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360 with Harmony remote

jonathans2
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Has anyone had any luck getting a Harmony hub-based remote to talk to the new 360 box? Looks to me like the new remote is bluetooth not IR, so the 'teach commands' functionality doesn't work. I think that Harmony does have bluetooth, but no idea how you'd go about pairing it etc.

 

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dannylau
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yup mine works perfectly, it needs to set up as a Ziggo Mediabox Next  

Harmony remotes only send out IR commands, but they work with the 360, in some respects better as the stop buttons works and you can have a button that takes you right to my shows, I also used the skip button to add a macro that sends play and skips back 30 seconds like the play after ff on the tivo used to do

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dannylau
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yup mine works perfectly, it needs to set up as a Ziggo Mediabox Next  

Harmony remotes only send out IR commands, but they work with the 360, in some respects better as the stop buttons works and you can have a button that takes you right to my shows, I also used the skip button to add a macro that sends play and skips back 30 seconds like the play after ff on the tivo used to do

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BlueLou
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this is very clever!

I'd love to know how you discovered that would work - but yes, it does indeed work, thank you!

 

I’m sorry but I have absolutely no idea to perform the task you suggest 😳

dannylau
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@yowfailed wrote:

I’m sorry but I have absolutely no idea to perform the task you suggest 😳


You need to be more specific 

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htatla
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Hi I have Logitech Harmony hub and the (basic) Companion remote

thanks for the tip re: adding TV 360 as “Ziggo Next” DVR box - this worked a great as I was worried I had ruined my setup and would need to rely on the 360 remote!

the only 2 buttons I could not map from the 360 remote were “TV” (found right of Home) and the “Context” button (3 dots found above channel up)

I can live with losing “TV” but it appears that “Context” gives shortcut to Subtitles which is a quite important for me and others I’m sure 

Any tips for how to program these 2 outstanding buttons on Harmony?

thanks

dannylau
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If you press the info button you can see the audio and subtitles option to the left, or you can set subtitles for each profile 

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htatla
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Thanks for the tip will check it out 

may also be able to program that sequence using harmony too

Not doubting this doesn’t work (choosing Ziggo media box next) but I can’t get it to work with my harmony ultimate one. Do I need to completely remove all connected devices form the harmony hub and set up fresh? I selected Ziggo , removed TiVo device; but Ziggo just doesn’t have any interaction with the box when you run the automatic test. Any idea where I might be going wrong?. Do I need to then custom add buttons or something? Sorry , just a bit lost.😳