Hope you didn't pay the guy a lot, cause he certainly wasn't a professional. With as inexpensive as universal remotes are these days, there is no reason a professional should ever leave a customer's house without a unified control in place (unless it was a customer's choice - in which case I would refuse the job).
To answer your question:
If you are going to program the remote yourself, then picking up a Harmony should work fine for you.
There are better remotes and systems out there but they can be more expensive and/or the learning curve will be much steeper. You might never get them programmed right (at least not without putting in dozens of hours and questions on forum boards)
To answer your question:
If you are going to program the remote yourself, then picking up a Harmony should work fine for you.
There are better remotes and systems out there but they can be more expensive and/or the learning curve will be much steeper. You might never get them programmed right (at least not without putting in dozens of hours and questions on forum boards)