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electric123
Visitor
8 years ago

Converting Roku remotes to lithium rechargeable batteries

Those who use headphones with Roku remote know how fast it eats up batteries. I hate buying alkaline batteries since they all end up in landfills. For a while I used Ni-MH rechargeable cells, but tho...
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andres777
Reel Rookie
3 years ago

Roku has now rechargeable remotes, but some people are having issues with short battery life and not being able to recharge after 1 yr.
This hack is perfect, because replacing batteries makes more sense. I wonder if buying LiFEPO4 batteries with higher mAh (600-800) would extend the charge life...
And yes, button functions sometimes behave erratic, I guess it's not perfect yet, after all these years of use and research... 😞