My seemingly never ending quest for a universal AV remote

For anyone considering buying a Sofabaton X2, I have to say that this is finally a worthy replacement for Harmony and URC remotes. There are a couple of minor, mostly software, issues, but no showstoppers for me (unlike the X1).

I provided some feedback to the Sofabaton team via their forum, and if any of those items are on your wish list, perhaps pop over there and let them know - as they say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. :laughing:

http://bbs.sofabaton.com:8091/post/2009

So far I've found the software improvements (App and Remote) to be a very large step forward too and I only have a few items I'd like to see improved:

  • Adding an additional device to an existing activity forgets your configured inputs for the existing devices - please fix!

  • Why do we need to add a device to an activity so we can add buttons to the favorites?

    • eg I just added my Hubitat Hub for IP control of lighting etc, and now I need to add it to 8 different activities before I can add lighting scenes to the favorites for each. Just seems very unnecessary for this scenario.
  • It would be nice if we could copy multiple favorites buttons from one activity to another

    • eg I have a set of AVR audio presets and Lighting scenes I want available on all 8 activities and setting up each one for every activity is a chore. On my old URC remotes I can just clone the whole favs page.
  • Please allow macros to be called from startup / shutdown sequences.

    • It would also be nice if we could clone existing steps in macros. eg if the down button needs to be pressed 5 times, this gets tedious to add manually.
  • Minor bug - sometimes when I've spent a bunch of time setting up favs etc, my X2 remote loses all the activities I was working on until I Sync it. Perhaps syncing after every little change during setup is too much?