Sky Remote Control Very Slow.

[saintpeter48]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong with it? Its mainly the pause, play and stop buttons that don't seem to work, i've got to press pause etc a few times before it works, so annoying. Its been like it for a few weeks, I did change batteries but still no difference. Is a new one in order?

[woofgang]

Please don’t be offended by what I am going to ask but have you cleaned it? I have found that the buttons can get sticky and then they stick in or won’t press in...I would give it a through clean and try new batteries before writing it off.

[fourteen85]

Also try rebooting the sky box as well

[Togo]

It is a common problem with remotes stpeter. The buttons most frequently used become non responsive due to a carbon build up between the graphite stud which is on the rubber pad under the external buttons and the pcb inside the handset. I have found that you have to open up the handset by splitting it with a sharp blade to gain access to the rubber pa which holds all the contacts and then clean all the little studs and the pcb shiny contacts with switch cleaner. A tip, when you split the handset take care that you put all the loose plastic labelled buttons back in the right location if you inadvertently spill them (I took a photo on my phone) . Couple of links here may help.

https://www.avforums.com/threads/cleaning-a-sky-remote-control.611278/

[Togo]

Ta peter. It is not a had job just a bit fiddly. When I did ours I found myself with half a dozen to do for friends and relatives.