I recently bought a Harmony One to replace my aging 880. while I like the improvements on this unit I am having a very difficult time getting it to reliably turn on/off my components due to the emitters emissions angle?

I remember hearing that the 880 had a powerful emitter with good emissions angle and that was my experience. This Harmony one is constantly failing to turn on or off something.

I read one post where a person got theirs replaced as defective.

Have others experienced this decline in range/emissions angle with the Harmony one?

I hate to have to incorporate an IR repeater since my older 880 handled everything just fine for many years previously.

Any tricks (no mirrors please) to making this unit work better?

Does it have one or two emitters and what angles do they emit from?