Harmony Hub Setup, the SMART Universal Remote 

First upload had some audio issues... What other questions do you have? Full voice assistant tutorial coming soon!

While my set-up for my Harmony wasn't quite as trouble-free, once I had it running, I like it very much! It works better than my Dish remote even!

Outstanding video Brett. Very well edited and super informative. Well done, sir.

Outstanding !!! Curious, does this mean that you HAVE TO turn OFF HDMI-CEC on all your HDMI-CEC capable devices so as not to interfere / complicate your activity programming ? I find HDMI-CEC to be extremely useful except a couple of my devices (Old PS3, Spectrum Cable TV Box) do not have HDMI-CEC capabilities. Thanks.

Brett Awesome Video really enjoyed every time I watch your Videos I find something else that I forgot I have too funny .Also reading other comments helps as well, again you really need much more subs they have no idea what they are missing. Thanks again Deb ✌👍😉

Hi, great video, can you tell me if this can be set to turn on certain items outside of the cabinet via IR? I would like an IR signal to turn my tv on and RF to communicate with the hub inside the cabinet for everything else.

Great video! The physical remote obviously has multifunction buttons that work differently based on device. How may the physical button functions be changed from the physical remote if I want the directional pad to control the TV instead of my DVR?

I love my Harmony remotes, they've allowed to make my entertainment setups much slicker to use 👍 The other benefit is the ability to control smart home devices, I especially like that it creates links between platforms that wouldn't necessarily okay nice together otherwise i.e SmartThings & IR controlled plug adaptors, TV & Hue lights etc It's one of the most versatile home automation hubs around in addition to being an awesome entertainment remote

Great video Brett. Can you make your LIFX lights automatically turn off when you pause a movie? Can it be done on the Logitech Hub?

You saved me with this Video! Now I really enjoy my Harmony Ultra Edition! 😀

Great presentation! You have a gift! Do you know if once you have everything setup properly, can you program a single key to turn on/off closed captions?

Hi Bret have you experienced many lags and speradic navigation issues? I'm running the hub and companion remote. The app control runs well but the remote lags randomly.

Nice remote and thanks for your devoted review, it' very helpful.

Great video! I have the elite and pro and I’ll never go back. I just got the FB Portal TV...can Harmony control it? What about PC wake/sleep?

Great video thanks so much for the good detailed instructions, keep them coming.

Hi..if I have a separate switcher for my devices, how would I program this in my Harmony Elite? What 'input' would I say this is?

So I lost my Panasonic receiver remote, if I buy a harmony do you think I can access the recover options such ass renaming inputs, changing db's for speakers, etc?

The only thing I feel limited with the hub is that when you create an activity, you have somewhat to follow their limited example, to get something really custom is not possible... Other than that, it works very well.

Nice and very helpful video...thank you Brett....

Nice video. What can you do with google home and the smart hub? I am itching to see your video on google home paired with this guy as I am thinking about buying this and that decision will be made based on what can be done with the google home.

Hello Brett Do you know if the harmony hub can be trigger with Smartthings? For instance if I get an action in smartthings then the harmony hub will turn on my tv! thanks!

A great video. Thanks. You might be able to help me with a couple of issues. Our home theatre uses an AVR HDMI cable from the TV to the receiver. Our Frontier set top box and our Sony DVD player (with streaming apps for Netflix and Amazon Prime) is also connected to the receiver. Consequently, when watching TV, we think that the keyboard that should be programed on our Harmony remote should be the receiver remote to control volume, close captioning, channels and accessing saved programs. Does this make sense? And, when watching a DVD or streaming a movie, we should have the Harmony remote using the DVD player remote keyboard. We could then open and close the disc tray, play a disc, adjust volume, and select a streaming app for streaming a movie with the Harmony remote. We wouldn't need a special key function for 'eject disc" for example if we were using the DVD remote keyboard on the Harmony remote. I guess the question is whether we can program the Harmony remote to have different keyboard setups depending on the activity. Also, our TV is a LG OLED TV and we need to periodically 'refresh" the screen pixels to prevent the development of 'ghost' images. This involves several steps using the LG remote. Could you think of anyway we could program either an "activity" to accomplish this, or setting up yet another key board for the TV to accomplish this task using only the Harmony remote? Your thought on all of this would be most welcome. Many thanks, David

How do you quickly go to a specific channel number since there is no keypad? Is there a voice command? Or must you only access keypad through a smart device? I know the elite has a screen on it however the price is a lot more. Thank you

Does the remote have a sleep timer function or do you have to use the app on your phone?

That IR blaster placement was able to get to your tv?

