Harmony Touch™ User Guide
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Advanced Features ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 32 Activity Sequences ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 32 Button Sequences ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 33 Device Settings ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������34 Adding/Fixing Device Commands ������������
Logitech Harmony Touch Harmony Touch at a Glance The Harmony Touch Universal Remote brings the flexibility and convenience of touch screen controls to your home entertainment system. Using the Activities feature, you can control all of your devices from one location. Switching between activities such as watching TV or listening to music is a quick and easy operation. Setup is also made quick and easy using the guided online setup on myharmony.com.
Logitech Harmony Touch Favorites Favorites are your favorite TV channels. Using the myharmony.com website you can select up to 50 favorite channels to display on the remote. Selecting a favorite channel will start your “Watch TV” activity, if it’s not already started, and tune directly to that channel. Using the touch screen, you can add, remove and reorder your favorite channels right on the remote. Myharmony.com http://myharmony.com is the website where you configure your Harmony Touch.
Logitech Harmony Touch Harmony Touch First Time Setup The easiest way to complete the first time setup is using a laptop computer in the same spot where you will use your remote. That will give you access to all of the devices you want to control using your Harmony Touch. During the first time setup process, you will connect your remote to the computer using the USB cable provided.
Logitech Harmony Touch Installing the Setup Plugins If you are creating a new account or accessing an existing account on a new computer for the first time, you will need to install two plugins. 1. Click the Silverlight plugin button and follow the instructions to complete the Microsoft Silverlight installation. 2. Click the MyHarmony plugin button and follow the instructions to complete the MyHarmony plugin installation. 3.
Logitech Harmony Touch Setting up Devices to Control The first step to setting up Harmony Touch is to tell myharmony.com what devices you have in your entertainment system that you want to control. Using the Setup Guide that came with your Harmony Touch, gather the manufacturer, model and connection information for each device. Having this information collected ahead of time will make setup much easier.
Logitech Harmony Touch Copying Setup Information for an Existing Remote If you have a previous Harmony remote such as Harmony One, Harmony 1100 or Harmony 880, you can reuse the device and activity settings from that remote to program your Harmony Touch. To copy a previous Harmony remote’s settings, click the Copy button shown here. You will be asked to enter the ID and password for your previous account. When you do, the settings will be copied and applied to your Harmony Touch account.
Logitech Harmony Touch Using the Teach Commands Function to Add a Device In some cases, your device may not be recognized, or it may have been manufactured in different versions that require additional information to be set up properly. Myharmony.com will recognize when this is necessary and guide you through the Teach Commands process to identify and set up your device. To add a device using Teach Commands: 1. Enter the Manufacturer and Model Number for your device. 2.
Logitech Harmony Touch 1. Click the button to confirm the Manufacturer and Model Number for the device and click OK. 2. Click Select your device type to display a list of device types. 3. Select the device type that best describes your device and click Next. Based on your selection, another page displays to get more information about your device. 4. Check the box for each item that applies to your device. This will help setup determine which commands are appropriate for your device. Click Next. 5.
Logitech Harmony Touch Setting up Activities After you have added devices, you can create activities. Use activities to manage how you use your devices together. For example, if you have a TV, AV receiver, and Cable or Satellite box, you will want to control all of these devices when you watch TV. To control all of these devices together, create a Watch TV activity.
Logitech Harmony Touch 9. Choose the TV input from the list displayed. 10. Choose the AV receiver input from the list displayed. 11. Confirm that the devices and inputs are correct for your Watch TV activity and click Finish. Following is an example of the completed Watch TV activity setup. Setting up Favorites With your devices added and activities set up, you can now add favorites. Favorites are the channels you watch or listen to most often. Follow these steps to add favorites to the Watch TV activity.
Logitech Harmony Touch The channels list for the selected provider displays: TIP: The most popular channels for your provider are pre-selected. You can also click the buttons at the top of the list to choose which channel list is displayed: All Channels, Most Popular Channels, or Favorites. Select your favorite channels. Selected favorites are shown with a gold star in the first column. You can select up to 50 favorites by clicking on the star. 6.
Logitech Harmony Touch Setting up Favorites When Your Provider is not Listed In some cases your provider will not be listed in the favorites setup pages. You can still set up favorites using the channel list and assigning a channel number for each channel manually. 1. Select your country. 2. Enter your zip/postal code. 3. Click Show Providers. 4. Select Provider not listed—Show All Channels 5. Click Next. The Channels List displays. 6. Select your favorite channels and click Next.
Logitech Harmony Touch Setting up Favorites Manually If no channel provider or channel list is available for your area, you can still set up favorites manually. 1. Select your country. 2. If channel information is not available for your country, the page will remain as is, and Next will be enabled. 3. Click Next. 4. Enter the Channel Name and Channel Number for each favorite channel. The Browse button allows you to select an image to represent each channel. 5.
