harmony remote for HTPC?

[AJ Bertelson]

Does anyone here use a harmony remote to control their HTPC? I figured I could move a lot of the control to the remote and automate some of the stuff but then I realized it may not be able to set the priority and alt tab programs.


Does anyone here use event ghost?

[SWKerr]

I use Harmony and Eventghost. You can do anything with the two of them. I have both MCE and USB-UIRT receivers and both work well. I generally setup the Harmony as a MCE remote. I setup Sage as having no remote and emulate keyboard commands. I also have one system using the FireFly RF remote and Eventghost to control Sage.

I also use the setup to operate the Hulu Desktop and the Total Media Extreme apps.

[MitchSchaft]

I use the Harmony 880. I use a microsoft USB receiver, too.

[darcilicious]

Originally Posted by MitchSchaft

I use the Harmony 880. I use a microsoft USB receiver, too.

Harmony 550, MS USB receiver, and Intelliremote (as I also run Boxee and iTunes on the same computer).

[Thomas Wischgol]

I use a Harmony 550 with a Lite-on SK-7551. It is a IR keyboard supported by the Harmony. I simply mapped all Sage commands to keys the Harmony can generate.

[simonen]

I use the Harmony One and it is great! Very well laid out and I guess they fixed a lot of the button degradation issues from the previous models. The buttons on my 880 degraded on me after a while.

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AJ Bertelson

Take a look at the How to I made.
I connected EventGhost, SageTV, Foobar2000, and my Harmony 880 remote to my HTPC
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...d.php?t=25448&

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[fastoy]

Originally Posted by simonen

I use the Harmony One and it is great! Very well laid out and I guess they fixed a lot of the button degradation issues from the previous models. The buttons on my 880 degraded on me after a while.

How did you setup the activity on the Harmony One?

I have SageTV v5 running through a Hauppague MediaMVP 01000 so the Harmony One IR commands will actually be picked up by the MediaMVP.