Also, I do not have to hold the remote at a weird angle. They are still small, but I find that not needing to aim the remote makes it a lot easier to use & when I need to look at the buttons I can while pressing. It is so good I tried a five step multi-command Macro - I now have a one-button Favorites guide.Įarlier, I said the buttons were kind of small. Every button press results in the correct action. I am really impressed with how rock solid the IR works. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts. The SC has a quarter sized battery that they say is engineered for a one year life. I have to charge the two AA sized batteries in the 700 about once a week. When my Logitech Harmony model 700 ran out of charge, I used the SC while the 700 charged up. So, all the functions are covered with direct access to the device. Then I programmed the long press on the first three activities- Volume up/down/mute - long press to be STB instead of TV. I just added three more Activities - Just the three TVs - providing the equivalent of direct device access. The ideas just keep rolling in - I have the three Activity buttons programmed for the three different STBs connected to three different TVs. So, I have the SC controlling two TVs and Two STBs. The base reason for the SC is to control the second STB These are so much better than the usual recording buttons. I think I am at the point where I could use the SC remote as a primary remote except for two things - the aforementioned small & close number buttons and I have two very large buttons on the 700 for FF on recordings. It is good that Logitech wants to include a correct set-up of the equipment, but a robust support needs to include the flexibility to skip those steps. Previous models of the Harmony could not do that. I believe I have found the programming to do that. Since I am primarily using my Harmony 700 for primary control, I want to disable those two steps. When selecting an Activity, Logitech wants to turn on all the devices & set the proper input. My programming was especially frustrating because I am going against the tide. If you already have a Harmony, you can just copy it. SC programming is daunting - time consuming - perhaps hard to get used to because it is quite comprehensive. That said, the complexity is encountered in the set-up. The Activity is just an overlay to help bring order to the complexity. Of course, the devices still control what happens. The next step is activities, where the button map is set to support an activity that encompasses multiple devices & pre sets power and input. This is the way the u-verse remote works. This is sometimes called “punch through”. STB) a universal remote needs to have some buttons for one device & other buttons for the other device. When it becomes necessary to add another device (e.g. It can control up to three of the same device, such as STBs, because it has three IR blasters that can be assigned to specific instances of devices.įor those unfamiliar with activities - In the beginning, there was one device (e,g, TV) with it’s own remote. Devices are all controlled by the buttons assigned to an activity. The SC has six activities - No direct access to devices. The U-verse remote has one activity oddly combined with some device access. Other Logitech Harmony remotes have distinct Activities and Devices. I was leery of this feature, but it seems to work well. The SC has an interesting way of allowing for many functions - each button has two functions - one for a short press & one for a long press. I went to do this & found it in place as part of the auto assignment of buttons. I will probably, add the Jump ahead & back as a long press of FF. I programmed the red record button to be a power toggle. I programmed mine (four colored buttons) to navigate the input on my JVC TV. The only non-labeled buttons are the four colored buttons. ![]() The following U-verse buttons are missing from the SC remote. The buttons do seem smaller & closer together, but they are OK, except for the numbers - Too small & too close. It is about 1.5 - 2 inches shorter than the U-verse remote. ![]() The SC physical remote has a really good feel to it. I feel that a physical remote is much easier to use for regular viewing than an app. ![]() The SC wi-fi also communicates with the mother ship to allow programming via a computer or tablet and save the settings. It only communicates with the IR blaster. The SC does have a unique design - It has an IR blaster that connects to WI-fi to communicate with an app on a portable tablet and a physical remote. When the OK button seems to have worn out on my five year old point anywhere remote, I went for an SC. It intriqued me about the new Logitech Harmony remotes, particularly the Smart Control (SC) as a replacement for the U-verse point anywhere remote to ccontrol the second TV (see avatar). Someone posted on getting a new Logitech Harmony remote.
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