Several years ago, my wife convinced me that we should hire a professional installer to install our A/V system throughout our home. I had already installed all the cabling (6 CAT-5e and 6 RG-6 to each room from a central A/V closet), but I hadn't managed to get around to many of the active components. Well to make a long story short, many $1000's later we had a system that was neither pretty or usable. So the next time someone shows up who claims to be a "Certified Installer", they are going have to sit an exam before I let them in the door (To all you real pro's out there, my apologies - I know you know your stuff and bust your chops for your clients. Unfortunately, I didn’t hire you.).
Now one of the things we were left with was a Harmony 890 Pro and RF extender to control the A/V equipment stack from the various rooms. Now the Harmony 890 Pro seems to be a pretty reasonable remote (my wife like it!), but the RF coverage stinks. The Harmony 890 Pro specs say its range is 100 feet, but I think they got inches and feet mixed up in the Harmony marketing department. Walk out of the media room and into the kitchen (about 40 feet and two walls) and you can forget controlling anything via RF. As a result the Harmony 890 Pro sits in a pile of useless electronic on the media room floor.
I looked in vain for some way to extend the range of the Harmony 890 Pro RF without success. But last week I read on this forum that the Harmony 890 Pro is a Zwave device!
So my question is “Would installing a few Zwave devices between the media room and the kitchen extend the Harmony 890 Pro’s RF range?”
Now one of the things we were left with was a Harmony 890 Pro and RF extender to control the A/V equipment stack from the various rooms. Now the Harmony 890 Pro seems to be a pretty reasonable remote (my wife like it!), but the RF coverage stinks. The Harmony 890 Pro specs say its range is 100 feet, but I think they got inches and feet mixed up in the Harmony marketing department. Walk out of the media room and into the kitchen (about 40 feet and two walls) and you can forget controlling anything via RF. As a result the Harmony 890 Pro sits in a pile of useless electronic on the media room floor.
I looked in vain for some way to extend the range of the Harmony 890 Pro RF without success. But last week I read on this forum that the Harmony 890 Pro is a Zwave device!
So my question is “Would installing a few Zwave devices between the media room and the kitchen extend the Harmony 890 Pro’s RF range?”
