Needs lots of work
As a software developer of 20+ years and longer A/V aficionado and a long time user of Harmony remotes, this app does little to fill the void. I had moderate hopes but it didn’t even meet that. Setting up the hub saw constant connection losses, forced app closes, device restarts. Adding devices take 5-30s between steps doing some sort of syncing. Took hour to get just 3 devices. It was painful. And often times it just fails and you have to start all over. Bugs and slowness everywhere.
All that said, once it finally did manage to wrangle it together it did work. Click latency was better than expected after the slow setup process. If you can fight through the app, it will work. Just painful.
Hardware wise it’s great. If the app can improve, it has great potential. But right now it’s nowhere close.
All that said, once it finally did manage to wrangle it together it did work. Click latency was better than expected after the slow setup process. If you can fight through the app, it will work. Just painful.
Hardware wise it’s great. If the app can improve, it has great potential. But right now it’s nowhere close.
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Great university remote
This remote doesn’t need wifi to connect it’s using your bluetooth phone connection.
It’s really interesting that it’s 2026 and a good universal remote is really a hard find. Unless you want to spend hundreds on a programed one that has to be programmed by a authorized dealer.
For the money, the Softbaton a fantastic remote that works really well, also it doesn’t eat batteries either, which many do. My only complaint is you can’t clone them. I have similar setups and would make creating a new one very simple,
It’s really interesting that it’s 2026 and a good universal remote is really a hard find. Unless you want to spend hundreds on a programed one that has to be programmed by a authorized dealer.
For the money, the Softbaton a fantastic remote that works really well, also it doesn’t eat batteries either, which many do. My only complaint is you can’t clone them. I have similar setups and would make creating a new one very simple,
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Buggy and constant “phone requires wifi connection” errors despite having functioning wifi
Please for the love of god remove the “phone requires wifi connection” error that pops up constantly. Every few seconds! My phone has 2 or 3 bars of wifi and is fully functional both to browse the web and use your app and connect to my sofabaton x2 hub. It seems you programmed this error to pop up as soon as phone wifi drops from 3 bars down to 2 bars. Your phone can work fine with two bars of wifi. Remove your stupid error alerts please!
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An OK Remote
Main issue is that the navigation buttons (up-down, left-right) are overly sensitive. So, a single push of the button goes past the area you want and then you have to navigate back.
Update: now the app crashes immediately on open. Remote is good, app is buggy trash
If you already have a “complete” home setup, you’ll prob have a better experience as you’ll only need to go through adding devices once and can forget about the app.
Otherwise, updating buttons and adding devices is painful. Adding devices from their database rarely works so get used to manually adding all the IR commands. It feels like an app made by people who stopped caring after making a demo
Otherwise, updating buttons and adding devices is painful. Adding devices from their database rarely works so get used to manually adding all the IR commands. It feels like an app made by people who stopped caring after making a demo
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Winner of the most stupid app of the year
Not sure this was design for humans
Works Well
App and remote set up great and it works well. Have Harmony but needed another one for a different room. Don’t have the need for macros on this one but used learning function to add some additional buttons from a 20 year old Classe pre and no issues, better than the Harmony learning function.
Suitable Harmony Replacement
The only reason I’m leaving g at 4 stars is still no dark mode or iPad native formatted app.
Lowered to 3 stars for continued lack of dark mode. When sitting in a dark home theater then pulling up the app is blinding. Support dark mode already.
Outside of that, it does take some work to setup devices and activities but once you work it out it does the job. Harmony wasn’t much easier to get going TBH in a complex home theater.
I do like the custom IP options as I use those with Hone Assistant or Node Red web hook based automations for dealing with lighting via Lutron and a couple other things so supplement the controls.
Bottom line is if you’ve got a complex home theater you shouldn’t be looking for a simple remote solution.
Lowered to 3 stars for continued lack of dark mode. When sitting in a dark home theater then pulling up the app is blinding. Support dark mode already.
Outside of that, it does take some work to setup devices and activities but once you work it out it does the job. Harmony wasn’t much easier to get going TBH in a complex home theater.
I do like the custom IP options as I use those with Hone Assistant or Node Red web hook based automations for dealing with lighting via Lutron and a couple other things so supplement the controls.
Bottom line is if you’ve got a complex home theater you shouldn’t be looking for a simple remote solution.
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Best Programmable remote
I love my X1S. Controls my TV, NVIDIA Shield, Blu-ray player, VCR, Soundbar. The app takes a bit of getting used to. Once you understand “Activities” it all comes together very nicely. I can program shortcuts for each activity - like switching audio mode from headphones to speakers, and these shortcuts can send IR or Bluetooth signals to multiple devices all with one press of the wheel (once selected).
