
This makes the Logitech Harmony Kodi usability very high and enables us to consider this option the best RF HTPC remote. Using your phone as HTPC remote control Logitech Harmony Smart Review: Use Gestures On Your Smartphone To Control Your Media. If you chose to "Listen music" after that, your remote would turn off your Kodi box and TV, and turn on your music player.
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For example, you could have an activity called "Watch Kodi", which would turn on your TV and your Kodi TV box, turning off everything else. Then, you could include other devices in the "activities", that are some sort of macros you can program to be used with this HTPC remote control. In this case, you could hook your HTPC with a device such as the Flirc USB dongle, to translate those signals and control your box via one of its USB ports.
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This Logitech Harmony Smart and Kodi powered HTPC devices such as the Tronfy MXQ Android TV box are a very good match if you consider this, because you could have the option to tuck away your media center box, together with the hub in your cabinet, however, most HTPC boxes do not have IR receivers. The Logitech Harmony Smart Hub Receives Rf Instructions And Emits Ir Signals For Your Devices. The hub also controls things like videogame consoles via Bluetooth, and everything can be done with the RF controller in your hand, without even needing direct line of vision between your remote and the hub.

The hub also emits IR signals, so you would technically be able to control everything inside a cabinet -because the IR signal would bounce inside it and hit your devices-, and with the blaster you could control your TV. After our Logitech Harmony Smart review, we were able to understand how the Logitech Harmony Smart Control tackles this issue the remote communicates with a hub via RF, and this hub relays the control signal to your devices, via its two IR blaster ports, where you can connect the auxiliary IR blaster (included).
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This is solved if you have a remote that works via Bluetooth or RF, but most media devices such as TVs work with IR technology. Logitech Harmony Smart review: how does it work?Īn annoying characteristic of IR remotes is the fact you have to point them at the device for them to work.


One possible solution would be integrating all your options in one device, such as the NVIDIA SHIELD Pro, however this isn't really the best option if you already have the devices and just wanna simplify things. But what can you do to avoid this? The Logitech Harmony Smart Remote Allows You To Control Up To 8 Devices. There is a drawback to this, though, and it is that if you have lots of devices, usually you will have lots of remote control devices as well, cluttering your coffee table and making you waste precious seconds every day, getting the right remote. You could have on your media center room other devices such as videogame consoles, music players, and others, to add to the functionality and options your entertainment center as a whole can offer to you. Setting up a media center is a rewarding activity, specially after you're done tinkering with all the options and apps and can finally sit back and relax on your couch.
