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Post 1 made on Wednesday April 30, 2008 at 01:58
Dr. Jones
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I'm liking my Harmony One right now, but my AV receiver has a fussy IR sensor or something, and my PVR pops up a prompt if you try and turn it off while it's recording.

With this in mind, if I press POWER on my Harmony to end the activity (in this case, watching the PVR) and the AV receiver doesn't pick up the power signal or the PVR does it's prompt thing, I wind up with the device still on while the remote thinks it's off. At this point I have to find the component's remote and manually turn it off, which quite defeats the purpose of the Harmony.

Is there any way to cleanly/automatically turn off everything with the Harmony? I was considering setting up an activity to do it, but apparently when I set up a custom command and add a device, it wants to turn on the device when I start the activity, and then I have to manually end the activity. Since my TV only has a "power toggle" option, if it happens to accidentally get stuck "on" and I hit the custom activity, it will get turned off with the "on" switch, and when I end the activity, it'll turn it back on.

Also, I'd like to set up something that allows me to either automatically say "yes" or "no" to the PVR's prompt, so if it doesn't turn off I can opt to either cancel the recording and continue to turn it off, or at least dismiss the dialog.

I guess what I'm looking for is a way to execute a sequence directly (TV-power toggle, receiver-power off, PVR-power off to turn everything off... PVR-exit by itself to dismiss the dialog and let it continue recording... PVR-down, PVR-enter, PVR-power off to cancel recording and turn off the PVR)... is there anything available along those lines?


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