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Logitech Harmony Smart Control Review

The Logitech Harmony Smart Control "turns your smartphone into a powerful universal remote". That's the motto for this universal remote in Logitech's Harmony line-up. The Logitech Harmony is a series of premium universal remote controls, ranging from stand-alone ones to ones tied into SmartPhones. The biggest draw to the Logitech Harmony is the community support of 250000 electronic devices. Theoretically, you should be able to control any remote-control device from the past, present, and the future. Logitech provides a database search function to see if its community database has your electronic devices. See "Related Links" below to access that database.

But there are many generic universal remote controls out there for far less expensive than the most inexpensive Logitech Harmony. Why would you want a Logitech Harmony remote?

Well, let's take a look at a real life example, mine. I have an Aiwa AV-D30U Home Theater Receiver. I have lost it's remote (RC-7AS09) last year. So for the past year, I've been walking to the receiver to change settings. A generic universal remote can control its basic functions, like volume and power. But what I need in addition to that is to change the equalization--dance, pop, live, rock, etc.--for different medias that I watch. None of the generic universal remote can do that. That raises a few questions about the Logitech Harmony:

Will the Logitech Harmony remote support all of the buttons on the original remote?
Can the Logitech Harmony remote buttons be remapped individually?

I don't know the answers to those questions. But now I have a Logitech Harmony Smart Control on hand. And in this review article, we will answer those questions and more.

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