Remote power on sometimes doesn't work.

[bradly1101]

I have two components (a Pioneer receiver and a Philips TV) that occasionally won't respond to the power-on remote command. Does this happen to anyone else? Once turned on by the power button they respond to the remote just fine. It's a Harmony remote but it happens with the OEM remote too.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I've had devices do that before and usually is was caused by them losing power at some point. My reasoning was that when you plug these particular devices in the first time they need to use the physical button to turn on because they are completely off initially. After the initial power on, they never turn completely off, but instead enter a low power state from which they can still detect the IR signal from your remote. However, If you unplug them or they lose power for any reason, they again need to be turned on using the physical button because they are completely off again. Did you perhaps suffer from some flaky electrical service before these devices began acting up? Are they both plugged into the same power strip? If so, I would probably start there. If electrical service is inconsistent in your area you might even need a UPS.

 

[bradly1101]

Thanks! I forgot to mention that the HTPC on the same outlet strip never reboots, so I'm assuming it's not a power problem.

 

[SlitheryDee]

It's a strange thing, but sometimes my PCs won't register brief power losses while my other equipment does. Probably something to do with all the capacitors and whatnot in an PC that regulate power to it holding enough electricity to see it through a short blip of power loss. I have in fact been sitting in front of my tv and had the electricity go off for an extremely short amount of time, maybe a half second or so, and watched both my TV and HT system power off while my HTPC kept humming along, so I wouldn't write that possibility off just due to that.

 

[bradly1101]

Sorry to be a necro, but I had to share the fix. We had a "maintenance blackout" for about eighteen hours on some very localized electrical lines just behind where we live, and since then no problems. Do you think there were voltage drops? If so they never caused the PC or clock to stop, just the remote not powering on the TV (and rarely the receiver)...weird...

 

[bradly1101]

It's a strange thing, but sometimes my PCs won't register brief power losses while my other equipment does. Probably something to do with all the capacitors and whatnot in an PC that regulate power to it holding enough electricity to see it through a short blip of power loss. I have in fact been sitting in front of my tv and had the electricity go off for an extremely short amount of time, maybe a half second or so, and watched both my TV and HT system power off while my HTPC kept humming along, so I wouldn't write that possibility off just due to that.

You were right all along.