I am interested in buying this but Amazon has alot of mixed reviews and apparently a new firmware update removed some features? Is this a good buy or not?

thanks Brett nice informative video review 👍✌️

I have the older Harmony 890 universal remote and I also have the Harmony Hub. Can the hub power on/off my Lutron lights in my theater? The older 890 remote can dim the lights incrementally or turn them all the way off. I haven’t seen a way to do it with the Harmony Hub remote.

Are you able to turn off firetrap using activity? The hold home and right and then ok. Works through device but not when added for an activity. Anyone with a work around.

Great vid! Is there any way I can have the volume buttons work to control TV volume on the Harmony elite, whilst the "Device" is set to Fire Tv. Ie I want to be able to control volume on the TV with the volume buttons on the Harmony remote control, like the original Amazon Fire TV remote. The Harmony Elite, volume buttons don't do anything right now when the remote is set to Fire TV.

How is this working your TV if the Hub and blaster are down below in cabinet?

If only it would have supported RF as well. The cable company that I am subscribed to here in Norway (Riks TV) uses a set top box (Strong SRT 8966) that comes with an RF remote, which kind of sucks when I really want to use a universal remote, and Google Home with Harmony Hub. I have tried the Broadlink RM Pro+ hub which supports both IR and RF, but the RM pro weren't able to pick up the signal for the remote, which makes me believe the set top box might not use RF on 433MHz. The funny thing is that the Harmony Hub knows about the Strong SRT 8966 set top box, but gives me a message "This is an RF device" when I add it as a device. So I can add it to activities on the harmony hub, but it can't control it.

Is it possible to program the remote to open RU-vid TV? AND to be able to Use the Back Button once in YT TV- use the Home button to get to the top of the Menu to select Library, Home or Live? These 3 choices are needed to navigate this APP. Thanks!

Hi, I’ve just purchased a Samsung Smart TV (2020) and have been using this Harmony setup for years with little to no issues with a Panasonic TV. When I turn on the Samsung for the first time of the day it doesn’t turn on with the harmony remote...🤷‍♂️ During setup and testing everything works as it should. Any ideas or tips as to what could be the issue. Thanks so much, Mark

Love your how to videos. I would like to know how to connect my Yamaha RX-V385 receiver to my Google Assistant. I only want to power it on and change the volume. Right now my Roku Ultra and TV work with my Google Home. I really don't want to send big bucks on a harmony remote and hub to power my Yamaha receiver if I don't have to. Do you have a video on this? I will spend the money on a Harmony Elite/Hub for my home theater system where I need to control several devices. Thanks.

Hello great tutorial. Would a Harmony remote help me turn everything on at the same time. For some reason my Denon AVR doesn't turn on the TV. HDMI to arc and still nothing

Great video. Keep up the awesome work.

Very cool, but the short press, long press, is a deal breaker. My girls would struggle with it. I’m leaning towards the hub with google home voice control. Looking forward to your video on the google assistant integration!

awesome Brett...cant wait when you show us to intergrate this with the Google Home !!! keep doin this great stuff !! ^5

HI, can you tell me if it possible to control tv with voice via logitech hub + google assistant also for changing channels and adjusting volume and not just turning tv on and off?

How forgiving is the placement of the IR blaster hub? I want to place the blaster at about 4 o'clock, approx 8 feet off the ground, and about 14-16 feet away from the components. Unfortunately there is a window at 6 o'clock so I can't put the IR blaster dead center.

How it will work with multiple HDMI sources?

Your video is so cool! So helpful! BTW, need a little of your help. I have a few questions abt the Harmony hub. 1.) I did set up my A/C remote by taught the hub but it seems like working not fine. Only ON and OFF button but others button doesn't work same function as the real remote. And another question is 2.) after i did setup my activities 1. A/C 2. TV And this is what happened I turned A/C (1st activity) on first, then i pressed TV (2nd activity) but the 1st was immediately shut itself off. I have no idea how to fix this :'( Thank you in advance And sorry about my English

Does the Harmony Hub/Companion work with Bluesky TV?

Does your companion remote have led indicator lights that light up when you press buttons mine does not. Tried 3 batteries

Thanks. can Harmony Hub remote support 65 inches LG WebOS Tv ? Thanks .

You're the man bro nice video

How does it work for devices that use radio signal, like DirecTV? My (newer) Samsung TV and Amazon Fire also use radio signal.

What if compare with Broadlink Pro and Xiaomi IR?

My cable box is in another room. How do I get my Harmony Hub remote to learn the Settings function on my Cablevision remote (UR2-CBL-CV04) so I can turn the Closed Captioning, On and Off with my Harmony remote?

