Eth Nick Posted February 10, 2019 Author Posted February 10, 2019 Some bad & good updates. The Bad is that the PS4 isn’t supported as much as the PS3. You need to turn the console on manually as Sony doesn’t allow foreign controllers to power it up (yet it can be powered down...). & button support for watching BD movies has been significantly reduced...very disappointing. The Good news is that I’ve found an App that syncs with the Harmony Hub & allows Siri voice control to change Activities - it’s called Yonomi & it’s brilliant. It also has location-based triggers, so you can turn all devices off when leaving home etc.
deviltoob Posted August 3, 2019 Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) Have used one for about a year of two. Have started to gravitate to using an Apple TV instead of this to control everything. For a start, that is all I use. The Harmony annoys me when it turns TV on as well as it takes a few seconds to go to the default channel and if you’ve been watching something else, you will watch a few seconds of that and then it will switch. So annoying. So I’ve resorted to just using the on demand apps for live TV so I don’t have use the tuner on the TV at all. Plus it doesn’t scroll properly with KAYO. The only thing I’m worried about is losing the Receiver control automation although maybe the Apple TV can control that instead. Edited August 3, 2019 by deviltoob
Cruncher Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 I have been using Harmony for a while and it is one of the best products I have purchased. I am quiet technical while the rest of the household isn’t. When I first started I had a motley assortment of devices ( TV, Set top box, audio receiver, CD player, Apple TV, Wii, VCR player) most these devices had component / composite / SCART interfaces. I had 7 remotes and I had to use my TV as a hub. All the permutations and combinations made the system brittle and close to unusable. I purchased the original Harmony and tamed the beast. One the best features I liked was the ability to set start-up order and delay. My Topfield PVR takes a while to start up and before, if someone had switched on the TV first and then the Topfield and a TV show did not instantly appear they would assume that they had got it wrong and would hit random 9 buttons on 5 remotes somehow thinking they were making it work. Now I start the Topfield first, then the AV amp and when the TV turns on the TV shows are magically playing. In more recent years I bought a AV amp and made it the hub of my system and converted most things to HDMI and bought a newer Harmony remote. While things are simpler I use the features in the Harmony to tune each activity.
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