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Post 1 made on Sunday November 27, 2016 at 08:39
Dobber42
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Hello,

I have a home sports bar themed rec room in my home. Would like to get one remote I could control all components with. Wonder if I could get any suggestions here. Components are as follows:

Directv Genie Mini Client
Directv HR21 HD DVR

Vizio 55 inch LED
Panasonic 42 inch plasma
Samsung 32 inch LCD
Vizio 37 inch LCD
Dynex 37 inch LCD

Onkyo Home Theater Receiver
Onkyo Stereo Receiver

Sony Blue Ray

The room is basically 2 areas, the bar area and the Home Theater area. The stereo receiver is connected to a pc I have set up as a jukebox and is used for music for the most part. Obviously, the TVs are mounted around the room at different angles as to get a view from no matter where you are in the room. Just wondering if there is anything out there that would help me out here without costing too much.

Thanks
Post 2 made on Sunday November 27, 2016 at 20:47
buzz
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Any pro model remote system could handle this, but for DIY, Harmony is probably your best bet. How are you switching sources for the TV's?

You'll need to get a bit creative controlling all of those TV's. Hopefully, you can wire an IR emitter from each TV back to the central control area.
OP | Post 3 made on Monday November 28, 2016 at 09:03
Dobber42
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I have a couple HDMI splitters feeding the different tvs. I just change the input source on the tv itself to go to a different source.

You mentioned that you thought Harmony would prob be best, so would you think my best bet would be a hub type Harmony system?
Post 4 made on Tuesday November 29, 2016 at 02:18
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Full disclosure: I'm not a Harmony user or fan, but I know that Harmony is a favorite in the DIY space. I'll leave it to others to suggest exactly how to approach this using Harmony.

Yes, you'll want to use a "hub" system and you'll need to wire IR emitters from the hub to each of the units that you want to control via IR, otherwise you'll be running around pointing your remote at each item that you want to control or you end up with multiple hubs. The hub will have "ports" and you'll be able to send IR commands out through specified ports. This is how you will address the Visio's, DirecTV, and Onkyo's individually. As I recall, the Harmony hub offers eight IR ports, but you have at least ten devices to control. If Harmony allows you to control the DirectTV over the network (not using a port), you are fine, otherwise you'll need to add a port expander (allowing multiple emitters to be wired to a port). This expander scheme works well unless you attempt to control, for example, two Visio TV's from the same port. Having different brand devices on the same hub port works out because they will ignore each other's commands.

Regardless of the brand of remote, your challenge will be to create a user interface that is straight forward for the operator. Otherwise your only accomplishment will be to encapsulate all of the grief of managing multiple remotes into a single shell. You can use "macros" to issue a long list of commands from a single button press.


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