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Product Description
Logitech Harmony Elite is the most powerful and intuitive Harmony remote that works with Alexa. It controls up to 15 devices for seamless control of your entertainment — and your home. The all-new design keeps the best features from its predecessors—color touchscreen, motion sensing, and vibration feedback—and adds an improved button layout, voice integration, dedicated connected home buttons, and a replaceable, rechargeable battery with 20% greater capacity.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #82 in Speakers
- Size: Medium
- Color: Black
- Brand: Logitech
- Model: 915-000256
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .60" h x 2.00" w x 6.00" l, .75 pounds
Features
- The most powerful and intuitive Harmony remote works with Alexa for voice control. All-in-one control of up to 15 home entertainment and connected home devices
- Full color touchscreen: Simply swipe and tap to control channels, movies, volume, 50 favorite channels and smart home devices like Philips Hue lights
- One-touch Activities: Touch an Activity like “Watch a Movie” to automatically power on and switch devices to the right settings
- Harmony app: Turns iOS or Android smartphones or tablets into personal universal remote controls for the whole house
- Closed cabinet control: Included Harmony Hub lets you control devices in closed cabinets, or even when away from home
- Convenient charging station: Keeps your remote powered and within reach
- Easy-to-use design: Find the right button every time, even in the dark, with motion-activated backlit buttons, home control buttons and a comfortable layout
- Works with over 270,000 devices: Controls your TV, satellite or cable box, Apple TV, Roku, TiVo, Blu-ray player, game consoles, plus connected lights, locks, thermostats, sensors and more
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews194 of 199 people found the following review helpful.
Great remote, requires patience and tech savvy to properly installBy Luke
I have loved and installed hundreds of harmony remotes. The Elite is the best product they have ever produced! I will start on why this might not want to install yourself. Followed by improvements over recent models.
1) IR blasters. If you have IR equipment all over the place the blasters may drive you nuts. The blasters do not adhere to the equipment. They just sit in front of it. If the blaster gets notched off a shelf or blocked the remote will not work right. The remote does a lot of control using IP communication so that helps a lot.
You can purchase adapters to go from 3/32" to standard 1/8" eyes. No problem using 1/8" mono y splitters to use more eyes. I think I have needed to do 8 eyes or more. I have rarely had an issue when eyes were used instead of IR blasters.
2) you need rock solid wifi! If your wifi network isn't reliable your remote will not be.
3) frequent updates. This is the first Harmony I have worked with that did not require a computer at any point. The previous model Harmony Ultimate Home needed a computer for firmware updates. The elite has already had a few updates even though it is just a week or two out in the world. Harmony remotes and hubs often require a reboot to work right after updating. The elite has been the same so far. No biggy, just reboot the hub and remote if something is not working right.
4) programming can get confusing, especially making changes. The great thing is everything is adjustable on the fly. Just keep a iPhone or iPad around the first few times you use this remote. Making changes in iOS are much easier than from the wand remote.
5) Bluetooth pairing, I had to reboot the hub, remote and the fire tv to get the Bluetooth pairing working. Probably took me 20 minutes or so to pair the first time.
6) 15 device limit, this is the weakest point of the harmony line right now. It's easy to hit the 15 device limit in more complex setups.
Why this remote is the best harmony to date
1) control of Sonos playbar over IP not IR! This is great! No need to have a blaster semi hidden or an eye stuck to the playbar!
2) hard buttons for lights! Super cool!
3) IoT only gets easier with the elite! Even better integration of smart devices.
I will keep updating this review as I play with it more at home and install the second one next week.
70 of 73 people found the following review helpful.
Good concept with Alexa integration, but still needs improvementBy Josh
I've been a Harmony remote user for 10+ years now and was looking for something to replace my current Harmony 880. I was specifically looking at the Elite due to its ability to integrate with Amazon's Echo. There are three separate areas this remote can be judged on: Setup/Configuration, Ergonomics, and Alexa/Smart Home Integration.
