On November 12, 2023 at 16:36, Jottle said...
Better late reply than never.
Yes. Thank you.
The hub can connect and control some devices via bluetooth as well (windows pcs for example), but not many. The remote shows up as a bluetooth keyboard if you try to pair it with most devices.
Yes, that's the way it pairs with my old fire tv box.
Right now if your hub or remote has line of sight to your TV, it's probably being controlled wirelessly via IR command signals.
It does use IR to control most of the devices, but not the TV or the fire tv. I reached this conclusion by blocking the line of sight between the hub and the devices, and testing to see if the device responded to controls from the elite remote.
However, if your Sony TV supports IP control, when you were setting up your Harmony to work with your TV it might have been set to control via IP (you'd know because Harmony would have asked you to connect your tv to your internet so that it could find it when you added your TV as a new device). Unfortunately, IP control for Sony TVs via the harmony is laggy, and you'll likely encounter double presses as well as the inability to turn on the tv or do long presses on the buttons.
I did have to connect the TV to the internet during setup, but I don't recall if Harmony asked me to do it. I also had to enter a 4-digit code that appeared on the TV screen, and there was a message stating that if I didn't enter the code the TV would be controlled by IR only. (I think it also said that if I did enter the 4-digit code it would be controlled by RF, but I don't really remember.) I had some trouble and had to reset the TV and repeat the connection to the harmony several times. Sometimes the 4-digit code appeared along with the message, and sometimes it didn't. If the code didn't appear or if I didn't enter it, then I had IR control only. If I set it up with IR control then only the power button would work, so I set it up using the 4-digit code. On the OEM the power toggle button is IR, but all the other buttons aren't (they don't require a line of sight to work).
I don't know what IP is, internet protocol? When I use the elite remote it is laggy and often unresponsive when controlling the TV, and the power control is especially unreliable. The full story is in this thread:
[Link: remotecentral.com]The weird thing is that if I use the smart phone app, control of the TV is flawless. But I prefer a tactile remote.
Last edited by Herman Trivilino on November 23, 2023 10:27.
