[Fincave]

I have the Harmony 885 (US model 880) and am more than happy with it. Switching between activities/macros it remembers which devices are on and vice versa, as long as you ONLY use the Harmony you should not have problems with it switching something on or off. If I have powered my receiver on with it's own remote to change settings and then I press 'Listen to cd' on the Harmony it switches the receiver off as the Harmony does not know that it is already on, pressing the 'HELP' button on the Harmony the Harmony will then ask a series of questions such as 'is the receiver on?', you then have the choice of 'yes' or 'no', press 'no' and the Harmony sends the power on signal to the receiver and then asks 'did this solve the problem?', again choose 'yes' or 'no' and you are done. I am pleased with the Harmony, it does what I need it to do and their service is first class, I had a problem with the charging cradle and so sent them email. Apparently it was a known problem, Harmony wanted my address and sent a new one to me free of charge, it took two weeks to get the replacement cradle, not bad seeing as though I live in Finland and they sent the cradle from Canada, they even provided me with a tracking number!