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   On Friday, September 16, 2022 at 1:06:54 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:   
   > Have any of you noticed that your remote control, for a tv or whatever,   
   > doesn't work at first, if you haven't used it for a day or two?   
   >   
   > I keep thinking the batteries have died, but after a couple minutes it   
   > usually works.   
   >   
   > I try to warm up the batteries by pressing one button or another 10 or   
   > 20 times and that doesn't seem to work but a fwe minutes later, things   
   > are fine.   
   >   
   > One complication: I'm not controlling the TV directly. I'm shining the   
   > remote on PowerMid that uses radio waves to communicate with a receiver   
   > in my bedroom that uses a thin cable to send infrared to a little bead   
   > that is stuck in front of the IR receiver on the DVDR. But the powermid   
   > has a red light that goes on when I'm shining the remote at it, and that   
   > does go on. Still, I don't think that is the cause of the delay.   
      
   I've never noticed that, no.  It seems that with the equipment you have, your   
   lag could be anywhere in the chain and not so much the remote since your   
   powermid is responding to it apparently.   
      
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