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| Post 1 made on Saturday October 24, 2009 at 12:59 |
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Hi, everyone I hope to get some feedback on the following (Sorry its so long I hope it wont put to manny off :-)
I'm going to invest in a universal remote and think that the harmony 890 or the 900 could be the right one for me... Here is my thoughts and questions so far:
I'm leaning towards the 900 because of the IR blasters, rather then the IR emitters on the 890. Reason for this is that the equipment that I want to control is in my home theatre room, and While I'm in that room I still want to be able to operate the equipment with the original remotes. (I guess that the emitters mounted on/over the IR receivers will be blocking IR signals not coming from the emitters them self, as from, - say an original remote?!)
On the other hand, I have read about the rather short RF range of the 900 and that might be a problem, I'm not sure though. To give you an image of the conditions I'm in, I have a logitech Bluetooth keybord (the diNovo) in the room with the equipment to control (home theater room), which is working fine from the couch in the TV room. (where I will be using the universal remote) I'm thinking if Bluetooth 2.0 works fine, Id think that the 900 should also be working just fine... What do you think?
An other thing that I'm thinking about is the shot Activities macro list on the small screen on the 900. Is it possible to chose wich room you are in? Like it seams you can doo on the 890?
The thing is that In my set up I have a Yamaha reciver in the Home theater room, to this reciever is hook a blueray player, an old tape recorder, a computer, The living room TV, a projector, a digital TV set top box and maybe a future game console.
The reciever is suplying audio to: My 7.1 home theater setup in the home theater room, to the living room both for TV audio and music. It is also supplying audio to the kitchen for music. These 3 rooms is powered or ampilyfied zones on the Yamaha. There is a forth zone through signal cable from the reciever, to the bathroom, also for music.
In the kitchen is going to be a smaller TV set, which Id also like to be able to control with IR from the universal remote.
So as you can see, simply pressing listen to music (like it apears to be working on the 900) is not quiet enough. I need to be able to deside wich room... So anyone know, if after pressing listen to music, you get to deside which room to start listening to music, if you that same option in several rooms?
On the other hand, this seams to be quiet straight forward on the 890, as the photos I have seen of the remote display, have a living room icon in the upper left corner..!?
Another question, Is it possible to get IR blasters, like those comming with the 900, for the 890 instead of the IR emmiters? I dont mind getting third party blasters, if it will work. I'm hoping to stay under 400$ for the whole setup.
I have also been thinking about the 890 Pro, but it seams to be much like the 890, only I have to get the RF stuff separately, just adding to the price..? If I missed out on something about the 890Pro, Id like to hear about it.
Also If what I discribed above is totaly impossible to achive with the harmony line of URC's then I'm open towards other products, but please consider that this stuff is going to be used in Denmark Europe and the logitech products enjoys great support towards working with/supports european products. Some thing that I doubt many of the other products, like the URC line of products, does.
Thanks for reading all of this, looking forward to hearing from you all. :-)
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