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Sachin Agarwal  //  I love good food, good drinks, fast cars, photography and New York City. I've been an Apple fanboy my entire life and worked on Final Cut Pro for 6 years.

I’m a cofounder at Posterous.

Jun 1 / 2:45pm

Use the new Logitech Adapter for Playstation to control your Playstation 3 with your Harmony remote, including on/off abilities

I *love* my Harmony remote. I think it's one of the smartest consumer devices to come out outside of Apple. Especially when you have an AV receiver and many components, it's an essential tool. It switches all your components perfectly with a single touch.

Since getting this remote for my parents, i get ZERO tech support calls about their TVs.

But the one flaw was it couldn't control a PS3 since the Playstation uses bluetooth only. If you get an IR receiver for the PS3, it sorta works, except on/off

Until now. This adapter takes the signal from your remote and converts it to a bluetooth signal to the PS3. Setup was a snap and it works perfectly.

Now for the crazy part. When I control my PS3, a signal goes from my Harmony remote to the Logitech Wireless Extender, over RF. The signal then goes from that extender to this PS3 adapter over IR. And then goes from this adapter to the PS3 over BT.

All that, just to pause the movie I'm watching :)

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Jun 01, 2009
Nice...I need one of these for my Harmony remote. First I need a PS3 though! Hoping Sony does another price drop (crossing my fingers for this to happen at E3).

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