Logitech Harmony Touch Syncing your Harmony Touch To complete your first time setup, myharmony.com will perform a sync operation to save all of your setup details and update your remote. Whenever you connect your Harmony Touch to your computer, myharmony.com will automatically sync your remote with your account settings. It is important to sync your remote whenever you make changes directly on the remote, so that your myharmony.com account is current with all of your desired changes.
Logitech Harmony Touch Changing your Setup After completing the first time setup process, you can return to the myharmony.com website to make setup changes and sync them on your Harmony Touch. You can also change basic settings directly on your remote. Follow these steps to manage your remote setup on myharmony.com 1. Login to your myharmony.com account. The Remote Gallery displays. 2. Click the Harmony Touch image. You will be prompted to connect your remote. Syncing Your Remote Back to Myharmony.
Logitech Harmony Touch Adding or Deleting Devices To Add a Device 1. Select the Devices tab on the left hand side of the screen. 2. Click Add Device. The Add Device page displays. 3. Enter the manufacturer for your device. You can enter just the first letter of the manufacturer name, and then choose the correct name from a list. 4. Enter the model number. Setup will confirm the model number with the correct model number stored in the myharmony.com database. 5.
Logitech Harmony Touch Adding or Deleting Activities To Add an Activity 1. Select the Activities tab on the left hand side of the screen. 2. Click Add Activity. 3. Select the type of activity to add. The choices available depend on the devices you have added. In this example, choices are: • Watch TV (or additional Watch TV if you already have that activity) • Watch a Movie • Listen to Music • Custom 4. Click Next. 5. Enter a name for the activity or accept the displayed name. 6.
Logitech Harmony Touch To Change Activity Settings 1. Click Activities. Your list of Activities displays. 2. Select the activity to change settings. 3. Click Change your settings. The Rename Activity page displays. This is the first page in the process for changing the activity settings. 4. Follow the instructions to change the remaining settings for the selected activity. To Delete an Activity 1. Click Activities. Your list of activities displays. 2. Select the activity to delete. 3.
Logitech Harmony Touch Adding, Modifying and Reordering Favorites TIP: you can also add, remove or reorder your favorites directly on your Harmony Touch screen. To add, modify or reorder your favorites click Add/Organize Favorites in the main Favorites screen in myharmony.com. The Set up favorites page displays. Current favorites are shown with a gold star in the first column. To add or remove a channel from your favorites, click the gold star beside that channel so it is highlighted or grayed out.
Logitech Harmony Touch To add a favorite channel that does not appear in the list on the previous screen, select Add a favorite channel to manually enter the name and number for that channel. Optionally, you can upload an icon for that channel from your computer’s file system: To modify the name, number or icon for a favorite channel, select it and click the Modify a favorite channel link. Enter the channel name and channel number. You can also choose a channel icon from your computer file system.
Logitech Harmony Touch Channel Tuning Settings If your favorite channels aren’t working properly, you may need to adjust how your remote sends the channel tuning commands to your TV or cable/satellite set top box. Click the Adjust how you change channels link on the main Favorites screen in your myharmony.com account. Different TVs or set top boxes require different methods of entering channel numbers.
Logitech Harmony Touch Using your Harmony Touch After completing the first time setup to add your devices, create activities, and choose your favorite channels, you are ready to use your remote. The following sections describe how to access the features you will use most often. Using your Activities Tap the Home button above the touch screen on your Harmony Touch to see your activities. Swipe left and right to navigate among your activities. Tap an activity to start it.
Logitech Harmony Touch Activity Commands When your activity starts, all the buttons on Harmony Touch are now configured to control that activity. For example, the volume button will control your AV receiver while the Play and Pause buttons and the directional navigation will control your cable or satellite set top box. On the Harmony Touch screen are additional controls for the current activity for which a dedicated button on the remote isn’t available.
Logitech Harmony Touch Gesture Control Each activity will include an option to control your devices using simple swipes and taps on the Harmony Touch screen. 5 different gestures are supported: • Swipe up • Swipe down • Swipe left • Swipe right • Tap To enable gesture mode, tap gesture in your activity’s command screen. This brings up the gestures pad. Each gesture may have a command associated by default depending on the devices configured for the current activity.
Logitech Harmony Touch Using Favorites Favorites Tap the star icon above the Harmony Touch screen to see your favorite channels. Swipe up and down on the screen to scroll your favorites. Tap any favorite to tune to that channel. TIP: If your entertainment system is off or if you are in another activity when you select a favorite, Harmony Touch will automatically start the Watch TV activity and tune to the selected channel.
Logitech Harmony Touch Tap the “+” icon at the bottom left of the screen to add a new favorite. On the remote, you can choose from the most popular channels or can enter a specific channel number to choose a personal favorite. Using Devices Your Harmony Touch is designed to control your devices as part of the activities that you set up on myharmony.com. Occasionally, you may need to access the commands for a particular device on its own. Tap the Home button above the Harmony Touch screen.
