How would you bribe your mrs for a harmony one?

[Anonymous]

Bribing the wife is the wrong approach

With mine the 'not another bl**dy gadget' initial skepticism was quickly overcome when she realised she did not need 6 remote controls lying around.

Plus now when she switched the TV on (and the AV amp etc all switches on as well) it sounded so much better - Corrie in surround sound - what more could a woman want

P.S. As mentioned before - she will get bloody annoyed if her blue/green/red/yellow buttons are missing

 

[Anonymous]

Mrs Relapse actually suggested to me to get the Harmony 555 about 3 years ago (I lie she didn't actually say harmony 555, she said something more along the lines of, "Why haven't 'They' invented something that does all of this for you?!" Or such like.) as she was really peeved with having to go through 3 remotes just to watch coranationenders, or whatever it's called. Now we press 1 button on the remote and the macro's take care of it all. (Did take the best part of 8 hours, on and off, to setup though), marital bliss guaranteed.

This is the only meaningful input she's had on our sound system other than the ubiquitous, sounds nice and wassatfor?

As for a bribe, I'd just buy it and watch her face light up when she realises how useful it is. you can always lie about the cost

 

[Anonymous]

shanej66:

The lack of dedicated blue/green/red/yellow buttons strikes me as a serious oversight, especially when controlling a sky box or doing anything with teletext. I don't want to be scrolling through menu's on the screen to get access to them

Main reason I've never changed mine

Shanej66 - I agree the lack of dedicated RGYB buttons is one of the few oversights by Logitech. But for the Harmony One, you can always re-order the buttons on the screen to have the 6 mosted used on the first page etc. For Activities such as 'Watch Tv' or 'Watch HD Recorder', I have the RGYB and text buttons on the first page so they're nice and handy.

Nick

 

[Anonymous]

shanej66:

The lack of dedicated blue/green/red/yellow buttons strikes me as a serious oversight, especially when controlling a sky box or doing anything with teletext. I don't want to be scrolling through menu's on the screen to get access to them

Main reason I've never changed mine

Shanej66 - I agree the lack of dedicated RGYB buttons is one of the few oversights by Logitech. But for the Harmony One, you can always re-order the buttons on the screen to have the 6 most used on the first page etc. For Activities such as 'Watch Tv' or 'Watch HD Recorder', I have the RGYB and text buttons on the first page so they're nice and handy.

Nick

 

[Anonymous]

hammill:professorhat:
If the Bible sets it, it must be true. For instance:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. -- Proverbs 23:13-14

That there's good teaching.

Indeed or perhaps

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

The old testament is a laugh a minute

That's a bit nutty, though quite amusing - don't most civilised religious people play down the OT or exclude it from their beliefs?

 

[chebby]

Deuteronomy. 22:11 You shall not wear cloth of two different kinds of thread, wool and linen, woven together

Well that's a lot of us off to Hell then!

 

[Tonya]

There's very little Harmony in our house when it comes to the AV monster that is gradually taking over the living area.
My better half is "technologically challenged" so I had to suffer the pain and torture of a four day programming seminar just to put together a Crestron system so she can use the touchscreen to choose between Sky, BluRay and iPad.

Consider yourself lucky you can get away with the Harmony.

 

[Amadeus1756]

I wonder how long it'll be before someone does a really good (definitive) app for the iPhone/iPad which will render universal remotes redundant? (Chebby: what's the plane in your avatar?)

 

[bob.g]

My OH constantly swears at our 'One'. She does love the simplicity it offers, but she has long nails so presses the touchpad and keys with the flats of her finger tips, so is frequently also touching other keys with sometimes vastly unintended consequences !

 

[Tonya]

"I wonder how long it'll be before someone does a really good (definitive) app for the iPad...."

We have our national TV signals via a fibre network connected to a dedicated HD decoder box then out via an HDMI port.
We then downloaded the free app for the iPad which is basically a scrolling TV guide across all the channels available.
The gimmick is that when you set the app up for the first time, you also input the TV decoder's MAC address (or addresses if you have several boxes).
Then by just selecting various programs on the iPad, it will instruct the decoder boxes to switch over or record the programs you want, similar to Sky's system.

Also, I can control my Crestron system using the iPad quite effectively

 

[hammill]

hmtb:hammill:professorhat:

If the Bible sets it, it must be true. For instance:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. -- Proverbs 23:13-14

That there's good teaching.

Indeed or perhaps

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

The old testament is a laugh a minute

That's a bit nutty, though quite amusing - don't most civilised religious people play down the OT or exclude it from their beliefs?

