Powerful Online Database
One reason the setup is so easy is that Logitech has a comprehensive online database that
features information about tens of thousands of components and the infrared signals required to
control them. When users enter a component model number during setup, the Harmony wizard
matches it with infrared codes about that device already stored in the database. Those codes are
later downloaded into the remote.
The database is unique in that Harmony remote users actually provide most of the information
that exists in the database. During a Harmony remote user’s setup, the database occasionally
does not include information about a particular electronics component. The wizard walks the
user through a process that teaches the Harmony remote about the component. This involves
pointing the component’s original remote control toward the sensor in the back of the Harmony
remote, and pushing a short sequence of buttons. The Harmony remote captures those
commands, and then uploads them to the user’s online account where they are stored and can
be accessed or updated at any time. This new component information is validated by the
Harmony customer support team to make sure it is accurate, and is then uploaded into the
community database. The next time a Harmony customer enters that component model
number, the device will be found in the database.
This community approach ensures that the database has the most current information on tens of
thousands of brands and models of consumer electronics components, new and old, popular and
obscure. It is never out of date.
The Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Reviewer’s Guide
Summer 2005
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