XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2022-09-16 07:06, 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 have one remote⁽¹⁾ that had buttons that would not work, or I had to   
   press hard, and wiggle them. When I opened the thing, many buttons were   
   humid inside. I never found where that came from, and doesn't happen to   
   any other remote. I cleaned/dried them, close the case, work for a month   
   or two, then repeat.   
      
   In the end, I had to glue small pieces of aluminum foil in the inner   
   surface of the buttons so that they would make contact. Problem now is,   
   some of the foil pieces fall down, and the button will not work at all.   
   The tiny foil can also short some other contact instead.   
      
   Someone made a program running on the computer that would connect via   
   LAN and emulate the remote, so that's what I use most of the time now.   
   Except for powering it up, that needs the remote.   
      
      
      
   I have another device that the remote failed yesterday to get a response   
   at some point. I could see a led blinking in the mode it does to tell   
   the user that it is getting a command from the IR remote, yet it did not   
   react. I had to power cycle the device - that button did work. My guess   
   is that the device had hung.   
      
      
      
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