I bought an 880 for my aging mum-in-law because she has trouble working the 2 remotes required to control her TV and satellite. The problem that I still have is that because she is arthritic, she tends to hold her finger on the button rather than simply pressing (and immediately releasing) it.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent the 880 from sending 'multiple' button presses while a button is held down? Obviously, I would still like this behaviour enabled for the VolumeUp and VolumeDown control but, for all other buttons I'd like the 880 to treat a held down button as a single press.

Any thoughts or bright ideas?

Hi

I just went through something similar. The default "repeat" is 3; meaning the remote sends the signal 4 times. In my case, this made the directional arrows jump two positions at one press. If you go into the set-up program and push troubleshooting, then choose the device that is causing the problem, then there are options for what your problem is. I can't remember exactly the choices, but eventually I got to a page where you can adjust the number of repeats. I dropped mine back to zero and fixed my problem comepletely. Sorry if this is a bit vague; perhaps someone else can give you more precise instructions of how to get to the repeat page.

Edit: just found this description. Try reducing the "number of repeats" under Device > Troubleshoot > Show me more problems > Device doesn't appear to receive every command correctly > The device responds too much to some commands (for example, volume up increases the volume too quickly).

Adjusting the repeats is something different - setting this at zero will not disable the fact that a held button will continue to send signals. I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a way to disable this.