Sky remote - batteries?
Lucylashes
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The record button on my Sky remote has been a bit dodgy for a while but works after a bit of persuasion but now the fast forward and rewind buttons aren't working properly. Sometimes the red button doesn't come on (and obviously that's when it doesn't work) so I'm wondering if the batteries are on the way out? It seems funny that the red light comes on for certain functions but not others?
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The problem lies in the keypad, if you do not feel confident enough to open up the remote to strip it down and clean the contacts..... buy a new remote.
But what is the worst that can happen?
You break it !!
Well it isn't working properly now is it?
Sky remotes are readily available... even supermarkets sell them:D
Good find, sodafountain, I've noted it for future use!!:D
I couldn't believe the price when I found them either, that's why I bought 2 (and I paid £5.50 when I bought them in December), and they both worked flawlessly.
I did open my old remote once I got the new ones (it was select that was going, had to press really hard), but after cleaning etc, didn't make it much better, but at that price (and now having a spare), I didn't really care and confined it to the bin (kept the rubber keypad though, just in case).
If you have a smart phone you could use the Sky+ app....;-)
I can't remember the last time I used the original remote, well over as year ago.
Not a very good idea, as that was the part that was faulty!
The conductive rubber on the pads wears off - you can actually buy kits to 'repaint' them.
The rubber keypad was actually fine, it was the PCB that was faulty, it had got covered in something sticky, I tested the select button by moving the rubber keypad to a different button (not easy when you have to hold batteries in place with no case), and it worked fine, and tried other working buttons on the select button area, and it didn't work, so definitely the PCB that was faulty, not the rubber.
The 'something sticky' appears to come from the rubber pads (it's common across pretty well all remotes) - clean it off with WD40 or similar, then finish off with 'electronic safety solvent'. Safety solvent itself doesn't seem to be 'strong enough' to clear it.
I presumed for years that it was down to customers spilling something in the remote, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was the rubber pads themselves (as there's just too many like it for customers to spill the exact same 'whatever' in it
To me, it certainly feels the same as the original one (and i had just bought another one from elsewhere, that wasn't genuine, didn't work properly, and i could definately tell from the feel that one wasn't original).
There have been a great many cheap Chinese copies - hopefully by now they are pretty good? (some of the early ones were really poor).