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Fox sat /harmony woes...
Just added a new tv, Harmony 350 and Bose solo to our old but flawless Foxsat-HDR.
After some false starts have got the bits talking to each other. First the sound will only change using the Bose handset. In addition, up works fine but down turns the picture off temporarily for a few seconds. ![]() The rest of the 350 functions except I can find the button that gives access to our recordings. Very odd! Any help gratefully received. The tv is Freeview but we only have a sat dish so the humax controls everything. The Bose solo has been plugged into both the tv and fox sat with no improvement . |
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Just out of interest.... My first attempt at setting up the Harmony I had the whole system turned off, Nothing worked, not even the TV which was recognised by the software ( the Humax/Solo were flagged as possibly using another IR language).
My second attempt. Again I tried setup in the same room but with the system in standby, this time the same procedure was followed and a much better result. It's odd Logitech advice doing the setup in the same room as the system yet they suggest implicitly that it's all done via matching to a software database ![]() I'm not an enthusiast, but I do like to know how things work. I spent an age on here (under a name I can't remember) when the original Foxsat came out and there was a lot of quality posting. It was a quality product and got some serious attention. |
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Bump!!
Found this today... " So, as I said, I went to Fry's today and picked up the Harmony 350. It only has one activity, Watch TV, but that is the only activity I ever set up. Everything else I do with programmable buttons under that activity. However, when I went to set it up, I quickly went through confusion, anger, then rage. See, it has programmable buttons, but only in device mode, and only for the device of that mode, and no macros. I can live without macros, but the idea that it is a programmable remote with only one activity then does not allow you to program ANY button in that activity is, quite frankly, unforgivable. Trying to keep my frustration under check, I went and programmed in two buttons under TV for HDMI1 and HDMI2. Then went into the wife's room to test it. Pressed Watch TV, everything turns on. OK. Pressed the button to switch to HDMI2, nothing... that is because it was programmed under the TV device. So I press TV, and press HDMI2, it works. Jumps to HDMI2 even though the Wii U isn't turned on yet (good). Press HDMI1 and it jumps back to Uverse. Volume up and down, good. Guide button... nothing. Oh, that is because I'm still under TV. Press cable and I can go to guide, but now lose TV functions. I guess I should be back in Watch TV, press that mode... everything turns off. So to be clear, you can't use any programmable buttons, really, because the only way to get back to the Watch TV activity turns everything off. And there is no longer any way to stop that. Previously you could tell the Harmony remotes not to mess with the power when switching activities. That has been removed." Hence the 350 has taken me no further forward apart from Turning the TV and PVR simultaneously! Its going back thanks the the distance selling regs. |
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Well, thanks for all the help
This section of the site seems to be a bit dead. Any suggestions for a lively tv tech site?![]() Bye... |
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This section of the site seems to be a bit dead. Any suggestions for a lively tv tech site?