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Hi Felix. Thanks for the prompt reply. I have noticed that support from IOSpirit and for RB is very good. It's much appreciated by me and many other users!
I'm not using Leopard or Apple TV. I have an install of OSX 10.4.8. Since my system does not support Apple Remote natively Front Row was not installed. I installed it from the FR 1.3 update available on the Apple website.
I did some reading and it seems that FR looks for an instance of HIDRemoteControl key (set to true) in the Info.plist of one your active USB devices e.g. AppleHIDMouse.kext (for Mighty Mouse). This of course should be set in your IR kext if you have an Apple Remote or it will be set in the kext of some third party remote control solution (such as Keyspan one).
So FR wouldn't work until I installed the RB kernel extension. Does this add an instance of HIDRemoteControl? After installing RB I could access FR (the shortcut key appeared in the Keyboard & Mouse preferences panel, that's a good way of checking whether FR will work or not). But I had the problem I described earlier.
I modified the Info.plist file in my AppleHIDMouse.kext as described in the link I gave above and now FR seems to play nice with my Wiimote and RB.
Thanks again. I'm looking forward to future RB updates.
kim
Just to be sure: are you by any chance running Leopard or the Apple TV
"BackRow"?
If not, which system version and hardware do you use - and how did you
install Front Row?
Do you use any kind of AppleScript or anything else than Cmd+Esc or
Remote Buddy's menu to switch to Front Row?
(from experience, Front Row does not seem to like being launched by
AppleScript or by any other, traditional launcher mechanism - Remote
Buddy thus doesn't make use of any of these)
Best regards,
Felix
