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making a Q50 work like a harmony??
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Post 1 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 07:51
bawbagg
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Does anyone have any experience in making a Q50 work like a harmony??

I used to have one, and really liked the user interface. The Q50 is obviously a truckload more powerful and flexible, but even some of the activity based setups in the file section still require a fair amount a "prodding" to get from one activity to another in a seemless manner.

Interested in hearing any comments :).
Post 2 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 08:54
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Look at the sample files.

There are some great examples in there. Some are activity based.
The files can be found in mydocuments/nevostudio pro/samples.

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Post 3 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 08:56
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its easy . .

on the home screen,
make your activities . .

watch tv,
watch dvd,
and another one called All Off

thats your home screen,
now the side button on the remote is the home button,
it will always take you to your home screen (like the activities button)
OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 13:43
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@sydinstaller
I already looked at the sample files, whilst they look very nice I found them to be functionally lacking in some areas. See below.

@motech
This is exactly the approach taken by the designers of the examples. Whilst this (arguably) does work it is effectively a brute force method - switch everything on at once whether it's needed or not. The key feature of a Harmony is knowing what's on and what's not, and knowing when to switch power and not. Therefore, as well as power on/power off functions you need functions to switch to and from each activity, controlling power for the equipment used in each activity.
Post 5 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 14:05
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you can do even better with the nevo q50, nevo connect, and video/voltage sensors. 


the harmony assumes that a command was received and it only thinks that your tv is on.  the nevoconnect with video/voltage sensors knows if your tv is on. 


get a NC50 nevoconnect, and a voltage sensor and you can do far more than any harmony POS can do.
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OP | Post 6 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 14:10
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Cool. This is what I thought and what I wanted to hear :). I have the Q50 and Nevo Connect, problem is that I think I need to build the UI pretty much from scratch (examples are lacking as per my previous post).
Post 7 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 16:30
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If all of your activities are controlled by discrete commands then you can achieve all the functionality of the Harmony right from the home screen.

The difference with the Harmony technology is that if you do not have discrete commands they try to remember the state of your devices based on the previous commands sent from the remote.

Obviously the voltage sensor option is much more accurate than that because no guess work is involved!
OP | Post 8 made on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 19:04
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Ahh yes... OK with the sensors life gets a lot easier.
Post 9 made on Thursday March 19, 2009 at 12:42
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You could make a duplicate of the home activity page and call it the "return to activity" page and then put a link to it on one of the function keys and call that button return or something along those lines.

On the duplicate page you can assume they are "returning" to the activity and not starting it so you can take the remote commands off the button and put a straight jump to the end using component page (dvd player, cable box ect)

So in the end use they pick up the remote and start an activity on the home page. They decide to fire up their dvr or make some picture adjustments on their set and want to return to their activity. They hit the return button and pick the activity they were enjoying and bam there they are without resending all the turn on commands and macros.

The above mentioned would also work using a sensor on anything without discreet commands and using the if and then statements.
One thing I have learned in this industry. It is easier to pull a wire than it is to push one.
OP | Post 10 made on Thursday March 19, 2009 at 13:44
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Yes - I had thought I might need to do something like that. Thanks for all the suggestions guys :D.


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