Hopefully the hundreds of unhappy customers on their forums will make Logitech reconsider their approach to Harmony Remote Software, and 7.7.1 will be user-centered rather than Logitech-centered.
That will never happen. Because for the hundreds of unhappy customers on their forums, there are tens of millions who don't care.
I so dislike to be dependent on the clound when it is not strictly necessary.
Logitech bought Harmony for over US $20 Million primarily for their cloud-based configuration and back-end.
All the logic for the remotes is stored on their web servers. When you update the remote, you're not actually storing simple codes on the remote, but a complete set of logic for your configuration.
Sure, they could put the whole thing into a piece of software that runs on your PC. But then they'd have to write that from scratch. And a Mac version. They've barely done anything to update their software in the past 8 years, so something like this would be completely unprecedented for them.
It really sounds to me like you'd be infinitely happier with a Complete Control product from URC. Logitech remotes are not really for the person who wants to really customize their control experience. They're meant for the average joe. Even though using their web software is most definitely far too complicated for the the average joe.
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