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An alternative driver for internal Apple® IR Receivers.

NEW: Restructured and partially rewritten Apple® IR Emulator. Now also compatible with applications using outdated code that depends on driver internals under 64 Bit kernels.
NEW: Legacy Mode has been removed.
Fix: Now correctly handles sleep/wakeup of the Apple® IR Receiver on iMac 2011 models. Previously, the Apple® IR Receiver became unavailable on some of these machines after a sleep/wake cycle.

Fix: addressed an issue where a USB error wasn't handled properly on some Mac Minis (Early 2011) after waking from sleep, resulting in the IR Receiver becoming unresponsive until after a reboot.

Enhancement: Updated driver (1.18.1) now shows the same display wakeup behavior under Lion as the driver supplied by Apple® with OS X® Lion GM:
- the display is woken up when a sleeping system was woken up with the Apple® Remote.
- the display will not be woken up when only the display is sleeping and the system is not sleeping.
  [Update (11/08/05): It is worth mentioning that, under Lion, selecting "Sleep" from the Apple® menu may often only sleep the display, but not the system (as in previous OS X releases). Our tests indicate that whether your system or only its displays are put to sleep may - at least partially - depend on whether your Mac® is connected to a power adapter or running on battery. F.ex. our Mac® Pro would always only sleep the displays (the CPU fans and drives remain on), whereas one of our MacBook® Pros would transition from sleeping displays into actual sleep as soon as we disconnected the power adapter from it. Then again, our newest MacBook® Pro always goes directly to sleep, regardless of the power source used.]
If you want your display to be woken up whenever you press a button on your Apple® Remote, you should give Remote Buddy a try, which provides this more HTPC-friendly behaviour.

Fix: Fixed a rarely occurring IOKit driver matching issue (introduced with driver version 1.9.0) that led to parts of Candelair being matched to regular, unrelated HID devices (like keyboards, mice, joysticks).

NEW: Integrated Remote Control Diagnostics into the Candelair Preference Pane - helps you track down, understand and fix common Apple® Remote problems.
Enhancement: Improved support for 64 Bit kernels.
Enhancement: User interface refreshed.
Enhancement: Revised driver architecture (for the additional drivers for Remote Buddy).
Enhancement: Updated internal, database of Mac® models.
Important notice regarding PowerPC™ support: Starting with version 1.5, we drop support for PowerPC™ Macs (please see the release notes for Remote Buddy 1.17 for the reasons). Owners of PowerPC™ Macs are advised to keep using the previous version.

NEW: Support for the new Aluminum Apple® Remote
Change: The compatibility mode for applications with 10.5 dependencies has been renamed to "Legacy Compatibility Mode".
Note: If you want to use an application under OS 10.6.2 whose Apple® Remote support works under 10.5, but not under 10.6.2: try enabling the "Legacy Compatibility Mode" in Candelair's prefs and relaunch the incompatible application in question. When this mode is active, the Candelair driver mimics the 10.5 version of the OS X driver. The solution for developers to OS version compatibility issues: our driver-independent HIDRemote class.

Enhancement: Support for "Safe Boot" booting mode (the driver is loaded later during the boot process).
Fix: Bugfixes.