Harmony complaint...

[Greg Alsobrook]

Why aren't the harmonys smart enough to know you've set the sleep timer on your tv??

At night... I usually watch 'friends' or 'seinfeld' on dvd... and set the sleep timer on my tv before i go to sleep... then when i wake up and want to watch tv, it still thinks the tv is on... so i either have to hit 'off' first and let it turn everything that is still on off... or i have to go through the 'help' menu to get the tv on... and to get the tv back to the right input...

it's pretty annoying...

you would think they would have made the remote to know that when you press the sleep button... that it's gonna need to turn the tv back on for you...

[Pinion413]

Where I do agree with you, I can also kind of see why it wouldn't recognize that fact. To it, you just hit the function button for your device (in this case your TV) to sleep, but to the Harmony, it's no different than if you hit any other key for said device, to the Harmony anyway.

I do agree though. It would have been nice to build some kind of recognition into it.

What I'd like to see more in that department though would be a sleep function built into the remote itself. I would want it to turn every device that's on off at the same time, not just the TV or the receiver. It couldn't be too hard for them to implement. Some soft-key on the main menu that said "Sleep Timer" which could be set in 15 minute increments or something to that effect.

It couldn't be that hard, could it?

[smiddy]

I think I concur that the Harmony should feature a sleep function that turns everything off at the prescribed interval.

AirRocker, as Pinion413 says, there is a slight disconnect and couldn't possibly know that you were sleeping the TV. In your case, when you do put it on sleep mode, cover the IR transmitter lense and hit off, then put it down and then you're good to go. It is set to what you want teh next use.

[Greg Alsobrook]

well... the harmony is all about 'knowing' where your system is at any given time (what's on, what's off, what inputs everything is on, etc.)... i just figured that if I have a 'sleep' command on my prgrammable screen up top... it knows that it's the sleep button for the tv... so it should assume that after 90 minutes or so... that the tv is off... and resend the 'power on' command for the television... i really don't think it would be that hard to impliment...

i think your suggestion would work though smiddy... to cover the IR and hit off... i am going to give that a shot..

thanks!!

[Stuart Sweet]

I do what smiddy has suggested and it works for me.

[smiddy]

My pleasure man...

I agree with your statement though, considering all the other stuff it remembers, perhaps it shoudl know when you hit the sleep button, it should ask you how long until it sleeps aor a setting you use normally, or something along those lines.