questions → do you have a recommendation for a universal…

vote-for8vote-against

Do you have a recommendation for a Universal Remote Control?

Aug 16, 2011 5:20 PM

Long story short, my baby got a hold of my Philips and slobbered it into oblivion, so now I'm in need of a new one.

I need it to work well with a TV, Roku, & cable box. My previous one had the nice little LCD screen with favorites and such, but the macros on it were utterly useless because they wouldn't span multiple devices.

My max budget for this would be about $75. Any suggestions?

trinnic trinnic

11 Answers answer

Sort By:

vote-for13vote-against

I definitely recommend the Logitech Harmony family of remotes.

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/remotes/universal-remotes

I picked up a used Harmony One at a garage sale for $50 and it's been the best thing that's happened to my entertainment center since TiVo.

unclefrog unclefrog
vote-for5vote-against

Logitech hands down.

wickedd365 wickedd365
vote-for5vote-against

Harmony wins

woothulhu woothulhu
vote-for3vote-against

+1 for the logitech harmony line

i got one a few years ago and have never looked back. my mother-in-law even bought one because she liked ours so much.

i'm currently using the harmony one and love it!

carl669 carl669
vote-for2vote-against

I'm not sure you'd be able to find a Harmony One for under $75. I have a couple Harmony 550's that I bought refurbished from Newegg for $50 that are great! My only complaint is that every time I program something, I realize that I need to change something. So, I am constantly updating them. But, that is probably more of my problem not planning enough rather than a fault of the remotes.

benyust2 benyust2
vote-for3vote-against

Thank you for the recommendation guys. Sounds unanimous. I'll hunt around for bargains and see what I can find.

Thanks again!

trinnic trinnic
vote-for1vote-against

I use this and love it.
http://www.amazon.com/National-Universal-Remote-Outlet-Controller/dp/B00339INYU

Walk into a room with poor wiring, click "on", have a light make the room brighter...

The universal remote worked fine on the 3 devices to which I have it programed.

achyder achyder
vote-for1vote-against

NetDirectBargains on eBay has some good deals. Don't get the 300 as it is not a true Harmony. http://tinyurl.com/3fglaee

thefenst thefenst
vote-for1vote-against

@trinnic: here's a deal that got posted: harmony 700 (refurb) for $70:

http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/6fcf02cd-1746-4e52-ae31-ef0030ae7798/harmony-700-advanced-universal-remote-control

carl669 carl669
vote-for1vote-against

To follow up, I purchased the 650 and am pretty happy with it. Haven't really dug into it, but there doesn't seem to be a way to create a macro. For example, I use the Xbox to watch movies, but I can't seem to set it so that it hits "Play" after switching everything on.

trinnic trinnic
vote-for1vote-against

Too late but I've been real happy w universal remote control's products. I just posted one on deals.woot but it's $99; includes RF blaster and base unit but does require programming and some knowledge. Macros are a breeze once you get the hang of it but it is NOT as user friendly as Harmony (but the RF makes it for me!)
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/eb9a10f6-6145-46b0-b7dc-57eada7499ed/universal-remote-urcrfs200-combo-rf20-and-mrf100-m#0

johncprice johncprice

Stats

Asked
Aug 16, 2011 5:20 PM
Asked By
trinnic
Answered
11 times
Viewed
1789 times
Voted Against
1 time
Voted For
9 times

Similar Questions

Related Deals

Not a farewell, just a forced redirect.

It's true, Local.Woot is no longer, but please don't despair.

Never-ending savings are still to be found on Deals.Woot each and every day, so come on in. Don't think of it as a time for tears. Think of it as a way to bring us all closer together under one roof.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.