Logitech Harmony remotes

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with Logitech Harmony remotes, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Remote can't be reprogrammed since the online server was shut down2026-08-19
Touch remotes have frequently used buttons poorly placed and hard-to-find soft buttons2023-09-27
Using the phone app for remote control gets really frustrating2021-04-20
Setup is a fight, and the software repeatedly asks users to recommend it2020-10-01
Harmony software is described as awful with no specific problem named2020-09-19
Easy to accidentally swipe pages and hard to find the right page again2019-06-17
Harmony software feels badly designed and atrocious to use2018-12-19
Needs two remotes or programming a Logitech Harmony remote to control TV power and volume2017-06-01
Guests can't work out how to use the universal remote2017-01-12
Setting up the hub is slightly annoying for the user2016-02-29
Screen fades out unresponsive to buttons; low battery warning interrupts and resets input2014-04-06
Programming the remote requires bizarre hoops, and the software is clunky and slow2011-11-12