Day 66 - Wednesday 20th May 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

It's amazing how long you can put up with something that is broken or has ceased to work in exactly the way it should. The work-arounds you find. The small sacrifices.

This was the case with our very hardworking Humax remote control. I think the first feature to stop working was the MEDIA button to take you to recordings - never fear there was the MENU option to resolve this, but it meant 2 pressings of a button, but that's ok.

The SKIP FORWARD button stopped working a while ago (probably 6-8 months at a guess) so we used FAST FORWARD instead.

PLAY and PAUSE gave up at some stage - OK it is then

Then STOP stopped working - EXIT will do...

Finally, FAST FORWARD stopped and an arrow button was used to fill the gap.

Now, this just shows how clever a simple remote control is. It's also ridiculous that we didn't order a new remote several button-stoppages earlier.

But now we have and it's an actual dream to use.

Small pleasures.

Humax RM-I08U Original Remote Control for HB-1000S Freesat FreeTime Satellite Receiver

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