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Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoThe U2, which is the one that is portable, I.e. no base station, doesn’t have activities, but you can fudge activity behaviour with macros. Its handy to just throw some codes onto it from the app and go.
The x1s and X do have activities but they are more expensive and need a base station.
I’d love it if they’d release a base station-less version with activity capability. I see no reason why that wouldn’t be possible (other than potentially cannibalising their own sales with a cheaper and similarly capable model)
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
that’s what the U3 is supposed to be, but I haven’t played with that newer one to know if its any good. I think its still not a full activity thing with power and input state tracking, but just a more advanced macro based system.
Would work for 90% of people though,
From the reviews I saw the U3 still doesn’t have activities, only macros. The activities are necessary for it to be a full-fledged Harmony competitor, I believe.