The battery still needs work (sounds like they’re working on it) and there are a share of quirks, but I’m finally starting to feel as though I can move from the Harmony to the RC3. Much of what I was struggling with was fixed on my end – i.e. devices being turned off unintentionally when switching between activities (which required me to add their Entity to the Activity Group even if I wasn’t using that specific entity in the turn-on or turn-off sequences) and some other minor programming that needed to be ironed out.
I don’t know if the rest of the family will welcome the lack of dedicated buttons for certain common actions but I’m doing what I can to make it easier w/ my programming choices. And it’s getting better.
Bravo to Unfolded for pushing it this far. There’s a lot of potential here, and room to grow, so let’s keep pushing.
I’ve spent a lot of time on tech forums and I recognize that a strong majority of posts are about problems (rightfully so – it’s a good use of a forum) but I wanted to toss some credit where it’s due.
That said, there’s still quite a lot to do. I have a few friends who want to jump onto the UC train but they’re not pulling the trigger until more wrinkles are ironed out. I hope they’re able to further optimize battery usage with the current hardware. Etc. But I do think they have the ambition to make this feel and operate like a high end product.
I also have WiFi connected in standby but it’s eating my battery quickly. I can’t get 6 hours, much less 2.5 days. We must have our remotes configured in very different ways but I don’t know what that would be.
Interesting. I have Prevent Sleep ticked on because it absolutely needed to be in previous weeks. I’ll try turning it off and hopefully there won’t be an issue with communication latency.