I have only had my Bolt for a couple of months. Seems to be working OK, but I find one strange and somewhat irritating behavior with the RF remote: fairly frequent regression to IR for about 30 seconds.
With the RF remote, you can tell if it is sending signals in RF or IF mode by the color of the LED flash on the tip of the remote: Yellow = normal RF, Red = old IR.
I have my Bolt located in a room with no other TiVos, and the remote is properly paired to it in RF mode. There is a large sculpture on the coffee table between me and the Bolt that blocks a normal IR remote unless you lift it up a foot or so. The RF remote usually works just fine, but every day or two when I am moving though the menus, the Bolt just stops responding for a few button pushes, and if I look at the remote while this happens, I can see the light is flashing RED (meaning it is sending an IR signal, not the normal RF). Generally it goes back to RF mode within 20-30 seconds. If it wasn't for that sculpture blocking the IR signal, I probably never would have noticed this issue, since I normally am not looking at the remote while I use it. If I raise the remote for a clear line-of-sight while it is flashing red, the Bolt responds to the IR signal fine, but that is not the issue. I think it should STAY in RF mode all the time.
The RF remote normally has a very strong signal and long range - I can go into a totally different room and push the remote and the RF signal still triggers the Bolt just fine, so it is not an issue of low batteries or being on the fringe of the RF range from my normal seat. WHY is the Bolt Remote dropping down to IR so frequently? Anybody else notice this, or should I be suspecting a problem with the remote?
With the RF remote, you can tell if it is sending signals in RF or IF mode by the color of the LED flash on the tip of the remote: Yellow = normal RF, Red = old IR.
I have my Bolt located in a room with no other TiVos, and the remote is properly paired to it in RF mode. There is a large sculpture on the coffee table between me and the Bolt that blocks a normal IR remote unless you lift it up a foot or so. The RF remote usually works just fine, but every day or two when I am moving though the menus, the Bolt just stops responding for a few button pushes, and if I look at the remote while this happens, I can see the light is flashing RED (meaning it is sending an IR signal, not the normal RF). Generally it goes back to RF mode within 20-30 seconds. If it wasn't for that sculpture blocking the IR signal, I probably never would have noticed this issue, since I normally am not looking at the remote while I use it. If I raise the remote for a clear line-of-sight while it is flashing red, the Bolt responds to the IR signal fine, but that is not the issue. I think it should STAY in RF mode all the time.
The RF remote normally has a very strong signal and long range - I can go into a totally different room and push the remote and the RF signal still triggers the Bolt just fine, so it is not an issue of low batteries or being on the fringe of the RF range from my normal seat. WHY is the Bolt Remote dropping down to IR so frequently? Anybody else notice this, or should I be suspecting a problem with the remote?
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