I am coming from a Harmony Remote Pro with Hub that I have been using for years. On it I currently have activities set for Sonos, FireTv, Chromecast with Google TV, Nvidia Shield, and Xbox One. I’ve been using this for several years, but the battery was starting to go, so I looked around and found The Unfolded Circle Remote 3. I thought I would give it a try even though it was a bigger investment than I would have liked.
I sat through a few walk-through videos, but most of them are by people that have near-pro home theater gear, so they lose me pretty quickly.
My objective to start was to just have my Unfolded remote 3 mime my Harmony Remote. I now it is capable of a lot more, but I want to understand the basics before trying to do more stuff with it. I thought my objective would be straightforward. I receive the remote. I charge it, get it locked into my home network, update it to the latest firmware, and then begin to add devices which then will allow me to set up activities to trigger multiple devices together.
I have succeeded at adding my LG TV, my Denon receiver, and the Chromecast with Google TV device. They seem to control just fine. I begin to feel like I am drowning when I am trying to add my other devices. This board often points people toward Github files and when I try to read through those, I just want to crawl under my covers and sleep so the bad voices go away.
Am I reading the various board correctly when they say that FireTV and Shield are to be set up using the included Android TV device? Or will that one device be fine to use for all three activities. FYI - Some apps work better with different streaming devices, so that is why I have collected & use so many of them.
