Harmony Ultimate Home Vs Ultimate One
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- Harmony Ultimate One Vs Harmony Ultimate Home
- Harmony Ultimate Home Vs Ultimate One Youtube
Summary
Harmony Ultimate Home Support Register Your Product. To get the best customer care, product tips and more. Getting Started. Our top tips and questions to get you. Jul 01, 2017 The Ultimate One and Ultimate controllers are both the exact same units. The difference is that the Harmony Ultimate came with the Hub, where the Ultimate One was marketed as an IR-only remote. Both can be paired with a Hub and will control devices that are not in line of sight. The Updated Logitech Universal Remote Control Buyer’s Comparison Guide. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate combines the features of the Harmony Touch and Harmony Smart Control into one. Almost identical in appearance, the Harmony Ultimate adds RF wireless capability, the one “super feature” missing from the Harmony Touch.
- Product Name: Harmony Ultimate & Smart Control Remote
- Manufacturer: Logitech
- Review Date:October 29, 2013 08:20
- MSRP: $350 (Ultimate), $130 (Smart Control), $100 (Ultimate Hub)
- First Impression: Gotta Have It!
Harmony Smart Control
- Price: $129.99
- Controls 8 devices
- One-Touch Activity-Based Control
- Hidden Device Control
- Programmable Buttons
- Interactive Help
- Guided Online Setup
- Infrared
- USB connection
- Control from Smartphone or Tablet
- Customizable favorite channels
- Learns commands from other remotes
- RF for close cabinet control
- Control Bluetooth game consoles
- Platform: smartphones, Mac, Windows
Harmony Ultimate Hub
- Price: $99.99
- Controls 15 devices
- One-Touch Activity-Based Control
- Hidden Device Control
- Interactive Help
- Guided Online Setup
- RF Wireless Compatibility
- Infrared
- USB connection
- Control from Smartphone or Tablet
- Customizable favorite channels
- Learns commands from other remotes
- Platform: smartphones, Mac, Windows
Harmony Ultimate
- Price: $349.99
- Controls 15 devices
- Color display & touchscreen
- One-Touch Activity-Based Control
- Hidden Device Control
- Programmable Buttons
- Interactive Help
- Guided Online Setup
- Rechargeable battery
- Backlit Controls
- RF Wireless Compatibility
- Infrared
- USB connection
- Control from Smartphone or Tablet
- Customizable favorite channels
- Programmable Touch Screen buttons
- Swipe & Tap Color Touchscreen
- Learns commands from other remotes
- RF for close cabinet control
- Control Bluetooth game consoles
- Platform: smartphones, Mac, Windows
Executive Overview
We haven't reviewed a remote control in quite a while, and there's a good reason for that. With a few minor exceptions, there hasn't been much movement in the residential remote control market. Until this year. This is the Logitech Harmony Ultimate and the Harmony Smart Control. Harmony busted onto the scene several years ago and was bought up by Logitech who then advanced the ergonomic design of the products and made them look a lot cooler. But the strength of the Harmony brand of remotes was always the extensive database of AV equipment. They controlled everything, and they did it without you having to program every single button. You just added your devices and set up activities based on the gear you use. Then you tell it what inputs you use for what, and you're off to the races.
Simple? Yes. Quick? Absolutely. Reliable? Not so much back then, but then Logitech added RF capabilities and IR repeaters, and things got much better. This new WiFi-meets-cloud-based software is their best yet, and it's only fitting that the company revamped its remotes as well to bring them up to speed with the expectations of our smart-phone-toting society.
You get this beautifully-shaped device, but it also has a new 2.4' color touch screen that lets you press and swipe...and it has vibrating haptic feedback for the buttons, so you know your command was recognized.
Now, I lost my remote control system in a lightning storm, along with just about anything that used Ethernet or HDMI...It was a mess. Bottom line is that, while I can't complain too much, I was 'slumming it' in the area of remote controls. See, my gear is remotely located in a closet, so a good control system is pretty important to me. To get me up and running I had rigged an IR receiver and transmitter and was using all of my individual remotes as needed.
With the Harmony Ultimate, I'm back to pressing a single button to activate everything I need. And it's soooo nice. But let me back up, because it only took me about an hour to configure everything just the way I wanted it. I could have been up and running in far less time, but I'm pretty particular about how I want my theater room to respond to commands.
The capacitance touch screen of the Logitech Ultimate Remote lets you swipe, and it also has Haptic feedback
The new cloud software is awesome. Similar to Netflix streaming, it uses the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in so it will only work on browsers like Safari and Internet Explorer. Basic setup was completed in 5 steps. You connect the hub wirelessly to your home network, assign your devices, create your activities, download that info to the remote via USB, test it all out, and it's ready to go.
