The touch screen number pad is more difficult to use than the Directv remote push button number pad.

Once the thing is on you can switch between favorite channels, activities, a number pad, and a command page by swiping around.

I guess I just miss the actual number pad with raised buttons where you can use it without having to look at the remote

My understanding is that this remote is similar to the Harmony Touch, and Identical to the remote in the Harmony Ultimate package (with the IR Hub).The big possible deal breaker here is the lack of a physical number pad

but it makes using all these items, especially the number pad, a poor experience.3

Whoever decided to make the number pad touchscreen should be fired

I don't really miss the number pad that much like I thought I

It is quick an painless to bring up the soft number pad for change the channel manually

Any time I need the number pad I have to swipe to unlock, then swipe to get to the number pad.

It is quick an painless to bring up the soft number pad for change the channel manually

Also no way to use a number pad that I can find so have to grab another remote to do that

I don't really miss the number pad that much like I thought I

Aside from the physical number pad, you are short a couple of physical buttons that appear on some other models, but in exchange you have the wonderful feature of being able to assign a long and short press to each physical buttons (distinguished by a nice haptic feedback), allowing you to set a great deal of commands

I understand why they wanted to add this since it allows them to combine the number pad, favorites list, activities, device controls and custom buttons into a single

You have to swipe to get to the number pad, which is a little annoying

In addition, the screen is much more useful, with swipe motions to go between the four major functions (touchpad, number pad, function screen and channel screen).The third was the setup

Also, I miss a number key pad instead of using the video keypad input which often doesn't work.

It took us a bit to find out how to get to the number pad but it seems to be working very well

Only shortfall I can complain about is the lack of immediate access to the number pad- you can

However the control doesn’t work as we wish it to, we have it set up to turn on the sound system and tv when the watch tv setting is turned

Kinda sucks as you can do that with the Harmony app but not on the remote

Note that they are sold together as well as

The touch screen is very intuitive as you can swipe to the right or left to fast forward or rewind, tap the screen to pause or play.