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Had a look at those Logitech harmony remotes, fuck me £200 for an all in one!!!
Got me itching for one though, running audio through an Av amp is a ball ache when you try to balance levels for Spotify/Netflix/usb stick in back of tv/ and PS4.
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They're pricey (although I have an older model which is only about £100 and does the same job https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Harmony-Ultimate-software-required-Black/dp/B00C80JFSS ) but work very well.
Mine replaces remotes for TV, AV amp, Tivo, lights, Fire TV, Minidisc, Freeview, xbox, HTPC, HDMI switch and integrates into IFTTT and Alexa.
Setup is pretty easy and it's very customisable, you can even load up custom icons for the different activities, backgrounds, etc.
It means that someone can just press the button called "Watch TV" and it will turn on Amp, TV, HDMI switch and Tivo all to the correct input which means people other than me can actually watch TV.
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We've got one of those but teaching anyone else to use it is near impossible. The Sky touch remote is better for ffwd/rew too and the other remotes are never too far away as problems need to be solved on a regular basis. As a plus, if you're in front of the TV for a few hours a night it gets easy enough to do what you might want to do without paying it too much attention. Setting it up to switch between boxes/apps and controlling AV fairly seamlessly. I'd say if £200 is a big deal then forget about it.
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Does your AV amp not talk to the TV? Ours turns on with the TV and the TV remote controls the amp volume through the HDMI cable.
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Dramatic_Hammer
Logitech Harmony remote is definitely the solution to too many remote controls. They're not that cheap (although up for sale pretty often) but really simplify controlling everything.
Like everything, it depends how much you want to spend and the physical limits (speaker size/location, cabling, etc) and what you require (number of inputs, what your source is, etc)
I'd imagine those in-ceiling speakers are only for the Atmos part of a surround sound setup, not the main speakers.