New Apple TV and Harmony One remote

[Frosticus]

To get discrete Stop, Play, Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind, Skip Ahead, Skip Back, Chapter Ahead, Chapter Back buttons working on your remote, read on:

Use the Apple TV "Learn Remote" Feature

1) On your Harmony remote, add a remote profile for a DVD player you do not own and that does not conflict with your current setup.

2) Go into Settings -> General -> Remotes

3) Click "Learn Remote"

4) Click "Start"

5) Follow the on-screen instructions to learn each individual button available on the basic Aluminum remote. Simply press and hold the button on your Harmony remote which you want to perform each function. Bear with me!

6) Once setup is complete, press down on your now working Harmony remote and choose Setup Playback Buttons

7) Again, follow the instructions to set up the following commands:
Play
Pause
Stop
Rewind
Fast Foward
Prev Chapter
Next Chapter
Skip Ahead
Skip Back

8) Profit.


You can do this as many times as you like, for multiple remotes. If you have a sound system remote with a little switch on it that shifts between System/DVD/TV etc you can flip this switch to DVD and follow the above tutorial to roll your volume control/AppleTV2 control into one remote.

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[newagemac]

Setting up those commands manually are not required if you have a Harmony Remote. They are already available for the default Apple TV device if you set up a new Activity as a Computer > Media Center PC.

They add most of them to your Harmony's buttons and then you just click on "Customize Buttons" in your Activity to attach the others to whatever buttons on your remote you want. There is no need to go through each command and make it learn them. Logitech has already done all the hard work for you and it's in the database.

 

[Pale Rider]

Keeping Apple TV Powered On

I had zero problem setting up my Apple TV [first gen] with the Harmony Remote One. It went very well. But I do have one problem. I want my Apple TV to be one of the devices that always stays on. But in order to do that, the Harmony wants to knp which button or combination of commands controls power.

As you know, there really is no "off" for the Apple TV, or at least, not one Apple wants you to use as an On/Off switch. So, how do I get the Harmony to leave the Apple TV on?

This seems like it should be a simple issue, but it has me stumped.

Thanks.

 

[mstrze]

I had zero problem setting up my Apple TV [first gen] with the Harmony Remote One. It went very well. But I do have one problem. I want my Apple TV to be one of the devices that always stays on. But in order to do that, the Harmony wants to knp which button or combination of commands controls power.

As you know, there really is no "off" for the Apple TV, or at least, not one Apple wants you to use as an On/Off switch. So, how do I get the Harmony to leave the Apple TV on?

This seems like it should be a simple issue, but it has me stumped.

Thanks.

Didn't you already really just answer your question? You want the Apple TV to stay on...and it has no off button.


On my setup, when I turn off my AppleTV function, it turns off the receiver, HDTV and sends the standby code to the ATV (equal to holding the original remote's button for 3 seconds?)

Like you said, it doesn't turn off... so... what's the issue?

Just don't specify you want the ATV to remain on...it will stay on anyway, won't it? And you will avoid having to specify a code that doesn't exist.

(Am I on the right track here? I have not programmed any of my devices to remain on, so I don't have experience with that functionality on my Harmony remote. )

 

[Pale Rider]

Didn't you already really just answer your question? You want the Apple TV to stay on...and it has no off button.


On my setup, when I turn off my AppleTV function, it turns off the receiver, HDTV and sends the standby code to the ATV (equal to holding the original remote's button for 3 seconds?)

Like you said, it doesn't turn off... so... what's the issue?

Just don't specify you want the ATV to remain on...it will stay on anyway, won't it? And you will avoid having to specify a code that doesn't exist.

(Am I on the right track here? I have not programmed any of my devices to remain on, so I don't have experience with that functionality on my Harmony remote. )

Nope, you would think that would be the case, but I think you have misunderstood what I am describing. When I hit the Power Off button, the Harmony is turning OFF my ATV. It is not entering standby. And I have no idea how. (FYI, I own three first gen Apple TVs, and two second-gen; I understand these things fairly well, but am completely flummoxed on this.) When I switch activities, it is somehow managing to turn off the ATV. Soooo, it does turn off. Every time I start my system up, there is a nice beautiful huge white Apple logo staring back at me from the screen, because the ATV has been turned off, not put in standby mode, and it is booting up from scratch and going through the entire startup process.

 

[adbe]

Can't you just remap the 'off' button to a non-existent code, or to the menu button?

That way your Harmony can send its off message, but the aTV either wont recognize it, or will just drop back a menu level, but not power down.

 

[mstrze]

Nope, you would think that would be the case, but I think you have misunderstood what I am describing. When I hit the Power Off button, the Harmony is turning OFF my ATV. It is not entering standby. And I have no idea how. (FYI, I own three first gen Apple TVs, and two second-gen; I understand these things fairly well, but am completely flummoxed on this.) When I switch activities, it is somehow managing to turn off the ATV. Soooo, it does turn off. Every time I start my system up, there is a nice beautiful huge white Apple logo staring back at me from the screen, because the ATV has been turned off, not put in standby mode, and it is booting up from scratch and going through the entire startup process.

I am misunderstanding because you never actually said that your Apple TV was being turned off by a command from the remote.

Indeed an odd predicament.

Is your AppleTV plugged into a switched outlet in your receiver (or HDTV) perhaps? Then, the ATV would shut off when the receiver or (far less likely) TV were powered off? Is it plugged into a remote-switchable power strip? Do such things exist?

That is the only way I can imagine this is happening...that the power to the AppleTV is somehow being cut.

 

[mstrze]

Pale Rider...

Did the suggestion work? Was it plugged into a switched outlet on another component?