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Logitech Harmony 510 Advanced Universal Remote Control | 
| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $74.99
as of 9/7/2010 01:34 CDT details
You Save: $25.00 (25%)
New (8) Used (4) Refurbished (3) from $58.97
Rating:  145 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 | | • | 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
Logitech Harmony 510 advanced universal remote simplifies your home entertainment, replacing up to five remotes with one. One-touch, activity-based control turns on the right devices in the right order. Helpful online software guides you through setup while interactive LCD with Help function makes it easy for the whole family useage!
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 145
 Decent remote with Flawed execution July 24, 2010
Christopher Manar
I've had Harmony remotes for years. They are what they say they are. Namely, a good central control point for all of your A/V hardware. Their software setup is relatively painless. They are a Godsend for letting babysitters control the home theater with writing out 3 pages of instructions. Flexible. Capable. It's all good.
But I have to mark this down because the company behind them is heading in the wrong direction--and this remote is a perfect example. Previously had a pre-Logitech Harmony. It worked. It controlled everything I needed. It really was the ideal solution. Eventually, it died. Ok. So the 510 came along. It's more expensive, but had an LCD panel on it, so we jumped.
First thing we noticed was the build quality seems cheaper. The buttons have a cheap, clicky feel. The number buttons require a determined thumb to push them. But the remote handled all of my current gear and we were good: receiver, satellite, DVD, CD, VCR, and TV. (Make sure you count those items.) I bought a new TV. So I went into the software to change the TV. Software alerted me of a new version which I let it upgrade to. I deleted my old TV, but I couldn't add the new TV because I already had the Max devices connected. (Huh?) I actually had to delete my VCR just so I could add back my TV.
Of course, there's a perfectly good solution to making my remote control the same number of products it was controlling yesterday. I just need to buy a new remote that costs more money so that I get 6 devices. I'm screwed.
Great concept foiled by beancounters who need to maintain their price-point.
 Not Again June 17, 2010
Ben Trimble
This remote is nothing but trouble. I had the 'one' and it was worse and I returned it. The biggest problem with 'one'
was the charger. This 510 has plain batteries and the same drawbacks as the one.
Major fault is having to scroll through multiple functions before finding the one you want.
On and off for instance. To turn the tv on, you ALWAYS have to press help, and that turns on the tv.
What a pain. I will Never have another logitech remote.
 A greatly improved Harmony remote June 11, 2010
S. Simkins (Mass., USA)
I like this rectangular Harmony remote much better than its peanut-shaped predecessor from the same company. The key placement is much more natural: especially for the number keys. I also really like the addition of the four programmable color keys at the bottom of the device: red (I made that "delete"), green (on my toy = "New Chapter"), yellow (I use this to toggle b/w 4:3 and 16:9), and blue (my PIP toggle). More distinctive keys like these give us more opportunities to program the remotes in ways that will become easily remembered by our family members. My younger daughter approves.
Once you buy into the premise that the remote wants to control every A/V device in your house and that your job is to tell it how to set them up to accomplish your preset "activities", then all will go swimmingly. If you insist on the old paradigm for universal remotes - "Press the blue button to make the new remote work like my TV remote; press the red button to make my new remote act like my old DVR remote" - then you will be frustrated. Hint: I liked this paradigm a lot better after I found that I could tell the remote not to turn off a piece of equipment that I would not need for the next two minutes. ("Leave everything on, until I say 'Die'.) Look in to this. It really makes it easier to do what your new remote wants you to do.
However, once you subscribe to the "Activity"-based way of controlling your toys, you will find this remote a delight. It's easy to program. Especially if you have dealt with one of these Harmony gadgets before. In about one hour, I had this gizmo programed in such an intuitive way that my 16-year-old daughter could remind me of which buttons to press when I forgot how I had programmed the device, because I'm old and can't read the tiny letters on the keys (w/o my glasses), which she can read easily with her young eyes.
I would recommend this remote without reservations, except for two - well - "reservations":
1. The remote has an LCD screen hosting most of the programmable things you can train the remote to do. If you push a button that activates the screen, it lights up in a way that looks like it will drain your batteries flat in no time, and stays that way for at least five seconds; that's the minimum. The default was 10 s. Way too long. With all the features of the remote that Logitech lets you tweak, I am astonished that they don't allow us to disable backlighting unless user-requested via a button push. My one big complaint against my previous Harmony remote was that it demanded huge battery power (lots of batteries per month), but handled rechargeables poorly.
2. If my new Harmony remote is still working six months from now, surviving off NIMHs then I will write back to offer the product my complete endorsement. Otherwise, readers may assume that the gadget still wants lots of batteries and doesn't like rechargeables.
I surely hope it likes NIMHs, because I like everything else about this remote.
S.S.
smooth upgrade from older Harmony remote May 24, 2010
A. McKenzie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We got this remote as a replacement for an older Harmony control that broke. The upgrade was a no-brainer, just select the "upgrade" option on the Harmony software, plug the new control, and done. All the special adjustments and customizations to make the older control more user-friendly transferred to the new one in no time.
Great remote, lousy software May 24, 2010
A. Benenson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pros:
Compared to regular universal remotes, the activity-based approach of this remote ("Watch TV", "Watch a DVD", etc.) works great; it saves a lot of button presses and is much simpler and more intuitive. This is the main reason my un-techie partner can figure out how to operate the TV, DVD recorder, Blu-Ray, and Roku media player without going crazy.
If a button on your original remote isn't duplicated by a button on the Harmony, you can either reassign one of the Harmony's buttons, or you can add a soft button that's shown on its screen and triggered by one of the buttons beside the screen. These custom buttons don't even have to be from the same device, so for example even when my remote is in the "Watch a DVD" mode and most of its buttons control my DVD player, it's got soft buttons for TV captions and TV aspect ratio.
The setup for your remote is stored on Logitech's servers, so if you ever lose your remote or replace it, you can quickly reprogram a new Harmony remote to exactly the same settings as before.
Cons:
Many buttons on the remote are too small and hard to find by touch, especially the channel and volume buttons, which are used more than any others!
My Blu-Ray player wasn't in Logitech's database, so I had to use the more time-consuming learning process during setup (it doesn't help that when setting up any Blu-Ray player, you have to know to start by telling the software you have DVD player - Logitech considers them to be basically the same as DVDs, so there's no separate category for Blu-Ray players).
The remote configuration software is crummy. Its home screens look nice, but it requires way too many steps to accomplish anything, many commands are hard to find, and it occasionally becomes slow or unresponsive (it's apparently a web-based application, so if your Internet is slow or flakey, it will be too).
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