So I was having issues. The remote would just shut off whenever I asked it to do something? I was getting messages sometimes that didn't make sense to me fully. I had the low battery pop up when I swear I had just changed them out with new ones last week?
The remote was full and I had sold off an engine and swapped the board set out in another set of them. So I deleted a few things and that's when the remote acted up. So I was blaming the remote.
I totally reset the remote and the problem stayed. I reloaded DCS 6.1 into it and the problem stayed. I did get a clue that when I pressed the smoke off, the engine volume went off? Because I had the remote apart, I took it apart again and made sure the buttons were hitting correctly. Not much can go wrong there I believe?
First off, I then checked the battery connections. Even though I swear this was good, there was one spring that wasn't perfect. I centered that spring and then the remote seemed to work. Now I got low battery again?
I put my meter across the two top outside batteries and it only read something like 4.3 volts. So I installed brand new batteries again. I checked each and they all were over 1.5 volts. I checked the total and it now was much better.
I fired up the remote one more time and it stayed on and seemed to work better. I cycled engine smoke, volume up and down, headlight on and off, and they seemed to work correctly. I just got no response from engine sounds on and off?
At least the remote stayed on and didn't shut down anymore.
I now have to reload every O scale engine I have. I could have saved the list but several have come and gone. I am also in the process of teaching our grandson everything the system can do so he can fully take charge. I used to do all the complicated stuff for him. Recently he started building his own consists.
I also did not want to add any issue from software incase the remote still acts up. So I have more testing to do top see if it stays working. I also want to watch battery life incase it's eating batteries. Looking at the dates on the batteries I removed, I believe I just made the mistake of re-using old batteries that I thought were new. A lot of extra work on an assumption.
