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It’s a perfectly reasonable business decision. Harmony wasn’t making them money, so they killed the product line. Companies can’t be expected to support legacy products indefinitely, and I think Logitech is being pretty decent about the whole thing.

Well yeah, they basically said it’s a matter of time.

People would complain if they stated a time frame, so by doing this they allow users to move on and reduce the kick back to a lower number. They will just leave it running and when use drops to a certain point they will kill it. Not going to happen ever, period… A large company with a history of announcing product end of lines, does not spend money without seeing a direct return on that investment. In the meantime, this thread has motivated me to buy a Broadlink RM4 sensor to see how much of my automation I can replicate with it. Mind you, I approach every purchase like that, regardless of what companies say. I wouldn’t shy away from buying a Harmony if you can get a good deal on it, but you have to be comfortable not knowing how long it’ll continue to work. The way I see it, if you really like the Companion remote (and I do), then it’s better to get as much use as you can out of it while you can. I get a lot of use out of mine, including using it to automate an IR-controlled pedestal fan, but I’m definitely an outlier. I agree with Rich that Harmony-style universal remotes are a dying breed as AV systems become simpler and HDMI-CEC improves. Eventually, they’ll also have to consider how much effort they put into maintaining their Android/iOS apps to account for OS updates.

Flirc kodi harmony update#

My hope is that they’ll eventually push a software update that enables the remotes to continue working without their servers, which would make a lot of long-time users happy. So it’s vague, but still better than saying “we’ll give you two years of support from today”. Even then, I’d guess that they’ll give a lot of warning to users, and not pull the plug overnight. They’ve chosen their words carefully by saying, “as long as customers continue to use them”, which gives them leeway to pull the plug when they see dropoffs and decide that it’s no longer worthwhile keeping the servers on. They no longer manufacture Harmony remotes, but they will continue to support them indefinitely. You just need to have the target-profile to be already loaded as device in the harmony account, before emailing them.Logitech do not support the stuff anymore.

Flirc kodi harmony windows#

E.g your windows media center profile would get an additional 'hardkernel power button'. You have to name the email of your harmony account and to which device you would like to have the command added. There is also the possibility to write the harmony support an email, where you ask them to add the power on/off button command of the hardkernel remote profile to one of the devices in your harmony account. the last two profiles are obviously only for the odroid, however the hardkernel profile is only present for having the power on/off button accessible in the activity.device 'hardkernel - odroid C2': device shall power-on on activity start and power-off on activity end.device set to stay always powered on (power on/off is simply ignored) device 'windows media center': set to control navigation, info, context menu, play/pause, etc.

Device AVR: set to control volume on input:HDMI-BDplayer power-on command on activity start.device TV: set to show picture on Input: HDMI1 power-on command on activity start.activity 'watch movies - C2' has 4 devices (profiles) in it.In harmony Software you can adjust for the activity, which 'device' controls what. windows media center profile) to the activity to control the odroid with many more buttons and just use the power button of the 'hardkernel - odroid c2' profile to boot and shut down the odroid. If you feel that there are not enough buttons in the 'hardkernel - Odroid C2' profile/device, you can simply add another device (e.g. 'watch movies - C2), which contain the devices you want to use in the activity. On harmonies you can (or should) create activities (e.g.