Alpine MC20 problem

So I've got a an issue with my Alpine set up. CDA-9886M head unit w/ MC20 remote. It's a 2.4ghz wireless set up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. For whatever reason, the remote doesn't see the stereo. I've been through the pairing and re-pairing procedures every which way I can think of from shutting everything down, cycling the key, shutting off the batteries, everything I can think of and I can't get it back to working.

Anybody ever had this issue?

I'm getting the feeling perhaps the transceiver off the deck is either bad or poorly wired.

how is the head unit powered? i had problems for a couple years, until i carefully read the manual and saw that there is are two hot wires. one is ignition red, the other is battery yellow. the prior owner had them both wired to the perko switch. so i moved the battery yellow to the battery. and some of my misc problems like that went away. it is worth checking and trying...

I'm going to go back through it and check everything again,...again, but its definitely not wired to my perko. Thanks for the reply though. It gives me some kind of hope. Hope like hopefully I did something stupid? I know I didn't but, hopefully I did.

I've emailed Alpine with no response. I spent over an hour on hold today with tech support with no answer. WTF is going on over there? I'm getting the destinct feeling of I'm F'd on this deal.

Nope. Yellow to battery, red to ignition. It's definitely a transceiver issue. Sometimes the signal is there, sometimes it's not.