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Not enough keys
The hardware controlled ny this software lacks essential functionality. It has FF and Rewind buttons but no skip forward and back buttons. With barely enough hardware to handle other critical functions there’s nowhere to assign these operations.
What I expected
The app is pretty easy to use if you have any previous experience with URC or Harmony programming. For the U2 side, programming is very basic as I had expected. If the exact model of the tv or media device isn’t listed if you find a model close to it; it works. The reason I didn’t give this 5 stars is because this is a DIY app and I feel it should be more beginner friendly for those who don’t have prior experience.
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Worked well
I feel the app is well designed and I was able to setup my theater in a very short time. Five remotes to one. There are a few more things I want to add to my theater control, one of which is learning a remote as it’s not in the database. I have not done that yet so hoping that functionality works.
Edit: I added the remote to learn and it worked perfectly. What the device is a curtain device that I use for my DIY masking for 2.35:1 scope video in my theater.
Could not be happier with this app and product, the X1S.
Edit: I added the remote to learn and it worked perfectly. What the device is a curtain device that I use for my DIY masking for 2.35:1 scope video in my theater.
Could not be happier with this app and product, the X1S.
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Terrible
Disconnection
This app is really petty trash…
It does the job, but it could do it WAY better. If you go to <Activity name> -> Edit -> Startup settings you can add all the commands you want!…but you can’t delete them. The only way to do that (as far as I can tell) is to delete the entire activity and start over. And Repair. It would be lovely if it had a button to apply the changes so you know that they HAVE been applied.
And then there’s no iPad app. No widget. There’s not even a dark mode!
Honestly I really dislike my SofaBaton X1S. It’s nowhere as great as my Harmony was. Sigh. Thanks, Logitech, for discontinuing an awesome product!
And then there’s no iPad app. No widget. There’s not even a dark mode!
Honestly I really dislike my SofaBaton X1S. It’s nowhere as great as my Harmony was. Sigh. Thanks, Logitech, for discontinuing an awesome product!
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Poor
Buggy, loses settings, clunky to use. The saving process is tiresome. The U2 is supposed to support 15 devices. I’m at 11 devices and can add no more commands due to running out of memory.
It’s ok but needs work
Good basic fallback but still has some annoying issues.
The biggest one is that it often complains about not being connected to WiFi even though it is. It sometimes works even while it’s complaining. This used to not be an issue but it started happening often with a recent update.
I also wish there was a way to set the app to start on the activities list as I rarely need direct access to a device.
Sometimes app ui controls display weird on smaller devices.
There’s no way to resubmit commands for a device you’ve previously submitted. I made major improvements to one I had submitted but I can’t seem to share them.
I really want the SofaBaton stuff to succeed so this stuff (particularly the old scroll wheel issue on the physical remote) is a bit sad :(
The biggest one is that it often complains about not being connected to WiFi even though it is. It sometimes works even while it’s complaining. This used to not be an issue but it started happening often with a recent update.
I also wish there was a way to set the app to start on the activities list as I rarely need direct access to a device.
Sometimes app ui controls display weird on smaller devices.
There’s no way to resubmit commands for a device you’ve previously submitted. I made major improvements to one I had submitted but I can’t seem to share them.
I really want the SofaBaton stuff to succeed so this stuff (particularly the old scroll wheel issue on the physical remote) is a bit sad :(
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Doesn’t last
Worked good for 6 months then just completely stopped working and was unresponsive. Customer support absolutely sucked and basically wanted me to do their job.
Promising but disappointing
Clunky, impossible setup. Requires lots of wires and accessories to get running. Didn’t last more than 2 hours in my house.
Lots of devices NOT supported.
Lots of devices NOT supported.
Suitable Harmony Replacement
The only reason I’m leaving g at 4 stars is still no dark mode or iPad native formatted app.
Outside of that, it does take some work to setup devices and activities but once you work it out it does the job. Harmony wasn’t much easier to get going TBH in a complex home theater.
I do like the custom IP options as I use those with Hone Assistant or Node Red web hook based automations for dealing with lighting via Lutron and a couple other things so supplement the controls.
Bottom line is if you’ve got a complex home theater you shouldn’t be looking for a simple remote solution.
Outside of that, it does take some work to setup devices and activities but once you work it out it does the job. Harmony wasn’t much easier to get going TBH in a complex home theater.
I do like the custom IP options as I use those with Hone Assistant or Node Red web hook based automations for dealing with lighting via Lutron and a couple other things so supplement the controls.
Bottom line is if you’ve got a complex home theater you shouldn’t be looking for a simple remote solution.
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Terrible app
One of the most non user friendly apps ever. It seems prehistoric
