If anything, it’s surprising that Harmony lasted as long as it did.Īnd now that it’s gone? That’s pretty much it for the smart remote, at least in the way that Harmony embodied it: a single controller to rule them all, with its own interface and touchscreen and deep bank of devices burned into its digital brain. The writing has been on the wall, the floors, the ceiling, the sconces, you get it.

Logitech hadn’t released a new Harmony device since April 2019, and CEO Bracken Darrell first suggested he might jettison the entire line six years before that. That last Friday’s announcement came as an unceremonious post in the Logitech support forums speaks to just how little the company has valued Harmony in recent years. Sent to that big charging cradle in the sky. It would sell off whatever stock remained and keep adding to its sprawling database of supported devices. A client had sent him word that the company was giving up on the product line and that it would no longer manufacture what had become the gold standard in remote controls. “They finally did it.”įor the past decade, Werthauer has run a repair store for Logitech Harmony remotes out of his home on Long Island. “Oh, shit,” he thought as he read the email on his phone. You will need to do this for any button that you want to use both on the Standard buttons (hard keys) and the Additional buttons (lcd/touchscreen).Quin Werthauer was enjoying a cup of coffee in his kitchen when he got the news. Finally, we can now click on the Additional buttons tab and actually use the real command (in our example Playstation3 > Circle) and once we Update our remote, we won’t have a duplicate icon/button on the touchscreen/lcd!! Now click on the device drop-down and choose Sequence (not the device!) and then the sequence we just created (ie Circle button)ħ. Click on the “ Standard Buttons” tab to assign the sequence for the hard key we want the command for.

We will be brought back to our Customize buttons screen. Click the Add button to add another, once your done, hit the Done button.Ħ. (in my example, Circle button > Playstation 3 > Circle.)ĥ. This will open the “Add Sequence” screen, basically just give the sequence a basic name, then click the device we want the commnd from and then the command. In the lower left, click on the “ Add Sequence” button.Ĥ.

Click on the Customize buttons for the activity we are having problems with.ģ. In the logitech harmony software, we will do the following:Ģ. To fix the problem, you need to do the following:Ĭreate a one button sequence for the command you want to use both as a hard key and Additional command/button. Yet, i only have one page of additional buttons? It appears to be a general bug in the Logitech software.īasically the problem is this i f you assign an button/command to a hard button for an activity (ie the actual physical buttons on the remote such as Vol + or Vol – and then use the same command again for Additional Commands (to show up on the lcd), the command will repeat itself twice on the lcd/touchscreen area. This recipe will explain how to fix this problem. However after setting up my PS3, Windows7 HTPC, HDTV, and a few other devices I started to run into problems with the Touchscreen commands starting to repeat onto later screens for that particular activity. I purchased a Harmony One remote for this sole purpose. Yes,I am one of those techies/geeks that likes to be able to control everything with one remote.

Harmony one reorder activities