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having an ultra high end TV set up is fairly low on the priority list when choosing a rental apartment as far as we’re concerned
Yeah, I wouldn’t have set it up that way if it were purely a rental. But I spend more than half the year there off and on – and set this all up years ago before I started renting. It’s a high end place and the speakers are too big / heavy to be moving around. The wiring is complicated too. I would essentially need to just get rid of all of it in order to simplify.
I will try to just write clear instructions, laminate, and simplify the remotes.
I tried the Harmony Universal control. You can program a set of instructions for one button (for instance, turn on the pre-pro, pause briefly, turn on the amp, select an input on the pre-pro, turn on the TV and set it to the right input). But all the equipment needs to have a signal that takes it to that state and doesn’t just scroll through choices. When you select the input button for the TV I have, it just moves to the next input on the list, so it doesn’t end where it needs to be if it didn’t start at the right place.
I had a similar issue, though not quite as complicated as yours. There were three remotes. I bought a Roku stick, took away the other remotes so there was no need to change the input, and just gave access to the Roku streaming for guests. Had no more issues.
@Hello Also, prepare yourself for the shock of having somebody disconnect everything so they can connect their own stuff. I have a large flat screen with Fire TV and an auxiliary DVD player. There are plenty of HDMI slots for hooking up other devices without messing up the current simple configuration. A number of times things have been disconnected and switched around. If you care about it not being messed with, I agree that you need to lock it up but depending on the quality of your guests (which depends on your rates) that may not stop someone from messing with it, especially some know-it-all techie/gamer that needs their fix. They WILL have their way with your stuff.
Good points. I read a lot of posts where guests unplugged everything to plug in their own stuff, even if there’s plenty of outlets, because the available outlets weren’t exactly where they wanted to plug in.
But I have to say I object to
Of course if a host has absurdly low rates for their area for what they offer it will tend to attract those who want the Ritz for the price of a Motel 6, but this notion that a listing that might be considered affordable to budget travelers means the guests you’ll get will be low quality people who will be disrespectful is so untrue and discriminatory.
There are plenty of places that are expensive, where hosts have experienced having well-off professionals, i.e. doctors and lawyers, who made endlesss entitled demands, were rude and holier-than-thou to the staff, and left a mess behind them.
Guest’s financial level, or whether they don’t require fancy accommodations and prefer to spend their travel budget on eating out, buying cool local souveniers, or contributing to some worthy cause, isn’t an indication of their decency.
There are more factors to attracting “quality” guests than simply the price.
Oh, oh, you are right, I should not be responding when I am sleep deprived. I will only say that I resisted the connection to “quality of guest” until I increased my rates a bit, myself, and did seem to notice a difference. But you are right and I am wrong. There is more to it.
Wellll, then expect your ‘home theater’ to be screwed up. It’s virtually impossible for a guest to want to spend too much time learning the intricacies of your tv in a week… let alone a shorter stay than this.
SO, I would determine a manner to provide very basic instructions for the average guest user ( not sophisticated and does not care to be on vacation) and fully expect that I may need to figure out what my guest did so I can get my ‘home theater’ back to normal.
BTW, I keep my properties and amenities simple. I offer HDTV… that’s it. I could offer more… but no good deed goes unpunished. The simpler the better for guests. As a host, it’s not about you… it’s about the guest experience. Knowing how to balance this is the key…
We have pictures of the remotes laminated with instructions, but frankly we even push the wrong buttons sometimes ourselves and take some time to get back to where we want to be. Instead of a co-host, I need a teenager on call to tell guests how to navigate anything electronic.
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