Personally, I consider "civilised religious people" an oxymoron. Throughout the world, particularly in the US and Africa, fundamentalist Christians quote the Old Testament to justify their homophobia and more Americans believe that the Old Testament creation story is correct than accept evolution theory. In the interest of balance, the majority of the population of Pakistan (according to the Guardian ) believe a Christian women accused of Blasphemy should be put to death and support the murder of a politican who spoke in her defence.

 

[Anonymous]

Just accept it mate, you have to beg alot, clean, shop etc and hope she feels sorry for you!!

Never mind who wears the trousers bull!! us men know who does!! only 2 people who shout at me are my Mrs and my Mum,

 

[Anonymous]

I am selling my harmony one.

Going to stick with my 515, as use the coloured buttons ect. to much

 

[Alantiggger]

hammill:hmtb:hammill:professorhat:

If the Bible sets it, it must be true. For instance:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. -- Proverbs 23:13-14

That there's good teaching.

Indeed or perhaps

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

The old testament is a laugh a minute

That's a bit nutty, though quite amusing - don't most civilised religious people play down the OT or exclude it from their beliefs?

Personally, I consider "civilised religious people" an oxymoron. Throughout the world, particularly in the US and Africa, fundamentalist Christians quote the Old Testament to justify their homophobia and more Americans believe that the Old Testament creation story is correct than accept evolution theory. In the interest of balance, the majority of the population of Pakistan (according to the Guardian ) believe a Christian women accused of Blasphemy should be put to death and support the murder of a politican who spoke in her defence.

Lol, not just Americans... add to that a whole stack of African countries as well as many many more. Without wanting to bore... how did evolution come about then ? It couldn't have started with a big bang ! ... nothing to go bang ? A simple thing to disprove that big bang ! is the simple understanding of a law in physics called ''the conservation of angular momentum' it states that when a spinning object breaks apart whilst spinning in a frictionless environment the fragments will all spin off in the same direction because the outside is spinning faster than the inside and so it will keep the same direction of spin .... so if that's true then how is it that in our own universe alone we have two of the planets spinning backwards ? oh and 6 of the moons out of 63 rotate backwards (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions) why ? ... God created everything (rules of phisics too)... and he did this so as to make the 'big bang theory' look stupid

Evolution is a religion... you have to believe in it .. science on the other hand and in many many instances can prove that same big bang theory and theory of evolution ... sciense itself blows these ideas out of the water. Some go on about death and 'why did God allow this or that to happen' ... well according to that Bible ... he actually gave Satan dominion ,power and principality over the air and such ... might we all be blaming the wrong being at such times ? (debate)

 

[professorhat]

 

[georgecostanza]

My other half is a graphic designer, studied art at Cambridge and thinks the one is a fab piece of design. Good enough for me .

 

[Anonymous]

save your money... bought one and its back in the drawer, it can't control the TV inputs correctly (philips) wasted too many hours with Logitec and their annoying support site.

 

[ayjaycee]

Fully agree with 1000poundman - they are a pain.

 

[Anonymous]

I am more annoyed that there is no z-wave, you ALMOST need to point the remote directly at the tv.

With my sky remote, I can press the buttons against to wall and it would change the channel, but harmony wont.

Bad mistake by logitech as the chip is only a few quid from what I heard.

 

[Lee H]

Alantiggger:Why on earth would you have to bribe at all ? Who wears the trousers ?

Me. Although my wife chooses them and tells me which ones to wear. But I definitely wear them.

 

[Timbot]

I find a Kalashnikov is usually a good way to start the bargaining.

 

[Anonymous]

hammill:hmtb:hammill:professorhat:

If the Bible sets it, it must be true. For instance:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. -- Proverbs 23:13-14

That there's good teaching.

Indeed or perhaps

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

The old testament is a laugh a minute

That's a bit nutty, though quite amusing - don't most civilised religious people play down the OT or exclude it from their beliefs?

Personally, I consider "civilised religious people" an oxymoron. Throughout the world, particularly in the US and Africa, fundamentalist Christians quote the Old Testament to justify their homophobia and more Americans believe that the Old Testament creation story is correct than accept evolution theory. In the interest of balance, the majority of the population of Pakistan (according to the Guardian ) believe a Christian women accused of Blasphemy should be put to death and support the murder of a politican who spoke in her defence.