Moving in to a living room with 3 different tvs. (2 Roku, 1 fire stick) would the harmony hub be able to control all 3 tvs at the same time?

Is there a way to connect the Harmony Elite to a Cable/TV box that is running on RF? (ARRIS Model# AX013ANM)?

Hi, it just can control 8 devices right? or Broadlink rm4 is better because you can control unlimited devices or I understood wrong the harmony specs?

How do you remember which remote button to press to start a given activity? Many of the buttons you have assigned don't appear have any kind of relation to the activity. For example, pressing your "music" key starts your "watch movie" activity, (which really makes no sense). I would forget which button does what.

So I can create an Activity for watching cable tv which includes powering on the tv, powering on the cable box, changing channels on the cable box, and controlling volume via my receiver powering my speakers-- all within the same Activity?

Love the channel Brett, top home automation resource, thank you! Just bought a Harmony Elite remote. Now I realize I am causing myself my own challenges, I have some CE Smart plugs/switches, some TP link switches, Hue, Lifx... just wondering if adding a Smartthings Hub may solve “clutter” or should I migrate to one manufacturer to make things similar?

Does it work with Roku Streaming Stick+ 4K?

So I have a issue with off command. installed I have a Harmony, Favi projector, Visio sound bar and a fire stick. I have the correct skills synced. Now when I issue the command to alexa to turn on it works great. All the equipment I have is set with one command. Now I'm thinking the issue is maybe the fire stick is waking up the projector as the fire stick is powered on by a usb on the projector. Not sure... All I know, its annoying. The command to power off works but the projector comes right back on with out an order.

Can you control xfinity cable to this? Also I'm trying to figure out a solution for my elderly mother with dimentia that can't remember all the different remotes for cable/tv/fire tv....I'd like a voice command option....Is this a good solution??

I have the exact same Harmony remote & hub that you have. I have it set up for my fan & also a ceramic space heater, and TV. For some reason when I start or be end an activity it turns off another activity that is not associated with it. (Ex. It will shut off both devices when I only turn off 1 activity). Do you know why this is, or how to fix it?

Good advice

Just to make something clear... If the IR blaster is not pointing on all the devices you want to control in the same cabinet... It's not going to work? For example... I have a TV, Receiver and a blu-ray player all in the same cabinet but on different shelves. (one on top of each other)?

I brought a harmony hub 2012, just the hub and well it talks with hassio now, and it's placed at the sofa-side, not at the tv-side, no extra blasters needed-

Do you know if work with rf signal?

How do you set up the other buttons

Can i control my electric projector screen? Can the remote learn from other remotes to control the 2 weird items i have? I want to lower the projector screen and turn off the ceiling fan, turn on the projector and receiver, select the roku, turn off the smart lights, and start the popcorn machine on the smart plug? Thanks for the awesome video.

Please do a video linking this device to Google Home devices.

Does it work with bluetooth as well? I would need that for my android tv box

Excellent Thanks

Hi, thanks for the video, do you happen to know if it can be connected to MI Box S ? I need a button for the voice assistance of Google, does this remote has it?

I also have a samsung smart tv with built in Netflix and other streaming services, if I link the hub to google home can I ask google to start Netflix???

Can I connect 4 Samsung smart tvs that is the same brand and model to this remote controller?

Hey Brett , great video, as usual. Hopefully, you are still responding to messages here. I recently purchased the Harmony Hub Elite and am loving what it can do, and looking forward to having it completely automate my media devices as well as all of my home automation systems when I connect it to a SmartThings hub(future purchase) as well as my current Google Home hub system. My setup includes the following: LG tv(several HDMI ports and a USB port, as well as, Component connections). I also have a similar Onkyo receiver that you show in this video. Lastly, I have both a Firestick & Chromecast box. I was only able to get my tv connected to my receiver using the Component connection, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work with HDMI. Also, with this setup, to get both video & audio I had to connect my Chromecast & Firestick to the receiver and not the tv.The issue I'm having is, I can't figure out how to setup the harmony hub "Activity" options to automatically change the input to the correct settings to allow me to watch either one of these devices. Would you have a clue?

Can you connect to a Netflix account that is signed in on your laptop? How does the remote work with Chromecast? If you cast a device to the Chromecast, can you control it with the remote?

Let's say you have another tv you want to control where the hub is not visible. Is there any solution to control it or I need to buy another hub?

Hi, I just bought a TCL C71 TV, and a pioneer receiver. I have a VIrgin cable box hooked up. The virgin tv works fine (The tv is hooked up to the receiver via 1 HDMI which is in the TV OUT HDMI on the receiver. Another HDMI goes from the Virgin box to the SAT/CABLE HDMI point on the receiver). The idea is to be able to access the onboard menus on the TV for Netflix, etc but system is not playing ball. I have tried switching all the HDMI points on the receiver but this does nothing. Can anyone help?

