Boxee remote control sends 4-5 commands for each physical click I do.
Anyone also have this issue? It happened shortly after installing hacks++ and seems to be getting worse.
Posted Nov 6, 2014, 11:10 PM UTC
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Ha. Mine just started doing this too. It's like it's possessed.
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Mine started doing that. I replaced the battery but the remote didn't wake up after that; totally bricked. I tossed it and am using an iPhone App (Kontrol) which does the trick, if not perfectly.
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as per my comment you may have used very cheap button batteries? My remote didn't work with the cheapest kind of batteries. Had to use energizer. The cheap batteries worked fine for some led flashlights I have, just not for this remote.
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Thanks, but no-- I'm pretty obsessive about good batts. I think I even metered it before I decided I had a dead remote on my hands.
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I had this happen to me a while ago. Simple question that you might be overlooking... Do you have more than 1 boxee box in your house? If so, then you were like me when this happened.
What is happening is that your remote is controlling more than 1 boxee box at a time, and it's glitching out.
You have to sync your remote to your specific boxee box in order to make this stop.
I believe you need to hold the "back" button (the one with 3 dashes on it) down for 5 or 10 seconds while the boxee box is booting up (green boxee logo on tv screen). That's it, it's synced. You might want to google it first to make sure that's the step.
Once I did that, I no longer had that problem.
(RIP Boxee Box. You were and still are the best device out there. Roku and all others can't hold a candle in the wind to you. I hate that they discontinued and stopped supporting it).
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This is usually a sign that the battery in the remote is dying. Just open up the battery compartment and swap out the old one with a new one.
It takes a CR2032 button cell battery. Not very expensive.
I experienced exactly this, too.
Same here.
I cannot get the battery compartment out, the manual mentioned to use a coin. Not sure, mine seems to be stuck :( Edit: got it, but I did have to use a lot of force.
Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was actually quite pleased how long the original battery lasted.
Mine just died after 4 years of use.
Note: my initial CR2032 was a super cheap maxwell battery, the remote didn't work with it (tried 3). I had to take one of the more expensive energizer batteries for my remote. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RAWGIW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 These batteries are fairly popular on amazon but for me they only work in LED lights, they've also not worked well in my car key remote.