Thanks, Zd :-)
All I can offer is a guess, and my guess, assuming (as appears to be the case) that the remote control function is IR rather than RF, would be that the root cause of the problem is interference from a fluorescent or compact fluorescent light that is in the area. Electronic ballasts that are commonly used in fluorescents operate at frequencies that are not all that different than the pulse rates which are emitted by IR remote controls.
If nothing involving the room lighting changed around the time the problem began to appear, but fluorescent lighting is present, perhaps the problem was triggered by age-related degradation of one of the lights. Or perhaps something degraded in the IR sensor mechanism, causing it to become abnormally sensitive to interference from the lighting.
Just a guess, as I say.
Regards,
-- Al
All I can offer is a guess, and my guess, assuming (as appears to be the case) that the remote control function is IR rather than RF, would be that the root cause of the problem is interference from a fluorescent or compact fluorescent light that is in the area. Electronic ballasts that are commonly used in fluorescents operate at frequencies that are not all that different than the pulse rates which are emitted by IR remote controls.
If nothing involving the room lighting changed around the time the problem began to appear, but fluorescent lighting is present, perhaps the problem was triggered by age-related degradation of one of the lights. Or perhaps something degraded in the IR sensor mechanism, causing it to become abnormally sensitive to interference from the lighting.
Just a guess, as I say.
Regards,
-- Al