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Logitech Harmony 510 Advanced Universal Remote Control | 
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| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $79.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 18 x 3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 915-000082
Model: 915-000082
UPC: 097855054838
EAN: 0097855054838
ASIN: B001F51G1Q
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| Features:
| • | Replaces up to five remotes, reducing clutter and complexity in your living room | | • | One-touch, activity-based control turns on the right devices in the right order getting you to your entertainment easier and faster than any other remote. | | • | Interactive LCD with Help function makes it easy for everyone in the family to use | | • | Helpful online software guides you through setup. Our live customer support team can help you, should you need it | | • | Supporting more than 225,000 devices from 5,000 brands, you can be confident |
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Product Description
Your coffee table has five remotes. You have a special drawer where you keep them. Wouldn't it be easier to just have one remote? You can. Replace all your remotes with Harmony.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 What a relief!! January 10, 2009
We had 4 remotes for everything, we got tried of fumbling around with all of them. Amazon had the best price for this remote, so we thought "why not"? LOVE IT!! It had been so nice to watch TV or a movie with only 1 remote.
The 510 was easy to set up & ready to go after 15 minutes. We had a small problem with it 4 days after we got it (a button got stuck down-my fault-fingernails). The people at the call center were so helpful & didn't make me feel stupid.
I would recommend this product for all.
Even my wife likes it! January 9, 2009
The product arrived 3 days after order. I followed the instructions for installing the software and connecting the remote to the PC. All devices were recognized even the Wii console. The software did inform me that the Wii was bluetooth and could not be controlled by the remote, but the remote sets up my Yamaha A/V receiver and TV to the correct selections for playing.
All devices recognized and ativities set up to watch TV, play a DVD (on a Sony Blu-ray player), listen to CDs and play games within 30 minutes. I oopsed the connection to the TV (picked the wrong HDMI input) but after correcting all activities work as intended. M
Pros: It passed the wife test! I had another universal remote which failed to recognize my at&t set top box and has been a paper weight ever since. This one passes the wife test with flying colors.
Cons: Only con is that I had to program one of the soft keys for the back button on the Motorola set top box. Everything else works fine!
Universally For Couch Potatoes January 8, 2009
There is no question about television these days. With all the needs for switching from analog to digital broadcasting this year, it seems like you'd need an upgrade for just about everything, whether it is the television with a DTV converter box, or getting a new television altogether. But, you'd also have to have the need to purchase a new remote control as well. If you already have a universal remote, it may not be compatable with your television or your converter box either. While there are so many universal remotes, not everyone works with everything. Well, Logitech knows that feeling well, with a line of remote controls that are sure to help you guide the way, and this one could leave you in harmony.
The Logitech Harmony 510 Advanced Universal Remote Control, is a simple and convient universal remote control that works with a simple touch of the finger. But, this remote control is different from regular universal remote controls. This one works with the simplicity of your home computer. All you need to do is install the remote and its software into your computer, enter the model numbers of your television, DVD Player, your cable box, your VCR, even your media center P.C. into the computer, and it will clarify if your models are compatable. Once it is, it will download the information into the remote, and it works like a charm. It works well for TV/DVD combos and handles better than remotes you'd have to put complicated codes in, which at the end you'd find out might not work altogether.
Sadly, there are a couple of disadvantages with the remote. One of the biggest disadvantages is that with some combos like DVD / VCR combos, it will only work with only one part, either the DVD or the VCR alone, and not both of them together, which leaves some devices working half of the way. Secondly, I also was a bit upset that the remote is really priced very high. While you could find other remotes at less-expensive prices, Logitech's brand is priced at around $80- $100. So, if you're on a budget, you might not be able you buy this remote control and choose something that will only be something more of a struggle. The last one is that you have to have a computer to operate this. If you don't, than you can't purchase this remote.
Despite a few flaws, the Logitech Harmony 510 handles very well for those who want the nearly-simplest way to operate their best in entertainment, whether it is their televisions, or replacing a broken remote control you've had with your television for a long time, but stopped functioning after awhile. I like how simple it is to work, and does a much most decent job at helping around the house. If you're looking for a strong universal remote, than I absolutely suggest this for your home.
Price: B-
Convience: B
Setup: B
Compatability: B-
Overall: B 1/2-
 Almost, but no cigar... January 7, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reviews of the 510 seemed positive. Someone's actually marketing a true universal remote for short money (fifty bucks)?? Well, not quite. Setup seemed straightforward--especially for a dweeb like me whose experience with computer related gadgetry is not sterling--except for a maddening inability to access programmed mini-theater(Panasonic SC PT750)inputs. Some of this was solved by changing the input sequence on the 510 to match the sequence on the original PT750 remote. That seemed to fix TV and DVD access but not access to additional activities such as FM radio and CD play. Tinkering with signal response times has, so far, also not been successful. Sure, the Help command can eventually get you to where you want to go but why bother: the original remote is faster and more direct. Frustrating indeed as I was contemplating tossing the original remotes into the magazine rack...so at this stage I'll give Logitech A for effort and C for performance. And oh, those tiny,thinly spaced number buttons are mighty lame.
