I've had a skip for a year or so now and it's been pretty solid.  In the past week or so, I'm having a minor issue where the remote seems to go to sleep.  The first button press does nothing (the activity 'A' led doesn't even light up).  A second button press wakes it up and the remote functions as normal.  But ~30 seconds of inactivity and right back to sleep.  Was there a new update that caused this? 

The batteries are probably low or at least one of them is low. When this happens to me, I usually find one battery is good and the other is completely drained. 

Edited April 11, 20242 yr by ytsejam1138

2 hours ago, ytsejam1138 said:

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The batteries are probably low or at least one of them is low. When this happens to me, I usually find one battery is good and the other is completely drained. 

Wow, you were right.  I had actually tested the batteries days ago thinking that might be the case but they both tested with about half juice remaining.  Your comment made me try new batteries and that seems to have fixed the issue.  So thanks!  Still kinda lame that this happens with batteries that are still perfectly fine.

How fast does this thing go through batteries?  My remote is doing the same thing and I am on the second set of Duracell batteries in 9 months.  Is my expectations out of line?

Given how slow humans are, I would assume this thing would be a sleep until we press a button, wake up enough to register the press, send the button press, go back to sleep until the next button press needed to be sent or until the button was released.  And it should be able to come out of deep sleep in miliseconds.

The only way the weird behavior makes sense is if it is intentional to let us know the batteries are getting weak.  If so, not a fan.  How about an option for it to act like other remotes and just stop working when the batteries are flat?

 

Update: And I checked the batteries.  ~1.14V each.  New batteries were at ~1.66V.

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by clcorbin

On 11/27/2024 at 12:20 PM, clcorbin said:

How fast does this thing go through batteries? 

I guess I have a bit more of an answer to that question.  It is now Christmas, 25th December 2024.  LITERALLY less than one month from when I put new Duracell batteries into this thing.  And it is flat dead as a door nail.  What the hell????

Most of my "basic" (i.e: no display) remotes literally last YEARS on a set of batteries (maybe 6 months or so if it is a remote that is used constantly all day every day).  The 1S lasts 1 MONTH??? 

This is a deal breaker for me if it isn't fixed.  I will have literally spent more money on batteries in a couple of years than I did on the remote.  There is no reason this thing is burning through batteries like this.

Ok.  Batteries NOT dead.  Just remote acting like they are dead.  I pulled the batteries and measure them.  Both are at 1.53V.  I put them back in and low and behold, the remote started working again!

So what is going on in the firmware?  Are the devs working on these issues?

On 12/26/2024 at 10:49 AM, clcorbin said:

So what is going on in the firmware?  Are the devs working on these issues?

So I had to force the remote to update it's firmware to see if they fixed the battery issue.  And I have NO IDEA if it worked or didn't because the remote can't control ANYTHING now.

One hell of a fix there guys.

On 2/8/2025 at 5:12 PM, clcorbin said:

So I had to force the remote to update it's firmware to see if they fixed the battery issue.  And I have NO IDEA if it worked or didn't because the remote can't control ANYTHING now.

One hell of a fix there guys.

Make sure you are not on the release candidate, the one published is unstable. You should be on 0.993, although the version of 0.994 pushed this morning should be better.

1 hour ago, jason said:

Make sure you are not on the release candidate, the one published is unstable. You should be on 0.993, although the version of 0.994 pushed this morning should be better.

@jasonWhere can I download 0.994?  I don't see it on the downloads page and I'm not prompted to upgrade when I run my Skip App v0.993.9235

3 hours ago, ytsejam1138 said:

@jasonWhere can I download 0.994?  I don't see it on the downloads page and I'm not prompted to upgrade when I run my Skip App v0.993.9235

 

 

I installed this beta and resynced my remote and it once again controlling things. 

Thanks!