Curious if anyone has had a problem/found a solution for 'activity' selection for their 880 harmony remotes. If I turn on the system using an activity such as "watch tv" it seems my input selection the 990 rarely matches up with what the activity should be (ie the input will be on xbox instead of cable). I have even tried putting that command in the activity 2x. It seems to work once everything is on and I move from activity to activity.

Any solutions/ideas would be appreciated.

Make sure your power settings are configured as follows (I can't remember who posted these initially but I believe they're for the web interface so you might have to search around a bit if using the stand-alone app):

From the Harmony Report User Home Page, find the Outlaw 990 device and click on the "More Options" link. This takes you to the Device Options page for the Outlaw 990. Click on the "Adjust power settings" link. This will take you into the device setup wizard.

1. Do you want to leave your Stereo Receiver on all the time?
Choose: whatever is appropriate

2. How do you turn your Stereo Receiver on and off with your current remote control?
Choose: A button on the remote for On, and a different button for Off

3. Select Power On Command
Choose: Use these infrared commands: -None-

A big warning will appear: No command was selected. Are you sure? Blah Blah Blah
Click the "Yes" button.

4. Select Power Off Command
Choose: Use these infrared commands: PowerOff

Proceed through the check, download to your remote, and test.

Optional: You can also speed up the power on sequence for any activity by decreasing the Power On Delay for the Outlaw 990. Since there really isn't a power on command, this could probably be set to anything... 500 ms works just fine for me.

As I recall, at one time the Harmony database had associated the "power on" discrete signal with "Video1" (although it may have been a different input). If cvinfig's advise doesn't work, you might see if Harmony can help you adjust the "power on" command somehow.

I just let the 990 turn on with the default and then for each activity, I add a command to switch it to the right input (except for watch cable which is Video 1 default). The interkey delay I have is 100ms and power on delay is low, but I can't recall, like 500-1000ms, but neither matter cause my LCD takes longer to turn on so the 990 is always ready before the LCD.

I've been dealing with this with my 890. I added more time between the commands. It seemed to work. Jim

I have the 880 as well and I have had similar problems. I ended up having to adjust the delay between commands in order to get it to work. For some things I had to go to 2 seconds and some other as far as 5 seconds in order to allow time for everything to come up and be ready to accept commands.

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Thank you for all your fantastic posts. I do indeed get 'defaulted' to video1 on every activity power-on. I will try a few of the recommendations and reply as to the outcome.

Cheers.