Lol, not just Americans... add to that a whole stack of African countries as well as many many more. Without wanting to bore... how did evolution come about then ? It couldn't have started with a big bang ! ... nothing to go bang ? A simple thing to disprove that big bang ! is the simple understanding of a law in physics called ''the conservation of angular momentum' it states that when a spinning object breaks apart whilst spinning in a frictionless environment the fragments will all spin off in the same direction because the outside is spinning faster than the inside and so it will keep the same direction of spin .... so if that's true then how is it that in our own universe alone we have two of the planets spinning backwards ? oh and 6 of the moons out of 63 rotate backwards (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions) why ? ... God created everything (rules of phisics too)... and he did this so as to make the 'big bang theory' look stupid

Evolution is a religion... you have to believe in it .. science on the other hand and in many many instances can prove that same big bang theory and theory of evolution ... sciense itself blows these ideas out of the water. Some go on about death and 'why did God allow this or that to happen' ... well according to that Bible ... he actually gave Satan dominion ,power and principality over the air and such ... might we all be blaming the wrong being at such times ? (debate)

hate to revive an old debate but i am revising human endocrinology and am very bored (and my girlfriend just went to sleep). Just want to say that everyone involved in what I will refer to as the "religion vs science" debate made several logical flaws within their own arguement.

I apologise in advance for any gramatical idiosyncrasies, it is 350am.

Whoever said this:

"Personally, I consider "civilised religious people" an oxymoron"

then went on to cite a series of fringe examples who few people would refer to as "civilised" actions or people. Your so blinded by your anger and frustrated by other peoples lack of understanding if what you consider to be the "true" that you metaphorically fail to see the nose on the end of your face. Of course there are example of people who are both religious and civilised, continuing in your tunnel visioned vein of thinking I could cite Ghandi as an example. At a guess I'd put your latent (albeit tame) misanthropic tendencies down to existential thinking which you did not carry through to logical completion, however my ability to psychoanalyze you is somewhat hampered by the fact I have only encountered you within the parameters of a virtual realm.

This line "In the interest of balance" is so far out of context its absurd. I've met more intelligent animals quite frankly. The point of this statement is surely as a pretext to an example where you show both sides of the arguement of the original statement: "I consider "civilised religious people" an oxymoron." Instead you take it as an excuse to show the downside to religious extremity of equally irrational people from pakistan.

As for the response regarding: "the conservation of angular momentum," I worry for the future of humanity. What you have done is taken a concept you have not fully understood and extrapolated too far and taken too many "leaps of logic" NB the well read among you will note the play on words from kierkegaard here. (I amuse myself if no-one else). I digress, back to the matter at hand, I can provide a very basic explanation for why "we have two of the planets spinning backwards." I will point you towards this article, which adresses the issue you raised in another solar system, and a quote from the journal 'A near collision during the early, violent stage of this planetary system could well have caused a gravitational slingshot, flinging WASP-17 into its backwards orbit.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206148/Backwards-galaxy-First-planet-orbits-opposite-direction-star.html

As for this: "big bang theory and theory of evolution ... sciense itself blows these ideas out of the water." I'd like examples, if you refer me to intellgent design, I will refer you to be sectioned.

Regarding your other illogical and absurd ideas, I'd keep them to yourself, lest they take hold in minds inferior even to yours.

As an extrodinarily intelligent man once told me "the difference between me and the average person in terms of iq is the same as the difference between an averagely intelligent man and someone clinically diagnosed as having moderate retardation." My IQ was above his.

 

[CnoEvil]

That wouldn't convince my O/H to let me get a Harmony one.

 

[Paul.]

My gf is fairly relaxed when it comes AV stuff, she understood the amp, tollerates the legions of (fake)walnut boxes littering out living room, can live with the sub, got quite upset when she found out the marble chopping board wasnt for her and found out it was to go under said sub (I probably should have pointed that out in the shop)...

But...

The filthy look she gave me today when I said I was going spend £99 on a remote control. I think all she could think about was the quantity of clothing she could bring home from Primark for the same amount. Thats a lot. She looked at me as if I was the stupidist person she had ever met, as if I'd just hit her over the head in a slapstick ladder carrying incident. Somehow informing her said remote was reduced from £180 didn't help my case.

It got to the point where I was even starting to doubt myself, was I being a little mad? Is my Onkyo remote that much of a pain? Eventually I went out and bought the Harmony anyway, and I love it. Its fantastic, wish I had bought it sooner. I think even Hollie was impressed, from one button click the TV switched off, Amp switches to the CD input, thunks over from multichannel to pure audio, and the CD started playing. Just need the PS3 blutooth adapter now. Will keep that on the sly though, don't think Hollie could handle the concept of a £140 remote control setup...

 

[duaplex]

Just say "Listen woman, I want Harmony"