Features & Specifications
The Logitech Harmony 900 features the ability to control components that are hidden inside a closet or behind closed doors of a cabinet. The device can replace up to 15 different remote and programs via USB on your home computer. The device ships with the remote, an IR blaster, charge station, IR mini blasters, AC adapters, rechargeable battery, and the install CD.

In Use
I have reviewed several Logitech Harmony remotes over the years and I have liked some of them better than others. I found that the Harmony One was the best universal remote I have ever tested. The Logitech Harmony 900 looks very much like the One with a very similar design with a few additions. Logitech added a line of colored buttons underneath the hard buttons for menu and the guide. These buttons are red, green, yellow, and blue.

They allow you to not only access the color coded controls of your Blu-ray player, but they allow me to have real buttons for the functions of my DirecTV DVR rather than hitting virtual keys like I do on my Harmony One. The screen of the Logitech Harmony 900 is touch sensitive and appears to be a bit sharper than the screen on my One.

The 900 programs just as all the other Harmony remotes do. You install the software on your computer with Internet access, plug the remote in via the included USB cable and you are ready to go. There is no long book of codes you have to enter, you simply put into the brand and model of your components and the remote knows all the buttons. If you should happen to be missing a function that you use, individual functions can be programmed to a button as well.

Unlike previous Logitech IR capable remotes, you don’t have to program the IR blaster separately, which makes things much easier. Programming the remote is a snap, but you may find depending on your setup that you have to tweak things a bit. The IR blaster has two ports on the rear and two mini blaster that work for multiple components. You can order extra IR blaster and mini blasters if you need more.

After the remote was programmed, it worked well. I was able to get it to control my components behind the solid wood doors of my entertainment center. The only time I had a problem with the Logitech Harmony 900 was when my son would turn off a component manually without using the remote. This will throw things out of sync so when you hit the power off button you end up turning the TV on instead. The Logitech Harmony 900 has a very easy to use help process that asks you simple questions like "is the TV off" you answer the questions and things are coordinated again before you know it.

As with the other Harmony remotes I have reviewed, the real beauty of the Logitech Harmony 900 lies in the activity-based controls. Rather than choosing input one and so on, you simply hit the button that says "Watch TV" and the remote does the work of changing inputs for you. I had to tweak the speed at which the inputs change because the remote was too fast by default making it nearly impossible to get the correct input. After slowing things down the remote works flawlessly.

The only real problem with the Logitech Harmony 900 is that it's expensive at $399. Expensive or not if your home theater has multiple components and you are tired of being the only one who can work the system, $400 is money well spent to not have to stop what you are doing and help someone change components.