Previous models of the Harmony could not do that. I believe I have found the programming to do that. Since I am primarily using my Harmony 700 for primary control, I want to disable those two steps. When selecting an Activity, Logitech wants to turn on all the devices & set the proper input. My programming was especially frustrating because I am going against the tide. If you already have a Harmony, you can just copy it. SC programming is daunting - time consuming - perhaps hard to get used to because it is quite comprehensive. That said, the complexity is encountered in the set-up. The Activity is just an overlay to help bring order to the complexity. Of course, the devices still control what happens. The next step is activities, where the button map is set to support an activity that encompasses multiple devices & pre sets power and input. This is the way the u-verse remote works. This is sometimes called “punch through”. STB) a universal remote needs to have some buttons for one device & other buttons for the other device. When it becomes necessary to add another device (e.g. It can control up to three of the same device, such as STBs, because it has three IR blasters that can be assigned to specific instances of devices.įor those unfamiliar with activities - In the beginning, there was one device (e,g, TV) with it’s own remote. Devices are all controlled by the buttons assigned to an activity. The SC has six activities - No direct access to devices. The U-verse remote has one activity oddly combined with some device access. Other Logitech Harmony remotes have distinct Activities and Devices. I was leery of this feature, but it seems to work well. The SC has an interesting way of allowing for many functions - each button has two functions - one for a short press & one for a long press. I went to do this & found it in place as part of the auto assignment of buttons. I will probably, add the Jump ahead & back as a long press of FF. I programmed the red record button to be a power toggle. I programmed mine (four colored buttons) to navigate the input on my JVC TV. The only non-labeled buttons are the four colored buttons. The following U-verse buttons are missing from the SC remote. The buttons do seem smaller & closer together, but they are OK, except for the numbers - Too small & too close. It is about 1.5 - 2 inches shorter than the U-verse remote. The SC physical remote has a really good feel to it. I feel that a physical remote is much easier to use for regular viewing than an app. The SC wi-fi also communicates with the mother ship to allow programming via a computer or tablet and save the settings. ![]() ![]() It only communicates with the IR blaster. ![]() The SC does have a unique design - It has an IR blaster that connects to WI-fi to communicate with an app on a portable tablet and a physical remote. When the OK button seems to have worn out on my five year old point anywhere remote, I went for an SC. It intriqued me about the new Logitech Harmony remotes, particularly the Smart Control (SC) as a replacement for the U-verse point anywhere remote to ccontrol the second TV (see avatar). However, since v3.5 of MrMC, I can pause the video, but hitting OK on the remote just starts it playing again…no submenu appears near the timeline bar (which is now at the top of the screen with the little picture of the screen at the pause point - instead of the bottom of the screen prior to v3.5).Someone posted on getting a new Logitech Harmony remote. Sounds like a lot, but it’s pretty quick once you’ve done it a few times. Then I would hit the “Menu” key on the Harmony to dismiss the small menu on top of the timeline bar, then hit Play on the Harmony to continue the movie/show. ![]() With the Harmony I would go to that toggle using the up or down arrows, then hit the OK button to toggle enabled to off. Selecting that speaker (using the up arrow, then left or right arrows on the Harmony) would then bring up a text menu with 4 items to choose from, the last one being to toggle subtitles on or off. I forget what all the little icons were, but one was a speaker. This used to bring up a smaller horizontal menu on top of the “paused timeline bar” at the bottom of the screen. Prior to v3.5 the process I would use to disable subtitles (once I saw them appearing) was to hit the “pause” on the Harmony, then hit the “OK” button. Like I said, not all the time, but often enough. I use a Logitech Harmony 700 remote with my home theater to control everything, including my ATV4.įairly often (say 33% of the time) I will get video files (movies or TV episodes) that for some reason, have subtitles that MrMC enables by default. This will be a pretty specific issue I’d guess, but it’s something that popped up for me after the 3.5 update.
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