why does sky remote control eat batteries?

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As far as I know, the piece of software in the sky box that generates
this message wasn't there at all in the early days and it was added
during a software update at some time. I received many calls from
customers at that time and I was told that the detection level for
weak remote signals had been set too low (or is it high?!). Anyway the
problem seemed to fade away. Interestingly I have recently begun to
see the message much more often again on many different boxes. I
wonder if they have been playing with the software again??

Our Sky+ box has started telling us that one remote has low batteries.
We`ve checked with 2 different sets of fully charged rechargables and the
error keeps coming up.

Our Sky+ box has started telling us that one remote has low batteries.
We`ve checked with 2 different sets of fully charged rechargables and the
error keeps coming up.

Rechargables usually give 1.2 volts so the software must look for more
output than you would get with 2.4v (Standard batteries should give
1.5v each of course)

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Our Sky+ box has started telling us that one remote has low batteries.
We`ve checked with 2 different sets of fully charged rechargables and the
error keeps coming up.

Rechargables usually give 1.2 volts so the software must look for more
output than you would get with 2.4v (Standard batteries should give
1.5v each of course)

We`ve checked it with rechargables, as we know that they are good. We`ve
also used (and are currently using, with the same problems) brand new AAA
non-recharable batteries.

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Our Sky+ box has started telling us that one remote has low batteries.
We`ve checked with 2 different sets of fully charged rechargables and
the
error keeps coming up.

Rechargables usually give 1.2 volts so the software must look for more
output than you would get with 2.4v (Standard batteries should give
1.5v each of course)

We`ve checked it with rechargables, as we know that they are good. We`ve
also used (and are currently using, with the same problems) brand new AAA
non-recharable batteries.

Without wishing to overstate the obvious, that might be your problem. When
I last looked (about 30 seconds ago) the batteries in my remote were AA, not
AAA.

Chas

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Our Sky+ box has started telling us that one remote has low batteries.
We`ve checked with 2 different sets of fully charged rechargables and
the
error keeps coming up.

Rechargables usually give 1.2 volts so the software must look for more
output than you would get with 2.4v (Standard batteries should give
1.5v each of course)

We`ve checked it with rechargables, as we know that they are good. We`ve
also used (and are currently using, with the same problems) brand new AAA
non-recharable batteries.

Without wishing to overstate the obvious, that might be your problem.
When I last looked (about 30 seconds ago) the batteries in my remote were
AA, not AAA.

It`s a sky+ box, i`m sure it`s AAA. But the box is downstairs and i`m not,
so I`m not going to check. I`ll just say that whatever batteries are in it
are the correct ones :-)