Logitech Harmony Touch Using Help When using your Harmony Touch, obstacles or distance can interfere with the signals sent from the remote when it starts an activity. For example, when someone blocks the signal when you press the Watch TV activity or you are very far away from the system when you tap the activity. When this happens, your remote can become out of step with your devices. Use Help to fix this problem. 1. From the Home screen, tap the Help icon. 2.
Logitech Harmony Touch Settings After completing the first time setup process, many settings can be changed on the remote that let you personalize your Harmony Touch or affect how it controls your entertainment system. On the Harmony Touch home screen, swipe all the way to the right, to access the Settings menu. The following sections describe how you can adjust settings related to your remote, your activities and your devices.
Logitech Harmony Touch Inputs If you chose the incorrect input during your setup or have since changed how your devices connect to each other, you can update your Input settings here. Under Inputs, choose the activity you want to change and the device. You will see a list of inputs for that device, with a checkmark on the current input setting. Choose a different input and tap the “back” arrow. Reorder Activities If you want to rearrange your activities on your Harmony Touch, you can do that here.
Logitech Harmony Touch Device Delay Settings Delays and speed settings can be changed to alter the speed with which the Harmony Touch sends commands to your devices. They can be changed from within your myharmony.com account, or on your remote. TIP: Changing delays can affect the way your devices respond in a positive or negative manner.
Logitech Harmony Touch To Access Your Delay and Speed Settings From Myharmony.com 1. Click Devices 2. Click the device for which you would like to view or modify delays and speed settings 3. Click Change Device Settings. The Device Settings page opens. 4. Select Device Delay Settings and click Next. The Device Delay Settings page opens. TIP: Click on Help to learn more about each delay setting, and how it affects your device. Resetting your Remote To reset the remote: 1. Tap Settings. 2. Tap Remote. 3.
Logitech Harmony Touch Advanced Features This section covers more advanced settings of your Harmony Touch that let you perfect how it controls your entertainment system. Activity Sequences Adding steps to an activity allows you to customize, for example, your Watch a Movie activity to automatically send the Play command to start your movie. To add steps to an activity in your myharmony.com account: 1. Click Activities. Your list of Activities displays. Select an activity to customize. 2.
Logitech Harmony Touch Button Sequences A button sequence is a set of commands that can be grouped together and assigned to one button on your remote, helping to automate certain tasks. They are very similar to Activity Sequences above except you can perform them any time within the activity by pressing the assigned button whereas Activity Sequences are only performed when starting or stopping the activity. To create a button sequence in your myharmony.com account: 1. Click Buttons.
Logitech Harmony Touch Device Settings Adding/Fixing Device Commands If your Harmony Touch is missing a specific command for one of your devices, it is possible to “teach” this command to your Harmony Touch, using a remote control on which this command is present. If your Harmony Touch contains a non-working command for a specific device, it is possible to correct this command using the same approach. To teach a command to your Harmony Touch, access your MyHarmony account and 1. Click Devices. 2.
Logitech Harmony Touch Device Power Settings The power settings feature allows you to modify the way Harmony Touch powers devices on and off, or to configure your remote to leave certain devices on all the time. Certain devices such as projectors may need additional commands to power up properly—you can add or modify these here as well. To access the power settings feature, access your MyHarmony account: 1. Click Devices. 2. Click on the device whose power settings you would like to change. 3.
Logitech Harmony Touch Device Input Settings The input settings feature allows you to modify the way Harmony Touch accesses inputs on your devices. Input settings also allow you to modify the number and order of inputs for the devices that Harmony controls. To access the input settings feature, access your MyHarmony account: 1. Click Devices. 2. Click on the device whose input settings you would like to change. 3. Click Change device settings. This opens the Device settings screen. 4.
Logitech Harmony Touch To Change or Fix What a Button Does 1. Click Buttons. The change or fix button operations page displays. 2. Under Change or Fix what a button does, point to Select an activity or device—the remote buttons are highlighted to show that the button options will be modified. 3. Select an activity or device from the list. 4. Click Go.
Logitech Harmony Touch Support Troubleshooting Harmony Touch Harmony Touch is not Detected by my Computer If you’ve connected your Harmony Touch, but it does not appear to be connected, try the following steps. After each step, try plugging in the device again. • Ensure that the USB cable is plugged into your computer and into your Harmony Touch. While it will successfully be able to charge, the Harmony Touch will not be detected when connected to your computer through the charging cradle.
Logitech Harmony Touch Harmony Touch does not Control Devices Properly Refer to the Help sections above and to the ‘Solving common problems using your Harmony Touch’ section below. Solving Common Problems Using Your Harmony Touch If your Harmony Touch consistently does not turn devices on or off properly, the following tips may help: • Always exclusively use your Harmony Touch to control your devices. Do not use other remotes to control your devices, or manually turn them on or off or change inputs.
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