Hopper 3 remote batteries

[dodger72]

Is it normal for the batteries in the Hopper 3 remote to run down quickly? I have had the hopper since June and have had to change the batteries twice

 

[dishdude]

No, which remote is this?

 

[dodger72]

the one that came with the hopper don't know model number

 

[dishdude]

It'll be molded into the battery cover. Probably 54.x

Either way not normal, probably just a bad remote.

 

[KAB]

Either way not normal, probably just a bad remote.

Twice over seven months is not abnormal. Depends on the amount of usage.

 

[Bobby]

Twice over seven months is not abnormal. Depends on the amount of usage.

Yeah, if you use skip forward, or back, a lot you are draining battery with each press of the button. If you are only pressing the on button and changing a channel from time to time, not so much.

 

[dishdude]

You guys must use the remote a lot more than I do!

 

[dodger72]

all the time and i have difficultly getting the back off

 

[Jim5506]

I skip forward and back quite a bit. My batteries last for months.

 

[tjboston5676]

I get atleast 8 months if not closer to a year on batteries. But I've found over the years not all remotes are created equally. Some do actually drain faster for some reason. And I've also found that remotes that don't get used often die even quicker. I'd go to a house I installed at two months ago and there will be a bedroom that's been used once or twice and remote is already as dead as it gets.

 

[charlesrshell]

I've been keeping up with my remote control batteries for a while. Spreadsheet is fairly accurate. See attached

 

[dishdude]

I put these two 50.0 remotes into service a little over 4 years ago and they still have the original batteries.

 

[sklunk]

Silly question: are your batteries actually dying (it won't register button presses), or are you just getting the popup warning on the screen?

The reason I ask is that I have gotten SW updates that cause the warning to pop up even if my batteries have plenty of life left. Then in a subsequent SW release it goes away. Sometimes it comes back later and the cycle repeats. This happens on both my H3 and my Joey 4's .....

 

[charlesrshell]

Silly question: are your batteries actually dying (it won't register button presses), or are you just getting the popup warning on the screen?

The reason I ask is that I have gotten SW updates that cause the warning to pop up even if my batteries have plenty of life left. Then in a subsequent SW release it goes away. Sometimes it comes back later and the cycle repeats. This happens on both my H3 and my Joey 4's .....

For my main H+, I perform a daily morning remote control roll call in the diagnostics menu looking for low batteries. This Hopper has eight remotes paired to it. Sometimes I use my battery tester to double check a remote batteries that indicate low voltage and they are infact low.

 

[Almighty1]

I use rechargable NiMH batteries, and mines lasts for 1 year and I press the skip and back buttons like 50 times a day. What I noticed is not all batteries are drained at the same time as one of the two will drain first before the other will.