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I getting ready to upgrade my home entertainment system and one of my main goals is to have one remote that will control the three major components of the system; the TV, the receiver, and of course the HTPC. I can actually do this with my current setup using my Galaxy S4 with Yatse for the XBMC remote and one of the various IR applications to turn the TV on/off and control the basic receiver functionality, but that is not very intuitive.
The functionality that Yatse provides is awesome and I really only need two other things from a remote; turn the TV on/off and control the volume of the receiver.
What combination of hardware will allow me to achieve this goal? Will one of the Logitech Harmony remotes be enough to do everything for me?
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A Harmony will certainly do it.
I agree yatse is great but I don't want to have to swipe my phone to unlock it every time I want to pause or go back to see something I missed. Also the S4 IR app is a little clumsy and requires a clumsy switch from yatse to the IR program.
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go for the harmony then!
Ideally I would have an android tablet built into the armchair, which is instant on (at a touch, no swipe etc) which had an app like yatse which also did IR to the amp/TV.
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No you probably have to use another button for context.
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The current harmony fw (well at least the harmony touch) support setting two functions for each button, one for press and one for long-press (e.g. skip and ffward via one button). So I suppose you should be able to set long press as a second function to the ok button (or set it as a right click to emulate long-press).
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Cheap tablet with no lock (just press the screen to fire it up) and iRule or similar. But having a hard button remote is still nice for guests.
