[ddubois]

I have a Harmony 880 and I like it, but I would have liked anything that would let me store away 4+ separate prior remotes. I do agree my original Tivo remote had better ergonomics for FF/Play buttons, but I haven't been terribly annoyed, I just got used to holding the remote lower than seems natural.

The setup is "deceptively easy". You add devices via a web form and its quick and painless, and you think everythihng is cool, but my experience was that things didn't really work the way I wanted from that process. I had to tweak settings for a week and eventually had to have an hour long conversation with support to resolve timing/input issues with the Westinghouse LWM-42w2. It's pretty good now though. I still need to fix some more of the button mappings in one of the activities so I don't have to revert to device mode for a couple of functions, but it's easy and I'm just being lazy. More notably, I haven't been able to get the post-activity-launch macros to work for my Xbox (I wanted a separate xbox activity that takes me directly to Pictures, for instance). That might be a matter of needing more experimentation with delays in the macro.

I don't understand why people are knocking the fact that it's a web form instead of a downloadable application - who gives a [censored]? Anyway, I think they have a new 5.3 version updater that is downladable (but still accesses the net for device information), but I haven't tried it. In fact, I could be fixing my button mappings while I'm at work, instead of wasting time in OOT, because my configuration info is on the web instead of on my comptuer.

I was dissapointed it wouldn't work my ceiling fan, but that's not Harmony's fault, it's the FCC's. No universal remote can work an ad hoc RF device - no, not even the "RF" 890.