Skip to main content. Shop by Category. All Auction Buy It Now. View: Gallery View. Compatible Brand. Buying Format. Only 1 left! Logitech Harmony Remote Control 4. Benefits charity. Free shipping. Results Pagination - Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 We also plan to continue to update the platform and add devices to our Harmony database.
Customer and warranty support will continue to be offered. The remote is a sleek, stripped-down design with important buttons like home, microphone, volume, back, menu, and more but no backlighting. Setup is easy, and the system reliably controlled our gear without having any major problems. It also works with Alexa and Google Assistant for hands-free voice control.
Plus, adding an interface on top of your sources can slow down some processes like voice search. The Sevenhugs Smart Remote U was a mixed bag for us.
It can control up to 20 IR devices, has a rechargeable battery, and has Spotify and Sonos support built in. And it controlled all of our devices correctly. Unfortunately, a couple of big issues hold this one back. The remote has no physical buttons, and both the touchscreen and the virtual buttons on it are very small. We had to look away from the TV often to make sure we carefully pressed the right button, and still we often launched the wrong command.
If the remote itself had a better physical design to justify the price, we might recommend it as an upgrade pick. Universal Remote Control the company used to offer a variety of good DIY remotes, but it now focuses on the professional-installation market.
Like the Flipper , the EasyMote is a large-button remote designed for people with vision, memory, or confusion issues. We appreciated the bright, green backlighting which you can turn off and the wrist rope. But I noted that the instructions had smaller print, so they might be harder to read.
Finally, the EasyMote offers only two ways to program in your devices a quick code search or learning the IR from your device remotes. She has been a writer, editor, and reviewer in the consumer electronics industry for 20 years, and previously served as the executive editor of Home Theater Magazine and the managing editor of HomeTheaterReview.
Our pick. Budget pick. Everything we recommend. The competition. Why you should trust us. Who this is for. How we picked and tested. By contrast, a good universal remote should offer the following features:. A universal remote control has to be, well, universal. A game console or two might also be included. The remote should have a well-organized layout that includes all the necessary buttons to perform essential tasks and, yes, we think physical buttons are essential, versus a touchscreen that requires you to look away from the TV to find the right button.
The most important buttons such as volume, pause, and play should be easily accessible. The more a remote costs, the more flexibility it should have to control different kinds of devices. The slideshow below has the full instructions and screenshots which are repeated at the end of this article in full for reference. How it works With Harmony remotes you have a limited number of devices but a basically unlimited number of so-called activities. The activity system is the main reason Harmony remotes are so intuitive to use.
Harmony's learning function is designed to allow you to customize a device by adding new commands from the original device's remote control. The workaround depends on the fact that those commands don't necessarily have to come from the just one remote. I could create a new "Watch Roku" activity using commands learned from the Roku remote and tacked on to one of the five devices.
The commands to control my Roku would "piggy-back" atop that existing device, such as my TV, as a sort of "phantom device. Easy to get started You're welcome to tinker and add extra functions and tweaks to these macros, but the default settings will get almost any system up and running with ease — the only thing it can't operate as standard is the PS3, which requires an optional adapter.
So, the Harmony it's essentially a stripped-down version of the Harmony One. In fact, it's ergonomically identical, but has a slightly less luxurious finish and a smaller screen that has context-sensitive buttons to the side rather than proper touch sensitivity.
The does without the One's dedicated dock, too, but does have an AC adapter for recharging. Not enough six appeal In action the works just as well as its Logitech siblings, but it will control just six devices. Sure, for most people this is enough, but it's bizarre considering that the much older and cheaper Harmony can operate In fact, if you're looking for a budget universal remote, it's the we'd recommend while still available , while those after something flashier should opt for the One.
But the still has plenty to offer.
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