Guys,
My 7 year old Bose Lifestyle 12 remote control has gone chips, meaning I'm having to get up and down to change inputs and volumes on the Bose unit itself for my Humax Freeview box, DVD player and Apple TV. It's becoming a pain. The Humax does have its own volume control but the DVD is a fixed 5.1 output as is the Apple TV.
What worries me is that I'm not entirely sure it's the remote at fault as the receiver for the Bose remote is in the length of speaker cable leading to the bass module, and it might be a fault with that. It works sometimes if you stand right next to the bass module and stand on one leg. It also seems to work intermittently when there's a full moon. I've changed the batteries but to no avail. Problem two is that I've found the remotes online in the USA, used, for $140 so it's not going to be cheap to replace.
One solution would be to buy a cheap amp, plug all my inputs into that, run the output from the amp into the Bose and voila, just use the amp remote from now on, but is that using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Am I missing another solution using some kind of switching/ganging?
My 7 year old Bose Lifestyle 12 remote control has gone chips, meaning I'm having to get up and down to change inputs and volumes on the Bose unit itself for my Humax Freeview box, DVD player and Apple TV. It's becoming a pain. The Humax does have its own volume control but the DVD is a fixed 5.1 output as is the Apple TV.
What worries me is that I'm not entirely sure it's the remote at fault as the receiver for the Bose remote is in the length of speaker cable leading to the bass module, and it might be a fault with that. It works sometimes if you stand right next to the bass module and stand on one leg. It also seems to work intermittently when there's a full moon. I've changed the batteries but to no avail. Problem two is that I've found the remotes online in the USA, used, for $140 so it's not going to be cheap to replace.
One solution would be to buy a cheap amp, plug all my inputs into that, run the output from the amp into the Bose and voila, just use the amp remote from now on, but is that using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Am I missing another solution using some kind of switching/ganging?