Infrared socket controller thing interprets one button press on remote as two!

Have you got a neurological disease?

Bill

No, thank you.

Have you, or is yours more of a personality disorder?

On 19:20 9 Oct 2018, Murmansk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Perhaps you sent two sets of the Humax "power on/off" command when you set it up and that is what it's now replaying.

Yes I have got a neurological disease, and it was first discovered when I thought that the remote was reading my one press as two. In fact I was making a very rapid second press, without knowing. The disease hasn't got much worse in four years. It comes and goes in fact and most of the time I'm not aware of it. When it's bad it's a bit of a nuisance though, for instance when eating peas I have to use a spoon; sometimes it's a problem holding a full glass of beer; and I can't take long-focal-length pictures without a support for the camera.

Bill

It could be that the remote is on the way out though. The fact that the Humax works is not to guarantee of the goodness of the remote. I have a little light detector here and some remotes are pretty poor contacts on oft used buttons, yet often the device its meant for copes up to a point. It could be that the switch is not so forgiving and there is the problem. It probably should have some kind of delay so once its switched you have to have no signal for a couple of seconds before it registers. Brian

No Bill has Mast Head syndrome.

Brian