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Hi,
Short story:
Setup the Remote Buddy trial, and it worked great with Apple's Alu Remote + Plex. So I bought Remote Buddy Express, mirrored the setup of the trial, and can't get 'menu' to launch Plex like I could with the trial. Workaround is mapping menu+long hold...
No problem, you say? Try telling that to my GF who has several years of 'muscle memory' attached to that remote.
And, you know - my nerd pride - it *should* work...why isn't it??!?!?
[UPDATE] - great answer from Felix below...I'll leave this original post, b/c it wasn't immediately clear to me how what I was doing wrong.
Long Story:
I have a 2011 mac mini, Plex 9.5.3, and an Aluminium remote.
A few days ago, I ran the Remote Buddy trial and after investing an hour+ of time, followed the blog post that tells you to setup like so:
http://www.iospirit.com/blog/article/131/Remote-Buddy-and-Boxee-Plex-and-XBMC/
I had a perfect (for me) working environment:
In Finder:
* Holding Play put mac to sleep, pressing menu on remote woke up the mac
* Tapping menu opened Plex as normal.
In Plex:
* Up/Down operated as normal navigation, and when watching media, up/down adjusted volume (normal Plex behaviour).
* Holding up/down adjusted system volume (handy for iplayer plugin where the volume can't be controlled via Plex).
I achieved this by setting the mapping like so:
* Global Mapping: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/343477/ofy89QYYAxCidW/rb-plex/rb-global.png
* Plex Mapping: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/343477/ofy89QYYAxCidW/rb-plex/rb-plex.png
As the trial 'proved' Remote Buddy could work for me, I purchased Remote Buddy Express on the App Store (I compared 'full' Remote Buddy, concluded it's the same app, less support for remotes I don't own, and I prefer App Store install/no serials).
I mirrored the setup of the Remote Buddy trial, but just can't get 'menu' to open Plex. Manually launching Plex, the 'virtual remote' mappings all worked perfectly. I tried switching off/on remote support in Plex, but didn't change behaviour.
[UPDATE] -As per Felix's answer - I must have enabled 'default behaviour' on the trial without realising it...having followed Felix's instructions, Remote Buddy Express is working perfectly for me re. Plex.
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