📱 MX-890 Universal Remote Control by URC Review

Terrible remote control. Doesn't control a new Apple TV. Almost never recognizes the signal. I just switched to this one from Control 4 and it was a disaster.

After carefully examining this remote, I had to agree with the previous reviewer regarding user-programmability, or lack thereof in this unit. I can't keep going back to the dealer and paying them $80 to try and come to my house and change features, add features, or, God forbid, add new devices to my system. In other threads of the forum I read about users who were absent for a month and the battery died along with the program and they were unable to reflash themselves. Your model is not…

I've had a lot of MX-850's in 20 years and they worked surprisingly well. They were very easy to use, yet incredibly reliable. I would say based on what I see they have an average lifespan of 40 years. But after all this time, they look dated, their displays are black and white and text only, while they lack the increasingly popular red/green/blue/yellow buttons. I used to watch URC consoles regularly and the MX-890 blew me away. just as beautiful, colorful, graphic, has extra buttons and, as a

Two of these were installed by a home entertainment management service. They work great when they work, but over the years they regularly fail in one way or another, little things like a sudden lack of volume or something, so we have to call service back for a tune over $100 a visit, to solve the problem. because they handled it with their software. Then we lost one of the remote controls. Well, my husband and I are coders by trade, so in the end I decided we should find out for ourselves…