OK the appauling mess that is Harmony

Please not I have read every thread with harmony in the text.
I have a harmony remote and to be frank this is one area apple should look at conquoring. The remote is fiddly with poor buttons, but this is forgivable because of what it needs to achieve,
What is not forgivable is the mess of a bit of software Logitech put out. They should be ashamed. Apart frot he fact a simple task seems to take four hundred and eighty mouse clicks, the thing constantly crashes and the most annoying part is the learning remote commands. If for instance you try and skip one, crash, no more worky.
Any how I digress. I have also noticed that their data base which must also be an appaling mess does not appear to have any working appleTV commands.
This led me to learn my own. This works to an extent. All buttons work scrolling down is fine, but scrolling up is one painful click after another. No changes to speeds on commands works or anything.
I'll be honest I resent spending literally hours trying to get a crap remote to work. Can any one recommend anything else which is actually better?
Oh and any ideas how to fix my issue with the remote.

Sorry you're having such problems with your Harmony (you don't specify your model, I have a 688).
My Harmony works fine with ATV (including the scrolling), and most other people who talked about it on the forum seem to be alright too. I set mine up selecting the MacMini from their database and modifiying it according to some post here (especially the delay times), but meanwhile they should have a working AppleTV set of data. The only weak point I noticed is entering letters for passwords or searches - it sometimes skips a letter, so I go back to the Apple remote when I have to type, which is rarely.
I also found the setup of tasks very easy and transparent, and the software never crashed on my Mac. Also, you shouldn't have to learn commands, that's the whole idea of the Harmony, if your device is in their database.
One word about the database: It's completely user-generated, since the manufacturers don't provide them with their codes. The staff does only housekeeping tasks and resolving errors, so yes, it sometimes isn't perfect, and that's also the reason why it took some time for the ATV to be in the list - someone had to be the first to enter the data.
But overall - it's not true that the Harmony doesn't work with ATV, you must be doing something wrong.

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How do I create a 1d array that takes a single calculation and insert the result into the first row and then the next calculation the next time the loop passes that point and puts the results in thsecond row and so on until the loop is exited.

The attached file is work inprogress, with some dummy data sp that I can test it out without having to connect to equipment.
The second tab is the one that I am having the problem with. the output array from the replace element appears to be starting at the index position of 1 rather than 0 but that is ok it is still show that the new data is placed in incrementing element locations. However the main array that I am trying to build that is suppose to take each new calculation and place it in the next index(row) does not ap
pear to be working or at least I am not getting any indication on the inidcator.
Basically what I am attempting to do is is gather some pulses from adevice for a minute, place the results for a calculation, so that it displays then do the same again the next minute, but put these result in the next row and so on until the specifiied time has expired and the loop exits. I need to have all results displayed and keep building the array(display until, the end of the test)Eventually I will have to include a min max section that displays the min and max values calculated, but that should be easy with the min max function.Actually I thought this should have been easy but, I gues I can not see the forest through the trees. Can any one help to slear this up for me.
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I didn't really have time to dig in and understand your program in depth,
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detailed understanding of your task at hand it's kind of hard to post actual
code suggestions for you.
-joey
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> how do I create a 1d array that takes a single calculation and insert
> the result into the first row and then the next calculation the next
> time the loop passes that point and puts the results in thsecond row
> and so on until the loop is exited.
>
> The attached file is work inprogress, with some dummy data sp that I
> can test it out without having to connect to equipment.
> The second tab is the one that I am having the problem with. the
> output array from the replace element appears to be starting at the
> index position of 1 rather than 0 but that is ok it is still show that
> the new data is placed in incrementing element locations. However the
> main array that I am trying to build that is suppose to take each new
> calculation and place it in the next index(row) does not appear to be
> working or at least I am not getting any indication on the inidcator.
>
> Basically what I am attempting to do is is gather some pulses from
> adevice for a minute, place the results for a calculation, so that it
> displays then do the same again the next minute, but put these result
> in the next row and so on until the specifiied time has expired and
> the loop exits. I need to have all results displayed and keep building
> the array(display until, the end of the test)Eventually I will have to
> include a min max section that displays the min and max values
> calculated, but that should be easy with the min max function.Actually
> I thought this should have been easy but, I gues I can not see the
> forest through the trees. Can any one help to slear this up for me.

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Hi,
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Hi,
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