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| Topic: | Harmony 360 question This thread has 6 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Tuesday March 14, 2006 at 15:47 |
Drewmangroup Lurking Member |
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I am thinking about getting this remote but I have one question. Can you add button presses to the activities? For instance, I have a DVD/Tivo combo. When i want to "Watch DVD" I want to switch all the devices on and then press the "DVD"button to make sure the tivo switched over to DVD. And when i want to "Watch Tivo" I want all the devices needed to turn on and the "Live TV" button to be pressed. So if i was switching from DVD to Tivo. Thanks!
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| OP | Post 2 made on Tuesday March 14, 2006 at 15:59 |
Drewmangroup Lurking Member |
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Ok i think I found my own answer. I can add commands to be run at "activity start" and "activity end" . Sorry
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 15:35 |
akirby Super Member |
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Actually you would acomplish that by telling the harmony that the DVD/Tivo combo has inputs and that you go directly to each input by pressing a different button (DVD or Live TV). Then when you set up your activities you just tell it whether it has to be on the DVD input or Live TV input and it will automatically select the right one.
You shouldn't need to put them into the activity start/stop commands althought technically that would probably work.
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| OP | Post 4 made on Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 16:22 |
Drewmangroup Lurking Member |
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Ahh I see. That actually sounds a lot easier. Thanks! I will be getting my remote tommorrow. Hope it doesn't take too long to get it all set up.
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| Post 5 made on Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 16:49 |
akirby Super Member |
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That's much more important if, instead of a discrete button to select each input, you only had a button that cycled through a list of inputs. In that case by defining them as inputs you allow Smart State to keep track of where it is in the list and it will automatically figure out how to get to the right input regardless of where you started.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Thursday March 16, 2006 at 19:43 |
Drewmangroup Lurking Member |
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Does the lcd turn off? I know the backight turns off, but when i put the remote down and then about 30 mins later come back the lcd still is on (not the backlight). I feel this is going to eat up my batteries.
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| Post 7 made on Friday March 17, 2006 at 14:04 |
LCDs use minimal power with the backlight off. This is why an LCD watch will run for long periods of time on a battery. The Harmony does go into a "deep sleep" battery conserving mode if untouched for a long time. I'm not sure if that includes shutting down the LCD--it's hard to catch it asleep, because the least disturbance will wake it.
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