I found that the setup and configuration was pretty intuitive and since I was importing an existing Harmony remote it made the setup that much easier. I highly recommend using the software on your computer vs. the smart phone app as it's just a lot easier to use if you have a lot of devices/activities (I have 6 devices and 11 activities). You can download the PC/Mac software from Harmony's website. Even if you aren't importing an existing remote, the setup and default button choices will likely work for most people. As you use the remote you can alter the buttons and activities to your needs. So even if you aren't extremely tech savvy configuring the remote should be pretty straight forward.
After configuring the remote I started using it and I found certain annoyances with the ergonomics and lack of buttons. With this remote they've done away with the numerical buttons for a larger touch screen where you can find the numerical buttons. When you hold the remote it's rather difficult to reach the touch screen and some of the buttons with your thumb. If you’re used to using a hand to hold the remote and another to push the buttons then this annoyance won’t likely be an issue. I am probably spoiled because the Harmony 880 was very well laid out, rests well in your hand, and in my opinion better ergonomically designed. With that being said, is the remote layout and touch screen a deal killer; no but if you’re used to a particular remote the Harmony Elite will likely take some getting used to.
The last part of the setup for me was integrating it with my existing smart home devices and Amazon Echo. The setup found my Philips Hue lights, but didn’t find my Wemo devices. The smart home buttons on the bottom of the remote are a nice touch, but I feel they’re a bit more of a novelty than a necessity since there are plenty of other stand alone switches & voice control devices that can do the same job. There are currently two apps/skills available for Amazon’s Echo that allows you to integrate your Harmony hub/remote with Alexa. There is Logitech’s own app/skill and “Eric’s Integration for Logitech”. I tried both skills and found that I really couldn’t get Harmony’s own app/skill to do anything but turn the TV on, and it wasn’t consistent when it did work. Even if it did everything the skill said it could, all that it can currently do is turn activities on/off and change the channel to one of your predefined “favorite” channels. With the “Eric’s Integration for Logitech” skill it would more consistently turn the TV on, but again what it could do was very limited and worked inconsistently.
Unfortunately, the lack of properly functioning Amazon Echo integration was the nail in the coffin for me to decide to return this remote. I could have dealt with the ergonomic annoyances I described, but since the main reason I got the remote was for the Amazon Echo integration it didn’t make sense to keep something that didn’t work. I think the concept is good, but the execution is something that is still a work in progress. Hopefully with time the software will improve and the Amazon Echo integration will get better. So if you’re like me and want to get this remote for its integration with Amazon’s Echo I’d hold off and maybe consider the next smart device integrated remote Logitech comes out with.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Remote A+...Programming D--By Gary J. Thomas
Love the look & feel of the remote, but the 3 stars is for the difficulty in programming. I've programmed at least a dozen other Harmony remotes using MyHarmony and probably a half dozen others, so I don't consider myself a rookie. The learning curve on this one, at least for my setup, was steep. My components are in another room with some items, like a projector, screen, tv and lights, controlled by IR in the theater room. It took me several hours to get the remote to work with my Elite Cinetension screen - I belive I finally hit on the magic combination of settings to get it working. The ability of the hub to learn was spotty at best. My biggest gripe is that you must use the iphone app. I prefer to do all the programming on the MyHarmony site, then simply sync the remote and hub. Since that's not possible, I ended with different settings between the MyHarmony, the iphone app & the remote. They never sync'd the same. Ultimately I did a few factory resets on the remote & hub as well as deleted the iphone app & tried to sync to MyHarmony...but when the iphone app sync'd, it created a 2nd remote on the MyHarmony app. Are you confused yet? Unless I'm wrong, you need the MyHarmony app to upload pictures for the background. You need the iphone app to set the IR/Hub settings. The remote never properly sync'd with the layout on the screen, so I needed the remote settings to edit those. There was a lot of trial & error...a lot of googling & searches through the various forums. Harmony assumes that this is the easiest remote to program ever...so they decided they don't need to include any instructions. If your system has any complexity at all...buckle up. I'm a few hours in & still tweaking - my projector will inexplicably turn on when I run an activity to watch the tv (no...the projector is not a device on that activity), the delays all need to be tweaked (35 second default for my Epson projector?) and unlike my previous Harmony One, switching between activities seems to assume that the entire system is turned off. All that being said, the IR function seems very strong, the Hub works well - I don't need to use the blasters & I like the looks & feel of the remote.
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