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    Am I the only one who wasn’t super impressed with Harmony? I have a Ultimate Home and my biggest issue was how slow it is. Maybe the other newer models are better but I guess I’ll never find out now

    Hopefully someone else comes in with a good product soon as I’ve been wanting to replace this thing for a while now.

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    Slow?
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    If it's this remote that @sabad66 has, then yeah, I have the same one and using the touchscreen is like using a smartphone from five years ago, a bit laggy. Not sure if it's the same with the Elite controllers too.
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    The harmony touchscreens aren’t good. Use the touch screen as little as possible.

    Elite makes the improvement of moving the buttons up top to more of a prime placement and making the touch screen less in the way.

    Aside from that, there is no difference in the remotes.

    I only use my touch screen for selecting an activity. That’s it.
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    Yeah, that's why I never upgraded from the One. Lots of physical buttons to map functions to. I only use the touch screen to change activities or devices.


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    Quote Originally Posted by D'z Nutz View Post
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    Yeah, that's why I never upgraded from the One. Lots of physical buttons to map functions to. I only use the touch screen to change activities or devices.

    This. My favorite remote.

    The elite was better for touch response than the ultimate.
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    Yup that’s the one. I try not to use touch screen either but you have to when starting up. Not only using the touchscreen, when I push an activity it takes a few seconds to fire everything up. Even using the physical buttons for say using a virtual keyboard on the Telus box (to search or enter username/pass) it’s just so slow between button presses. Finally when turning everything off, it takes way too long to do that too. Turning off should be instant IMO (how hard is it to program something to fire off a few IR signals in a split second)

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    Quote Originally Posted by D'z Nutz View Post
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    Yeah, that's why I never upgraded from the One. Lots of physical buttons to map functions to. I only use the touch screen to change activities or devices.

    Elite mostly fixes that issue unless you are set on having a number pad.

    One doesn’t work for me because no RF.

    Harmony usually programs in a delay to make the startup function better. It’s all able to be tweaked in settings (delays and orders)
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    Quote Originally Posted by cyra1ax View Post
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    If it's this remote that @sabad66 has, then yeah, I have the same one and using the touchscreen is like using a smartphone from five years ago, a bit laggy. Not sure if it's the same with the Elite controllers too.
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    Have an older nontouchscreen version. Also tried the app for a while. Didn't like the lagginess.

    It's back to side table with 5 remotes for me.

    But if they discontinue the database and software update, I am not looking forward to the day when I have to replace my parents' gears with ability to reprogram the harmony.

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    Yeah, that's why I never upgraded from the One. Lots of physical buttons to map functions to. I only use the touch screen to change activities or devices.

    This is what I gave to my parents when I upgraded to the hub. Still going strong on 2nd replacement battery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rage2 View Post
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    This. My favorite remote.

    The elite was better for touch response than the ultimate.
    I found the buttons wore out on that one. I find the smaller ones you get with the hub with rubber buttons more reliable.

    Was this just not lucrative enough for Logitech? I found them incredibly useful for controlling ATV, Xbox, Receiver, etc. This news blows as I have two hubs and a 665 in our bedroom. Better see if I can pick up a hub remote or two before they are gone.

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    Rip sweet baby boy. Have been using voice control via google lately but will use my elite until the end.

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    So one of my Harmony Elite is starting to give trouble.
    I need a replacement. I am looking at SofaBaton X1. Any one has any experience with it ?

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    Is there any DIY stuff that doesn’t suck anymore without going C4 or something?
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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    Is there any DIY stuff that doesn’t suck anymore without going C4 or something?
    Not in the C4 league but RTI is one of those.
    I am also looking at RTI. I can't justify the C4 Price

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    I'm like a hawk with my Harmony companion remotes as I'm down to two left after my dog destroyed one.

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    As much as people hate it, I would pay a subscription to keep it alive. The remotes last too long, there's no recurring revenue in it to keep it going profitably.

    Too late now, I'm down to 2 remotes out of 4.
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    People on ebay are asking a lot for used remotes as well.

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