Shawn's quote about often reverting to the original remotes is why I recommend a good URC to a more technically inclined person. It took a while with some trial and error to get it designed correctly, but I now have my URC 300 set up in such a way that there is not a feature on any of my gear that I can't access from the URC.
At first I went with just daily functionality and kept the others nearby, but over time, I added more and more features and found ways to organize the many touch screens (one screen but hundreds of pages available to add buttons)so that now I have everything I need on the one remote in a logical manner. (The trick is designing the logical manner). Daily functions are on the hard buttons and the less used functions are organized into touch screens.
Also you can have a combination of any remote's buttons on any group of screens so I don't have to flip devices to access something common. Made my own "Activity" buttons with macros so even my Dad can watch TV, movies, music, whatever when he comes to babysit the dog.
Most recently I added macros to change user modes on my receiver so when I choose my [Movie] or [Music] activity buttons, it applies a couple of tweaks like +2db center & surrounds with +3db sub for movies and then back to perfectly even for music.
Perhaps all this is now possible on the newer Harmonies? I'm stuck comparing to the older ones I set up for relatives.
Note for the purists, I'm trying really hard to learn to like my surrounds calibrated even with the others but with my room and/or placement, even my wife comments that the surround effects are weak in movies unless they are up a notch. +2 seems to be a nice blend where the sound is heard and is enveloping but not distractingly directional.
Last edited by Murph; 02/05/08 06:03 PM.