The many setup screens of the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote
In my theater I'm controlling a Denon AVR-5308CI receiver, an Oppo BDP-103 DVD player, a DISH Hopper with Sling, an Xbox 360 and an Epson Pro Cinema 6010UB projector. I'm also controlling a Carada Masquerade screen with built-in masking system. What's really cool is that I was able to extend one of the two included IR emitters to the theater room, allowing it to control the Epson projector. The only issue was that the emitters use a 1/16' connector instead of the more popular 3.5mm, so they don't fit any of my existing extenders, and I needed to adapt my existing system to use the smaller cable.
The Haptic touchscreen is really amazing and not to be missed.
Harmony Ultimate Home Vs Ultimate One Youtube
But when I pressed the button everything worked. Seriously, I mean the first time. Once I had everything properly set up to use the right inputs the system just worked. I liked it so much I grabbed a Harmony Smart Control to use in my 2-channel living room system. It's a bit more convoluted, and I needed to mess with the order in which things came up as well as the input delays, but that's what I like about Harmony—you can customize those things when you need to. After some tweaking and re-ordering, I got things to work much more reliably than with any other control system I had tried.
When things aren't quite happening the way you want, you can usually adjust the sequence and delays to get it into ship shape.
Harmony's IR-based systems are finicky, but with the Harmony Ultimate and Smart Control, Logitech seems to have really nailed it. I didn't have any issues with IR emitter levels. Delays all seemed to work properly, and everything snapped into place fairly easily. It's a very simple system to set up, and it's even easier to program. For $349, it may be the one component in your system that brings you the most satisfaction. Not to mention accolades from your friends. And while the Ultimate provides an excellent touch screen interface, if you just want a simpler remote, or you want to use your smart phone to control your system, then you can save over $200 and pick up the Harmony Smart Control or just the $99 Ultimate Hub. Both are excellent and incredibly feature-rich. I can't believe how cool this remote is. It can control anything.
Beauty AND brains!
Harmony Ultimate One Vs Harmony Ultimate Home
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Recent Forum Posts:
I loved that the Harmony One remote was so intuitive you could gradually use it blindfolded and it was the most ergonomic remote I have ever used. My only complaints about the Harmony One was that the touch LCD screen sensor was very inaccurate, and the page right / left buttons often got pressed by accident when accessing the touch LCD screen.
On the other hand, these new Harmony remotes focus too much on the touch sensor to the detriment of the remotes ergonomics. They have removed too many essential buttons, and the layout isn't nearly as ergonomic as the Harmony One.
I understand some people would prefer more of a touch-based remote (hankering back to the days of the Philip Pronto), but many people like myself still want a remote that is both comfortable / intuitive, and has a decent amount of properly used buttons. I think that Logitech really dropped the ball by not updating the Harmony One and leaving that as a lower end alternative for people such as myself.
Lastly I do hope that Audioholics will do a review of the Harmony software integration with the iPad…
Marshall_Guthrie, post: 995811
The smart control is getting dangerously close to my perfect remote control. A simple remote control (something less than the 1 billion buttons found on most french bread-sized universal Remotes) that is still fully programmable with tactile buttons. My smart phone will never replace my remote because I don't want to have to look at my remote to use it.
Counting the directional pad as 5 buttons, I only use 14 buttons to control all my equipment and media for my HTPC based setup. I wish I had the chops and contacts to do a programmable remote kickstarter. I think the world would be ready for a learning remote version of the roku remote for the HTPC crowd.
Counting the directional pad as 5 buttons, I only use 14 buttons to control all my equipment and media for my HTPC based setup. I wish I had the chops and contacts to do a programmable remote kickstarter. I think the world would be ready for a learning remote version of the roku remote for the HTPC crowd.
Introduction
If your battery keeps dying then refer to this short and easy guide on how to remove and replace your battery. The device components are delicate so be sure to take care when opening the device. Recommended for this guide are plastic opening tools and a phillips screwdriver. The most difficult part of this guide is locating all of the screws and physically opening the back panel of the remote.
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Remove the single 6 mm Phillips #0 screw located beneath the sticker near the USB charging port.
Use a plastic opening tool to release tabs that hold the front panel and back panel together. There are three tabs on each side of the device that need to separate for the device to open.
The use of a plastic opening tool is recommended to avoid damage done the remote. Use stronger objects as a last resort.
Disconnect the wires running from the back cover to the motherboard.
Remove the four 6mm Phillips #0 screws from the battery case.
The battery is still connected to the device via wiring. To free the battery completely, remove the dark plastic piece from the slot with the plastic opening tool.
Removing the dark plastic piece from the motherboard takes some patience, as the remote is designed so that the battery will not dislocate under extreme conditions.
Lift the battery and its case out of the remote.
The battery should still be connected to the case with adhesive.
Use the plastic opening tool to separate the battery from the case.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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