Has anyone had success programming the 880 to control the CM 9521A rotator controller? I have configured with the suggested Pioneer Cable Box HH1 as found in the CM Owner's guide. Another choice given is the Pioneer CD player HH2.
The controller will turn on with the cable box configuration and will toggle up and down with the channel up/down button. But, in order to be effective it has to accept preset direct access key pad channel number locations. Is this possible with the 880?

Opps!! Found it under home appliances "Channel Master 9521A" and the 880 responds nicely. If I had any issues with the Logitech website, it's the data base. I found my Sony Roomlink Media Receiver (serves video from a Media Center PC in the office) under Digital Music Servers. So the final pieces of the puzzle have now been solved.

One issue so far, I have about 5 senarios of Watch TV with the different combinations. One activity has a VCR between a satellite box and my Denon Receiver (In case I want to record from the satellite). I set the activity to read, turn on the VCR to Line 1. At first it worked but now it turns on the VCR to Line 2. I have toubleshooted the setup and the only feedback is to slow down the command speed for the VCR from the remote. Even though the VCR is left on Line 1 all the time, is it receiving a channel command from the remote and would slowing down the speed really help? OR... maybe leave out the input command line , if I can, and assume that the VCR will be left on line 1? Comments appreciated.

If you always leave the VCR on input 1, then just configure that as the only input and it won't try to switch it.

I'd also recommend ditching the sat receiver and VCR and getting a sat PVR. You'll never turn on the VCR again!

I tried adjusting some of the setting to the VCR but it still put the input to Line 2. So, I did as you suggested and removed the channel change from the equation.
I am using Media Center to record from *C and stream the video to the HT, so the VCR is not used very much anymore. I would like to get a *C DSR 530, but not until the price drops below $500 and the machine is more stable.
As far as the 880 is concerned, I am happy to see the eight remotes put away, the programming was straight forward and the wife "should" be able to use it. Having said that, it's taking a little time and a lot of searching to find some of the button functions on the remote. My AV receiver has over nine pages of screen functions alone.

The other option would be to add a generic utility device and teach it the commands for the VCR. Then it won't even ask about inputs (at least I don't think it would).

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"Opps!! Found it under home appliances "Channel Master 9521A" and the 880 responds nicely. If I had any issues with the Logitech website, it's the data base."

Thanks for the tip!
Wish I had known that. I had selected the Pioneer and did a learn on all the buttons.

I wonder if you can specify where to point the antenna when a OTA station is selected?

Couple of years ago, I got the 9521A, and Harmony had to put it in my configuration after I called them. Nice to know it's in their DB now.

Yes, you can. The 9521A an be programmed to turn to a specific location (in degrees) when you punch in a channel number. After you set that up for the rotor this is how it works: For instance, channel 4 in my area is at 350 degrees, so, when I punch in "4" the rotor goes to 350 degrees while my tuner also tunes to channel 4. You just need to make sure the rotor is on in that activity and included as a passthrough device. Then assign the same channel numbers that you have in your TV tuner keypad to the rotor keypad in the "change or add buttons for this Activity" page of that activiity.

Bierboy,
I have a question for you about CM 9521A. Does it have an up and down button and let you put location number in the same sequence as channel numbers. For example, if you TV channel sequence is 2, 4, 5, 7
and programm the same location sequence 2, 4, 5, 7 in the rotator controller.
If so, I have a way to use Harmony to channel surfing.
I can define a label as channel up which sends out both channel up command for your tuner and the rotator controller. Another label for channel down. Personally I like to channel surfing by pushing button and really dislike to push different buttons for different stations.
Not able to do easy channel surfing is a main reason I don't like antenna rotators. Right now I have two antennas pointing to two different directions and using a remotely controlled AB switch. And there are a couple of channels on the third direction I occationally like to watch and now give them up for better channel surfing.
If CM 9521A can do I what I described above I'll try to get one.

I was a little leary of doing this but it works great. Some of the antenna positons are shared, such as most of the Buffalo, 2, 4, 7, 23, 29 and 43 whereas 49 needs a little nudge and Toronto is in the opposite direction. Matching the CM positions to the tuner on the direct access keypad allows one punchthrough for both. But when I don't want to move the antenna, I simply use the channel up/down button to change channels on the tuner and the antenna stays in place. Thanks for the help.

Bierboy, I have the exact same Harmony remote and CM rotor as you (although I use the Samsung SIR-TS160 OTA HD receiver...) I'm going to try your steps above, but in case I don't get far can you explain in a little more detail?

Thanks.

Bierboy,
I finally figured it out last night, but I have one glitch...

For SINGLE digit digital channels this setup is OK since I can program the CM7775 rotor to accept two digits channels (eg. for CBC I would program the channel on the rotor as "51" so when I enter ""5-1" on the Harmony remote the rotor will interpret it correctly). However, this becomes a problem for TWO digit digital channels (ie. when I enter the digital channel of "29-1" the rotor sees this as a compass entry of "291" instead and starts turning). My receiver is a Samsung SIR-TS160, so it may be a little different from yours...?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

xeon - Sorry, I hadn't logged in for awhile. I think the difference might be in the tuners. With my Sammy 151, if I punch in, say 58, it automatically goes to 58-1 (since it's a dedicated HD-only tuner). So, with the two-digit channel 58, my rotor is programmed to go to the designated three-digit compass setting (and the tuner goes to 58-1). I can see how the rotor would get confused with a "three-digit" channel designation, and I'm not sure how to get around that. I'm not using the Sammy any more since I just got a TiVo Series 3, and, with the integrated tuner (not a dedicated HD tuner) on the S3, I might have the same problem, since I have to punch in all three digits to get the HD channels instead of a cable channel. With the S3 tuner being so sensitive, I don't have to re-orient my antenna any more to pick up all my HD channels (which is a good thing, I might add, when you're recording stuff!).

I could be wrong, but is it safe to assume there is no way to make auto-rotating work with the use of TVGOS for selecting channels (since you are never directly inputing channels)?

Won't be a huge deal as I will only be moving the antenna for one station in TO for the most part - I'll just learn the commands to the TV for the correct angle for "Toronto" and "Buffalo" or something like that.