games and movies)blu-ray, RCA lyra music streamer, and Sirius satellite radio. It controlls everything flawlessly!
Digital camera Review: 5 stars while it lasts...
Summary: 2 Stars
Initially I would easily have given this remote 5 stars. I told everyone how fun it was to program and how great it worked as a universal remote. Imagine how nice it is to hit an activity button like TV or DVD, and then all of your components turn on and automatically turn to the correct setting.
That 5 star rating has degraded to about 2 maybe 1 star about a year and a half later when the most commonly used buttons wore out and either never work or you have to use your finger nail and push really hard on the buttons. I don't believe this remote was over-worked or abused in that time. I actually kind of babied it because of it's price and how much I liked it.
I guess when I purchased a $150 remote I expected it to last at least 3 years.
Digital camera Review: 676 Universal Remote
Summary: 4 Stars
Works very well. Would have given it a 5, except it was unable to control one small setting on my system. Worth every penny!Digital camera Review: A Joke
Summary: 1 Stars
This thing is a joke. I used it about two weeks. And after getting tired of scrolling through screen after screen for anything I wanted to do in the same amount of time it would have taken me to pick up seperate remotes and use them I realized the foolhardiness of such early technology. Later models may be more responsive and better laid out, but this one isn't and never will be. Save your money.Digital camera Review: A little confusing, but very good
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a computer geek for a living, and I was impressed with the programming interface for this remote. But I did not notice that the silver ring around the round "OK" button was actually a 4-direction switch that is by default assigned the "Direction Up", Direction Down, Direction Right and Direction Left commands used to navigate through menus. Most of the other remotes in this series have more obvious buttons around the OK button labelled with arrows. I spent a lot of time programming other buttons to handle the direction commands. It's great that it's possible to do that, but I wondered whether this model is being phased out because of the strange direction button design. I don't see the model in most stores.
Anyway, I only discovered the use of the silver ring via email contact with the Logitech customer support staff. It took them several days to get back, but it did answer my confusion. It would help if they would add a button diagram somewhere. So now I've been able to program just about everything. I've got a complicated setup, with 5 activities: watch normal (analog) TV, watch the digital set-top box TV, watch Replay DVR, play DVD movies, and listen to CDs. I attached 3 of the activities to 3 of the 4 activity buttons. The 4th activity button is actually not programmable... it displays more activities in the remote's display.
After a lot of fiddling, I've got the thing set up so my wife can figure it out. Most stuff is just one activity button press to turn on and configure everything, and one power button press to turn it all off. It used to require 2 or 3 remotes to to control each activity, in specific order. Some of those remotes were supposedly "universal", but I couldn't get any of them to handle everything. So the Harmony 676 is great. THe only thing it can't control power on is our Motorola set-top digital box (from Time Warner cable), but I decided to just leave that on all the time. I'm now very happy with the remote, and recommend it, with the sole proviso that people uncomfortable with a computer could have a very hard time with it. Of course, they can just get their grandkids to program it for them.