there have been many posts about the voice remotes draining batteries---this really only became a thread a few months ago, some with remotes under a year and some newly purchased and it doesn't seem to matter which Roku a person owns! It appears the problem ultimately lies in whoever is manufacturing the remotes, and it only seems to be happening with VOICE or Enhanced remotes. Perhaps Roku needs to do a recall because this becomes a very expensive problem when we are replacing batteries or having to add more accessories that were not needed before. In my situation, I've had my rokus (express, ultra, premier and premier plus) and remotes for a year or more but the problem only started a few months ago, and ONLY with the voice remotes! I do not use the headphone port, I have done a factory reset, systems are up to date.
I am just wondering with this only became a problem fairly recently, and only with (in my circumstance, anyway) with the voice remotes. My regular basic remotes work fine (on ALL the rokus) and I haven't had to change batteries in them more than once a year.
I've turned in my serial numbers etc etc several times and followed every suggestion but the problem persists.
