Progettazione di un Home Theater - Home Theater Remote - Choosing The Right Remote
Anche se non può essere stato nella vostra Home Theatre design, avrete bisogno di un controllo remoto home theater.
Setting up a home theater buries you in remotes pretty quick. It becomes a 3 or 4 remote task to do anything unless you get a home theater remote.
There are a few different calibers of remote controls. Se si desidera solo per ridurre il numero di telecomandi avete, poi un telecomando universale di base sarebbe fare il trucco.
Ma, se si desidera un telecomando che non si limita a controllare l'A / V attrezzature, le scelte saranno sottile.
Caratteristiche come le luci e / o persiane che controllano. O la creazione di macro / scene che si accendono e spengono i vari dispositivi a seconda dell'attività.
In questo articolo, Vado oltre quello che ho guardato quando si sceglie mio telecomando e come impostare il tutto.
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Choosing the right remote control will completely change your home theater experience. A typical home theater will have at least 3 remotes (for the TV/Projector, Suono surround, Cable box or DVD Player).
Fumbling between all the remote becomes a pain pretty quickly. Many of the remotes that come with home theater equipment do try to be universal-ish. But they still fall short with home theater scenarios.
The remote I was searching for would control:
On the low end, they are about $100. These remotes will have a low limit on the devices that can it can control and no macros. On the super fancy high end, there is a complete casa automation system. That system can control just about any electronic device, ma certo, it’s at a cost. The Savant is one of those sistemi and runs about $1000 a room.
For my scenario, Ho già un casa sistema di automazione in modo da Savant non era qualcosa che avevo alcun interesse in.
Mio casa sistema di automazione è un sistema basato Insteon. Un controller universale Dispositivi ISY (Modello ISY 994i / IR Pro) che i controlli tutto. Cose come la serratura della porta, i termostati, luci, e sensori di porta.
Dopo alcune ricerche, E 'diventato chiaro alla famiglia di telecomandi Harmony è il miglior valore per le caratteristiche. Sono stati nel commercio telecomando per un tempo molto lungo e che si sono distinti nel corso degli anni.
Che un telecomando Harmony, si basa la vostra scelta su quanti dispositivi si pensa di controllo. Il telecomando Harmony ho scelto era l'ultima casa. It can control up to 15 devices with up to 15 activities. Le attività sono fondamentalmente le macro. Premere uno dei pulsanti macro, e girerà su tutti gli apparecchi necessari accesi per tale attività.
Aggiornare: The remote that I chose is now discontinued. Il Logitech Harmony Remote Elite è l'ultima remota home theater da Logitech. Sembra un po 'diverso, ma le specifiche sono molto simili.
Un vantaggio ulteriore è che l'armonia Elite telecomando funziona anche con Alexa!
There are three physical parts to the remote control. The remote control itself, a Hub and infrared blaster cables.
The hub is the brains of it all, and the remote control communicates to the hub using RF (radio). It’s great for home theater setups like mine, where the AV equipment is in a closet out of sight.
In this setup, there’s a total of 6 devices listed in the MyHarmony app:
Harmony has done a great job with their remote controls. The basic initial setup was pretty straight forward.
You’ll need to install their MyHarmony software and run the setup. You can either install it on your PC or on your phone and it will guide you through the setup process.
During setup, the hub was able to automatically detect the Yamaha amplifier on the WiFi. For the other devices (cable box, DVD player and projector) I needed to supply the make an model. Based on the make an model, it knew the full set of remote codes for them.
Much easier than the old days where you had to teach your universal remote the codes for each function.
If you have a theater like mine, you have AV equipment tucked away in a closet close by but out of sight.
The Harmony Hub goes in the closet along with all the AV equipment, but one gotcha is the projector.
Inizialmente, I wasn’t sure if I’d have to run one of the infrared blasters into the theater to get it to turn on/off the projector.
Bene, luckily Harmony had already thought of that. In the MyHarmony App, you determine what controls the device, either the remote or the hub.
That’s done here:
Problem solved.
Aggiornare: The solution above worked great, but it would only work if you were in the room to turn on the projector. I sometimes use the MyHarmony app on my phone to turn the theater equipment on or off from outside the room.
Come ho detto prima, my casa automation is Insteon based. When I was setting up my casa theater I expected to one day be able to control the lights. And maybe even the curtains using my casa theater remote control.
Insteon has a user-friendly device called InsteonHub, which Harmony can communicate with natively.
My setup uses a Universal Devices controller, which is more flexible but not as user-friendly. Inizialmente, it didn’t seem obvious how I could get Harmony and Insteon to talk to each other.
At first, I thought I’d have to use some sort of Rest based commands to control the lights using the Harmony remote.
During my googling, I did see something using a Raspberry PI and something called ISY Helper to do just that.
From what I understand, the ISY Helper is the go-between for the Harmony and your ISY.
For my setup, it sounded like way too many moving parts.
Luckily the ISY I purchased had infrared, I think you can also buy the add-on module for the ISY if your ISY doesn’t have IR.
With the Insteon Hub, I think you can only control the lights. With the infrared module in the ISY, you can control everything that the ISY can control.
On the ISY you would create a program with the things you want the ISY to do. Then assign that program to an IR code.
Let’s say you want to set the temp at a certain level, dim the lights in the theater and lock the front door for the evening.
Create a program with those steps and assign it to an IR code. Now create an activity on your remote that sends that IR code, you’re all set!
Pretty cool! And you have no limit to the possibilities.
In realtà, you only have 40 IR codes to play with. But each of those codes can be configured to do a whole lot on the ISY side.
Adding the ISY to the remote was straight forward. Add a new device in the Harmony app. And use Universal Devices as the manufacturer and ISY994i/IR as the model number.
As soon as you do that it will add the 40 infrared codes that the ISY uses into the remote.
To add the IR codes on the ISY side was just as easy. Go into the admin console, click the IR tab and click the ‘Import Default IR Codes’ button. That adds the same 40 infrared codes into the ISY.
When you are done watching TV and want to turn everything off, just press the button next to the activity again and it’ll turn everything off.
Now if you have a casa theater and don’t yet have a remote control with macros, I think you can appreciate how this remote can have everything on, set and ready to go with the press of one button.
No more fumbling with every remote control you have to get things set up just to watch TV.
Before Harmony these were my steps:
A big difference in user experience.
In a way, the remote control is the mortar in the electronic building blocks of your home theater. It changes your experience completely.
Here are all my configured activities and settings. The “Lights – IR004” entry triggers the “Turning off the Movie Theater lights” program on the ISY.
The Watch Amazon activity is an example of an activity using cursor movements. The DVD Player has no built-in button for Amazon so I used cursor movements to select the AmazonApp.
I also added mute at the beginning and the volume down at the end because of an annoying ding sound the DVD player made. Every time the cursor in the interface moved there was a ding, and I didn’t like hearing it.
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Having a Harmony Home theater remote control is way better than trying to manage 6 remotes…. but I had no idea how much better the experience was going to be.
The remote control makes it a real pleasure to turn on and off your devices. If you have a home theater getting a Harmony remote control is a must!
The simplicity of use that a remote like this gives you is amazing.
In my opinion, a home theater design is incomplete if it doesn’t include a home theater remote control.
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