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Great Remote, controls everything including my Roomba!
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) Well, my Sima SUR-20 remote finally died after 5 years, so I had to find a replacement. I decided that I wanted a true universal/learning remote that had more than just a touchscreen. I started my search with Harmony because I have heard a lot of good things about them. My criteria included: learning, full macros, configurable, easy to use for less technologically advanced people, good button lay out, a...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Great remote with a great price tag!
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) After doing a lot of research, and finally reading slick045's and Justin's review below (the icing on the cake), I decided to go with the 550. I was looking for a simple, cool looking, rectangular remote that could control all of my devices (without breaking the bank). Within an hour, I had the remote working exactly how I wanted (actually, in 10 minutes I had the first iteration of it going). I was s...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Great product - went 5 to 1 controls -- easy to setup !
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) Like other people with several pieces of electronics, I had become frustrated by having to set up and use different control units. Of course, one can sometime get an individual control unit to control more than one piece of equiment (e.g., control your TV off of a DVD control). I had tried ...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/26/2007
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A Love / Hate Relationship
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) Summary:
A great remote, but one that may take many hours of your time to set up
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- Good ergonomics
- Nice tactile feel on buttons
- Highly configurable
- Seems to put out a strong signal (better then my factory remotes)
- Non-rechargable (I consider this a plus)
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- Setup is easy, but getting it right can take hours
- Not easy ...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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great upgrade to a great product
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) I have owned one of the orginal Harmony remotes for three years, and just upgraded to the new 550.
Other reviewers describe the effectiveness of Harmony's "activities" based set up, and it truly is a great solution for the complicated "many remotes on the coffee table" problem. I'd like to address how easy it was to upgrade from an older model to the 550.
I spent about 45 minutes p...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Best Universal for the Price
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) I've been using this remote for at least 6 months now and I must say this thing is awesome. Despite what other reviewers would have you believe, the ability to have every button from all your remotes is what I think makes this remote so great. Any "soft button" logitech doesn't include in the initial programing of your device can be learned through the IR port.
Also, my remote never misses a...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/13/2006
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Cleaned up the clutter
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) Bought this refurbished...arrived quickly, looks new. Works with all my products, just takes some time to adjust the remote settings to my needs (this is my first universal remote, so I'm learning as I go). Seems to include all the fuctions of products, even worked with a ten year old Pioneer mini-stereo system.
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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OK, but worse than the 6xx series
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) I already had a Harmony 628 and two 659's. I am a big fan of the Harmony concept and liked the 659 model with a single big exception: the location of the DVD/VCR play/fast-forward/stop/etc. controls at the very bottom of the remote where they are hard to access one handed. The 628 has those controls located further north on the remote, but it is missing some buttons that are useful with TIVO.
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Replaced 3 times now dead again
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) This is the most unreliable consumer device I have ever purchased. Within the first year I had it replaced under warranty 3 times. Now it is out of warranty and the display has gone blank. I will never buy another Logitech remote.
The problems I encountered were: screen blank, remote stays on all the time and drains battery, remote doesn't control my devices.
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Next-generation Harmony remote not much better than the previous generation
This review is from: Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote (Electronics) This is my second Harmony remote, after I started to have problems with my Harmony 680 shortly after the warranty was up (I also reviewed this remote in detail on Amazon).
After trying a second, newer Harmony remote, I think I've decided that I don't like Harmony remotes. They have perhaps the best approach that I know of (with their Activities method) on the software side, but the hardware ha...
[Logitech : : Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote - Refurbished (996000024) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/20/2006
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68%
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