Over the weekend my TSU3000 started behaving badly, resetting itself frequently and refusing to send IR when I hit buttons. Turned out to be low batteries; the battery gauge on the remote said they were still about 30% full, but replacing them with fresh batteries made the problems go away. Moral of the story: don't trust the battery gauge.

Hopefully posting this will save someone else some frustration down the road.

The other thing i've noticed is that the battery gauge in the system page shows the level as almost empty, even with fresh batteries. Even though the battery gauge on all the device pages show 80% or so. Also noticed that rechargeable batteries never show more than 80%, no matter how charged they are.

Just an observation of the many GUI issues to be addressed.

Also try taking out the batteries and rearrangeing them. This has helped a couple a times and you can get all the extra juice out of them.

What kind of batteries are you using? NiMh are 1.2V batteries instead of the 1.5V of alkalines. So yes, at full charge, the remote has only 80% of what it expects! I like rechargeable alkalines myself.

Barry

Although I'll readily admit to fitting in the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" catagory I suspect that the difference between 1.5 volts and 1.2 volts is not an issue for the remote. The real issue is centered on what the internal electronics of the remote are designed to operate on. Its quite possible that there is voltage regulation built into the electronics that would negate this issue. This site,
http://www.greenbatteries.com has some interesting information on various batteries and their characteristics. All in all one might conclude that NiMH batteries might be the right choice if what they have to say is true. In the end, only experience counts though.