Brett unplug the IR blasters. It will still work. You only need the blasters if you have your device enclosed in some sort of box. Other than that, the main hub will shoot a signal that will bounce off the walls and hit anywhere in the house. You don't need all them wires. You're welcome.

What are major differences between the Elite and companion?

Hi how i learn a new remote which is not listed to the harmony hub

Can it connect to my TV that is not and cannot connect to WiFi? And use it to control the volume?

What is a good web page for doing set up?

1. Have you experienced your app getting stuck in like "powering off mode forever" ? 2. Is it ok to un-install the app and re-install ? if so does all the previous configured settings in the harmony gets erased ?

I see your great video I broke my universal program remote I want to buy different because the control I have is programmed with the technician program, you Recomend harmony now or a different please answer me thanks I appreciate 👍

Hey Brett, what do you think of just buying the Harmony Hub (which is sold separately), and using Google home voice commands to turn the equipment on and off change channels, change TV input sources et cetera? I have a Cox cable box.

hi....thank you so much for the video...harmony remote works very well but the back button isn't working with you tube tv....the arrow button works with netflix etc to go back but with you tube tv the back button and the arrow button are not working...only the exit button. : (

Brett, trying to make a purchase decision. The Harmony Companion remote is obviously a lot cheaper than the elite (or its predecessor) but why did you choose the companion over the other models? Is the only difference price and touch screen?

Thank you

I can not get this remote to talk to contour cable box from Cox I’ve tried every code and nothing

How can I add another device to my Logitech remote?

Is it feasible to only buy the hub and use it along with the smartphone app w/o a physical Harmony remote?

Hi, can I turn TV on and off from diferent network. My mom keeps losing the remote and I travel a lot, so I need to control TV from diferent country. Is that possible?

Nice vid. What about source selection avr? Since many items are wired to back of avr.

Enjoyed the video. You did an outstanding job of setting up all of your devices. But what I was hoping for is a device that allows the setup to go one step further; to not only 'Watch TV' and turn on the necessary devices (TV, Apple TV/Roku/Amazon Fire Stick, Soundbar) but to actually allow granular control and launch Plex, Netflix, Prime or Fitness+. In theory, we merely have a device that only allows several remotes to be put in a drawer, yet fails at doing what the original device could do. The engineers, as usual, are running the asylum at Logitech. 75% of the buttons on the remote are unused. If someone walked into your house and attempted to watch X (long press/short press buttons with icons that are totally unrelated to the functions they are performing) they will encounter one fundamental problem - whether or not you are in the room to hand the remote to when they have no freakin clue what to do. Give me granulate IFTTT! I don't care how complex the setup is, the object should be to make it so my grandmother can walk in the room and hit the icon and it just works.

Doing a factory reset for a new wifi network and I’m unable to connect even after a router reset. Any tips??

I'm interested in buying this but I have a wall mounted TV with no shelves around it to place the hub and blasters on. Where would I place the hub and blasters in my situation? I searched the manufacturer's website and RU-vid for answers but to no avail. The TV is in my master bedroom on a wall opposite the bed. Can I place the hub on a nightstand across from the TV?

Hi Brett, on my remote when I press watch tv nothing comes up and when I press watch smart tv the tv turns on what should I do?

After watching this video, I am going to have to go back and run through the set up process again. One issue I am constantly having is when I want to power on my home theater room, a lot of times it says it cannot find my hub! Meanwhile all my other components in the same room connects to WiFi with no issues but the Hub is the only device that constantly acts up. It will do this even when the light on the hub is green too. I’ve done resets numerous times but it works sometimes and other times it doesn’t. I’m not sure what the solution is to resolving the issue. At first I thought the WiFi signal must be weak but I have a PS4, Apple TV, and Wii in the same rack as the hub and they all work fine.

My friend has the same remote… older gentleman and he does not know or remember how it was set up… I added a Roku to make his old tv a smart tv… problem I’m having is trying to figure out is how to change the input from tv and roku easily for him… he is 79 yrs old and he doesn’t have the tv remote any longer which would be easier for him to switch back and forth but that’s not an option please help. Thank you

Hello there I am a bit confused... let's say a lot lol between the Harmony Hub Setup, the SMART Universal Remote and Google Home Integration & Command List for Harmony Hub really all i want is to be able to change channel by voice because I all I have right now is youtube wich is sufficient for me right now so what do I buy exacly ? thanks a hole buch

Can it control Bose sound bar?