Logitech has bought streaming controller Loupedeck, lets hope it doesn’t go the way of the Harmony Remotes

Businessweek reported on the story.

I don’t have any Loupedeck products as they are a bit pricy, and I already have a tangent eave 2 and a Streamdeck 30, but I would like one.

In some ways this could be good as I have seen that the loupedeck can be hard to control and program so the logitech software might be better.

Of course I don’t trust Logitech as I have 2 Harmony remotes, after a third older one died. And unfortunately the logitech remotes have been discontinued and their are no real replacements on the market, which really sucks as my main remote is starting to not work as well and has some issues.

Logitech has announced 2 more harmony remotes

MacTech has the news on 2 new Harmony Programable remotes, these including bluetooth for connection to things like your Playstation 3 (used to require a separate device).

I had heard and posted about Rumors of Logitech getting rid of Harmony, so I am glad to see they are still working on remotes, and the Ultimate does look like a cool step up from my Harmony One ($349.99 is a lot for an upgrade I don’t really need though, especially without hugely new features).

Logitech wants to sell it’s Harmony Remotes Division

Electronic House is reporting on this disturbing news. I personally use a Harmony One and love it, though it could use more programability and functionality that it will likely never get now.

My biggest complaint is it is set up to control multiple devices at one, but since it doesn’t get feedback it doesn’t know the states of each device unless you only use those simple button controls to do everything. Well personally I like to control individual components (and can never figure out why they randomly move on the touch screen) and do things differently at different times. Sometimes through the stereo, sometimes through the TV, plus I have a TIVO, an Apple TV, a ROKU, a PS3 an XBOX 360 and more HDMI devices than HDMI ports on my receiver.

It would be awesome to have a universal remote that I have full control over, instead of being forced to do it how a company forces me to, and I hate how things are moving to touchscreen only as you can’t do that easily in the dark. I like to be able to control everything with buttons that my hands can always find, and have a fully programable touchscreen as well for the functions that I want and use, but don’t need in the dark, and it looks like that may be a thing of the past soon.

Lets hope someone steps up.