 Unlimited time? Like to waste it? This remote's for you January 4, 2009
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you enjoy spending most of your prized Christmas holiday with family gathered round as you wrestle with a product that repeatedly promises but cannot seem to deliver on the basics, you will enjoy the Logitech 510 immensely.
Then, after savoring that thought, imagine your sheer joy at rigorously testing the device dozens of times with complete success, but then only days later receiving a phone call from a confused family member 400 miles away asking why their wonderful new remote suddenly refuses to change the inputs on the big screen TV, making it impossible to do, well, nearly anything.
History is filled with the hubris of engineers who liked to brag about their genius in creating ultimate solutions. The Hindenburg and the Titanic come to mind, as does the famed Edsel line of automobiles that left mechanical parts tinkling on the highway as they were driven from the showroom floor by their lucky new owners.
But the "engineers" at Logitech were not content with just one ultimate solution, they had to invent a total of five universal remotes, giving us the Logitech 510: a great monument to their own failure, and the one we happen to own.
To be fair, universal remote controls have had one of the most disastrous histories of any consumer product category. In fact, it is a category that leads one to believe that consumer electronics engineers are actually a sadistic cult that wants to lead America to a new kind of hell in which all of our time is spent pushing buttons while screaming expletives.
But the Logitech 510 shows that the truth is sadder than that. They actually seem to be sincerely trying, but do not realize that they have failed, much like their careless, idiotic brethren of the past. (Cue Hindenburg explosion.)
My bitterness and disappointment arise partly from the fact that I am the happy owner of several other very good Logitech products: a wireless mouse, a USB hub, a various other useful computing doo-dads. Advice to Logitech: stick to the computer stuff.
The supposed "genius" of the Logitech 510 is the fact that you attach it to your computer with a USB cable to program its buttons. You install software from a supplied CD to make your programming choices. This is where it becomes clear that the Logitech engineers have driven themselves right over a cliff, and taken us with them.
For one thing, they have the nerve to install an irritating Logitech "communications center" on your computer so that, every time you restart it, an intrusive window appears asking if you would like to check with Logitech for "important messages." (Such as, perhaps, opportunities to buy more remotes? I was scared to find out, so I finally figured out how to turn that off.) This sort of nonsense went out of style sometime after the dot-com crash, but Logitech engineers apparently don't get out much.
But the real problem is this: Logitech attempts to do everything with "wizards," which is just a nickname for stepping you through settings one at time. And they don't have just one wizard, but three or four. And each wizard seems to overlap the functions of another, so when you change something in one wizard it COULD be changing something you set in another wizard. But you can't tell. One wizard sets up a device (big screen TV, DVD player, etc.) and another sets up an "activity" (Watch TV, Watch DVD, etc.). But the dullards at Logitech haven't fully sorted out what belongs where, so you find yourself repeating the wizards over and over (Did I get them all? Is there a hidden wizard somewhere? Yes! Here's another!) until you think you've covered your bases.
From this, you go into endless trial-and-error; test, and retest, and retest... just like every model of universal remote that has ever been shoveled out the door in the past by pointy-haired marketing managers.
During all of the above, the true laziness of the Logitech engineers is betrayed. The Logitech 510 is supposedly programmed from a huge database of thousands of devices the company includes with the product. (Our devices are about a year old - not too challenging.) But, when you go to make a simple setting (such as whether or not you want some device to turn off or be on all the time), the wizard asks you to get the original remote, aim it at the Logitech 510, and press the specific button the 510 needs to "learn."
Well, okay fair enough. Maybe they don't have every command for every device. But here's the really stupid part: you have to do this "learning" procedure EVERY TIME you run the same wizard. So, you "teach" the 510 the command from the original remote, but it cannot remember what it learned from one session to the next! That's just one example of the overall flavor of the Logitech 510 experience -- not something anyone should tolerate, much less pay for. Did I say "stupid"? Correction: It's criminally stupid.
In the end, all the effort was for naught. I have now departed from my family gathering and have told my mother she will have to call me each time she needs to play a DVD or watch TV, so I can tell her which buttons to push. Why? Because, like the Hindenburg, the Logitech 510 almost made it there but then blew up at the crucial moment.
Message to Logitech: Talk to real people once in a while, why don't you? P.S. Where do I send the bill for my time?
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